I am honored to be nominated to run for SCRA Regional Network Coordinator.  As a Professor of Psychology at DePaul University, I have served in many leadership roles, including University IRB Chair and Community Psychology Program Director for the past 6 years.  In addition, I have served on the SCRA Council of Education Programs (CEP) for the past 4 years, and served as Chair of the CEP for 1 term.  In each of these roles, I have led initiatives to promote positive changes.  I have learned...

Hello! I consider it an honor to be nominated for the position of Secretary. I am an assistant professor of psychology at Salisbury University, a state university situated on Maryland's Eastern Shore. I have been a SCRA member since joining as a first-year graduate student in 2000. I'm an applied social psychologist whose research and values align with community psychology, and SCRA is my professional home.

Over the past 10 years, I have served SCRA in many ways: as student representative...

Outside of academia, many employers have not heard of Community Psychology.  Those that have tend to confuse us with clinicians.  We have not marketed our profession very well to potential employers and consultees.  As a result, we are relatively unknown to many of those that might gain value from using our skills.

To begin remedying that situation, the SCRA Practice Group has developed a "value proposition" entitled Introducing Community Psychology.  A copy of the current version could be...

I'm facilitating a roundtable today at the SCRA Southeastern Region Eco Conference at USC in Columbia, South Carolina on the topic of Web 2.0 and Social Change. I'm starting off with 3 provocative propositions to get discussion going:

1. Communities, community betterment, social movements, and social change are the products of the human talent for accomplishing complex tasks together.
2. Web 2.0 enables us to learn, argue, deliberate, transact, and organize on scales and at paces that were never before...

SMART (South Hemispheric Mutual Support, Action, Reciprocity and Trust Network) have recently drafted and ratified the following Code of Ethics for our behaviour to each other and with those with whom we work.  The purpose of making our implicit values explicit and manifest in the form of a code is to support us in promoting solidarity, empowerment and mutual support.  We welcome your constructive feedback and supportive comments which can further help and direct us in achieving greater...