Category — community psy

- NYTimes.com. A job that has not been all that alluring to college graduates is in resurgence, according to leading community organizers and educators. Once thought of as a destination for lefty radicals committed to living lives of low pay, frustration and bitter burnout, community organizing is now seen by many young people an exciting career.

via A Career in Community Organizing Becomes an Enviable Option – NYTimes.com.

• methods in social research

  This page lists FREE resources for program evaluation and social research methods. The focus is on “how-to” do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews, and other methods. Most of these links are to resources that can be read over the web. A few, like the GAO books, are for books that can be sent away for, for free (if you live in the US), as well as read over the web.

  Tags: research methods, Methodology, evaluation, resources

• Effective Strategies to Support Positive Parenting in Community Health Centers

  Tags: children, abuse, child maltreatment, prevention, violence, parenting, health equity

• OutcomesBlog.Org » Evaluation Advisory Committees – getting it right at the start

  Recently I attended the first meeting of an Evaluation Advisory Committee and I was reminded once again of the importance of setting up evaluations properly at the start. I have set out below the issues which need to be dealt with when such committees are set up. This list is drawn from my experience on a number of these types of committees. The issues you need to deal with include:

  Tags: methods, evaluation

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• Differences in Neighborhood Food Environment May Contribute to Disparities in Obesity – Mailman School News

  Access to “healthy” food stores associated with lower prevalence of obesity in New York City

  Tags: obesity, research, food environment

• Financial Safety Net of Nonprofit Organizations Is Fraying, Survey Finds – NYTimes.com

  The financial health of the nation’s nonprofit groups is rapidly deteriorating, according to a survey of some 900 nonprofit leaders around the country.

  Tags: non-profit, economy, organizations

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• COMM-ORG

  Tags: community organizing, community development, action

• Improving the Health of Canadians: Exploring Positive Mental Health

  Improving the Health of Canadians: Exploring Positive Mental Health brings together available information and data analyses that look at one way of defining positive mental health, how we currently measure it, its role in health, the factors associated with high levels of positive mental health and what strategies are, or may be, effective at promoting mental health at a population level.

  Tags: SDOH, mental health, prevention, Canada

• Esurio: Journal of Hunger and Poverty

  Esurio is a student refereed academic journal published by the Ontario Association of Food Banks (OAFB) with the proud support of Direct Energy.

  Esurio publishes articles on issues of hunger and poverty through a youth lens.  The journal features articles written and reviewed by graduate and undergraduate students and is published twice annually.

  Tags: hunger, poverty, journals, students

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Venue: Craiglockhart Campus, Napier University, Edinburgh
Key Speaker:Prof. Ian Parker on the tensions between critical and community psychology.
Conference Ceilidh Thursday night! 

Community Psychology Conf 2008

There will be two broad themes for the conference this year:Day One: The relationship between critical and community psychology, and the way our values impact on our practice. Day Two: Mental health in our communities; campaigns, projects, initiatives, including the role of recoveryDate: 18th and 19th September