Note: Current elected and appointed Society of Pediatric Psychology Board of Directors members are not eligible for any of the SPP awards or the SPP grants.
The Society of Pediatric Psychology offers a number of opportunities for recognition for outstanding achievement across a range of professional activities.
Awards
These awards are available for trainees as well as for psychologists in various stages of their careers. Please visit the following links for application deadlines and instructions.
Student Poster Award
This award honors certain students who are the first author of a poster to be presented at the SPP Annual Conference (in the spring), and other students who are first author of a poster presented during the Div. 54 poster session at the APA Annual Convention (in the summer).
Details: Deadline: typically mid-March for SPPAC and mid-July for APA, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Diversity Student Poster Award
This award honors the first author of a pediatric psychology research poster whose research features diversity-related variables, such as race/ethnicity, gender, culture, sexual orientation, language differences, socioeconomic status and/or religiosity.
Details: Deadline: typically mid-March for SPPAC and mid-July for APA, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Student Travel Award
This award is designed to help the first author of a poster or paper to be presented at the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference.
Details: Deadline: October 15, Apply by: with poster submission. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
C. Eugene Walker Education Award in Pediatric Psychology
This award is available to any postdoctoral fellow to facilitate their ability to attend professional meetings that will enhance their educational pursuits.
Details: Deadline: October 1, Apply by: with poster submission. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
SPPAC International Travel Award
The Pediatric Psychology International Travel Award is available to SPP members who reside and are affiliated with institutions outside the US to attend the Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference (SPPAC). Up to two awards are given each year. Awards include free registration for SPPAC and $1000 to offset any travel and/or accommodation costs.
Details: Deadline: October 15, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
International Collaboration Award
The purpose of the International Collaboration Award is to facilitate Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP) members to visit an international research or clinical program for a minimum of one week and up to one month, although longer stays are possible with a compelling rationale. Eligible applicants include current postgraduate students (i.e., who graduated with an undergraduate degree) in clinical/pediatric psychology training programs, PhD trainees or international equivalency, postdoctoral fellows, or early career faculty (within 5 years of first appointment).
Details: Deadline: October 15, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Student Research Award
This research competition is designed to encourage and reward quality research on issues related to pediatric psychology and health care of children.
2023 Awardee: Hayoung Kim Paper Title: Understanding Somatic Symptoms Associated with South Korean Adolescent Suicidal Ideation, Depression, and Social Anxiety Mentor: Scott Solberg, PhD Institution: Boston University
2024 Details: Deadline: November 15, 2023, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
APA Scholars Award
This award supports a post-bac, graduate student, or intern to attend the APA annual convention. The award supports travel and also includes mentorship from a current Division 54 Board Member.
Details: Deadline: mid-December Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
SPP Diverse Scholar Award
The Society of Pediatric Psychology is pleased to announce the “SPP Diverse Scholar Award” for underrepresented undergraduate and post baccalaureate students who have an interest in graduate training. It was developed in order to support the goal of a more diverse pediatric psychology workforce.
Details: Deadline: December 1, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Carolyn S. Schroeder Award for Outstanding Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology
This award recognizes outstanding commitment and significant contributions to pediatric psychology by a provider of direct clinical services in the field.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Dennis Drotar Distinguished Research Award in Pediatric Psychology
This award recognizes excellence and significant contributions in establishing the scientific base of pediatric psychology.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Donald K. Routh Early Career Award
This award recognizes significant contributions of a member of SPP to the field of pediatric psychology in research, clinical training and service.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by self or peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Michael C. Roberts Award for Outstanding Mentorship
This award originally started with the generous support of the Levin Foundation to honor faculty in pediatric psychology who mentor students in an exemplary way, providing professional advice and guidance through various training phases.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
SPP Award for Distinguished Contributions to Diversity in Pediatric Psychology
This award honors a pediatric psychologist who professionally promotes understanding and respect for diversity in research, policy or practice within the field of pediatric psychology.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by self or peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Wright Ross Salk Award for Distinguished Service in Pediatric Psychology
In recognition of the early founders of pediatric psychology, this award honors outstanding service contributions to the Society of Pediatric Psychology or to the field of pediatric psychology generally.
Details: Deadline: January 13, 2023. Apply by: Nomination by peers, via uniform application. For more details, please click on the award and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Grants
Society of Pediatric Psychology sponsors a number of grants that are intended to facilitate high quality empirical research in topic areas that are central to the mission of the society. Some grants are available to both students and professionals. Others are targeted toward our student members. Please visit the links below for more information and application instructions.
Anti-Racism Grant Award
A total of $30,000 in grant monies are available for projects focused broadly on pediatric psychology and anti-racism. These projects may be focused on service, clinical activities, activism, training or research. Proposals may request between $500 - $30,000 to support a one-year project. The variety of projects that can be submitted is broad and can range from an in-service training to a formal research project. This is an innovative mechanism – we want projects that think outside the box and lead to sustainable change within the field. The goal is to fund projects that intersect pediatric psychology and anti-racism.
2023 winning projects incorporated stakeholder engagement strategies from design to implementation, incorporated individuals with lived experience in their research teams, and go beyond studying inequities to identifying strategies to address barriers.
2023 Awardee #1: Anna Hood Project: Co-producing Anti-Racism Strategies to Proote Research Participation for Adolescents and Young Adults Living with Chronic Pain Institution: University of Manchester
2023 Awardee #2: Andrea Garcia and Michael Vilensky Project: Bridging the Gap: Enhancing the Dyadic Care for Infants Affected by Neonatal Opiod Withdrawal Syndrome and their BIPOC Parents Institution: Nationwide Children's and Ohio State
2023 Awardee #3: VALUES Collective Project: Values and Identities in Type 1 Amid Life Stress for Racially and Income Diverse Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and their Caregivers. Institution: University of Memphis
Lizette Peterson-Homer Injury Prevention Grant Award
This grant is open to students and faculty to support clinical research related to the prevention of injuries in children and adolescents.
2023 Awardee: Francesca Penner Project Title: Preventing Abusive Head Trauma in Infancy: Predictive Utility of Prenatal Emotion Regulation Institution: Yale University Child Study Center
2024 Details: Deadline: October 15, 2023, Apply by: online application. For more details, please click on the grant and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
SPP Diversity Research Grant
Funds are available to conduct pediatric psychology research that features diversity-related variables, such as race/ethnicity, gender, culture, sexual orientation, language differences, socioeconomic status and/or religiosity.
Details: Deadline: November 1, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the grant and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Drotar-Crawford Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grant in Pediatric Psychology
This $10,000 grant is given to a postdoctoral fellow to support research in pediatric psychology while they are enrolled in a postdoctoral fellowship. The research project must be conducted under the supervision of a faculty advisor in an area of research specific to pediatric psychology.
2023 Awardee: Kemar Prussein Project Title: Transition Readiness, Outcomes, and Discrimination in Sickle Cell Disease Mentor: Lisa Schwartz, PhD Institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2023 Awardee: Emily Moscato Project Title: Community-Engaged Transcreation of a Usable Digital Health Parenting Intervention for Caregivers of Young Childhood Cancer Survivors Mentor: Cynthia Gerhardt, PhD Institution: Nationwide Children's Hospital
2024 Details: Deadline: October 15, 2023, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the grant and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Marion and Donald Routh Student Research Grant
This grant is designed to enable a student member of the Society of Pediatric Psychology to pursue research scholarship.
2023 Awardee: Natalie Koskela-Staples Project Title: Association Between Parent-Child Communication Patterns and Pediatric Asthma Outcomes: A Mixed Methods Study Mentor: David Fedele, PhD Institution: The University of Florida
2023 Awardee: Rachel Fisher (Runner Up) Project Title: Parental Healthcare Advocacy in Families of Children with Cancer: a Mixed Methods Approach Mentor: Larry Mullins, PhD Institution: Oklahoma State University
2024 Details: Deadline: October 15, 2023, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the grant and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.
Mary Jo Kupst Trainee Grant for Research in Resilience
This award facilitates trainee research that provides a novel contribution and advance the field of pediatric psychology specifically in the area of resilience.
2023 Awardee: Kara West Project Title: Youth and Family Functioning and Resilience Across the First Six Months Post-Solid Organ Transplant Mentors: Debra Lefkowitz, PhD and Jill Plevinsky, PhD Institution: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2024 Details: Deadline: October 15, 2023, Apply by: Email. For more details, please click on the grant and review the description, eligibility, and how to apply.