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CONFERENCE PROGRAM

We anticipate that the Program will be ready in March 2001. Meanwhile, here are some conference highlights...

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS...

  • Ms. Jane Fonda (Friday)
  • Honorable Andrew Young (Saturday)
  • Reverend Bernice King (Sunday) - invited

 

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 (beginning at 1 p.m.)

  • Feminism and Community Psychology: Discovering Integrated Understandings
  • Culture and Context in Prevention: The Study Group on Culture and Ethnicity
  • Teaching a Community Psychology
    (BRING YOUR COURSE MATERIALS TO SWAP WITH OTHERS)
  • Mentoring within Community Psychology: Working toward a More Diverse Community
  • Fidelity and Adaptation in Prevention Programming
  • Using Qualitative Research Methods to Improve Program Efficacy
  • A Tribute to James Kelly
  • Opening Poster Session and Wine/Cheese Reception

 

FRIDAY, JUNE 8

  • Opening Plenary and Welcome with Jane Fonda
  • Social Capital and Community Psychology
  • Improving the Quality of Community Life
  • Advocacy Training on the Hill and in the Classroom
  • Conceptualizing Competence in Adolescence: Conceptual Frameworks and Empirical Strategies
  • Nonacademic Roles for Community Psychologists
  • Social Oppression, HIV Risks, & Ethnic Minority Gay Men w How Can Community Psychology Best Assist LGBT Community Organizations?
  • Real World Contexts in Program Evaluation
  • Empirical Advances in the Sense of Community
  • Exposure to Violence, Life Stress, & Psychological Adaptation among Urban Youth
  • Community Collaborations: What Do We Know and What Needs Knowing
  • Remembrance of Emory Cowen: Reflections on His Personal and Professional Contributions
  • WOMEN'S NIGHT OUT

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 9

  • Plenary - with the Honorable Andrew Young, civil rights leader, former mayor of Atlanta and UN ambassador.
  • Building Community-based Organizations' Capacity for Evaluation: Approaches from New Voices in Community Psychology
  • Out-of-the-Ordinary Methodologies for Community Research
  • Building Bridges Across Diversities: Stories from the Front Lines
  • SimuReal: A Large Group Intervention for Community Problem Solving and Change
  • Promotion in the 21st Century: Challenges and New Directions
  • Forging Strengths-based Social Policy: A Strategic Brainstorming Session
  • Poster Session
  • SOCIETY BANQUET at the fabulous Fox Theatre

 

SUNDAY, JUNE 10

  • Second Order Change: Our New Frontier
  • Employment in Community Psychology
  • Community Psychology and the Law in Academia
  • Community-based Interventions for Refugee Children: Theory and Evaluation
  • Partnering with Churches to Promote Health
  • The Process of Community Research & Action: Untold Stories
  • Closing Plenary: Social Change in the 21st Century - Relive the experience of Martin Luther King's address to APA in 1967 as delivered by his daughter and civil rights leader, the Reverend Bernice King (invited).

 

Conference registration includes admission to all sessions, lunch on the full conference days, continental breakfast, and a dinner/social event at the fabulous Fox Theater.

Further details about registration, including travel arrangements, lodging, and information about conference accessibility, will be provided as it becomes available.