Division 56 CHANGE Grant

The Division 56 CHANGE Grant, provided by the American Psychological Foundation, offers funding of up to $1,866 for graduate students and early-career psychologists. This grant supports collaborative projects focused on dismantling systemic racism, discrimination, and violence. Eligible applicants can explore diverse areas such as improving trauma research methods, understanding racial trauma, and developing culturally tailored programs. The initiative encourages diverse backgrounds, fostering inclusive approaches to psychological health and community well-being.

APF is a grant-making foundation that funds early career psychologists and graduate students using psychology to solve important problems and improve people’s lives.
The Division 56 Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant supports graduate student or early-career psychologist-led collaborative projects aimed at identifying and dismantling all forms of systemic racism, discrimination, and violence.
Examples include projects focused on the following:

• improving transdisciplinary and intervention research methods and approaches addressing trauma disparities
• understanding the historical and ongoing sociopolitical and systemic causes, mechanisms, consequences, and solutions for racial trauma and health disparities
• identifying the ways in which individuals identifying as persons of color and their communities thrive
• developing trauma-informed, culturally tailored and sustainable programs that promote well-being
• providing access to trauma psychology information and services to underserved individuals and communities
• restorative justice practices
• Funding
• Amount: Up to $1,866
• Please see FAQs for additional guidelines.

Eligibility

Graduate students and early career psychologists (a psychologist with a doctoral degree who is no more than 10 years postdoctoral) are eligible to apply.International applicants from countries that have diplomatic relations with the United States and who meet the other eligibility requirements may apply for APF funding.APF encourages applicants from diverse backgrounds with respect to age, race, color, religion, creed, nationality, ability, sexual orientation, gender, and geography.