SCRA Interest Groups

Aging

The Aging interest group focuses on the productive role of aging in the community and the prevention of mental health problems in the elderly.

Contact: Margaret M. Hastings, Chair
(847) 256-4844
margaretmhastings@earthlink.net

Children & Youth

The Children and Youth interest group facilitates the interests of child and adolescent development in high risk contexts, especially the effect of urban poverty and community structures on child and family development

Contact: TBA

Community Action

Contact: Brad Olson, chair.
Northwestern U.
b-olson@northwestern.edu

Community Health

The Community Health interest group focuses on health promotion, disease prevention, and the health care service delivery issues as they relate to the community.

Contact: David Lounsbury , Co-chair
(646) 888-0045
lounsbud@mskcc.org

Shannon Gwin Mitchell, Ph.D. Co-chair
(202) 719-7812
shannon.mitchell@thomson.com

Disabilities

The Disability Action Group promotes the understanding of the depth and diversity of disabilities issues in the community that are ready for research and action; it influences community psychologists' involvement in policy and practices that enhance self-determination, personal choice, and full inclusion in the community for people with disabilities.

Contact: Fabricio Balcazar Ph.D.
Department of Disability and Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd
Chicago, IL
fabricio@uic.edu
(312) 413-1646

Disability Interest Group Listserv

We hope that many of you will join us and help create a vibrant community of disability scholars and activists within the SCRA.

To sign up for the listserv,
1. Send an email to: listserv@lists.apa.org with the following message in the body of the email (please be sure to remove any other text, including signatures): Subscribe SCRA-DIG

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT)

The LGBT interest group increases awareness of the need for community research and action related to issues that impact LGBT people; and serves as a mechanism for communication, collaboration, and support among community psychologists who are either interested in research/service/policy related to LGBT people and communities, and/or who identify as LGBT.

Contact: Colleen Loomis, Chair
519-884-0710, ext. 2858

To sign up for the listserv, send an email to: scra-lgbt-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Prevention & Promotion

The Prevention and Promotion interest group seeks to enhance the development of prevention and promotion research, foster active dialogue about critical conceptual and methodological action and implementation issues, and promote rapid dissemination and discussion of new developments and findings in the field.

Contact: Richard Wolitski , Chair
(404) 639-1939
Wolitski@cdc.gov

Rural

The Rural interest group is devoted to highlighting issues of the rural environment that are important in psychological research, service, and teaching.

Contact: TBA

School Interventions

The School Intervention interest group addresses theories, methods, knowledge base, and setting factors pertaining to prevention and health promotion in school.

School Intervention Interest Group - Hosted by the UCLA School Mental Health Project

Contact: Susana Helm, Ph.D., Co-Chair
Helm Consulting, Hartford CT
shelm@hawaii.edu

Jane K. Shepard, Psy.D, Co-Chair
Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
v: 203-789-7645
f: 203-562-6355
jshepard@theconsultationcenter.org

Self-help/Mutual Support

The Self-Help/Mutual Support interest group is an international organization of researchers, self-help leaders, and policy makers that promotes research and action related to self-help groups and organizations.

Contact: Bret Kloos, Ph.D., Chair
Department of Psychology
University of South Carolina
v: 803-777-2704
f: 803-777-9558
kloos@gwm.sc.edu