Division 56 CHANGE Grant
Division 56 CHANGE Grant supports graduate students and early-career psychologists leading collaborative projects to dismantle systemic racism, discrimination, and violence and address trauma disparities.
Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates: October 9, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time (Application deadline) | November 1, 2026 (2027 program-year applications open)
Funding Amounts: Three grants of $2,150 each; typically one-year projects
Summary: Supports graduate student- and early-career psychologist-led collaborative projects addressing systemic racism, discrimination, violence, and trauma disparities.
Key Information: Project leaders must be graduate students or psychologists no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
Description
The Division 56 CHANGE Grant is sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation (APF) and Division 56. CHANGE stands for Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity. It supports collaborative projects led by graduate students or early-career psychologists that identify and dismantle systemic racism, discrimination, and violence.
Supported work includes improving transdisciplinary and intervention research methods addressing trauma disparities and investigating the historical and ongoing sociopolitical causes, mechanisms, consequences, and solutions for racial trauma and health disparities. Other areas include understanding how people of color and their communities thrive, developing trauma-informed and culturally tailored sustainable programs, expanding access to trauma psychology information and services for underserved communities, and advancing restorative justice practices.
