2011 Southeastern Ecological and Community Psychology Conference 

"Community Research and Action: Rising to meet the Challenges of the 21^st Century"

***Call for Proposals***

Deadline for proposal submission

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/HLR9XDT

July 31, 2011!

The community psychology graduate students at *Georgia State University*, in Atlanta, GA are hosting this year's Southeastern Ecological and Community Psychology Conference (ECO) on *October 14-15, 2011*. The conference is entirely…

A short biography of Marca is available here. 

After attending the 2009 Southeastern Ecological Conference, we felt obligated to share our reflections from the wealth of information that was communicated by our colleagues in our round table discussion titled "Community Psychology and social change: How does YOUR program promote lasting change in the community?" Our session was inspired by the theme of the conference: "Promoting Lasting Change in Communities." Ecological and community psychology graduate programs are designed to create…

The values of community psychology embrace health and wellbeing, and many settings and ecological perspectives intersect. Just after passage of the most sweeping change in federal health policy in fifty years there is hope for a more inclusive, responsive and cost-effective U.S. healthcare system. In this article, three of us who work in healthcare share a framework for looking at what we do, how we got there, our co-workers and opportunities and challenges. We represent diverse employers:…

Please consider applying for the Graduate Student Research Grant. This grant is specifically devoted to supporting pre-dissertation or thesis research in under-funded areas of community psychology. This year the amount has been increased to $400 (USD). Applications can be downloaded from the SCRA website. Applications for the award will be due by September 17, 2010. If you have any questions while developing your grant proposal, please contact Fernando Estrada at fernando.estrada@asu.edu or…

SCRA's National Student Representatives, with the approval of the Executive Committee, have created more domestic travel awards for students interested in attending Society of Community Research and Action programming at the American Psychological Association (APA) Convention or at one of the regional

Ecological Conferences. A total of 16 domestic travel awards will be given out ($300 each; 3 APA awards, 5 ECO awards, and 8 SCRA biennial awards). All amounts are in USD. The APA conference is…

Rogler, L. H. (2008). Bario Professors: Tales of Naturalistic Research, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 

For community psychologists, 1965 and the Swampscott Conference of that year represent our Declaration of Independence of 1776 and Magna Carta of 1215. However, many of the questions that remain compelling to us today were being asked even before the beginning, and by researchers and practitioners in a variety of fields (e.g., sociology and anthropology, as well as psychology). How does…

Helping families and communities recover From disaster: Lessons learned from hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Kilmer, R. P., Gil-Rivas, V. Tedeschi, R. G., & Calhoun, L. G. (Ed.), (2010). Washington DC: American Psychological Association. 

An ad-hoc subcommittee on disaster recovery for the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs held hearings in 2009 as a follow up to the interim report done by the National Commission on Children and Disasters…