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The Road to You Know Where is Paved with Good Intentions – Ed Tricket

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Ed Trickett shares his nuanced way of understanding ecological theory and the ecology of our social world.

Engaging Patients in Their Own Lives – Lenny Jason

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Lenny Jason discusses his work on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalopathy (CFS/ME).

SenseofCommunity.com

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Bringing together the myriad of international scholars and practitioners to advance the work on sense of community.

A Few Media Tips

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Ashley Simons-Rudolph The following are based on a discussion facilitated with the SCRA Practice Council August 25, 2018. They represent the thoughts/experiences of the author only. Each situation is unique. Please consider using multiple approaches in your overall media strategy. General Approach LOTS of different kinds of media; be proactive Defensive mode?-Consider seeking expert Empower […]

Building Skills with the Community Tool Box

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People – locally and globally – can change and improve conditions that affect their lives. How? We can become more effective by learning and applying community-building skills. The Community Tool Box ™ is a website that provides practical guidance, tips, tools, and how-to-do-it information on a wide variety of community skills. It is intended to […]

 What’s New with the Community Tool Box?

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Many readers are by now familiar with the  Community Tool Box ™, a website that provides practical guidance and how-to-do-it information on a wide variety of community-building topics.  With over 300 self-contained instructional sections and over 7000 pages of text, the Tool Box is presently the largest single source of information on community health and […]

What is Community Psychology – Laura Kohn-Wood and Courte Voorhees

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Laura Kohn-Wood and Courte Voorhees discuss the timeless question: “What is Community Psychology”.

Refugees, Migration, Acculturation and Traumatic Stress – Dina Birman

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Dina Birman discusses refugees, culture, acculturation, migration and traumatic stress. Dina takes listeners through a definition of Community Psychology and her own personal history of moving to the US as a refugee from the Soviet Union.

This is Not a History Lesson; This is Agitation – Regina Langhout

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We all have moments in our lives that speak to us, that move us in unexpected ways. One of these moments for Natalie, the host of RadioActive, was an address given at the 2015 Society for Community Research and Action Biennial conference. Gina Langhout, a scholar and community psychologist, delivered her address entitled – This […]

Surfacing and Shifting Power – Scot Evans and Tod Sloan

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On this episode of RadioActive we served up two brilliant (and ridiculously cool) academic brains who work tirelessly to understand the role of power in creating and maintaining suffering and inequality in our communities and society.