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: November 1, 2026 (Applications open) | October 8, 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: 3 grants of $21,000 each; APF grants are typically for one year
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 doctoral psychologists no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
Description
The Division 56 Cultivating Healing, Advocacy, Nonviolence, Growth, and Equity (CHANGE) Grant is sponsored by the American Psychological Foundation (APF) and Division 56. It supports collaborative projects led by graduate students or early-career psychologists that identify and dismantle systemic racism, discrimination, and violence.
Supported work may improve transdisciplinary and intervention research methods addressing trauma disparities or examine the historical and ongoing systemic 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 well-being programs, expanding underserved communities’ access to trauma psychology information and services, and restorative justice practices.
