2019 Biennial Conference Society for Community Research and Action

100 improve well-being of underprivileged populations, and medical geography. Based on the integration of the community-based participatory research addresses the Psycho-Environmental Potential model (Jutras, 2002; power differentials existing between researchers, Steele, 1973) and the notion of Geographically-Based stakeholders and community members (Israel et al., discrimination (Fleury-Bahi & Ndobo, 2017), the 2018). However, there often remains an unfair gap presenter will also propose an integrative framework between those who make the decisions and those who highlighting how due to structural injustices several must live with the consequences, undermining social marginalized communities experience negative justice and the sense of mattering for these populations. transaction with space (even in settings said to be Our research team has encountered such challenges in “safe”, such as clinical contexts or private spaces) that two current research projects conducted in public are hindering the satisfaction of their basic psycho- housing in the province of Quebec, Canada. Flash on environmental needs such as identity, privacy, pleasure, my neighborhood began in 2014 and is deployed in six and growth-related needs. Building on his work and sites throughout the province (Houle et al., 2017). The experiences in schools, workplaces and residential tenants were involved following the peer-research spaces, the presenter will offer recommendations on method (Roche, Guta, & Flicker, 2010) to increase individual and environmental interventions and their power in the research process. Although some community-based processes that can be implemented to results were achieved with regards to improving well- work with communities towards reducing being and the tenants’ residential environment, environmental injustices and promoting flourishing ‘in structural obstacles limited the tenant researchers’ space’. scope of undertaking. Lessons learned through this first project led to Synergy, an innovative study that will Discussion allow for tenant researchers to co-create health promotion initiatives with senior executives of four Stephanie Radziszewski, Université du Québec à domains (health and social services, municipal, Montréal; Kadia Saint-Onge, Université du Québec à housing, and community organizations). This new Montréal project is underway in a first site with the intention of scaling up to three additional sites in the provinces of A collective exercise inspired by Group level Quebec and Ontario, Canada in the next few years. assessment (Vaugh & Lohmueller, 2014) will enable Concrete examples from the two research projects will participants to reflect on the theme of the symposium. be used to illustrate the methodological, ethical, and Participants will be asked to move across the room to praxis challenges as well as related opportunities. The answer four questions facilitated by the presenters: 1) lecturer will conclude the presentation with What are the other types of exemplary methods you recommendations on ways we could improve the know about or use in your practice/research? 2) What methods and processes of fostering and researching are the current challenges you see in using positive positive communities. psychology to promote well-being in communities? 3) What is the future you wish for the field? 4) What Where do Communities Flourish? The Need to should be done to get there? The questions will allow Consider the Complexity of Person-Place the participants to focus on the challenges and Transactions in Order to Foster Wellbeing opportunities currently faced in the research concerning positive communities. They will also be asked to Simon Coulombe, Wilfrid Laurier University suggest directions to follow to enable the field to have a flourishing future. References Vaughn, L.M., & While positive psychology has been criticized for its Loehmueller, M. (2014). Calling all stakeholders: focus on individual interventions to promote wellbeing, Group-level assessment (GLA) - a qualitative and community psychology intends to offer an alternative, participatory method for large groups. Evaluation more comprehensive perspective taking into account Review, 38(4), 336-355. the multiple layers of social ecological factors that may impact wellbeing. However, among these factors, 081 Propelling a Movement for Equitable Justice: space-related ones (although pervasive in our everyday Opportunities and Challenges for Community Psychology life) are still often neglected or not fully considered by in Criminal Justice most psychologists, including community Roundtable Discussion psychologists. In that presentation, the speaker will Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45 PM Room: NLU 5031 argue that for interventions to be truly social ecological and more effective, greater attention needs to be Abstract devoted to understanding the ways wellbeing Throughout history, issues related to the criminal experiences and health promotion activities are justice system have been intricately linked with embedded in and influenced by people’s transactions inequity and social injustice. Community psychologists with the physical and symbolic aspects of space. The hold unique potential to affect change in this arena. presenter will highlight illustrative findings on the However, community psychology is less frequently relation between experiences of space and wellbeing identified as resource for those embedded in criminal from research in environmental psychology, justice research and practice. In this roundtable, we architecture and design, urban planning, public health, explore opportunities for community psychologists to

stimulate transformative change in criminal justice- 101 related topic areas. We will begin by a brief presentation from several criminal justice interest group Chairs: members showcasing examples of how community Gregor Sarkisian, Antioch University Los Angeles, psychologists are engaging in research and practice Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation, International Surf related to the criminal justice system. Next, we will Therapy Organization invite attendees to engage in a group discussion Discussant: reflecting on the opportunities and challenges Kris Primacio, International Surf Therapy associated with applying community psychology values Organization, Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation in this area. The discussion will encourage reflection of tensions that may emerge both personally and Presentations: professionally when seeking to balance frequently The International Surf Therapy Organization divergent and sometimes divisive perspectives. This (ISTO): Development of a Global Coalition. conversation is the first step in a process of crosswalking community psychology values with Matt Mattila, International Surf Therapy Organization, criminal justice issues and defining a roadmap for Waves4Change community psychologists to promote enhancements in equitable justice for marginalized populations. The Surf Therapy community found success in working with a number of beneficiary groups including Chairs: Veterans with PTSD, people on the Autism spectrum, Kassy Alia Ray, Serve & Connect; Jessica Shaw, youth dealing with trauma from violent communities, Boston College; Rachael Goodman-Williams, and many other psychological challenges. From South Michigan State University Africa to Scotland, researchers from leading organizations collected findings on the psychosocial 082 Surf Therapy Around the Globe benefits of surf therapy. Until recently, evidence was Symposium limited and hard to find. Several programs came Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2 PM Room: NLU 6013 together under a collective impact framework to help build and share the evidence base for the Surf Therapy Abstract sector. These programs collected, organized, and Over the past fifteen years, surf therapy programs have shared a list of peer-reviewed publications for surf developed around the globe as a means of promoting therapy. They committed to regular workshops and physical and mental health through combining communications to collaborate on research projects. psychoeducation, peer support, and surf instruction The collective also developed a set of data collection through an inclusive social environment. While tools for programs to help establish their own evidence research on surf therapy is emerging, benefits of surf and contribute to the sector knowledge. This paper will therapy have been experienced by a wide variety of review the process of establishing the International Surf populations. Surf therapy represents both a supplement Therapy Organization (ISTO), explore the evidence and alternative to traditional psychotherapy. The recent they’ve collected thus far, and propose potential next emergence of the International Surf Therapy steps for the group. As Surf Therapy organizations Organization (ISTO), committed to the collaboration of matured, they began collecting data to improve their practitioners and researchers, presents an interesting programs, track participant progress, and contribute opportunity for community psychology practitioners best practices to the sector. Most programs could only and researchers to become involved in the compare progress against themselves. When programs collaboration. In this symposium, the discussant will did learn of peers in the Surf Therapy sector, some introduce the concept of surf therapy and provide a were reluctant to share findings with programs they context for the presentations. The first presentation will were unfamiliar with. Several leading programs worked describe the collaborative development of ISTO as well to launch a collaborative effort to connect any as the benefits and challenges associated with sharing programs who collected and were willing to share data across different programs and populations. The evidence. Over the past year, ISTO has added over 30 other three presentations will highlight benefits to organizations to commit to openly sharing research participants from three programs currently conducting across the sector. The organization hosts an annual research with different populations - Presentation 2 will conference to share best practice and continue focus on at-risk youth, presentation 3 will focus on improving the standards of the sector. With a youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder and presentation declaration, website, and open sourced tools; the 4 will focus on active duty service members. An organization is prepared to launch a large-scale interactive discussion exploring the universal benefits collaborative research effort. of surf therapy with session attendees will follow the presentations. And, since this is the introduction of surf A Day of Surfing with the Jimmy Miller Memorial therapy to the field of community psychology, there Foundation and Hope Among At-Risk Youth will also be time for questions toward the end of the session. Gregor Sarkisian, Antioch University Los Angeles, Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation, International Surf Therapy Organization

The Jimmy Miller Memorial Foundation (JMMF) 102 ocean therapy program was first implemented in 2005 to increase perceived self-efficacy and physical activity you talk\" (79.8%), “looks at the face of the person with among at-risk youth through engagement with the whom he talks” (79.0%), \"understands when someone ocean environment. The program is designed to provide needs help” (75.0%), \"speaks in a normal tone” an inclusive and supportive social environment where (62.0%), \"had previous experience with alternative participants can reflect on the process and experience therapy” (58.7%), and \"responds to his name\" (50.0%). of acquiring new skills in a safe but unpredictable The results of the study showed that the post-test scores ocean environment. The one-day ocean therapy were almost three times higher (73.9%) than those of program includes 1) an opening circle where the pre-test. This provides the necessary scientific participants share their experience around a given evidence to affirm that the study participants showed theme, 2) a surf lesson on land, 3) a surf lesson in the great progress in the execution of the participants after ocean, 4) lunch, and a closing circle with opportunity to been exposed to the surf intervention. Based on the reflect on the theme of the day and other learnings. The results of this study, it is concluded that there is current study reports on data collected from summer scientific evidence necessary to establish the sport of 2017. The methodology included a mixed-method surfing as an alternative non-traditional method very approach. Qualitative data included drawings and effective in the development and stimulation of social associated text reflecting participants’ experience of the and communication skills in children with the Autism day. Drawings and associated text were coded based on Spectrum Disorder. prior research by Benninger and Savahl (2016) exploring what youth find beneficial in social Changing the Tide: Psychological Outcomes among programs. Based on the coding of 73 drawings, 95% Active Duty Service Members Following a Surf expressed experiencing opportunities for learning and Therapy Program fun, 90% expressed a positive attitude about their self- identity or self-concept, 64% expressed feeling safe, Kristen Walter, Leidos, Naval Health Research Center, and 62% expressed experiencing social support and International Surf Therapy Organization; Nicholas Otis, inclusion. Quantitative data included a pre-test, post- Leidos, Naval Health Research Center; Travis Ray, test design using Snyder, et al.’s (1997) Children’s Leidos, Naval Health Research Center; Lisa Glassman, Hope Scale, a six-item measure that defines hope as Leidos, Naval Health Research Center; Alexandra including pathways and agency as they relate to future Powell, Leidos, Naval Health Research Center; Mathew goals. A paired samples t-test was conducted to Humphreys, Naval Health Research Center; Betty compare mean scores on Children’s Hope before and Michalewicz-Kragh, Naval Medical Center; Cynthia after participating in ocean therapy (N=71). There was Thomsen, Naval Health Research Center a statistically significant increase in mean scores on the Children’s Hope Scale (Before: M=26.6, SD=6.7; Surf programs for individuals with psychological After: M=28.1, SD=6.6; t (70)=-3.70, p=0.000). These conditions exist; however, data evaluating such results suggest that ocean therapy positively affects programs are limited. PURPOSE: This study examined Children’s Hope. psychological outcomes among active duty service members participating in a surf therapy program at Simplified Surfing as a Therapeutic Tool for Naval Medical Center San Diego. METHODS: Children Diagnosed within the Autism Spectrum Seventy-four active duty service members completed Disorder (ASD) self-report questionnaires before and after the 6-week program and before and after each surf therapy session. Giovanni Martinez, Surf4Dem, Inc., International Surf RESULTS: Multilevel modeling results demonstrated Therapy Organization that total scores for symptoms of depression (β = -2.31, p < .01), anxiety (β = -3.55, p < .001), posttraumatic In an effort to develop alternative methods of stress disorder (probable PTSD subgroup only; β = - intervention for children with an ASD diagnosis, a pilot 14.55, p < .001), and negative affect (β = -6.40, p < study that measured the social and communication .001) significantly decreased from pre- to post- skills acquired after sessions of surf therapy were program, while positive affect significantly increased evaluated in a pre-test and post-test. The surveys of the (β = 9.46, p < .001). Within each session, study indicate that the average scores for all the skills depression/anxiety symptoms significantly lessened (β evaluated in the post-test are greater than those of the = -3.35, p < .001) and positive affect significantly pre-test. When comparing test scores, significant improved (β = 8.97, p < .001). Within-session changes differences were found between participating of the did not differ across sessions (p > .05). Results for surf intervention and the following skills (p <.05): The subgroups with probable PTSD or major depressive social communication skill that reported the greatest disorder were comparable to those of the full sample. change was \"offers help to people who need it” CONCLUSION: Immediate benefits of surf therapy (93.5%), \"spontaneously converses with other people” included significantly reduced depression/anxiety and (92.6%), “likes to share in social activities” (84.0%), increased positive affect. As a complementary \"shows sympathy towards other people, socialize\" intervention, surf therapy may improve depression, (83.2%), \"provide information and ask questions when anxiety, and PTSD symptoms, with potentially unique benefits on affect. This study was funded by the Navy

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Clinical trials 103 registration number NCT02857751. orphanage. The small amount of research conducted on 083 Promoting Resilience in Children and Adolescents in orphans in Egypt has focused on these deficits and the Adverse Conditions. Research in Community Psychology hardships. However, it may be more empowering and Symposium more effective to focus on the strengths and capabilities Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45 PM Room: NLU 6017 of these youth. In particular, during adolescence when Egyptian orphans must leave their institutions, it is Abstract especially important to understand how to promote Living in adversity is certainly difficult especially to resilience and give them the tools they need to handle vulnerable populations, who are at risk of social the coming challenges of life, particularly in the exclusion due to poverty, illness, trauma and context of the stigma they will face. The current study orphanhood. Researchers and practitioners have assessed the resilience level of youth who resided in focused for decades on deficits and hardships, where it orphanages between the ages of 16 and 21, using the would be more empowering and effective to focus on Arabic validated version of the CYRM-12 (The Child resilience and coping abilities. This symposium and Youth Resilience Measure). Those youth who addresses promoting the resilience and coping abilities scored the highest on this scale were then interviewed of children and adolescents living in hardships in in order to investigate the factors that enabled their Egypt, India, Nepal, Italy, and South Africa. The first resilience. Forty-one youth were surveyed with a mean paper assesses the resilience of adolescents raised in resilience score of 48.68, indicating high resilience. institutional homes in Cairo, Egypt and identifies the The youth who were interviewed emphasized the factors that facilitate resilience. The second paper importance of having close supportive relationships describes a trauma healing and resilience framework especially with a caring adult, and they appreciated utilized with adolescent and young adult survivors of having access to material resources especially sexual exploitation (SE), labor trafficking, abuse and education. They also had a sense of cohesiveness inside those at risk in India and Nepal. The third paper their orphanages, and a sense of social responsibility describes an intervention in a pediatric hospital in Italy toward their communities, their places of worship and to promote resilience, with teachers who are working other orphans. The interviewees were exposed to with hospitalized children. The fourth paper discusses discrimination, but were able to navigate their way the way in which children’s self-concept is influenced through this challenge using the support from the close by the socio-cultural-political environment and how relationships, their faith and religion, accepting who this further impacts children’s strategies for resilience they were as orphans, and not caring about what others in Cape Town, South Africa. And the fifth paper thought of them. They displayed high levels of self- discusses promoting resilience of underprivileged efficacy and felt in control of their own situations and adolescents through using a resilience methodology. lives. Across the papers there are common themes of how at risk children and adolescents facing social exclusion, Youth Resilience and Human Trafficking in South oppression, poverty, and trauma, are able to gain Asia resilience and cope with their difficult situations. And how resilience is promoted through self-concept, self- Samantha Kinkaid, Pacifica Graduate Institute efficacy, opportunities for escape, development of strengths and skills, having a sense of cohesiveness and It is a widely known survivors of child sexual social responsibility and the availability of social exploitation (CSE) and trafficking do not have support. adequate access to care, the length of treatment is not sufficient given the level of trauma, and the type of Chairs: care provided - largely therapy that is focused on Noha Emam Hassanin, The American University in cognitive and behavioral challenges, often with Cairo medication that merely dampens symptoms - does not Discussant: result in sufficient healing and restoration for the Hana Shahin, Wichita State University success and well-being of the survivor long-term. This study posits community models of trauma healing and Presentations: building resilience—informed by indigenous Assessing the Resilience of Adolescents Raised in psychologies and ecopsychology—are better suited to Institutional Homes in Cairo, Egypt support the short-term and long-term health and well- being of the child survivor. The Trauma Healing and Noha Emam Hassanin, The American University in Resilience (THR) framework is an example of an Cairo accessible psychophysiological model that addresses both the surface symptoms and deeper layers of trauma Orphans in Egypt face discrimination at school, in the in the body-mind-spirit of a survivor and is being workplace and when finding a marriage partner. They utilized currently in South Asia with survivors and also are at risk for developing physical, emotional and NGOs who support this population. intellectual delays as a result of residing in an School in Hospital. A Project for Improving Resilience in Teachers

104 Moira Chiodini, University of Florence & LabCom childhood, social connectedness, and children’s spaces (Community Psychology Social Enterprise); Elisa were identified as influences on a child’s self-concept. Guidi, University of Florence & LabCom (Community Four underlying discourses emerged within the themes Psychology Social Enterprise); Patrizia Meringoloo, as central to the participant’s self-constructions. These University of Florence & LabCom (Community included; (1) ‘forfeited childhood,’ (2) ‘vulnerability Psychology Social Enterprise) and helplessness,’ (3) ‘preserving the integrity of the self,’ and (4) ‘opportunities for escape.’ The technique of storytelling, and of the photovoice, which uses the ability to build stories from images, was Working with Adolescents in Underprivileged used in the \"School in hospital\" project, for improving Communities in Cairo, Egypt teachers' resilience skills. Supporting a child who is living the tragic experience of the illness and Rasha Salem, Save the Children hospitalization, the trauma of leaving the house, school, and friends, requires the development of teachers’ Within diverse underprivileged communities in Cairo, resilience. Helping adults to discover their strengths Egypt adolescents share similar need for character allows them to build a resilient relationship with the building, self-awareness and interpersonal skills to children they work with. Storytelling allows merging make decisions and solve problems with respect to their the elements coming from stories, or games, in order to contexts. As part of Save the Children staff, I find the foster a transformation and the children ability to face resilience manuals giving the opportunity for social the critical issues. The same event can lead to opposite workers, facilitators and psychologists to meet these outcomes. The emotional state of a person who needs but with a tool which allows for ongoing suffered a great trauma can range from shame to tailoring and audience analysis. The Save the Children anxiety, to depression, but even to pride and self- Resilience Methodology presents the importance of esteem for having overcome a difficult experience. being age, gender and culturally sensitive while Through the construction of stories of resilience, conducting field-based trainings. In this falls the teachers become aware of their resources and skills, strength of grasping individual differences which can and able to increase the energies of children, families, be hidden within groups. When training with resilience individuals and communities. Promoting resilience with manuals and methodology the trainer has the eye for children in the hospital means – for teachers – to be a noticing differences and treating the trainees with steady reference point for them (and for their families); respect to such differences. This enriches training and give positive messages as suggestions for the future; be allows the youth and adolescents to feel that they are able to get help in critical situations; and, above all, learning in a safe environment. Safe learning improve flexibility that is the main feature of resilience. environments are essential for trainings to have an impact on this specific age group. Another impact Children's Discursive Construction of the \"Self\" which resilience brings to the training field is the need for trainers to conduct on-going analysis. This would Elizabeth Benninger, Case Western Reserve imply that changes are welcomed to respond to the University; Shazly Savahl, University of the Western reactions of the trainees. The manuals contain the Cape, Cape Town, South Africa preparatory analytical sessions which allow for the trainees to go through activities of self-awareness and The ways in which children construct and assign to express themselves. This allows trainers to learn meaning to the ‘self’ could have an impact on their about trainees and tailor their material accordingly. social and emotional well-being, including their coping skills, relationship formation, and behavior. 084 The Future Existence of Community Psychology as a Furthermore, a child’s understanding of the ‘self’ could Discipline influence the way in which they make meaning out of Roundtable Discussion their experiences and internalize these experiences as a Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45PM Room: Palmer House means of understanding one’s abilities and self-worth. The Spire Parlor Conditions of poverty and oppression could negatively impact the development of the self-concept and a Abstract child’s overall well-being. Such conditions exist in This roundtable discussion focuses on the future of South Africa, where the aftermath of apartheid system Community Psychology as a discipline when of structural racism continues in the form of social Community Psychology faculty are migrating to inequity, poverty, and violence. This study utilized a departments other than Psychology and doctoral degree child participation framework to explore children’s granting programs are increasingly becoming discursive constructions of and meanings assigned to interdisciplinary or concentrated in practice-, rather the ‘self’ within two urban communities of the Western than research-, focused universities. This session brings Cape, South Africa. Eight focus group discussions were together scholars from the U.S., Canada, Japan, Italy, conducted amongst fifty-four children between the ages Australia and South Africa to discuss what Community of nine to twelve. Thematic and discourse analysis Psychology training looks like in these six countries. were used to analyze the findings. The themes of After a description of each country’s training, audience members will be invited to respond and share their own

105 experiences. The facilitator will then guide the government offices, museums, and universities. The discussion towards how community psychology can presenters are diverse in terms of their education best position itself to survive as a discipline within the backgrounds and include Bachelors-level, Masters- changing, and perhaps shrinking, contexts. Questions level, and Doctoral-level community psychologists. will include such issues as the future of Community Each presenter will open with a brief description of Psychology as a discipline when programs are closing, their current position and the trajectory that led them to becoming interdisciplinary, and faculty are in their career. Then, the discussant will facilitate a Q&A departments other than Psychology. This roundtable session during which audience members will have the includes participants from countries with varying levels opportunity to ask questions they have for the of Community Psychology education. For instance, presenters. The session will end with concluding Australia has only one masters level Community remarks from the discussant. Audience members will Psychology program left nationally, that is accredited leave with a handout of career development resources by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council. and advice the presenters found to be helpful in their While Italy has more Community Psychology programs own career development as community psychologists. and coursework in Community Psychology is embedded into the general requirements for Chairs: undergraduate Psychology students. In contrast, Japan Alison Mroczkowski, Museum of Science and Industry, has no official Community Psychology programs at Chicago; Christopher Beasley, University of either the undergraduate or graduate levels despite the Washington - Tacoma; Kylon Hooks, Howard Brown - large membership (500+) in their Community Broadway Youth Center; Jaclyn Houston Kolnik, Psychological organization and many college-level Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority; Carlos Community Psychology courses offered. By comparing Luna, Green Card Veterans LULAC Council #5310; and contrasting the existence (and perhaps Gloria Segovia, Museum of Science and Industry, endangerment) of the discipline in a variety of Chicago; Shannon Williams, University of Illinois, countries, and including facilitated audience discussion, Chicago we aim to draw attention to our pressing needs as a field and the ways in which we can promote our 086 Understanding and Addressing Homelessness: An success – or at least prevent our extinction. This round Ecological Investigation of Policy-Makers, Citizens, table connects to the theme of: Practice, professional Homeless Service Providers and Homeless Service Users development, and core competencies of CP. in Europe Symposium Chairs: Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45 PM Room: Palmer Salon Stephanie Reich, University of California, Irvine; 12 Ronelle Carolissen, Stellenbosch University; Donata Francescato, University of Rome; Manuel Riemer, Abstract Wilfred Laurier University; Toshi Sasao, International Housing First is an evidence-based practice that more Christian University; Christopher Sonn, Victoria effectively reverses homelessness and promotes University recovery than traditional services (i.e., Continuum of Care; Staircase; e.g., Busch-Geertsema, 2014; National 085 “What Are You Going To Do With That Degree?” A Alliance to End Homelessness, 2016). The European Conversation with Early Career Community Commission recently endorsed the implementation of Psychologists ‘housing-led’ strategies like Housing First at national, Roundtable Discussion regional and local levels (European Commission, Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45 PM Room: Palmer House 2013). However, in Europe, only a minority of The Water Tower Parlor programs have reconfigured their services toward Housing First or implemented new Housing First Abstract services. “Homelessness as Unfairness” (Home-EU) is Many students pursuing degrees in community a multi-country, longitudinal project funded by psychology often wonder, “What am I going to do with Horizon2020, the European Commission’s largest this degree after I graduate?” Given the immense research and innovation program. The overarching goal number and variety of careers held by community of Home-EU is to use evidence-based research to psychologists (O’Donnell & Ferrari, 2000), students influence homeless policies and practice. This may be unclear about, or overwhelmed by their options. interdisciplinary project takes a capabilities and The purpose of this roundtable is to convene early ecological approach to understanding how European career community psychologists (1-5 years post- citizens, policymakers, and stakeholders respond to and graduation) to highlight the diverse career paths that address homelessness as an extreme form of social they followed in an effort to provide concrete examples inequality and injustice. We aimed to map the readiness of careers that budding community psychologists may of eight European countries: France, Ireland, Italy, the pursue, as well as advice for how to get there. The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden, to roundtable will feature six early career community mainstream the Housing First approach. Since 2016, psychologists who hold a variety of positions and work our partners have been compiling qualitative and in settings including community-based centers, quantitative data on social policies on homelessness,

citizens’ attitudes to homelessness, and service 106 providers’ and service users’ experiences of homelessness. This symposium will consist of four second cluster of 58% of participants objected to the presentations that describe results from three studies existence of homelessness, shared a willingness to pay completed by Home_EU partners: 1) a citizens’ survey taxes to decrease homelessness, welcomed a shelter in on attitudes toward homelessness and willingness to their neighborhood, and believed that some capabilities pay for homeless services; 2) a study of service users’ are denied to homeless people (e.g., agreed that they experiences; and 3) a study of service providers’ are discriminated against in hiring decisions). Using a experiences. In the fourth presentation, the ways in generalized linear model adjusted for key demographic which we will use our findings to influence European characteristics, we found that self-reported practices homeless policies will be discussed. Using the example (e.g., donations and volunteering) strongly predicted of Home-EU, we hope to spark a conversation with the positive attitudes toward homeless people and actions audience about the challenges of and opportunities for to decrease homelessness. In addition, we found that using social science to shape social policy in North 42% of respondents were willing to pay taxes for America and Europe. Housing First programs. Significant differences across countries were observed, however, and will be Chairs: discussed in the context of difference in the countries’ Jose Ornelas, ISPA - Instituto Universitário social welfare systems. Together, our findings reveal a Discussant: high level of public support for homeless people and Tim Aubry, University of Ottawa present opportunities for new social initiatives to address homelessness. Presentations: European citizens’ positive attitudes toward Understanding Homeless Service Users’ homeless people and willingness-to-pay for Experiences: Housing First Predicts Greater homelessness reduction Housing Stability, Fewer Psychiatric Symptoms, and More Community Integration Sandrine LOUBIERE, Department of Research and Innovation, Support Unit for clinical research and Ronni Michelle Greenwood, Psychology Department, economic evaluation, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux University of Limerick, Castletroy, Co. Limerick, de Marseille, 27 Boulevard Jean Moulin, 13385 IRELAND; Rachel M. , Manning, Psychology Marseille, France; Aurélie TINLAND, Department of Department, University of Limerick, Castletroy, Co. Psychiatry, Sainte-Marguerite University Hospital, Limerick, IRELAND.; Branagh R. O’Shaughnessy, 13009 Marseille, France; Junie PETIT, Aix-Marseille Psychology Department, University of Limerick, Univ, School of Medicine, EA 3279: CEReSS, Castletroy, Co. Limerick, IRELAND Department of Health Service Research and Quality of Life, Marseilles, France; Pascal AUQUIER, Aix- Housing First offers immediate access to independent Marseille Univ, School of Medicine, EA 3279: accommodation with no treatment conditions and CEReSS, Department of Health Service Research and client-led, recovery-oriented support services. In 2013, Quality of Life, Marseilles, France the European Commission (EC) released a report in which it criticized the staircase system for not meeting There is little research on European citizens’ the needs of homeless people, for prolonging long-term understanding of homelessness as an extreme form of homelessness, and unnecessarily exposing people to social inequality. In the present study, we measured stress and dislocation. The EC encouraged member citizens’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) states to adopt housing-led approaches like Housing about homelessness and support for the Housing First First because of its superior outcomes for homeless model in eight European countries. In a large, people and its cost-effectiveness. Despite this call, only representative sample (n = 5,631), we assessed Finland, and now Ireland, have implemented national knowledge of the national prevalence of homelessness Housing First programs. There are many reasons why and funding levels for homeless services; attitudes policy makers are reluctant to promote evidence-based toward homeless people’s capabilities, empowerment, social policies. One reason is the belief that a program community integration; beliefs about the main causes developed in one context will not work in a different of homelessness; attitudes toward government context. In the present research, we aimed to spending; personal inclination to address homelessness demonstrate that Housing First does work to achieve its through donations or volunteering; and willingness-to- key aims in seven different European contexts that have pay (WTP) for Housing First programs. Using multiple implemented Housing First programs. These countries correspondence analysis, we identified a cluster of 30% represent diverse economic and social contexts and of respondents who shared views that their government different historical patterns of homelessness. We spends too much on homelessness; that homeless compared participants enrolled in Housing First (n = people are homeless by choice and should be 242) to participants enrolled in traditional services (n = responsible for their own housing; and who believed 243) on time spent in private accommodation, homeless individuals held capabilities (e.g., meal psychiatric symptoms, and community integration. We preparation, family contact, and access to work). A found that Housing First participants reported better outcomes on all three indicators, and that choice in housing, satisfaction with services, and housing quality,

107 all of which are key features of the Housing First weaknesses and promote their efficacy will be model, were additional independent predictors of these discussed. three outcomes. Findings will be discussed in terms of their implications for larger-scale rollout of Housing Upscaling Housing First Programs in Europe and First programs in these and other European countries. influencing policy (in)formation: The Contributions of the HOME_EU Project Profiling homeless services to promote their efficacy: Cross-country validation of the SER PRO Maria Joao Vargas-Moniz, Applied Psychology questionnaire and its relation with providers’ Research Center Capabilities and Inclusion (APPsyCI), experience ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim do Tabaco, 34 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal; José Ornelas, Applied Michela Lenzi, Department of Developmental Psychology Research Center Capabilities and Inclusion Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, (APPsyCI), ISPA – Instituto Universitário, Rua Jardim Italy; Marta Gaboardi, Department of Developmental do Tabaco, 34 1149-041 Lisboa, Portugal Psychology and Socialisation, University of Padova, Italy; Francesca Disperati, Department of Long-term homelessness is complex, and so identifying Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, effective and contextually sensitive solutions about its University of Padova, Italy; Alessio Vieno, Department reversal is far from straightforward. The overall aim of of Developmental Psychology and Socialisation, the HOME_EU Consortium was to contribute to the University of Padova, Italy; Massimo Santinello, development of a new generation of European Department of Developmental Psychology and evidence-based public policies and social programs that Socialisation, University of Padova, Italy effectively tackle long-term homelessness through the mainstreaming of Housing First. Research for the Since its initial implementation in North America, the HOME_EU project was completed in eight countries Housing First (HF) approach to addressing across four ecological levels (citizens, service homelessness has spread across the world. Although providers, service users, and policy makers). In this some key factors characterize most of the services that presentation, we will reflect on how, and to what adopt the HF approach, the ways in which services are extent, the Consortium partners achieved the delivered can vary widely across programs and HOME_EU aims. We will also reflect on the key geographical areas. This variation can be attributed not challenges the Consortium partners overcame in order only to differences in philosophical approaches, but to achieve these aims. Among these challenges, The also to the broader context in which the service is HOME_EU Consortium is highly interdisciplinary: provided. It is important to identify the characteristics Consortium members come from diverse academic of HF services that predict their effectiveness, backgrounds, including psychology, public health, compared to other, traditional staircase services. The social work, medical sciences, political sciences, aim of the current research was to develop and validate communication and management. In order to a questionnaire to identify different profiles of coordinate our activities and achieve our objectives in organizations that work with homeless people in eight different countries, we had to first negotiate and relation to their effectiveness in reaching programs’ integrate these diverse perspectives and orientations to goals. The questionnaire, which was developed to gain research and practice. Because data were collected in SErvice PROviders’ perspective (SE-PRO) includes eight different languages and cultures, the project several measures of program characteristics believed to demanded a high level of cultural sensitivity, be critical to functioning: external characteristics such particularly in the translation and administration of the as relationships with other services in the community; measures. Finally, the project design was mixed- internal characteristics such as system values; and method, and finding ways to integrate and synthesize individual characteristics such as work-life balance. A over multiple ecological levels was challenging. first set of items was developed through a content Despite these challenges, from our findings, the analysis of photovoice projects conducted with service HOME_EU consortium is delivering effective research providers in eight European countries. Through documents, accessible information, and valid discussion, these items were reduced to a set of 100. assessment tools that may be used to inform and This 100-item version of the SE-PRO was administered improve social policy on homelessness at national and in those eight countries. Preliminary analyses showed European levels. good internal consistency for most of the subscales included in the questionnaire. A confirmatory factor 087 Coping with Serious Mental Illness: Understanding analysis partially confirmed the hypothesized structure Family, Place, Stigma, and Advocacy of the questionnaire in most countries. A theoretical Symposium model linking the organizational profile of the Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 2:30-3:45 PM Room: Palmer Salons organizations to providers’ well-being (in terms of 6&7 burnout, work engagement and capabilities) was also evaluated. The potential benefits of profiling homeless Abstract services in order to identify their strengths and Despite increased social awareness and improvements in mental health care over the past 40 years, individuals

and families coping with mental illness continue to face 108 social marginalization, discrimination, and limited access to resources. Community psychology has a long- suggest that adults who perceive a cohesive family standing commitment to research and action designed environment generally report higher quality to help adults with psychiatric disabilities live relationships with their ill siblings. Research also satisfying and meaningful lives in the community. This suggests that well siblings’ reports of personal loss as a symposium brings together researchers focused on result of having a sibling with mental illness is critical issues in the study of mental illness from generally related to higher levels of caregiving multiple levels of analysis. Our overarching goal is to intentions. The present study examined well siblings’ engage audience members in a dialogue about how to views of parental interactions and their intentions to advance research that describes individual, familial, provide care to their sibling with mental illness. The and social factors to facilitate positive outcomes for sample consisted of 113 well-siblings who reported that adults with psychiatric disabilities. The symposium their parents provide support for their ill sibling. The begins by briefly introducing salient issues in the study study examined siblings’ perceptions of practical of serious mental illness from a community psychology support received and reciprocal closeness in parental perspective. A set of two presentations will describe the relationships, feelings of personal loss, and intentions impact of mental illness from the perspective of family to provide future care to their ill sibling. Results members, using findings from a study of 226 siblings suggest that siblings’ reports of parental support and from across the United States who report having a relationship reciprocity were positively related to their brother or sister with mental illness. This research intentions to provide care. Personal loss due to the focuses on connections between well siblings’ reports sibling’s mental illness was significantly positively of familial relationships, sibling caregiving, social related to intentions to provide care. However, personal stigma, advocacy, and individual well-being. A third loss was differentially related to participants’ presentation focuses on the influence of neighbor caregiving intentions as a function of perceived level of relationships on loneliness and sense of community; parental support and reciprocity. Participants with low while a fourth examines the role of urbanicity in levels of parental support and reciprocity reported moderating associations between stigma, sense of being less likely to provide future care for their ill community, and psychiatric distress. These two siblings as personal loss increased, whereas participants presentations come from a national study examining with high levels of parental support and reciprocity the influence of environmental factors on community were more likely to report that they would provide care participation among 300 adults with serious mental for their ill siblings as personal loss increased. We will illnesses. Ample time will be allotted for attendees to discuss the future research and practice implications of share their views about mental illness research. present findings. Symposium presenters will facilitate discussion about the seeming lack of progress in changing social Adults’ Views of Social Stigma and Advocacy conditions for adults and families coping with mental Engagement When a Sibling has a Mental Illness illness. Presenters will encourage candid discussion about possible new directions for community research. Kevin Walker, Bowling Green State University; Lindsey T. Roberts, Bowling Green State University; Chairs: Jessica Hartl Majcher, Bowling Green State Catherine H. Stein, Bowling Green State University; University; Catherine H. Stein, Bowling Green State Greg Townley, Portland State University University Presentations: Research suggests that family members often Family Matters: Parental Relationships and experience stigma as a result of having a relative with Siblings’ Intentions to Provide Care for Adults mental illness. In community psychology, theories of Coping with Mental Illness citizen participation posit that perceived oppression can be a motivating factor to engage in social activism. Erin B. Dulek, Bowling Green State University; Sarah Among stigmatized groups, engagement in activism Russin, Bowling Green State University; Melissa F. has been associated with a greater sense of personal Rudd, Bowling Green State University; Frances J. well-being and self-efficacy. Yet, little is known about Griffith, Bowling Green State University; Catherine H. the extent to which family members of adults with Stein, Bowling Green State University mental illness engage in advocacy activities or possible links between perceived stigma and activism. The Given limited community mental health resources present study examined perceptions of stigma and across the United States, family members are often the engagement in advocacy activities among 226 adult main source of caregiving for their relatives with siblings of individuals with mental illness. Participants mental illness. Although parents typically serve as reported their perceptions of their sibling’s experiences primary caregivers, siblings are often expected to of stigma (“sibling stigma”) and their own experience provide future care. Yet, little is known about family of stigma as a family member (“family stigma”). factors related to siblings’ intentions to provide care for Participants described their engagement in advocacy their sibling with mental illness. Previous studies for their sibling’s treatment (“treatment advocacy”) and social activism for mental health issues. Overall, participants reported that their siblings experienced

109 moderate levels of stigma, and participants reported social networks are positively associated with health family stigma to a somewhat lesser degree. Adults and well-being. Service providers might capitalize on reported engaging in more treatment advocacy than the utility of neighbors by helping their clients identify they did social activism. Participants’ views of family and cultivate relationships with individuals in their stigma generally differed as a function of their siblings’ proximal neighborhood environments. psychiatric diagnosis. Well siblings reported more family stigma, treatment advocacy, and activism if their Urbanicity as a Moderator of the Relationship sibling had experienced a psychiatric hospitalization. between Stigma and Well-being Outcomes for Participants’ reports of family stigma were moderately Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses correlated with self-reported activism but weakly related to self-reported treatment advocacy. Similarly, Emily Leickly, Portland State University; Greg self-reported sibling stigma was weakly associated with Townley, Portland State University; Eugene participants’ reports of activism and not significantly Brusilovskiy, Temple University; Mark S. Salzer, correlated with reported engagement in treatment Temple University advocacy. Well-siblings who were primary caregivers reported having more sibling and family stigma and Where housing for people with serious mental illness reported engaging in more activism and treatment (SMI) has historically clustered around urban service advocacy. Implications for community research and areas, as city centers become more expensive, action are discussed. affordable housing is being increasingly pushed to non- urban regions. Investigation is needed on the The Role of Neighbors in Combatting Social experiences of people with SMI in these regions. While Isolation and Enhancing Sense of Community non-urban settings may offer some benefits, such as among Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses quieter neighborhoods and a more tight-knit community, people with SMI may also perceive more Greg Townley, Portland State University; Liat Kriegel, intense stigma. Perceived stigma may be associated Washington State University; Eugene Brusilovskiy, with negative outcomes such as higher psychological Temple University; Mark S. Salzer, Temple University distress and lower sense of community, both of which can have deleterious effects on the health and well- Social networks are regarded as an asset to community being of people with SMI. Three hundred adults with integration of adults with serious mental illnesses SMI living in urban (69%) and non-urban (31%) (SMI). While family and friends provide important counties were surveyed on their perceptions of stigma, sources of support, lesser known acquaintances—or psychological distress, and sense of community. Initial “familiar strangers”—such as neighbors can facilitate exploratory analyses found significant correlations support through anonymous, but meaningful between perceived stigma and psychological distress, interactions. Among individuals with SMI, these and perceived stigma and sense of community. interactions can help offset the negative impact of Additional investigation to be completed by spring increased social isolation and smaller networks of close 2019 will determine whether these associations are peers. This study examines differences in neighbor moderated by urbanicity. It is expected that findings relationships between individuals with and without may prompt researchers to re-examine assumptions SMI and explores whether neighbors can play a unique about the types of environments most likely to support role in decreasing loneliness and bolstering a sense of well-being for people with SMI, as well as encourage a community among individuals with SMI. Participants closer look at the effects of gentrification and in the study were drawn from two samples: 1) 300 population growth on this vulnerable and often individuals with SMI receiving services at outpatient marginalized population. Several avenues could be community mental health centers throughout the United taken to reduce perceived stigma against mental illness States; and 2) 300 adults without SMI recruited from in non-urban areas. Mental health services could be the Truven Health Analytics’ PULSE survey. further integrated into primary care such that people Independent-samples t-tests were performed to with SMI can discreetly receive services. Barriers to compare neighbor relationships between individuals social integration, which is believed to reduce stigma with and without SMI. Multiple regression analyses via Allport’s contact hypothesis, could be addressed were conducted to examine associations between through improved transportation and civic planning neighbor relationships, sense of community, and designed to foster social contact. If the barrier of loneliness. As hypothesized, individuals with SMI increased perceived stigma is addressed, non-urban reported weaker relationships with their neighbors, as areas have unique characteristics that could offer an well as higher levels of loneliness and lower levels of improved quality of life for people with SMI. community connectedness compared to individuals without SMI. For participants in both groups, the 089 Harm Reduction: A Grassroots Social Justice quality of neighbor relationships was significantly Movement for the Wellbeing and Survival of People Who associated with their loneliness and sense of Use Drugs community regardless of how many neighbors they Town Hall Meeting reported feeling close to. This finding supports and Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 4020 expands on research indicating that diverse and active

Abstract 110 The prohibitionist policies of the War on Drugs have not only failed to remove drugs from the human from critically interrogating how justice work can be environment, but they have arguably caused harms and done in these settings while not colluding with existing made drugs more dangerous. In the midst of an opiate oppressive structures. Four cases will be presented that overdose crisis that killed 72,000 people in the United critically reflect on challenges and opportunities in States last year, it is essential to find solutions beyond different initiatives working at the institutional change the old abstinence-only models. We believe community level. Discussions will surface learning from current psychology is well positioned to adopt harm reduction efforts and explore implications for community-based as a framework for addressing drug use, as it is work. Participants will engage in reflection and small empirically supported, incorporates grassroots group discussions to deepen shared understanding of organizing, provides a critical analysis of drug policy, these types of efforts. promotes collective care, is grounded in multiculturalism and social justice, incorporates Chairs: prevention, and has a clearly defined set of values and Alisa Pykett, University of Wisconsin-Madison ethics (consistent with many of the conference’s Discussant: themes). We will argue that harm reduction is the most Paula Tran Inzeo, University of Wisconsin Population well equipped approach to address a range of problems Health Institute Mobilizing Action Toward Community people who use drugs PWUDs face, including Hepatitis Health Group C and HIV/AIDS, overdose, stigmatization, discrimination in healthcare, and criminalization. We Presentations: will present data demonstrating the effectiveness of a Growing as Scholar of Color: Critical reflections on range of harm reduction interventions, including community-engaged research training and academic syringe and naloxone distribution and harm reduction colonialism psychotherapy, while also highlighting the role of PWUDs in those efforts. We will facilitate a town hall Ethen Pollard, University of Wisconsin-Madison discussion that encourages self-reflection and critical thinking. Participants will be challenged to explore Inequities in health are often outcomes of state assumptions and biases about people who use drugs, sanctioned violence against people of color carried out addiction, and harm reduction. We will apply a critical through forwarding of oppressive social systems and theory lens to break down myths and contradictions in institutions. Strategic collaborations between university popular beliefs about drugs, addiction, people who use researchers and community organizing groups have drugs, treatment, and prevention. We will also explore been increasingly recognized as an important strategy why this area of theory and practice, which aligns so for addressing health inequities. Critical examination of closely with the values and practices of community the role of university-based research in initiatives psychology, is not often discussed in community intended to support community organizing is necessary psychology settings. Finally, participants will discuss to move research practices away from collusion with the ways community psychology can be further applied oppressive structures and toward health equity. Calls to reduce the negative outcomes of drug use. for transformative and culturally responsive approaches to research in community contexts are growing. Models Chairs: have arisen with intentions of addressing power Geoff Bathje, Adler University; Benjamin Wegner, imbalances between researchers and communities in Chicago School of Professional Psychology; Annalise university research processes, however, many seek only Sorvillo, Adler University to balance power between colonizers (researchers) and marginalized communities, not shift control of research 090 From the Inside Out: Possibilities, Tensions, and Cost practices and their outcomes to communities. Dominant of Working Through Institutions for Broader Systems orientations ignore the fundamental position of Change university research as a colonizing force driving Symposium academic enterprise and supporting white supremacy. Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 4022 Understanding colonialism as an ongoing reproductive process rather than a historical event can help frame Abstract how university-based research on community Institutional change is an opportune target to move organizing, even when well-intended, may work to broader systems change and promote conditions for exploit those experiencing health inequities. This communities to flourish. This work, which takes place discussion will use a settler colonial framework (Glenn, in many settings, is not without great tension and 2015) to illustrate how university-based research possibility for reproduction of unjust and oppressive initiatives intended to support community organizing systems and related outcomes. Academic research may be understood as academic colonialism. This case teams promoting innovative community interventions, study will describe experiences from various university legacy organizing networks expanding in the face of research initiatives intended to promote health through contemporary challenges, and leadership training funding and offering technical assistance to community programs growing institutional leaders can all benefit organizing initiatives operating as colonizing forces through the commodification and exploitation of community leaders, the organizations they support, and

those most impacted by health inequities through 111 processes of containment, exclusion, terrorism, and ultimately, their erasure and removal. Health Group Changing institutions of community organizing: To advance health equity, institutional and The role of culturally specific organizing in organizational change are promising targets for broader transforming congregation-based community social change. Building capacity of current and new organizing networks leaders around power and systems change, especially those that impact health equity, is a strategy to move Victoria Faust, University of Wisconsin, Population inside/outside change. The Wisconsin Population Health Institute Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health Service Fellowship Program, a 2 year service Health Group and training program, has designed its curriculum around health equity practice, collaborative leadership, Many principles and processes of institution-based and reflective practice. The 14 year old program has organizing were established at a time when urban areas supported 72 graduates in over 40 placement sites. The were the epicenter of organizing activity. program provides advanced training to the next Congregation-based organizing networks, in particular, generation of public health leaders while, concurrently, were built through diverse inner-city congregations and providing service to community partners to address mobilized around problems faced by residents. In Wisconsin’s most pressing public health challenges. recent decades, however, these organizing networks Fellows and the organizations in which they are have faced decreased local control over issues, embedded advance their capacity to plan, implement, increased jurisdictional complexity of policy changes, and evaluate innovative strategies for population health weakening of other participatory bodies, and improvement. Systematic training around health equity dominance of global economic forces. A study of the and collaborative leadership allows for trainees to build field of community organizing found that in response to their capacity in framing their work through the lens of these challenges, institution-based organizing networks health equity. The new curriculum includes historical have employed adaptations and innovations, such as perspectives on the role of policies in shaping health geographic expansion, engagement in higher level inequities, coalition capacity building, grassroots political arenas, mergers, coalitions and collaboratives partnership development skills, and reflective practice. (Wood, Fulton, & Partridge, 2012). These innovations This session will reflect on the tensions related to and adaptations create possibility, and also heighten the growing leaders that understand power and who are need to understand the intricacies and interactions of working in current public and governmental different approaches to organizing (Smock, 2004). institutions. It explores the nuances of developing a Elements such as self-determination and collective training program based on experiential learning that action are common to many community organizing does not perpetuate the extractive practices and systems traditions, however specific traditions can be that has contributed to the current inequities present in understood as a product of a particular context and society. This session will explore how leadership and culture. Culture affects how power is fundamentally growth is articulated and supported in different spaces understood by an organizing group and what processes and the fundamental question of how to survive in and strategies a group may employ to foster its systems while you are trying to change them and how development (Young Laing, 2009). The application of this approach has very specific implications for those organizing strategies and tactics to build power outside individuals that said systems have been designed to of the context and culture from which they are oppress. generated may result in unintentional harm toward groups most impacted by inequities and require deeper The anchoring role of the cohort in navigating consideration (Rivera, 2017). This presentation will inside/outside institutional tensions in a justice- reflect on two qualitative studies that explored the focused form of national service development of contextually and culturally distinct organizing efforts that were supported by a Alisa Pykett, University of Wisconsin-Madison congregation-based community organizing network. It will explore observed tensions that arose among the Traditional pathways into public service and nonprofit different organizing traditions, how the new groups leadership often lack access points for those most impacted the organizing network’s transformation, and impacted by inequitable conditions. This presentation the benefits and costs accrued to participants in the focuses on a justice-oriented form of national service process of trying to build power together. working to build a diverse leadership base for community work, increase capacity of community- The Wisconsin Population Health Service based organizations (CBOs), and influence the culture Fellowship: Growing health equity leaders to drive around the kind of knowledge and leadership privileged institutional change from the inside out in addressing public issues. Grounded in a cohort experience, the program model and leadership Sweta Shrestha, University of Wisconsin, Population curriculum emphasize justice-informed core values and Health Institute Mobilizing Action Toward Community practices. The program places primarily young adults in apprenticeships in CBOs that reflect a range of philosophies and approaches to promoting community

well-being (i.e. direct service, education, research, 112 justice-centered approaches). Compared to other national service programs, the program has a more to use knowledge from the surveys as well as explicit focus on justice and equity. As a national consultations with the field such as a planned COE service program, federal and state institutions partially Biennial pre-conference to develop a program health fund the program and place restrictions on the monitoring and support system. Members of the COE allowable activities in which participants can engage as will then engage participants in a discussion of next their part of their service. For example, the federal steps in these efforts as well as strategies for the COE institution prohibits, as countable service hours, to engage more fully and apply the rich experience of participation in protests or union organizing. The community psychology educators toward improving restricted activities reflect a type of civic action that the health and sustainability of community psychology often places actors in direct conflict with institutions of training. power. While participants engage in trainings and discussions on the role of power in community issues Chairs: and the impact of the systemic oppression, they also Mason Haber, Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard have constraints on participating in some forms of Medical School; Simon Coulombe, Wilfrid Laurier direct action as part of their service hours. At one level, University program participants complete apprenticeships in CBOs that have varying levels of overlap with the Presentations: program’s justice- and equity-informed values. At a The SCRA Consultation with Pacifica Graduate broader level, the justice-oriented leadership program Institute: What we Learned Six Years Later itself operates within the institution of national service. Drawing on participant interviews, this presentation Gregor Sarkisian, Antioch University Los Angeles; will focus on the anchoring role of the cohort and the Nuria Ciofalo, [email protected] perspectives and insights of participants navigating these inside/outside tensions. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Gregor V. Sarkisian, Ph.D. and Tom Wolff, Ph.D., conducted a 091 Advancing Training in Community Psychology program consultation through SCRA to support the Through the Council on Education: Past, Present, and development of opportunities to learn practice skills in Future graduate education programs. Nuria Ciofalo, Ph.D., Symposium was a core faculty member during the consultation and Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5006 worked closely with the consultants before, during, and after the consultation. The Community, Liberation, Abstract Indigenous, and Eco-psychology (CLIE) Specialization In this symposium, members of the Society for within the M.A./Ph.D. in Depth Psychology Program at Community Research and Action Council on Education Pacifica Graduate Institute was one of the two (COE) will describe the Council’s activities to promote programs chosen for the consultation initiative. The the health and sustainability of community psychology CLIE Specialization identified three areas of focus training programs and professional development. The which included 1) Curriculum, 2) Student careers, and past, present, and future efforts presented in the 3) Student learning outcomes and program review. In symposium integrate elements of research, reflection, addition to reviewing the curriculum before the site and action to develop a knowledge base and implement visit, consultants worked with program faculty to strategies to advance the well-being and goals of integrate more opportunities for practice into existing community psychology training programs. To set the and new courses. Consultants also worked with faculty stage for subsequent presentations and discussion, the and students to promote greater involvement of symposium will begin with a brief presentation of a students in SCRA to increase networking and proposed definition of community psychology program professional service opportunities to support the early health, including three dimensions to be discussed: careers of graduates. And, consultants worked with sustainability, diversity, and rigor. Subsequently, faculty to incorporate CP practice competencies into papers will discuss recent and ongoing efforts to the program’s assessment efforts. In July 2017, Gregor develop and apply knowledge on community V. Sarkisian, Ph.D. served as the external reviewer of psychology training program health in these areas, the CLIE Specialization and conducted a review of including: 1) a consultation with a training program on program developments, informal interviews with developing opportunities to learn practice skills, as faculty, and focus groups with students during a two- outlined in the Competencies for Community day site visit. This session will focus on program Psychology Practice (Dalton & Wolfe, 2012), and development successes and ongoing challenges, as well increasing networking and professional service as the role of SCRA in graduate education. opportunities to support early careers of students; 2) an assessment of the current health of training programs, Findings on the Health of Community Psychology examining levels of and interrelationships among Training from the COE Surveys of Graduate indicators of program health in two COE-led surveys of Programs in Community Psychology graduate training in community psychology; 3) efforts Mason Haber, Judge Baker Children's Center, Harvard Medical School

113 This paper uses a three-part model of program health to set of indicators of program health, in terms of summarize findings from the two most recent SCRA sustainability, diversity and rigor (Haber et al., 2018); COE Surveys of Graduate Programs and share results 3) a comprehensive inventory of strategies (e.g., and implications of these findings for each part of the consulting with programs) and materials that SCRA, program health model. Findings are presented on levels the COE and community psychology programs of and interrelationships among indicators of the three themselves can use to enhance program health and dimensions of the model: sustainability, diversity, and sustainability, and 4) other several means (e.g., rigor. The survey identified community psychology publications, online material) to further the visibility of programs through multiple methods and screened all community psychology in graduate and undergraduate programs to verify their community psychology education programs across the globe. The presentation emphasis. Of the 56 programs contacted, 52 returned will address the opportunities and challenges faced in completed surveys including data on overall these different projects. The presentation will also perceptions of health, indicators of sustainability and include a call for action from community psychologists challenges to sustainability, diversity of training to ensure the sustainability of our education programs opportunities (e.g., top career destinations of students), and our field. and rigor (program self-ratings on levels of training in community psychology competencies for research and 092 Community Psychology, Dying, and Death practice). Overall, results show that community Symposium psychology programs vary widely on their overall self- Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5007 assessments of health and the specific indicators studied, with substantial minorities of programs Abstract reporting significant challenges, either with respect to In this symposium we describe three different projects broad perceptions of health (e.g., 30% identified where community psychology research and practice themselves as struggling or failing) or on specific skills were used to understand death and dying. Each dimensions of health. Findings further indicate weak project was guided by community psychology values of associations between different types of health social justice, autonomy, and empowerment with a indicators, such that highly rigorous programs may focus on key issues such as social isolation, physician- struggle with sustainability or conversely, programs assisted death, and ethical dilemmas associated with with few challenges to sustainability may show death and dying. Additionally, our hope is that the weaknesses in areas of importance (e.g., provide symposium helps to bring awareness regarding the excellent research but relatively weak practice importance of end-of-life issues to the field of training). These results suggest pressing needs to community psychology. Specifically, the first improve the knowledge base on community psychology presentation describes integrating creativity in research training program health, develop interventions to design for vulnerable participants, and shares results address the significant difficulties identified by many from a longitudinal interview study of five people programs, and identify approaches to promote living in an assisted-living facility with a terminal improved sustainability, diversity, and rigor throughout diagnosis. The second presentation describes the use of the field. participatory research in understanding the perspective of the person dying on electing physician-assisted The current roles of the Council of Education in death. The third examines ethical dilemmas at the end promoting healthy and sustainable Community of life with a focus on patient-centered practice. Psychology education programs Overall, the symposium is in line with the themes of the conference as it is focused on how we can make an Simon Coulombe, Wilfrid Laurier University impact with a focus on ecological praxis within the lives of persons with life-limiting illness and the Building on the previous presentations of the systems that surround them. In order to ensure symposium focused on the work that the Council of interactivity and audience participation, the presenters Education (COE) and its collaborators have conducted will adhere to a strict time-limit, we will take one to in the past, this paper aims to present the current two questions after each presentation, and the chair will projects and future plans of the COE to support the then moderate a discussion with audience members. health and sustainability of community psychology education programs in the US and internationally. The Chairs: main current and near-future activities that we support Brett Boeh Bergmann, University of Illinois Urbana or collaborate to are: 1) a pre-conference (i.e., Biennial) Champaign program director workshop that aims to gather the Discussant: perspective of the community of community Andrew Hostetler, University of Massachusetts Lowell psychology program directors with regards to the challenges their programs face, their needs and priority Presentations: areas of action to further community psychology Leveraging Creativity to Design and Implement education, 2) the development of a program health Research at the End-of-Life monitoring system, including a survey composed of a Brett Boeh Bergmann, University of Illinois, Urbana

114 Champaign; Nathan R. Todd, University of Illinois, than 70% of cases involved patients with cancer. A Urbana Champaign large portion of PAS patients in Oregon and Washington were enrolled in hospice or palliative care, Community psychologists aim to encourage diversity, as were patients in Belgium. There is no evidence that empowerment, and social justice in both research and vulnerable patients have been receiving PAS at rates practice. Additionally, many community psychologists higher than those in the general population (Emanuel, are interested in promoting the inclusion of the people Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Urwin, & Cohen 2016). The that are most vulnerable and have historically been project included in this study related to a excluded from decision-making. At times, balancing recommendation of “neutral” regarding PAS to the working towards these values while also including American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on people that are historically most vulnerable, requires behalf of the Kansas Academy of Family Physicians researchers to creatively design studies that encourage (KAFP). However, this recommendation was made participation and enhance participant well-being. In this without getting feedback from the potential patients, presentation, we describe our experiences designing the population that would be most affected by any and implementing a longitudinal study with adults with policy made by the AAFP or the KAFP regarding PAS. terminal illness. Additionally, we will discuss some of The goal of this project was to obtain feedback the findings of work, including the role of isolation, regarding patients’ opinions and beliefs for themselves meaning-making, and social supports for adults with and others with respect to PAS in order to make a terminal illness. We will begin by describing some of recommendation for medical policy changes. the decision we made when designing the study to Implications for this project will be discussed. accommodate the needs of people with terminal illness. Namely, we will discuss our aims to enhance (a) the Dying in Home or Hospital in the Case of Natural meaning-making process by creating generativity Death - Ethical Reflections documents, (b) the role of creating and maintaining a relationship between the researchers and the Michael Anjello Jothi Rajan, Tamil Nadu State Council participants, and (c) the opportunity for the researchers for Science and Technology; R. Srinivasan, Tamil to be visible in the assisted-living community as Nadu State Council for Science and Technology; engaged volunteers in addition to conducting individual Arockiam Thaddeus, Jayaraj Annapackiam College for interviews with participants. Second, we will discuss Women (Autonomous) initial findings from the ongoing longitudinal interviews with five participants. Finally, we will Death is a reality but hard to accept. When one accepts describe lessons learned and our next steps in working the fear of death disappears. Dying is an essential part in this setting. Overall, we hope this work will promote of life just as birth. We encounter ethical dilemmas on efforts to develop research protocols that are sensitive a daily basis, based on end of life decisions. The to the needs of vulnerable participants. Moreover, we decision making at the end of life should be grounded hope this work brings attention to the role that on the patient choices, preferences, and personal community psychology in understanding the death and values. Considering the meaning of dilemma, it is an dying process. embarrassing situation having at least two difficult or painful solutions. When people approach end of lives, Who Gets to Decide How We Die? Using they and the families face various simple or complex Participatory Research to Aid in Policy Making situations, responsibilities, feelings and decisions. Reflection is a process which allows practitioners to Kari M. Nilsen, KU School of Medicine- Wichita echo their thoughts and feelings on a particular situation (Jones, 2007). This reflection of ideas gives us “Physician Assisted Suicide” (PAS) is the voluntary a better understanding of the situation and this will termination of one's own life with the direct or indirect enhance us to think more realistically and purposefully assistance of a physician, who providing a competent to deal with a difficult situation like end of life. patient with a prescription for life-ending medication Reflections on death and the ethical dilemmas are (Medicinenet.com, 2017). Physician assisted suicide is based on the understanding of bioethics in conjunction currently legal in Switzerland, the Netherlands, with humility, responsibility, and competence. Even the Belgium, Colombia, Canada, Luxembourg, Oregon, dying person has to make some difficult decisions for Montana, Washington, Vermont, California, Hawaii, them or for the family. These decisions might have Colorado, and Washington DC (Holmes, Wiebe, Shaw, complex components such as spiritual, psychological, Nuhn, Just, & Kelly, 2018). In the United States, less legal or medical aspects. In this presentation the than 20% of physicians report having received requests authors explore the views of dying persons whether to for PAS, and 5% or less have complied. In Oregon and die at home or in the hospital with reference to the Washington, less than 1% of licensed physicians write principles of bioethics. prescriptions for PAS per year since laws were passed. In the Netherlands and Belgium, 50% of physicians 093 Understanding and Addressing Homelessness at reported having received requests, and only 60% of Multiple Levels those have ever written prescriptions for PAS. Typical Symposium patients are older, white, and well educated, and more Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5008

Abstract 115 Community Psychology has long acknowledged the influence of settings, systems, and societal structures in between 2012 and 2017. During this time, O‘ahu shaping human behavior and community health experienced a precipitous climb in numbers of persons (O’Donnell, 2006). The discipline largely arose as a experiencing homelessness, and local media coverage reaction against overly individualistic explanations for on homelessness mirrored this increase (Pruitt, social problems. Despite these values, community forthcoming). While research suggests that U.S. psychology methods and approaches often focus on national-level media coverage has promoted individual level data and do not capture the sympathetic narratives regarding “the homeless” and contextualized understandings that we seek to generate has focused on structural–level causes and solutions (Luke, 2005). Like many complex social issues, (Buck et al., 2004; Lee et al., 2010), local-level media homelessness plays out across multiple levels and thus, tends to produce more individual-deficit narratives and understanding this prevailing social issue and narratives on disorder and destruction (Forte, 2002; addressing it effectively requires research that Pascale, 2005). Using thematic narrative analysis of a addresses multiple levels. This symposium will include random sample of 648 articles of local media coverage, presentations on research and interventions that this study found that while homelessness often was approach homelessness from varying levels and use portrayed as a structural problem requiring structural- innovative methods to capture context. The first level solutions, the majority of narratives associated presentation will include an analysis of dominant “the homeless” with criminality and portrayed them as cultural narratives on homelessness—a macro-level threats to economy, tourism, and public safety/health. approach. The second presentation will discuss a study Importantly, very few narratives contained perspectives that used geographic information systems analysis to of people who were experiencing homelessness. This examine homeless service gaps in rural Maine. The presentation will discuss these conflicting narratives third zooms in to community-level considerations by and will suggest implications for further research and examining the impact of a community’s homelessness macro-level interventions. crisis on a law enforcement diversion program. The last presentation focuses on program-level factors by Geographic Needs Assessment for Rural Homeless examining different trajectories of persons in a Housing Services in Maine First program. Taken together, these presentations highlight the complexity of homelessness and Kristen Gleason, University of Southern Maine; emphasize the need for research and interventions that Matthew Dube, University of Maine at Augusta reflect an ecological understanding of the issue. Risks and resources are often unequally distributed Chairs: across our communities. This unevenness can be a Anna Pruitt, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Kristen particular concern in states with large rural areas, many Gleason, University of Southern Maine of which are resource poor. For community scientists, having a methodology that is able to document unjustly Presentations: distributed resources that are out of sync with Dominant Cultural Narratives on Homelessness: A community need can be a powerful tool in helping Narrative Analysis of Local Media Coverage on stakeholders address these issues. This exploratory O‘ahu study examined the geographic distribution of population characteristics that are thought to be Anna Pruitt, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Shoshana indicative of a high need for homeless mitigation and Cohen, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Eva prevention services. Geographic Information Systems McKinsey, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (GIS) techniques were used to compare the locations of risks and resources related to homeless service within Dominant cultural narratives can influence policy different communities in the State of Maine. Publically decisions as well as attitudes and beliefs about social available data from the Census Bureau were used to issues, such as homelessness (Iyegar & Kinder, 2010). examine the distribution of poverty rates, rental costs, As “overlearned stories communicated through mass unemployment, single-women headed households, and media or other large social and cultural institutions and housing quality throughout the State of Maine. These social networks,” dominant cultural narratives have data indicators were chosen to point areas of economic much power in defining what holds true for a culture distress in the state and were geographically matched and communities (Rappaport, 2000, p. 4). One way that with the location and capacity of homeless services community psychologists can promote a more equitable using (GIS) analyses. Because comparatively little society is by intervening in the types of messages and research has explored risk of homelessness in rural narratives people in communities receive. In order to areas, the population characteristics listed above were produce healthier and more accurate narratives, extracted from two sources 1) peer-reviewed researchers must first understand existing narratives quantitative studies that matched community indicators (Bond, 2016; Rappaport, 2000). This presentation will to rates of homelessness in urban areas and 2) peer- discuss findings from a study that examined dominant reviewed qualitative studies that discussed risk factors cultural narratives related to homelessness on O‘ahu related to homelessness in rural areas. The needs assessment was designed to examine the distribution of homeless services in the state in relation to need. In

116 large sections of the state there are high rates of rural Often community intervention researchers focus poverty and housing distress but few service supports. primarily on identifying generalizable program Better understanding the extent and location of areas of outcomes, assuming equal effectiveness for all high need that are resource poor can help service and participants. This narrow focus neglects program funding agencies to plan for the more efficient and participants’ diverse needs and outcomes. This effective distribution of services. presentation will focus on the diverse experiences of participants in a Housing First program on O‘ahu. The Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD): A Housing First model eliminates traditional housing national program adapting to the needs of the local prerequisites (e.g., sobriety, psychiatric treatment), with community in Hawai‘i the aim of moving program participants into permanent, supportive housing as quickly as possible Sophie Gralapp, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Eva (Tsemberis, Gulcur, & Nakae, 2004). The Housing McKinsey, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Anna First model has a strong evidence base and is deemed Pruitt, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Philippe Busse, an effective approach to addressing homelessness, even University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; John Barile, in the presence of mental illness and substance abuse University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (Padgett, Gulcur, & Tsemberis, 2006). Despite widespread adoption of the model and considerable To be effective, programs need to be adapted to meet research on program outcomes, minimal research has unique community contexts and interacting needs. examined within-setting differences experienced by Although this flexibility is important to program Housing First participants. The current study tested a success, adaptations can also result in unique series of latent class growth models to identify unique challenges and can threaten program fidelity. This trends over a four-year period. Monthly-reported presentation will focus on challenges and successes quality of life data, participant histories, community associated with adapting the Law Enforcement Assisted engagement, and service delivery were used to identify Diversion (LEAD) program to address homelessness in the participants who followed unique trajectories over Honolulu, Hawai‘i. LEAD is a community-based, pre- the course of the program. These findings have aided booking diversion program in which law enforcement our work by identifying how services delivery can be officers connect low-level, non-violent offenders or amended to meet the specific and diverse needs of individuals at high-risk of arrest with social service program participants and opened to door to pursuing providers in lieu of arrest (About LEAD, n.d.). While new qualitative investigations. Our presentation will 1) “LEAD-HI” initially was a response to the State of highlight the diversity of participants entering the Hawai‘i’s need to address high recidivism rates and Housing First program; 2) demonstrate how their overcrowded correctional facilities, the program unique characteristics may have impacted their success quickly adapted to respond to the overlapping issue of in the program; and 3) recommend program adaptations homelessness. Indeed, homelessness and incarceration that address the diverse needs of Housing First are related social issues as chronic homelessness can be participants. both a cause and consequence of incarceration (Fischer, Shinn, Strout, & Tsemberis, 2008; Greenberg & 094 Revisiting Collective Histories to Envision and Build Rosenheck 2008). In Hawai‘i, an estimated 30% of the Socially Just Futures: From Wakanda to Our Local jail and prison population have ‘no fixed address’ Communities (Thornton, Koshiba, & Lee-Ibarra, 2017). At referral, Symposium the large majority of LEAD-HI participants were Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5016 currently experiencing homelessness (91%) and reported needing housing (88%). Therefore, while Abstract LEAD is not technically a housing program, LEAD-HI One of the alchemies of domination, including legacies has adapted to address the demands of the community, of colonialism, slavery, capitalism, and state terror, is which is overwhelmingly the need for housing. This the erasure of the histories of marginalized groups (The presentation will discuss the challenges and successes Latina Feminist Group, 2001). Such erasures create associated with adapting a non-housing related program distortions in perception. Deficit-based understandings to address a community’s homelessness issue. Because of who historically marginalized groups are and what is community needs are not discrete, understanding possible in our society is contained within dominant program adaptations to address overlapping needs is narratives that aim to silence. Through important for community intervention research. storytelling/narratives, art, and testimonio, counter memory works against the grain of power to bring Diverse Experiences in a Housing First Program on together that which has been fragmented or split in O‘ahu: Using Latent Class Growth Analysis to order to build toward liberation (Coutin, 2016; May, Capture Unique Trajectories 2015; Watkins & Shulman, 2008). The first talk presents an analysis of the 2018 film Black Panther, John Barile, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Anna which takes place in the thriving fictional country of Pruitt, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Eva McKinsey, Wakanda in Sub-Saharan Africa. This film portrays University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa lush fictional historical narratives and context, which provides not only an ability to explore the nature of

collective trauma induced by oppressive social 117 structures, but also examples of collective healing and empowerment. The second talk is based on a youth Panther, identify implications for similar artistic participatory action research (YPAR) project that aims representations of marginalized groups, and provide to facilitate the critical examination of social problems suggestions for future research. and lived experiences with Latinx children. This talk proposes the use of social biography to democratize Using social biography in a YPAR program with 9- knowledge production and revive historical memory 12 year olds to democratize knowledge production among youth. The final talk presents study results from a dissertation that explores the daily, subtle, forms of S. Sylvane Vaccarino, University of California, Santa resistance enacted by Latina women and their dreams Cruz for social change as connected to personal narratives and memories. These three talks illustrate the In the U.S., Latinx children are not often treated as importance of resurrecting memories (i.e. counter contributors to political or social discussions nor do memory) of collective trauma, resistance, and they have access to many spaces to engage in the co- resilience, as well as exposing histories of oppression construction of knowledge. One goal of participatory as created rather than innate to society, to compel the action research (PAR) projects that are grounded in imagination of what is possible for the future (May; liberation frameworks is to democratize knowledge 2015; Tuck & Yang, 2014; Watkins & Shulman, 2008). production and revive historical memory (Gaventa & Cornwall, 2001; Montero & Sonn, 2009). In our YPAR Chairs: program, we use tools to facilitate the critical Christine Rosales, University of California, Santa Cruz examination of social problems and lived experiences Discussant: with Latinx children (Kohfeldt & Langhout, 2011). Brenda Perez, Pacifica Graduate Institute Yet, there are few studies that document tools used with youth to share or examine their histories. We have Presentations: recently included a social biographical (Acido, “Wakanda Forever”: Themes of collective trauma Custodio, & Lee, 2017) activity prior to deciding and healing in Marvel’s Black Panther research topics with Latinx youth. Social biography is the practice of situating one’s history within a larger David L. Gordon, Jr., University of California, Santa collective narrative through storytelling methods Cruz (Acido et al. 2017). This study analyzes ethnographic field notes to assesses how the addition of social Studies have demonstrated that trauma can be biography facilitated broader critical dialogue in the transmitted across multiple levels of analysis (micro-, problem definition stage. meso-, and macrolevels), as well as transgenerationally, contrary to frequent discussions of trauma as an Exploring the Hidden Worlds of Resistance Enacted individual experience (Doucet & Rover, 2010; by Latina Women Hartmann & Gone, 2016; Lehrner & Yehuda, 2018; Viñar, 2012). In this paper, I use deductive and Christine E. Rosales, University of California, Santa inductive coding to explore depictions of collective Cruz trauma in popular culture. Collective trauma of this nature is not only observable through personal How do women navigate oppression in their daily narratives, but has also been illustrated through various lives? Social scientists have observed that when people forms of art and media, such as in the 2018 film Black are forced to live or work in oppressive circumstances Panther. This film tells the story of a newly crowned they may respond by practicing subtle and creative king of the fictional country of Wakanda, as well as forms of resistance in their daily lives. This is known as that of his family and their responses to various forms everyday resistance or “how people act in their of trauma; inflicted both directly and through the everyday lives in ways that might undermine power” enduring impacts of colonialism and coloniality. Black (Vinthagen & Johannson, 2013, p. 1). Additionally, Panther’s story, however, is not one of damage, but resistance is connected to people’s hopes and dreams rather one of hopefulness for the future based in for social change providing a blueprint for what people communal strength. Attention to historical narratives want to build, rather than just what they want to knock and context provides not only an ability to better down (Kelley, 2002). One such example is the sharing understand the nature of collective trauma induced by of cultural wisdom through story-telling in a context oppressive social structures, but also a basis for where there are strong efforts to erase or minimize the collective healing and empowerment. For example, the cultural knowledge of historically marginalized groups. damaging impact of isolation from decision making Everyday resistance is understudied, especially in garners a revolutionary response from Prince N’Jobu, psychology and we know very little about how Latina leading to his fatal interaction with then-king T’Chaka women engage in everyday resistance. This research and mirroring the response of the Jabari to isolation project focuses on Latina women’s everyday resistance within Wakanda. In this paper, I explore themes of and explores its benefit to themselves and their collective trauma and healing present in the film Black community’s well-being in the service of their hopes and dreams for social change. This work utilizes testimonio (oral and written) to illuminate how

personal and collective histories inform desires for the 118 future. In addition to testimonio, participants are asked to write letters to a loved one about their dreams for and youth have been well-documented. Illinois is one social change. The audio and written data for this of four states selected by the Office for Victims of project will be thematically analyzed to uncover subtle Crime to carry out a statewide demonstration initiative daily forms of resistance. to link systems of care for children, youth, and families experiencing violence and victimization in their homes, 095 Victimization Research and Traditionally schools, and communities. Qualitative research Underserved Populations interviews were conducted with young adults and Symposium parents and caregivers of children and youth impacted Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5030 by violence in Illinois (N = 60) to better understand their experiences with victimization and help-seeking Abstract following these experiences to inform the project. In Research on victimization can help to inform policy, addition, written notes from meetings hosted by project practices and programming. However, many studies staff with service providers and stakeholders (N = rely on convenience or help-seeking samples that may 50??) were analyzed to offer additional insight into miss the voices of individuals who are traditionally gaps in services, barriers to service delivery, underserved or marginalized. This symposium brings opportunities to expand services. Analyses have together three distinct presentations on the revealed that a multi-layered approach to service victimization experiences of traditionally underserved delivery, where victimization is recognized, survivors and marginalized groups. The first presentation will are connected to services, and are then engaged in draw from three studies about the victimization and meaningful programming, is needed to meet the holistic PTSD experiences of individuals who are incarcerated. needs of children and families impacted by violence. The second presentation will present findings from a The important role of relationships between survivors study to examine individual, interpersonal, and and service providers as well as among service community factors affecting victim disclosure providers will be highlighted, including ways in which decisions, help-seeking experiences, and coping of relationships facilitate victim identification, referrals, LGBTQ+ victims of crime. The last study is from a and service support. The audience will be encouraged multipart study about children and youth experiences to reflect upon the role of relationships in their work with victimization and help-seeking following these and to discuss how a relational approach to service experiences to inform a statewide demonstration delivery can be utilized to improve the response of initiative to link systems of care for children, youth, service providers to children, youth, and families and families who have experienced violence. impacted by violence. Participants will learn more about the victimization experiences of these underserved victim populations LGBTQ+ Victimization and Help-Seeking and how programming can be structured to better meet Experiences victims’ needs. Following this session, participants will better understand the importance of adapting Amanda Vasquez, Illinois Criminal Justice Information programming to meet the needs of underserved Authority; Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik, Illinois Criminal populations that often experience unique challenges Justice Information Authority; Anne Kirkner, when seeking and engaging in services. The presenters University of Illinois at Chicago plan to engage participants in a conversation about how research design can work to include voices that are A statewide needs assessment of crime victims in traditionally under-represented in research and ways in Illinois revealed that individuals who were LGBTQ+ which such engagement can be more meaningful. were significantly more likely to experience a violent victimization than heterosexual individuals and Chairs: research suggests LGBTQ+ victims of crime Jaclyn Houston-Kolnik, Illinois Criminal Justice experience significant barriers when seeking help. To Information Authority explore the needs and help-seeking experiences of LGBTQ+ victims, the Illinois Criminal Justice Presentations: Information Authority’s Center for Victim Studies Young Victims Study convened members from victim service and LGBTQ+ advocacy agencies throughout Illinois, who serve Paola Baldo, Illinois Criminal Justice Information diverse LGTBQ+ communities (e.g., racial/ethnic Authority; Amanda Vasquez, Illinois Criminal Justice minorities, urban/rural locales) to inform and design a Information Authority research study. The study’s purpose is to examine individual, interpersonal, and community factors Research demonstrates that a substantial number of affecting victim disclosure decisions, help-seeking children and youth in Illinois are victims of crime and experiences, and coping. This presentation will explore the negative effects of such experiences, including the current research available about LGBTQ+ victims psychological and physical symptoms, and impacts on of crime in Illinois and findings from interviews with healthy development and academic success, on children LGBTQ+ victims and a statewide survey of Illinois LGBTQ+ victims. The researchers will also discuss their lessons learned and suggestions for how to form

practitioner-researcher partnerships that are respectful, 119 informative, and collaborative. identity, the children they wish to have, access to the Incarcerated Individuals as Underserved Victims of information and means necessary to do so, as well as to Crime reach the highest level of sexual and reproductive health. This symposium will present and discuss the Jessica Reichert, Illinois Criminal Justice Information main components of ROMOMATTER, a Community Authority Based Participatory Action Research being developed in five European countries (Spain, Bulgaria, Rumania, Exposure to violence and trauma, as well as diagnoses England, and Hungary) focused on (a) a conceptual for posttraumatic stress disorder, is higher among framework of Roma Girls mattering linked to inmates in correctional facilities than in the general reproductive justice and strengthening their gender population. Prevalence of PTSD is on par with combat rights; (b) a community-based participatory research war veterans. The presenter will share her prior led by Roma girls to advocate for their gender and research in this area which found high prevalence of reproductive rights; and (c) an empowerment inmates with PTSD—from 21% of men in prison to evaluation framework to ensure the influential 61% of women in prison. A majority of were prior involvement of all significant stakeholders in order to victims physical assault and additionally for women assure sustainable changes at systemic level. inmates, prior victims of sexual assault. The presenter will draw from three studies she conducted in Illinois Chairs: with samples of 1) 163 women in prison, 2) 613 men in Manuel Garcia-Ramirez, Universidad de Sevilla; prison, and 3) 117 detainees in Cook County Jail. Daniel La Parra, University of Alicante Attendees of the roundtable will discuss and be able to: 1) compare the extent and type of victimization Presentations: experiences of those incarcerated; 2) understand how Roma Girls’ Mattering and Reproductive Justice. A correctional facilities may trigger or contribute to Community Psychology Conceptualization. victimization and trauma; 3) identify evidence-based practices and programs that can help those incarcerated Manuel Garcia-Ramirez, University of Seville - with victimization and trauma histories, and related CESPYD; Daniel La Parra, University of Alicante; mental health and substance use disorders. Maria Eugenia Gonzalez Angulo, FAGA; Iskra Stoykova, Trust for Social Achievement; Diliana 096 Empowering At-Risk Roma Girls Mattering Through Dilkova, Natsionalna Mrezha Na Zdravnite Mediatori; Reproductive Justice in Several European Countries. The Raluca Tomsa, University of Bucharest; Raluca ROMOMATTER Project Negulescu-Balaci, Fundatia Policy Center for Roma Symposium and Minorities - PCRM; Margaret Greenfields, Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 5031 Buckinghamshire New University; Kia Goolesorkhi, Healthcare Leadership and Management Development Abstract Institute; KAMIRA Mujeres Gitanas, KAMIRA Roma, Europe’s largest ethnic minority, have been historically marginalized, and systemic discrimination Roma mattering is linked to motherhood which has has sustained their poor reproductive health status. been associated to perpetuate a patriarchal legacy. We Well-intentioned European and national policy efforts propose to link Roma girls mattering to reproductive have been weak, and in part this has been attributed to justice. Roma teenage motherhood (RTM) is deeply the failure to engage Roma women in significant roles. embedded in a tangle of multiple discriminations used This can be observed in the pervasive challenges by society to validate the stereotyping and rejection of related to teenage motherhood. Motherhood among Roma people. It is common to attribute Roma girls’ Roma girls in Spain impoverishes their lives, puts them motherhood to \"cultural patterns\" in which their at risk of health problems, makes them vulnerable to mattering is anchored to the roles of wife and caretaker. domestic violence, precipitates school dropouts and Mattering is understood as the process of psychosocial condemns them to precarious jobs. Usually this is development through which the adolescent girl attributed to cultural patterns--based on patriarchal \"perceives and feels valued\". Therefore, mattering values that push them to adopt roles such, wives, implies social recognition and influencing others. Our mothers and the perpetuation of Roma legacy through research maintains that the discrimination suffered by generations. Overwhelming evidence affirms that the at-risk Roma girls can be reversed through a process of conditions of oppression, poverty and exclusion have a analysis and empowerment linking their mattering to very important explanatory weight. Our research sexual and reproductive justice. We understand proposes that adolescent motherhood can be prevented “reproductive justice” as the recognition and protection through adolescent empowerment processes that link of women's rights to decide how many children they their community recognition and influence to values of want to have, where and when to have them, have reproductive justice. We understand that reproductive information and means to do so, and the right to reach justice as the defence and protection of the rights of the highest level of reproductive health. Roma girls’ women to decide freely and responsibly their sexual mattering linked to reproductive justice involves all relevant domains for their psychosocial development. First, it involves acquiring critical thinking and

knowledge through reflection and evaluation. This step 120 promotes the identification of multiple life narratives, different social roles, and new possibilities to interpret Katty M. Cavero, University of Seville - CESPYD; motherhood and decision making. Critical thinking also Virginia Paloma, University of Seville - CESPYD entails learning and realizing that their life conditions can change and are not determined by nature. This Despite the enormous effort made in Europe to reverse agency allows for new interpretations and narratives on the inequality of Roma women reproductive health, the motherhood, mothering, cultural values and practices. result is very hopeless. This has been attributed to the Second, this process allows Roma girls to imagine new lack of adequate evaluation techniques and possibilities, new resources, learn new roles, and build participation of Roma population. We propose a model new networks without losing respect from their of empowerment evaluation to improve the situation in communities. Finally, this process enables them to which the Roma community assess, monitors and actively advocate for constructing safe and healthy improves all decision making processes to assure the contexts for them and their families. relevance, rigor and impact of the initiatives. We will develop and adapt training guidelines using a Community-based Participatory Action Research to community based participatory research (CBPR) Empower Roma Girls’ Mattering Linked to approach. It will train and monitor facilitators as Reproductive Justice evaluators at the local community level whom in turn will train and monitor Roma girls in their community- Daniela Miranda, University of Seville - CESPYD; based actions. This method will use an interactive Maria Jesus Albar Marin, University of Seville - learning model in which all agents, at an equal level, CESPYD will share their expertise to create common knowledge in order to best work within the community. Evaluation Addressing health disparities and promoting health in the ROMOMATTER will include participation of all equity for Roma has been a challenge. Current members as follow: (a) Process evaluation will entail strategies based on ameliorative and top-down the degree on which planned activities and logistics approaches have resulted in paradoxical effects that were considered to set up and run the participation of solidify health disparities since they do not effectively Roma girls. (b) Implementation evaluation will focus address the problems of vulnerable Roma groups, on assessing the identification of meaningful figures, especially Roma women. The problem of Roma satisfaction with the tasks, techniques and procedures motherhood has generally been linked to programs for their involvement, and opportunities for designed by non-Roma experts without including Roma sustainability. (c) Outcomes evaluation will assess the women. We propose a community-based participatory results and consequences of Roma Girls participation action approach based on the premise that girls have throughout the project focusing in evaluating personal the talent and capacity to design their lives and carry networks and community impact. A main objective of out actions led by them. Inspired by the principles of this model is to provide tools and resources that Roma Wolff et al. and adapting the strategy developed by girls can use to advocate for their own reproductive Foster-Fishman et al. , we propose a framework in rights. This evaluation process will produce guidelines order to tackle imbalances in power relationships and that will set up the work for future participatory generating synergies among a group of key community initiatives led by Roma girls focusing on their own health providers, Roma and other stakeholders in problems based on their reality and needs while at the marginalized contexts. This contribution presents a same time allowing flexibility to engage new methodological approach comprising a four-phase participants with different realities. process: (1) Identifying and building alliances between the Roma community, community organizations, Think Tank for the ROMOMATTER Project policymakers, community service providers and Roma girls, (2) building Roma competence among all Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami; Pennie stakeholders involved in the process, (3) building Foster-Fishman, Michigan State University; Yolanda advocacy capacity among Roma girls through CBPAR, Suarez-Balcazar, University of Illinois at Chicago and (4) developing a common agenda where both groups frame Roma health disparities as a consequence The violation of gender, sexual and reproductive rights of their unjust social and economic conditions, and has been identified as a main and pervasive source of agree to prioritize a set of initiatives to advocate against suffering, inequities and misery of humanity. The those disparities. We will highlight best practices that Guttmacher–Lancet Commission denounces that this is provide a foundation for advocacy processes built upon a consequence of \"weak political commitment, redistribution of power, creating empowering inadequate resources, persistent discrimination against community settings and mobilizing the leadership of women and girls, and an unwillingness to address the Roma community itself. issues related to sexuality openly and comprehensively (Lancet Commission, 2018). Sexual and reproductive Building Empowerment Evaluation Capacity among inequities of girls in Europe in one of the most Roma Girls and their Communities significant examples of these challenges. Coopted cultural values for secular mechanisms of oppression, many Roma teenagers find in early motherhood their

121 way to obtain recognition and influence in their create a list of recommendations based on communities despite violating their rights to \"be girls\" discussion. As a larger group, participants will and jeopardises their children's rights to enjoy parental consider the pros and cons of each approach with the care that ensures their own development. From the goal of generating actionable recommendations for values, principals and methodologies of community building community-level resilience and strength. psychology, the ROMOMATTER project is inspired by Prilleltensky's proposal on mattering, meaning-making Chairs: and thriving; Foster-Fishman's youth reACT for social Eylin Palamaro-Munsell, Northern Arizona change methodology and Suarez-Balcazar's University; Suzette Fromm Reed, National Louis empowerment evaluation model to shed light and University; Melissa Strompolis, Children’s Trust of respond to this challenge. These frameworks are South Carolina; Aditi Srivastav, Children’s Trust of seminal sources of initiatives to overcome similar South Carolina challenges suffered by ethnic minorities in the United States but it is necessary to strengthen community 098 Capacity Building and Collaboration with Your psychology influence in the international landscape in Community Advisory Board: The POSSE Project Model order to advance the discipline across the globe. Isaac, Working with the House and Ball Community Pennie and Yolanda will propose ideas, criticisms, Workshop proposals that will instigate reflection and discussion Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 6017 among the audience in order to enrich our discipline and at the same time to build shared knowledge which Abstract will be incorporated to the ROMOMATTER project. The POSSE Project is a community-level intervention that adapted the Popular Opinion Leader intervention 097 How Are the Children? Community Factors that for use with House and Ball Communities (HBC) in Mitigate the Effects of Adversity Philadelphia and Chicago. The House and Ball The Innovative Other Community is an underground community consisting Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU 6013 of primarily LGBTQI people of color. As such, members of the community have multiple social Abstract identities and can experience multifaceted and Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are traumatic intersectional oppression. HBCs exist in most major events that occur prior to the age of 18. This adversity cities in the United States and in some cities abroad, can affect brain development, which can result in long- but exist in a network wherein houses will have term negative health and social outcomes. Research chapters in multiple cities. The Community Advisory indicates that community factors play a strong role in Board (CAB), an essential core element of this buffering the effects of childhood adversity. Aspects of intervention has provided crucial insights, access and community, such as capacity, sense of expertise to the POSSE research staff. Traditionally, connectedness, trauma-informed practices and cultural the relationships between the CAB and the research understanding can mitigate poor academic and work institution is unidirectional, with the CAB assisting the effects and both mental and physical health researchers with recruitment, best practices, and outcomes. Moreover, availability of community translating the science for the larger community. In this programs that provide social connections for youth traditional relationship marginalized communities often such as sports and arts activities are reportedly have a seat at the table but their voices are rarely heard beneficial to those who experience childhood trauma. when expressing what their comminutes truly need and Community level elements interact with known want. This workshop will present the model used in individual resilience factors in complex and dynamic POSSE to retain, engage and build capacity with an ways. However, research in this area is scarce and can HBC CAB. Included in this workshop are 1) overview often be conflicting. This innovative session will of the theories drawn from to guide the model; 2) a briefly present findings from two on-going projects in sample of the Research 101 curriculum created for the the U.S. which explore the effects of ACEs. Findings CAB; 3) participation in goal setting and needs highlight multiple perspectives on community level assessment activities and 4) strategies for identifying factors and ACEs. As part of the learning and and engaging community partners for expanded interactivity of the session, the leaders will ask capacity building opportunities. Activities and attendees to read out loud research participants’ (de- strategies are generalizable and can be used with other identified) stories. Research findings will serve as a LGBTQI and marginalized communities. There will starting point to engage in a formal discussion on how opportunities to share and explore strategies. Learning to translate results into community-based policy and Objectives: 1. Facilitate strategic planning activities action. First, participants will break into smaller with a CAB or other community group. 2. Create CAB groups where they will introduce themselves and appropriate research curriculum. 3. Understand the discuss their interest in and/or work with childhood characteristics and social structure of the House and adversity. Next, discussion leaders will have a series of Ball Community, questions to consider, such as “How do we build better community capacity?” and “How do we reach those Chairs: not connected to care systems?” Each small group will Bevin Gwiazdowski, Children's Hospital of

122 Philadelphia; Marne Castillo, Children's Hospital of followed by a question and answer session where Philadelphia; Tori Gillis, POSSE Project Communit attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions and Advisory Board; Kortez Davis, Stroger Hospital of learn how and where they may disseminate their work Cook County; Gary Harper, University of Michigan or share their expertise. Time Request: 60 minutes School of Public Health; Christopher Balthazar, Format: Roundtable Discussion Stroger Hospital of Cook County; Richard LaBoy, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Sybil Hosek, Chairs: Stroger Hospital of Cook County Susan M. Wolfe, Susan Wolfe and Associates, LLC; Nicole Allen, University of Illinois; Robin Lin Miller, 099 The Psychology of Racial Injustice on Mass Michigan State University; G. Anne Bogat, Michigan Incarceration and it's Impact on Social Justice State University Roundtable Discussion Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: Palmer House 101 Getting to Outcomes: The 20-Year Anniversary of a The Spire Parlor Community Impact Model Symposium Abstract Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: Palmer Salon Mass incarceration has been a continuing epidemic that 12 has been the topic of many political conversations. The incarceration of men and women can create domino Abstract effects on whole families. There is a prevalent absence In 1999, the Getting To Outcomes (R) was developed of strong male figures in homes and communities, and by a professor and two graduate students in the clinical- the lack of presence of these strong male role models in community program at the University of South the African American community is a major problem, Carolina. The work began as a way to provide planning particularly when fathers are not able to play an and evaluation tools for prevention coalitions who intricate part in the growth and development of their typically had little access to local resources they could children. In the past two decades, women have been use to evaluate their own programs or community- incarcerated at even more alarming rates. Mass based strategies. The GTO model is based on a series incarceration has been on the rise consistently and it of 10 accountability questions that includes elements of has been at the forefront of many conversations as it effective planning, implementation, and evaluation.The relates to racial justice. This roundtable will discuss first GTO manual was piloted and revised for how mass incarceration has been plagued with systemic disssemination for the drug-free communities grantees. racial issues that have seriously impacted the way in This session will discuss the further development and which individuals from disenfranchised communities refinement of the GTO model which includes training continue to be placed into the cycle of mass modules and a technical assistance system. The incarceration. We will examine the implications of how presenters will highlight the various GTO manuals that the strategic injustice of incarceration has had have been developed including those for underage significant impacts on the socio-economically drinking prevention, pregnancy prevention, youth disadvantaged. Our roundtable will discuss the role of development, home visiting, and sexual assault Community Psychology as it relates to Social Justice prevention in military settings. The developers will and Social Change centered around Mass Incarceration. describe the evaluation of the GTO system over the last We will also talk about how community organizing, 20 years including how the technical assistance system and community activism plays a significant role in how has been tested using experimental designs. There will we can change the face of Mass Incarceration. be an emphasis on how the system has evolved with input and lessons learned from community practitioners Chairs: and providers who have used GTO. Data on the La'Shawn Littrice, National Louis University; Donna community impact of GTO will be discussed including Woods, National Louis University; Bradley Olson, how the work has been integrated into community National Louis University; Dan Cooper, National organizations, state systems, foundations, education Louis University; Judah Viola, National Louis settings, military settings and in other countries. The University; Tiffney Jimenez, National Louis University presenters will discuss how the the cycles of reflection and action in the GTO system can occur in complex 100 Sharing Our Work: Exploring the SCRA Publication systems where the focus on accountability is Outlets as Venues for Dissemination prioritized. Special Session Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: Palmer House Chairs: The Water Tower Parlor Pamela Imm, Wandersman Center Discussant: Abstract Ray Lorion, Towson University In this session, each editor will share information about the publication they represent that will include what Presentations: types of articles or books they accept and how to Overview of the Getting to Outcomes Model submit your work. The brief presentations will be

Pam Imm, Wandersman Center; Matthew Chinman, 123 The RAND Corporation; Abraham Wandersman, Wandersman Center the provision of technical assistance and increased capacities and program fidelity will also be presented. The Getting to Outcomes model was developed as a way to bridge the gap between research and practice. Adapting GTO to improve global health: The This gap was observed by community psychologists Development of GTO-Thailand who were working in the area of substance use prevention in communities where knowledge and skills Ariel Domlyn, Wandersman Center; Andrea Lamont, about effective prevention and evaluation were not Wandersman Center; Abraham Wandersman, readily available. As evaluators for the coalitions, the Wandersman Center; Sue Levkoff, University of South community psychologists developed the initial \"how- Carolina to\" manual in which the GTO accountability questions were used as the core components of a manual in which Funded by the NIMH Global Mental Health Program, information about evidence-based programs, tools the Partnership in Implementation Science for Geriatric about planning, process and outcome evaluation Mental Health (PRISM) project represents a unique worksheets, and drug use prevention surveys were application of Getting To Outcomes (GTO). In this included. The first Getting to Outcomes manual for randomized controlled trial, we adapt GTO for the Thai prevention was made available through CSAP to the context, with the goal of improving planning, first recipients of the drug-free communities and implementation, evaluation, and continuous quality support program. Since that time, the authors have been improvement of a physical activity intervention for involved in the development of more than 10 GTO older adults with dementia. The infrastructure of the manuals including those developed for underage health care delivery system in Thailand differs greatly drinking prevention, youth development, pregnancy than that in the United States. This study holds prevention, home visiting, and sexual assault particular significance as a test of implementation prevention in military settings. The authors will science methods within a context that currently lacks describe how the manuals are developed and initial such methodology. The adaptation of this model into grant opportunities they have used to evaluate and GTO-Thai is being performed using a participatory monitor the use of the manuals. Examples as to how the lens, where each level of the Thai community will be larger GTO system has been implemented into various involved in co-designing the study and ensuring its systems such as local and state systems, health relevance. It is also unique in its use of the R=MC2 foundations, and military settings will also be provided. readiness framework to design research support provided by GTO experts to the Thai colleagues. This The Evidence Base for Getting to Outcomes (GTO) application of R=MC2 is novel and holds promise as an evidence-informed method of providing technical Matthew Chinman, The RAND Corporation assistance. In this presentation, we will explain the study and context, discuss preliminary findings about This presentation will describe community research the cross-cultural relevance of GTO, outline the support that has been done on the GTO system over the last 20 network in place for implementing GTO in Thailand, years, highlighting how GTO has helped community and provide recommendations for the application of providers implement prevention programs. This GTO internationally. presentation will also describe how the research has helped improved implementation of GTO's key Using Getting to Outcomes (GTO) to Improve components - manuals, training, and technical Family Engagement in Schools assistance. Funded by NIAAA, CDC, NIDA and states, GTO research has been conducted in a variety of Brittany Cook, Wandersman Center; Abraham settings including coalitions, community-based Wandersman, Wandersman Center organizations, afterschool programs, and in state-level systems. Dr. Chinman will describe the variety of Family engagement in schools is essential for quasi-experimental and experimental studies evaluating successful school reform and for the improvement of how well GTO improves capacity among student development and achievement. There is providers/staff, enhances fidelity of evidence-based recognition on both the Federal and state level that programs, and contributes to positive outcomes. For engaging families is important for improving both example, early GTO studies involving groups of school and student outcomes, particularly for schools different prevention programs showed that providers serving at risk populations of youth (e.g., low income, who used GTO more increased their capacity and English language learners, students with disabilities, ability to implement programs well. Later studies minority youth, homeless youth, youth in foster care, involving only one evidence-based program showed and migrant children). South Carolina, which currently that those randomly assigned to receive GTO ran ranks in the bottom quarter for overall child well-being, programs with better fidelity and achieved better is one of only a handful of states receiving federal individual outcomes. Data on the relationship between funding through the Every Student Succeeds Act to implement a plan to strategically improve family engagement within high need schools across the state. More strategically planned, implemented, and

evaluated family engagement programs should increase 124 the school-family-community partnerships in high need schools in South Carolina, leading to better outcomes Chairs: for students. A statewide Family Engagement Center Susan McMahon, DePaul University will provide capacity-building support through training Discussant: for Getting To Outcomes® (GTO) for regional liaisons Marc Zimmerman, University of Michigan who will work with individual schools to improve their family engagement plans, as well as community Presentations: partners. The center will also provide technical Parent-Perpetrated Violence Toward Teachers: A assistance and tools to help support the use of GTO, School Climate Lens which will in turn be used by the regional liaisons to support the schools in their family engagement Susan McMahon, DePaul University; Kailyn Bare, processes. DePaul University; Cori Tergesen, DePaul University; Kayleigh Zinter, DePaul University; Yesenia Garcia, 102 School-Based Assessment and Intervention: DePaul University; Gabrielle Lynch, DePaul Capturing Violence, Teacher Experiences, and University; McMahon Katie, University of Pittsburgh; Restorative Justice Practices Jacqueline Davis, DePaul University; Eric Peist, Symposium DePaul University Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: Palmer Salons 6&7 Teachers frequently experience acts of aggression in schools, negatively impacting their well-being, job Abstract satisfaction, and retention, as well as student outcomes. In this symposium, we will present empirical findings Parents are the second most common perpetrators of on school violence and intervention from three teacher-directed violence behind students, but little projects: a national study in the United States, a research has been conducted to investigate this issue. national study in Chile, and an intervention study that School climate may provide a helpful lens from which spans five high-suspending schools in Brooklyn, New to examine violence in schools more generally, and York. These studies attempt to understand the ecologies teacher experiences more specifically. In the current of schools, and how school factors influence teachers’ study, an anonymous online survey was completed by experiences and implementation of interventions. Using teachers from 48 states (n=2,998). The survey included both qualitative methods (e.g., interviews with school quantitative and qualitative questions about teacher’s staff, student focus groups, observations) and victimization experiences. A subset of this sample quantitative methods (e.g., teacher surveys, (n=475) indicated that their worst experience with administrative data), we take a close look at teachers’ violence was perpetrated by parents. Using Wang and perspectives regarding their experiences with violence, Degol’s (2016) school climate framework, we analyzed school bonding and school climate, aggression toward open-ended survey responses. We elaborated upon and teachers from student and parent perpetrators, and further specified the four domains of school climate restorative justice practices. We will also delve into (safety, community, academics, and institutional discipline issues, teacher training, norms, and environment) and corresponding dimensions by leadership practices. McMahon and colleagues will identifying common themes through content analysis. describe results from a content analysis of 475 In term of safety, socio-emotional distress (fear, teachers’ experiences with parent perpetrated violence intimidation), discipline (parent or student disregard of and aggression using a school climate framework. policies), and physical aggression (assault) were Varela and colleagues will present findings based on common themes. Regarding community, quality of individual and school level influences on 9,144 Chilean relationships (blaming, disagreements with parents teachers’ school bonding using hierarchical linear about accountability) and poor relationships with modeling. Martinez and colleagues will describe the parents, staff and students were themes. Within the role of resources, staff-buy-in, school norms, and academic domain, themes included leadership (lack of perceived benefits in the implementation of restorative administrative support), teaching (diminished quality of justice practices in New York city schools. Presenters instruction), and professional development (lack of job in this symposium will suggest implications for theory, security, teacher motivation to remain). In terms of research, practice, and policy. Zimmerman, our institutional environment, themes included discussant, will derive overarching themes across environment (settings where violence occurred), presentations based on his extensive experience with structural organization (systems level policies), and school intervention and evaluation. We are also lack of institutional resources. Teachers recommended interested in engaging in a discussion with audience improved communication practices, stricter school participants regarding their experiences and ideas in policies, and increased administrative support to reduce order to facilitate moving the field forward in a way parent-perpetrated violence. Findings suggest that that honors our community psychology values, action school climate plays an important role in understanding orientation, rigorous methodology, and orientation teachers’ experiences with parent-perpetrator violence. toward social justice and effective intervention in Our results provide insights into how we might best schools. approach the complex issue of school violence.

Implications for research, intervention, and policy will 125 be discussed. Using Restorative Justice Practices to Address Exploring Online and Face to Face Victimization School Discipline and Safety: A Process Evaluation Against Teachers in Chile: A National Study Andrew Martinez, Center for Court Innovation; Lina Jorge Varela, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; Villegas, Center for Court Innovation; Lama Hassoun Mariavictoria Benavente, Universidad del Desarrollo, Ayoub, Center for Court Innovation Chile; Valeria Guerrero, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile; Rodrigo Quiroz, Universidad del Desarrollo, Exclusionary discipline practices (e.g., school Chile suspensions) have been linked to a range of negative student outcomes including lost class time, lower Aggressions against teachers have been a topic of academic performance, and contact with the juvenile growing interest for researchers (Mooij, 2011, Kauppi justice system (Fenning & Rose, 2007; Skiba & & Pörhölä, 2012, Chen & Astor, 2009). Previous Rausch, 2006; Wald & Losen, 2003). Additionally, studies distinguish between active aggressions such as over thirty years, research has documented racial physical violence, vandalism and insults and passive disproportionality in exclusionary discipline. In aggressions like hiding in the classroom or refusing to response, restorative practices, which focus on cooperate (Chen & Astor, 2009, Kauppi & Pörhölä, improving and restoring relationships, have gained 2012). More recent studies recognize the use of nationwide momentum as an alternative to discipline technology against teachers using text messages, e- and to ensure school safety. Despite this trend, rigorous mails or telephone calls (Kauppi & Pörhölä, 2012). studies examining the implementation and concomitant Yet, less is known about digital and online aggressions impact of school-based restorative practices are scant. compared to traditional formats. Considering the The current study is a process evaluation and is part of importance of social media for adolescents, we a larger randomized controlled trial testing the impact examined the negative effect of different types of of a restorative justice program on school suspensions student aggression on teacher’s school bonding in and school climate. More specifically, this study Chile. We examined national data from the 4th examines the implementation of restorative practices National Survey of School Violence in Chile, using a across five high-suspending schools in Brooklyn, NY. sample of 9,144 teachers from Chile (58,4% female) Data were collected using an assortment of data from 738 schools. We used hierarchical lineal modeling collection strategies, namely interviews with school to examine the relationship between individual and staff (n=85), student focus groups, observations of school level variables on teacher’s school bonding. We restorative circles (n=67), student surveys (n=399), and found a significant relationship with school bonding at administrative data across approximately 1,600 level 1 with: victim school violence in general (β = - restorative circle sessions. Study findings reveal a .08), face to face aggressions of rumors (β = -.18) and variety of factors playing a role in the implementation threats (β = -.31), and teasing using a web page (β = of restorative practices including resources (e.g. staff, .70), controlling for age, sex, and years of experience. time), staff buy-in, training, school norms concerning At the school level, we found a significant relationship discipline, and compartmentalization and staff for type of school (β = -.10) and size (β = .06). Our misperceptions of restorative practices. Perceived results highlight possible differences for teachers’ benefits of the intervention are also discussed. Based school bonding based on the type of aggression and the on these findings, we discuss the role of online format students used. For the most part, face to implementation as it relates to desired outcomes. In face aggressions are the most important for teachers’ accordance with the conference theme (i.e., ecological school life. We need to explore this type of aggression praxis) we also discuss the importance of varied data further considering their presence in students’ life’s and collection strategies to appropriately capture ‘school risky violent behavior in order to support prevention ecologies’ and better understand implementation programs for teacher emotional support. processes. The presentation will end with a broader discussion concerning training the next generation of community psychologists within school-based research-practice partnerships. Ignite Session #2: Criminal Justice Ignite Session 2: Assessing Policing Tactics in Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU Transactional Sex Work-Related Arrest Reports: A 4012/4014 Qualitative Analysis of Chicago Police Department Records Abstract Ignite Presentation Purpose In 2006, the City of Chicago Mayor’s Office

126 issued guidance regarding law enforcement’s response recruits were recruited for this study. We administered to transactional sex work, including a recommendation three surveys to study colorblind racial ideology and to focus on individuals driving demand in the sex trade servant leadership within the sample. Results: Pearson (i.e. clients, arrangers) rather than sex workers. We correlations reported significant negative relationships analyzed arrest report data from the Chicago Police between certain factors of CoBRAS and RSLP as well Department (CPD) to assess CPD’s approach to as CoBRAS and different demographic factors. policing transactional sex work a decade after this Hierarchical multiple regressions showed that guidance. Methods Through a series of Freedom of significant amounts of the variation in the two factors Information Act (FOIA) requests, arrest reports were of SL examined were attributed to the factors of CBRI requested from the CPD for all adults arrested by the and the demographic factors of sex and race. CPD in 2015-2017 under transactional sex work-related Conclusions: Findings helped to extend our statutes. Demographic data were extracted from the understanding of how racial prejudices relate to “Offender” section of the report. The “Incident leadership styles in law enforcement. This relationship Narrative” sections of the reports were coded between colorblindness and servant leadership implies independently by two research staff members that a possible means of combating prejudice in police (Kappa=0.87) to identify themes in arrestee recruits may be through the leadership styles that are characteristics, policing strategies, and types of emphasized. Since this study involved only self- evidence cited. Results Of 575 total arrest reports, reported survey data, future studies should focus on 64.7% of arrestees were identified in the report as including different measures of ideologies with “Black,” 15.0% as “Hispanic,” and 71.5% as “Female.” possible more experience police officers as well. Mean age was 34.8 (SD=11.0). Qualitative analysis revealed a number of themes around CPD’s practices Chairs: regarding transactional sex work. Sex workers, rather Sara Groth, University of Illinois than clients or arrangers, were primarily the targets of arrest. Targeted and patrol-based arrests were both Ignite Session 2: Legal Cynicism Among Youth: An common. Targeted arrests often involved undercover Examination of the Influence Of Police Contact and officers soliciting services from sex workers. Patrol Neighborhood Context arrests often cited profiling-based evidence as a Ignite Presentation justification for arrest, including that the arrestee was Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU “a known prostitute,” in an “area known for 4012/4014 prostitution,” “flagging down vehicles,” or “transgender” “transsexual,” or “crossdressing.” Abstract Conclusion Despite government guidance to focus on Legal cynicism (LC) is the perception that the legal curtailing demand, CPD’s practices continue to system or its actors are illegitimate. High levels of LC primarily target sex workers through undercover diminish support and trust of citizens towards legal officers and profiling-based tactics during patrol that actors and have been linked with decreased cooperation may particularly impact Black women and with police and lower willingness to obey the law or sexual/gender minorities. Examining policing strategies report crimes (Gau, 2011). Previous research on LC has regarding sex work can enrich understandings of the focused primarily on adult populations and structural systems and socio-ecological structures navigated by correlates of LC. This study expands the current individuals in the sex trade. literature by examining LC among youth, while accounting for both individual and community-level Chairs: influences. Specifically, using data from the age 15 Clair Fuller, University of Chicago; Kris Rosentel, assessments of the Fragile Families and Child University of Chicago; Shannon M.E. Bowers, Wellbeing Study (a longitudinal study of 4898 children University of Chicago; Darnell Motley, University of born between 1998-2000 in 20 large cities), we aim to Chicago; Brandon J. Hill, Planned Parenthood understand the relationship between situational characteristics of police contact (type of contact, Ignite Session 2: Examining the Relationship Between satisfaction with contact, intrusiveness of contact, Colorblind Racial Ideology and Servant Leadership perceptions of procedural justice, contact outcome) Among Police Recruits with levels of youth-reported LC in neighborhoods Ignite Presentation characterized by different levels of collective efficacy Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU and danger. Using multi-model selection based on AIC 4012/4014 values we evaluated multiple GLMs testing the relationship between LC and our predictors. After Abstract controlling for demographic factors and youth’s self- Objective: The current study chose to explore the reported delinquency, results showed that more possible association between racial ideologies and intrusive stops increased LC (p<0.001), while higher leadership styles in police recruits. We investigated the levels of perceived procedural justice reduced LC relationship between colorblind racial ideology (CBRI) (p<0.001). Moreover, personal police contact, whether and servant leadership (SL) styles to better understand rated as satisfactory or not, was always associated with the relationship. Method: Two-hundred and five police higher levels of LC than vicarious police contact

127 (p<0.001). Finally, an interaction between McClelland, Teplin, & Abram, 2004). Past research has neighborhood profiles and contact outcome emerged. highlighted how contextual factors, such as In dangerous neighborhoods with low collective neighborhood crime, elevate youth’s risk of using efficacy, police contacts that resulted in inaction or substances (Mulvey, 2010). However, less is known ticketing by the officer resulted in higher LC than regarding how protective factors, such as strong family contacts that resulted in warnings or being taken to the attachment, mitigate the relationship between youth police station. In safer neighborhoods with high substance use and neighborhood crime rates. The collective efficacy, police contacts were associated present study examines how family attachment with overall lower and less variable levels of LC moderates the relationship between neighborhood-level regardless of the encounter’s outcome (p<0.05). crime prevalence and substance use among juvenile Implications are discussed. offenders. Analyses draw upon a sample of 2,074 delinquent youth recruited from a large county in Mid- Chairs: Michigan from 2004 to 2018. ZIP codes are used to Meret Hofer, University of Virginia; Sean Womack, identify violent and property crime arrest frequencies University of Virginia; Melvin Wilson, University of relative to participants’ neighborhoods. Additionally, Virginia Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis will be used to track patterns of neighborhood crime in the Ignite Session 2: Needs Assessment of a Tri-County county area over time. Self-reported substance use Human Trafficking Task Force behavior and family attachment are captured by the Ignite Presentation Youth Level of Service (YLS), a risk assessment Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU instrument used by the juvenile court. Substance use 4012/4014 behavior here refers to both the frequency of usage and extent to which usage interferes with the youth’s life. Abstract Family attachment is measured by consistent parenting, Human trafficking is a global crime involving the use quality of parental relationships, and strength of family of force, fraud, and coercion to exploit individuals for management. We hypothesize that neighborhood crime commercial sex and labor. Survivors of human will be associated with higher levels of youth substance trafficking have physical health, mental health, and use. However, we also hypothesize that this other life needs that must be addressed to give them relationship will be moderated by family attachment, opportunities to rebuild their lives. There are few such that strong family attachment buffers youth organizations that offer comprehensive services to meet substance use, even when neighborhood crime levels all these needs which forces survivors to seek out are high. Results yielded highlight the value of family- services from multiple organizations in the community. and neighborhood-level intervention in reducing Survivors of human trafficking are forced to navigate a substance use among delinquent youth. \"patchwork of care\" and run the risk of not having their needs met. Organizations that assist human trafficking Chairs: survivors face many barriers that limit their ability to M.K. Kitzmiller, Michigan State University; Jen adequately address the needs of survivors in their Gruber, Michigan State University; Cait Cavanagh, community. These barriers must be identified and Michigan State University; Kas Anderson-Carpenter, addressed to facilitate optimal service provision and Michigan State University coordination among organizations. This presentation will discuss the findings of a needs assessment of Ignite Session 2: Policing in a Multiracial Society Project organizations serving human trafficking victims that (PMSP) identified barriers and generated potential solutions to Ignite Presentation service provision challenges. Implications for policy Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU and practice will be discussed. 4012/4014 Chairs: Abstract Lauren Vollinger, Michigan State University Year after year there are reports about a Black men or women who have been killed at the hands of a police Ignite Session 2: Optimizing Family-Level Protective officer. Black people are more likely than their white Factors Among Juvenile Delinquent Substance Users counterparts to be racial profiled. Motivating Ignite Presentation researchers to explore more on police racial attitudes. Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU Policing in a Multiracial Society Project (PMSP) was 4012/4014 created in 2012, commitmented to create a police force that is honoring and addressing the values of social Abstract justice, equity, and fairness. The purpose of the study is Substance use among delinquent youth is an issue of to increase police awareness of their own social immediate concern in the area of juvenile corrections identities and racial belief, knowledge about the and rehabilitation. At a national level, an estimated theories and researches that is related to police 85.4% of detained youth reported using substances in misconduct and the historical information about racial the six months prior to their arrest (Mulvey, 2010; minorities in the community and criminal justice

system, and their ability to use what was learn in their 128 police training such as communication and their basic police skills in a culturally informed way. We Recent research has highlighted the importance of conducted a study on police recruits color-blindness community and contextual factors in successful reentry racial ideology. Color-blindness racial ideology is and reintegration, challenging widely-held notions that define in two interrelated dimension related to color- desistance is primarily a function of individual blindness (Neville, Awad, Flores, & Bluemel, 2013). characteristics (Stahler, Mennis, Belenko, Welsh, The first dimension is color-evasion define as being in Hillder, & Zajac, 2013). Though service agencies denial of racial difference by emphasizing that provide essential resources to support Returning everyone is the same. The second dimension is power- Citizens, they are unable to aid them in developing the evasion is define being in denial of racism emphasizing critical element necessary for long-term desistance: a that everyone have the same opportunities to succeed personally meaningful life that is incompatible with regardless of race. We did a 10 hour multicultural criminal behavior (Ward & Maruna, 2007). According education across two studies. Investigating police to the Good Lives Model (GLM), a theoretical recruits’ racial belief and their engagement to the framework focusing on the importance of well-being in multicultural education training. In the first study we promoting desistance, many Returning Citizens need found that greater endorsement of power-evasion color- social support to create such lives (Ward & Gannon, blindness racial ideology (CBRI) is associated with 2006). Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) lower levels of cognitive with the three education programs address this need by connecting Returning modules among the 81 police recruiters. In study two Citizens to a network of volunteers from the found a similar pattern, however these findings was not community to which they are returning. Previous replicated for color-evasion CBRI. We was able to efforts to evaluate CoSA programs have been hindered identified helpful and hindering aspects of the by methodological challenges common to research education modules. focusing on hard to access populations (e.g. small sample size, lack of control/comparison group, non- Chairs: representative sample, etc). The current study applies Abisola Smith, Univerity of Illinois at Urbana- single-case design (SCD) methodology, commonly Champaign used to assess individual-level effects in educational psychology, to quantitatively assess Returning Citizens' Ignite Session 2: Returning to Community After development of pro-social life characteristics during Incarceration: Evaluating Circles of Support and their participation in a CoSA program. Results suggest Accountability’s Role in Promoting Within-Person that CoSA participation promotes development of pro- Change social life characteristics (e.g., sense of community, Ignite Presentation social capital) among Returning Citizens during their Day: 6/26/2019 Time: 4:00-5:15 PM Room: NLU process of reintegration. Implications for evaluations of 4012/4014 CoSA programs and future research will be discussed. Abstract Chairs: The number of people returning to communities after a Christopher T. Allen, Kennesaw State University; Kim period of incarceration (hereinafter, “Returning Yeasir, THRIVE Communities of Massachusetts; Citizens”) is on the rise (Carson & Golinelli, 2013). Ekaterina Mathes, Kennesaw State University Thursday Morning Sessions Breakfast on Your Own 104 2019 Seymour Sarason Award: Mattering at the Abstract Intersection of Psychology, Philosophy and Politics Mattering is an ideal state of affairs consisting of two Special Session complementary psychological experiences: feeling Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-9:40 AM Room: Harold valued and adding value. Human beings can feel valued Washington Library, Winter Garden by, and add value to, self, others, work, and community. To make sure that mattering is distributed

129 fairly among the population, we must balance feeling and resources to use the technique in a future research valued with adding value. Moreover, we must balance study. adding value to self with adding value to others in the community. Unfortunately, the dominant neoliberal Chairs: philosophy does not support the values required to Adrienne Adams, Michigan State University; Gabriela ensure that mattering is distributed fairly among the Lopez-Zeron, Michigan State University; Maria population. Whereas a healthy and fair society would Bilboa, Michigan State University require equilibrium among values for personal, relational, and collective well-being, the dominant 106 Youth Mentoring on Academic Setting philosophy in many parts of the world favors personal Symposium values at the expense of relational and collective Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: NLU 4020 values. Dominant neoliberal philosophies and economic policies have resulted in diminished sense of Abstract mattering for millions of people who, ironically, Community psychologists are interested in support xenophobic, nationalistic and populist politics understanding the processes though which social in an effort to regain a sense of mattering. To make interventions might help in improving youth’s life and sure that everyone matters, we must align the promote their academic progress and well-being. psychology, philosophy and politics of mattering. Mentoring has been shown to be an excellent avenue through which disadvantaged youth can gain access to Chairs: knowledge, resources and opportunities that otherwise Isaac Prilleltensky, University of Miami; Geoff would not have been available for them (Larson, Nelson, Wilfrid Laurier University; Laura Kohn- Walker, & Pearce, 2005). The purpose of this Wood, University of Miami symposium is to present research findings from four quantitative studies examining critical issues of both 105 Are We Measuring What We Think We Are programmatic and natural mentoring relationships Measuring? Using Cognitive Interviewing to Pre-Test (MNR). Research findings from these studies will Questionnaires in English and Spanish address important gaps in youth mentoring research. Workshop The first presentation uses a quasi-experimental Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: NLU approach to examine the combined effects of student’s 4012/4014 school connectedness and Project Arrive school-based group mentoring program, on 9th graders educational Abstract outcomes. The second presentation explores mentoring Cognitive interviewing is a tool used during the quality protective role from the potential negative instrument design stage of a research project to help effects of cultural mistrust on students’ educational maximize the validity of survey questions. A central outcomes. The third presenter will show findings on aim of cognitive interviewing is to ensure that academic, psychological and adaptive functioning from participants understand the questionnaire content to a randomized-control trial, of 6th grade students mean what the researchers intend it to mean. It is also participating in the Cities Mentor Project. The fourth helpful for ensuring that questionnaire design choices presentation looks into students’ high school enhance rather than hinder data quality. Cognitive connectedness experiences as predictors for the interviewing is worthwhile in any research study, but it development of new NMR while in college and its is particularly helpful when designing a questionnaire effects on college outcomes. Overall, this symposium for use with unique populations. We use cognitive will present research finding that will contribute to the interviewing in research with English- and Spanish- understanding of critical yet less explored issues of speaking intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. We mentoring relationships. In addition, this symposium recruit English and Spanish-speaking IPV survivors to will illustrate diverse quantitative methodological give their feedback on language-specific versions of the approached to learn about mentoring predictors, survey instrument. In the session, we systematically mentoring interventions, interaction with contextual collect information on what they think the question is factors and educational outcomes. This proposal asking, the thought process they use to arrive at their suggests a session length of 75 minutes. At the end of answers, difficulties they had answering the questions, the symposium, the discussant will take 5 minutes to and anything else requiring attention. We use the summarize key findings and 15 minutes to engage the information to refine the survey instruments to ensure audience for asking questions and discuss about ways that they are culturally and contextually appropriate. these finding may be used to improve the life of young We find cognitive interviewing to be an invaluable tool people and promote their well-being. in our research and will use this forum to share what we’ve learned. In this workshop, we will explain the Chairs: purpose and methods of cognitive interviewing, share Luciano Berardi, DePaul University examples from our work, and give attendees the Discussant: opportunity to practice key cognitive interviewing Fabricio Balcazar, University of Illinois at Chicago techniques. Attendees will leave the workshop with a basic understanding of cognitive interviewing methods Presentations:

Increasing Connection to Reduce Academic Risk: 130 The Role of School-Based Group Mentoring. undergraduates (Caldwell & Obasi, 2010). The purpose Claudia Delbasso, Georgia State University; Nancy of this study was to examine the association among Nava, Georgia State University; Gabriel Kuperminc, cultural mistrust, mentoring relationship quality, and Georgia State University; Wing Yi Chan, Rand academic outcomes. We hypothesized that (a) higher Corporation cultural mistrust in 9th grade will predict lower intrinsic motivation and GPA in 10th grade, and (b) Project Arrive (PA) is a school-based group mentoring relationship quality will moderate this association program for 9th grade students identified as being at among students who reported a mentor. Data were risk for school dropout. We showed previously that collected from 347 Latinx high school students from participation in PA is associated with increases in two low-income schools in an urban, Midwestern school belonging and support from teachers (Authors, school district. Students were surveyed at both 9th and under review) and improved academic functioning 10th grades. Preliminary regression analyses revealed (Authors, under review). Drawing on research with that cultural mistrust in 9th grade did not predict youth who exited formal education without a high intrinsic motivation in 10th grade (β = -.04, ns) or GPA school diploma, the Center for Promise (2015) (β = -.02, ns) while controlling for intrinsic motivation concluded that expanding the supports available to and GPA in 9th grade, respectively. No significant vulnerable students may be the most powerful approach findings were found for the moderation analyses. for helping young people achieve their academic Perhaps the data did not support our hypotheses potential. The current quasi-experimental study extends because youth in the early years of high school are still previous findings by examining whether school adjusting to their school environment and developing a connectedness, the belief that the adults and peers in stronger ethnic/racial identity. Once Latinx students their school care about them and their learning (Centers have established a solid identity, they may develop for Disease Control, 2009), mediates the associations of cultural mistrust as racial dynamics become more PA participation with academic performance and salient to them. attendance. This study included 114 9th graders attending high schools that offered PA, and 71 9th Preliminary Evaluation of the Cities Mentor grade students attending a district high school that did Project. not offer the program. The sample was predominantly male (53%), Latinx (62%), and economically Sophia Duffy, Dominican University; Kathryn Grant, disadvantaged (75%). Using a partially-nested DePaul University; John McGill, DePaul Univerity multilevel model to account for clustering of program students in groups, we examine school belonging and There are disparities in academic achievement between teacher support as mediators in the associations of PA youth residing in low-income urban communities and participation during 9th grade with school grades, those residing elsewhere. Underlying the academic progress toward graduation, and attendance at the end problems are socio-emotional and behavioral problems of 10th grade. Preliminary analysis revealed a that impede learning. At the root of these inter-related significant indirect effect of PA participation on grades problems are increased exposure to stress and reduced through its association with teacher support, b = .16, support at individual, interpersonal, and systems levels. s.e. = .09, CI [.02, .37], and a significant indirect effect The Cities Mentor Project (CMP) is a culturally of PA participation on credits earned toward graduation grounded intervention program for urban youth through its association with teacher support, b = 1.77, residing in low-income communities with exposure to s.e. = 1.01, CI [.27, 4.08]. These findings support the chronic stress to address deficits in supports at each expectation that increasing a sense of connection to level. Youth were paired with college-age mentors, school through group mentoring can promote academic received weekly trauma-informed coping training success among vulnerable students. alongside mentors, and engaged in after-school activities. As part of a pilot randomized-control trial, 35 Do Cultural Mistrust and Natural Mentoring 6th grade Black youth were randomly assigned to Relationship Quality Predict Academic Outcomes? receive the intervention (n = 16) or usual care (n=19). This evaluation explored psychological, behavioral and Alex O’Donnell, DePaul University; María Valenzuela, academic outcomes post program implementation, and DePaul University; Lidia Monjaras-Gaytan, DePaul after 3 and 12 months of optional booster sessions. University; Bernadette Sánchez, DePaul University Teachers, parents and youth completed the Behavioral Assessment System for Children – 2nd Edition As the proportion of Latinx students in the public- questionnaires on psychological, behavioral and school system increases, awareness of the complex adaptive functioning. Final academic grades in racial dynamics faced by Latinx students being taught mathematics and reading were collected. Youth in both by predominantly White teachers will become more conditions were compared along these outcomes at all apparent. Previous research has indicated that cultural time points. Within group differences were explored for mistrust was negatively associated academic youth within the intervention based on the amount of performance and motivation among African American intervention received. Results showed intervention youth exhibited higher reading achievement post- intervention. Further, dosage effects illustrated lower

131 parent-reported behavioral symptoms at post- Symposium intervention. Dosage effects were observed at follow- Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: NLU 4022 up time points with lower youth-reported school problems, internalizing problems, Abstract inattention/hyperactivity problems, and emotional There is increasing evidence that youth mentoring can problems at three-month follow up. Those who be a transformative community initiative, particularly received higher dosages of the intervention reported among less-resourced youth. Although research higher parent-reported adaptive functioning at 12- consistently demonstrates that the relationships mentors month follow up. These findings suggests preliminary form with youth are catalytic agents of youth well- evidence that CMP is an effective program in reducing being, less is known about the critical processes that negative outcomes associated with the lack of support enhance the mentor-mentee bond. The purpose of this at the individual, interpersonal and systems level symposium is to take attendees on an international caused by chronic poverty and stress. voyage that will enrich their understanding of the nutrients needed to cultivate high-quality mentor- High School and College Mentoring Experiences mentee relationships and ultimately enhance youth Effects on the Transition to College. outcomes. This voyage begins with presenting data from a large study of a campus-community initiative at Luciano Berardi, DePaul University; Claudia Cortes, Colorado State University, Campus Connections. The DePaul University; Bianca Pagan, DePaul University goal of this presentation is to identify the processes associated with high quality mentoring relationships There is a scarcity of research examining the and youth’s sense of belonging within the program. In development of newly formed natural mentoring the second presentation, data gathered with community relationships (NMR), although studies have shown partners in Auckland New Zealand is utilized to evidence of youth and young adults reporting explore mentor self-disclosure as a process for relationship with natural mentors and on the benefits of supporting quality mentoring relationships. Next, using such relationships (DuBois & Silverthorn, 2005). There a critical strengths-based approach, parents/caregivers’ is a need to better understand the way in which these perspectives of the approaches and experiences of relationships are formed and if they have any positive highly effective mentors participating in a community- effects on young adults’ educational progress (Berardi, based youth mentoring program in Auckland New Sanchez & Kuperminc, under review). This study Zealand is presented. In the final presentation, the explores the role played by student’s school Mentoring FAN, an innovative and rigorous training connectedness factors, such as school sense of model used to build interpersonal attunement among belonging and perception of teachers support, and mentors and staff in relationships with youth in student’s mentoring experiences during high school, on mentoring is presented. This presentation will draw on the development of new NMR during the first year of training data gathered via university-community college. Participants of this study are 250 first year collaborations in Illinois. Guided by praxis, the college students, 58% females, 41% ethnic minority, compass of this voyage is to generate opportunities for who completed an on-line survey at the end of their discussion that help nurture youth well-being via first year in college. Using Analyses of Variance supporting and training reflective mentoring and (ANOVA), we tested our first hypothesis, looking for community practitioners. differences between students that develop new NMR (0 to 5) and their high school experiences. Results showed Chairs: a significant differences in students teacher’s support F Pat Bullen, University of Auckland (5, 250) = 4.79; p =.00, the number of reported mentors at school F (5, 213) = 6.22; p =.00, and students sense Presentations: of school belonging F (5, 250) = 4.79; p =.00. Critical Processes Associated with Youth-Mentor Specifically, students with more NMRs had Alliance and Sense of Belonging significantly higher levels of school connectedness, than students with fewer NMRs. Finally, using SEM Vaida Kazlauskaite, University of Minnesota; Lindsey analysis, we tested a predictive pathway model effects M. Weiler, University of Minnesota; Shelley Haddock, from school connectedness factors to the number of Colorado State University new NMR, and if the number of NMR acts as a mediators in the relationship between school Many mentoring models position high-quality connectedness factors and students college outcomes. relationships as the key change mechanism. Yet, the Based on these findings, presenters will discuss context in which the mentoring relationship is potential approaches/intervention for supporting first established and maintained can vary considerably. In year college students, imprecation for mentoring theory site-based models of mentoring, the relationship is and recommend future research on mentoring. situated within a larger program setting that includes other matches and may have pre-planned goals or 107 Identifying the Key Nutrients of High-Quality activities. As such, youth participants’ sense of Mentor-Mentee Relationships belonging is conceptualized as an additional change mechanism. Using data collected from a large study of

the Campus Connections (CC) program, the goal of this 132 paper was to identify processes associated with (a) high quality mentoring relationships and (b) youth’s sense of disclosure in the mentoring context and how it may belonging within the program. Youth participants promote characteristics of high quality relationships. (N=76, Mage=14.07, 36.8% female) were selected This presentation will explore mentor self-disclosure as based on level of self-reported mentoring relationship a process for supporting quality mentoring quality (MRQ) and sense of belonging and interviewed relationships, guided by SPT and the onion metaphor. individually at the program end. We stratified youth Using data from a study conducted with community into four groups (i.e., low MRQ/low belonging, high partners in Auckland, New Zealand, it will include an MRQ/high belonging, low MRQ/high belonging, high overview of SPT and how SPT influenced the MRQ/low belonging). Interviews were coded for development of a novel instrument for measuring dyadic experiences of empathy, authenticity, closeness, mentor self-disclosure. The development and testing of acceptance, collaboration, disclosure, and sage a theoretical model which, informed by SPT and mentoring. We also coded experiences within the larger analyzed using self-report questionnaire data, illustrates setting based on youth settings theory (i.e., positive the link between mentor self-disclosure and regard, skill building, structure, positive social norms, relationship quality will also be presented. Reflections mattering, and supportive relationships). Results on informing praxis will conclude the presentation, indicated that several processes distinguished one focused on feedback for youth mentoring organizations group from the next. Mentor authenticity, mentor and mentor training. empathy, and collaboration were more likely to appear in high quality MRQ groups, irrespective of sense of A Critical Strengths-Based Approach to belonging. The degree to which youth felt comfortable Understanding High Quality Mentoring disclosing to their mentor was highest in the high Relationships Through a Caregiver’s Eyes MRQ/low belonging group. Program experiences also varied by group. Overall positive regard and Pat Bullen, University of Auckland; Kiri Wilder, opportunities for skill building were reported more University of Auckland; Kelsey Deane, University of frequently in the high belonging groups, regardless of Auckland MRQ. Sage mentoring and supportive relationships were rarely discussed in the low MRQ/low belonging Critical theories in youth mentoring are challenging group. Key findings will be presented with implications questionable metanarratives that situate young people for mentor training, support, and monitoring. and their families from marginalized communities as Peeling Layers of the Onion: Self-Disclosure, problematic, powerless and in need of saving (Weistin- Relationship Quality, and Applying Social Serdan, 2017). Indeed, recent research highlights the Penetration Theory to Youth Mentoring important and positive role parents/caregivers play in youth mentoring relationships (e.g., Basualsdo- Hilary Dansey Dutton, University of Auckland Delmonico & Spencer, 2016). Positioning parents as assets creates opportunities to draw on their knowledge Youth mentoring is an adaptable, responsive and skills to help inform and improve critical intervention which invites innovative approaches to mentoring processes. The relationships mentors form best meet the needs of the communities programs with youth is noted as a critical process of program serve. At its heart, mentoring largely remains effectiveness. While there has been some progress in relationship focused. Research has shown that understanding the factors that underpin more successful relationship quality is positively associated with the mentoring relationships, much of our understanding is effectiveness of youth mentoring (e.g., DuBois, based on mentor and/or mentee perspectives. Further, Holloway, Valentine & Cooper, 2002) and there is because relationships are heavily influenced by broader significant interest in understanding processes that social contexts, understanding how these processes cultivate quality relationships so programs can support play out in diverse cultural contexts is critical. Thus, vulnerable youth effectively. Self-disclosure has been data were drawn from a larger in-depth qualitative theoretically and empirically identified as an essential interview study of the approaches and experiences of part of interpersonal relationships. Social Penetration highly effective mentors participating in a formal Theory (SPT; Altman & Taylor, 1973) argues for self- mentoring program in New Zealand which included disclosure as the primary process through which interviews with parents/caregivers. Highly effective individuals establish closeness in personal relationships mentor-mentee pairs were identified by program staff and has influenced understandings of interpersonal and in-depth qualitative data from six caregivers (four relationships in diverse contexts. Notably, an onion mothers, one aunt, and one father) whose youth metaphor has been used to describe SPT, imagining participated in a community-based mentoring program that self-disclosure is the process of peeling the layers in Auckland were analyzed. Guided by a critical of an onion, with subsequent layers becoming gradually mentoring framework, caregiver narratives positioned more intimate. Individuals thus develop closeness and mentors as extended family members who enhanced intimacy with others through the systematic use of self- rather than replaced mentees’ existing social networks. disclosure over time. Despite being a relational Key qualities included mentors who considered the intervention, there is little research conducted on self- needs of the whānau (extended family), were trustworthy, caring and non-judgmental. Examining caregivers’ own accounts of their youth’s mentoring

133 relationships points to the potential power of more Symposium strengths-based approaches to parental involvement Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: NLU 5006 and ones that engage parents more fully as partners and allies in the mentoring process. Practical implications Abstract and recommendations on how to create more inclusive Employment for refugees has been a source of concern strengths-based practices for youth and their families both within refugee communities and as a matter of will be discussed. policy in the U.S. Policy drives the urgency of the process of job finding by setting limits on the length of The Nature and Examination of Adult Attunement time economic support is provided to these families to in Mentoring Relationships make the transition to life in the new country. Circumstances facing different refugee groups differ Julia Pryce, Loyola University Chicago; Linda considerably, however, with respect to social and Gilkerson, Erikson Institute; Montserrat Vazquez educational capital brought with them, Sanchez, Loyola University Chicago; Luke Bandyk, presence/absence of co-ethnic community to ease Loyola University Chicago aspects of the transition, and options for re-entering the same kind of job held in their country of origin before Youth mentoring is an increasingly popular youth fleeing. This symposium provides qualitative and development intervention that now serves quantitative accounts of how diverse refugees cope approximately 4.5 million youth in nearly 6,000 with the issue of employment ands self-sufficiency programs throughout the United States (MENTOR, after arriving in the United States. The diversity of 2014). Mentoring programs are typically offered to experience reported highlights the importance of youth from vulnerable communities, living amidst understanding the employment process as embedded in myriad risk factors ranging from living in poverty, to the specific social and cultural context of the context of single-parent households, to parental incarceration reception. First, Ms. Maria Fernanda Garcia, LMFT, (Herrera, DuBois, & Grossman, 2013). Such programs begins the symposium by presenting select findings match a non-parental adult volunteer to the youth in a from a large cross-sectional quantitative study of the “mentoring match.” Programs typically employ staff to job development over time of over 600 refugee adults support the match through in-person, and/or virtual or from Vietnam and from the former Soviet Union. Ms. phone-based efforts at match support. Although Alexandra Lane next discusses the challenges facing mentoring remains a widely known intervention, not all highly skilled refugees in Miami with respect to job mentoring programs and matches are equally effective, searching and its themes. Ms. Wendy de los Reyes and certain practices and processes are associated with focuses on a more specific population of refugee more favorable outcomes (DuBois et al., 2011). physicians from Cuba and their coping with the Research supports the importance of close connections complications of the process of resuming the physician across the ecological system of mentoring role in the United States. Finally, Ms. Miryam relationships, between mentoring staff, mentor, youth, Haarlemmert reports on interviews with a sample of and parent, to facilitate the positive outcomes most primarily Central and South American women refugees aspired to by those who implement this intervention in Miami whose employment options compete with (Keller, 2005). To date, however, innovative and varied other life demands related to the resettlement rigorous methods of training for the staff who support process. The presentations will be followed by a mentors, and for the mentors themselves, are limited discussion of findings and their implications for policy (Kupersmidt & Rhodes, 2014). We present such a and community psychology research. model, focused on results from trainings through university-community collaborations on the Mentoring Chairs: FAN (Facilitating Attuned Interactions; Gilkerson & Dina Birman, University of Miami Pryce, under review; Pryce & Gilkerson, 2018), used to build interpersonal attunement among mentors and staff Presentations: in relationships with youth in mentoring programs. Former Soviet and Vietnamese Refugee Work Based on training conducted across program sites and Trajectories: Patterns and Predictors cultural contexts, findings suggest value in promoting attunement to strengthen staff-mentor relationships by Maria Fernanda Garcia, university of Miami; Dina increasing staff empathy, collaboration, confidence, Birman, Univeresity of Maimi; Ashmeet Oberoi, and commitment. This presentation also explores the University of Miami; Ed Trickett, Univerity of Miami concept of attunement in more detail, both in terms of measurement and cultural relevance. Through case- While employment has oft been cited as critical to based illustrations, we examine the role of reflective adaptation of refugees, few studies that follow the job practice and theories of interpersonal communication in trajectories of refugee adults have been reported youth mentoring, as well as other relationship-based (Vinokurov, Birman, & Trickett, 2000; Vinokurov, interventions. Trickett, & Birman, 2017). Here we discuss the job trajectories and predictors of job success among a 108 Refugees Navigating Employment and Career sample of 453 Soviet and 185 Vietnamese adult Pathways: Processes, Patterns, and Challenges. refugees to the United States. Our goals were both

descriptive and predictive. Descriptively, we were 134 interested in the job finding process,, number and time spent in varied jobs, and whether successive jobs humanitarian component of physicians and disapproves represented economic advantage over older ones. of the profession as an avenue for upward mobility, Predictively, we were interested in how acculturation rooted in the belief that earnings deemphasize the and social integration affected both the status of and importance of improving public health for vulnerable satisfaction with jobs and how jobs are found. With communities (Huish, 2009). In addition, unlike FEPs respect to specific findings, a vast majority of both from other Latin-American countries, remnants of Cold samples (85%) had been consistently employed during War policies between the U.S. and Cuba disallowed their time in the United States. For both groups, the role participants to access information on the recertification of the initial job the refugees obtain after arriving in the process prior to leaving the island--affecting their pre- country is important both in its own right and as a migration understanding of the feasibility of continuing predictor of the status of future jobs. However, in other their profession after arrival. In contrast, similar ways the economic adjustment of the two groups is policies provided access to refugee services that aided strikingly different. Soviet refugees start with higher participants’ transition. prestige jobs and the job prestige increases over time, whereas Vietnamese adults are more likely to start with Career Transitions of Highly Skilled Immigrants – lower prestige jobs and not improve their status to the Strengths and Challenges same degree over time. However, job satisfaction with current job was equivalent in the two groups. With Alexandra Lane, University of Miami; Debbiesiu Lee, respect to the job finding process, while Russian University of Miami friends and family play a consistent role in the job finding process over time, family and friends play an The United States makes use of an international pool of even greater role in the Vietnamese community. With talent within most of its specialized professions. Yet respect to predictors, various aspects of American highly skilled immigrants often face many obstacles in acculturation and social integration predicted both job gaining recognition for their skills and credentials in status and job satisfaction, depending on the group the United States. The specific stressors and protective involved. factors at play in the life transitions of this population is still little understood. In this presentation I will discuss Heart Waste: Occupational adjustment of foreign two phenomenological case studies conducted to educated Cuban physicians understand and describe the lived experience of highly skilled immigrants as they adapt to new careers in the Wendy de los Reyes, DePaul University; Dina Birman, United States. The first case, Juan, was a male clinical University of Miami; Miryam Haarlammert,, psychologist retraining for a master’s level credential University of Miami and licensure as a psychotherapist. The second case, Dolly, was a female specialist medical doctor from East Newly arrived immigrants and refugees often hold jobs Asia completing a second residency to obtain medical far below their educational training (Vinokurov, licensure in her specialty. Both were married to US Birman & Trickett, 2000). This study used an citizens, though only Dolly had a child. Three stressors exploratory qualitative approach to identify, from an and three protective factors emerged as themes during ecological perspective, the various pathways, barriers, analysis. Stressors included loss of professional and facilitators experienced by Cuban foreign-educated community and status, lack of voice in their new physicians (FEPs). Extreme case sampling (Miles & professional realm, and frustration with U.S. education Huberman, 1994) was used to focus on outliers and and regulatory systems that suppressed the recognition cases of Cuban FEPs at various levels of integration. of credentials and professional authority. A protective Semi-structured interviews were conducted in Spanish factor that was identified across both cases was pride in (recruited via snowball sample) with 10 Cuban FEPs their vocation, similar to the professional identity who varied in age, gender, employment status, and theme identified in Wendy de los Reyes’ study of amount of time in U.S. As there is scarce academic Cuban physicians. Case specific protective factors were literature depicting the process of FEPs’ integration family, for Dolly, and breadth of US career into the U.S. medical field, there was a rich description opportunities, for Juan. Findings suggest that highly of the data via thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, skilled immigrants would benefit from greater agency 2006). Findings map the various pathways of Cuban and recognition for previous professional achievements FEPs, including the contextual barriers that led even as they accommodate themselves to US regulatory participants to find alternative careers within the systems. Better access to information about the steps medical field (e.g. family responsibilities, lack of social towards professional licensure could aid this group to support, and recertification policies). The overarching reduce their frustration and increase their sense of theme of professional identity (described by having a voice in the recredentialing process. participants as tied to their sense of “being” and “purpose”) was key in understanding their hope to find Refugee Women and Employment: A Grounded a connection to the field--likely due to their training Theory Study experience. Cuban medical education emphasizes the Miryam Haarlammert, Uni9versity 0f Miami

135 This grounded theory project focused on understanding Chicago to build connections with local colleges and how employment fits into the larger ecology of the universities, businesses, and community based lived experiences of refugee women. Investigating organizations. This project is now being replicated in employment and job-search activities early on in their another Chicago neighborhood (Belmont-Cragin). resettlement journeys was important because the These community-based research and action projects Refugee Act of 1980 emphasizes obtaining any job as exemplify key aspects of praxis in community soon as possible as the goal refugees should achieve. psychology including participatory action research To achieve this goal, refugee service providers offer (Jason, Keys, Suarez-Balcazar, Taylor, & Davis, 2004) employment guidance when refugees initially arrive in and community collaboration (Rappaport & Seidman, this country. Interviews with eleven refugee women 1999). In order to maximize audience participation from Latin American countries living in Miami, Florida after presenting the results of these projects, and one refugee resettlement service provider revealed community members from the Belmont-Cragin women dealt with disorientation and then prioritized neighborhood and representatives of Chicago Public their needs and goals in a manner that would help them Schools will engage with session presenters and find a sense of stability. These women, with one audience members in a discussion about the need to exception, are all parents, arrived in the U.S. between examine the challenges of school improvement at the four months and five years ago, six are married, six classroom, school, and community levels. have university degrees, and none speak English. When they arrived, they focused on finding housing, dealing Chairs: with disabilities, enrolling their children in school, and Raymond Legler, National Louis University; Peggy securing safe and reliable care for their children. Hicks, National Louis University; Sonji Jones, Although all women acknowledged finding a job at National Louis University some point was important, for most women, it was not a top priority when first resettling. The implications of 110 Community-Based Approaches to Progressive this theory for practice is that service providers may Education want to reconsider a “one-size-fits-all” approach to Symposium jobs. They can consider being open to the possibility Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: Palmer Salon that the process of employment assistance may need to 12 be adjusted and to looking at the diversity of priorities refugee women have for themselves. In addition to Abstract orientations already provided as one-time sessions by Progressive education is a process of learning that agencies, they can continue to provide orientation encourages exploration, collaboration, reflection, and advice to refugee women as they move along their community-building (Dewey, 1916). Ecological in its resettlement journeys. approach to promoting civic engagement, critical thinking, and social responsibility, progressive 109 Education Reform and Community Psychology education offers a mechanism for embodied and action- Praxis: Improving Schools for Students of Color and Low oriented learning. Opportunities for progressive Income education span boundaries of age, discipline, and Roundtable Discussion setting, united in a commitment to democracy and Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: Palmer House pragmatism in the learning process. This symposium The Spire Parlor examines school and community-based approaches to progressive education that also address local Abstract sociopolitical issues. Presentations in this symposium In congruence with the conference theme, this include a case study of a school-based youth roundtable discussion will examine the issue of participatory action research (YPAR) initiative in an community psychology praxis in education reform at urban school district, an ethnographic account of a multiple levels of analysis (Shinn, 1990). The session feminist elective course co-developed with Latinx high will review the results of 2 studies that examined school girls, a longitudinal analysis of a placed-based classroom- and school-level issues, and the lessons curriculum for urban middle school students, a critical learned from the implementation of a pilot project that qualitative examination of the pedagogical practices of worked to connect schools and their local communities. youth workers in community settings, and a study of The first study (classroom level) examined the undocumented Mestiza community coalition members relationship between teachers’ cultural competence and engaging educational institutions. The presentations the extent to which they exhibit a liberating teaching examine the use of progressive education methods for style. The second study (school level) explored the community change as well as changes in educational influence of student-teacher interactions in the institutions and systems. They also highlight both classroom on the students’ school experience by using identity development and the challenges that racism a social constructionist perspective to understand how and inequality can pose to democratic education. students perceive both. Finally, an exemplar of Moreover, each presents a different strategy for community-academic engagement will be described. research-practice partnerships with regard to The Pathways to Success project worked with three progressive education. The symposium will conclude high schools in the Bronzeville neighborhood of with a discussion of how pedagogical practices can

contribute to more robust democracy, how democratic 136 engagement can enhance education, and how engaged research can contribute to and document these Context: Community coalitions are transformative in synergistic processes. promoting voice and outward sharing of resources. This is important for those minoritized communities who Chairs: have historically negative educational experiences. The Katy Morgan, Vanderbilt University; Brian Christens, process of social change centers on the ‘power to do’, Vanderbilt University bringing to the forefront the need for action-oriented Discussant: approaches that empower the community to engage Brian Christens, Vanderbilt University educational institutions to rupture the ways in which Presentations: schools serve their youth. This process of activism may Bridging Community Psychology with Women of help to heal from oppression and outwardly focus on Color Feminisms: One Classroom’s Path of social change. Limited research has examined the Conocimiento community coalitions as a venue of transformative educational change. Purpose: Through the voices of Janelle Silva, University of Washington Bothell undocumented Mestiza community members from the Southwestern U.S. (N = 9), this study examined the Schools are a place where students can become leaders ways in which this coalition advocates and intervenes over their education and begin to understand their in their community to change how community identities (Portillo, 2013). Unfortunately, systemic and members engage educational institutions serving their institutional barriers often result in young people who children. Furthermore, this study unpacks how this become disengage by their inability to create change in coalition serves as a bridge to other resources in their meaningful ways (Camino & Zeldin, 2002; Zeldin, community to help to reimagine education beyond the Gauley, Barringer, & Chapa, 2018). Community borders of the school. Research Methodology: In-depth psychologists have found that youth participatory individual interviews and a focus-group were action research (YPAR) programs and/or classes conducted in Spanish and transcribed verbatim. Data increase in students’ motivation to work toward change were analyzed using a constant comparative approach, and increased participatory behavior (Ozer & Douglas, which allowed team members to develop an inductive 2013; Nieto, 1996). This “youth-driven” approach to understanding of data. Summary of Findings and research promotes students’ increase sense of self and Conclusion: Two broad themes emerged: Empowering general attitude toward their education (Mitra, 2004; Parents to Advocate for Children and A Bridge toward Zeldin, et al, 2018). Moreover, education researchers Community Change. Within this latter theme, aspects suggest that youth driven approaches, when connected of outward voice (being the voice of the community) to topics that embrace the “whole student”, may also was also present. Community coalitions can be a bridge play an important role in increased academic to resources and a space for promoting collective achievement, sense of belonging, and community voices. This study illustrates the ways in which a engagement of students from marginalized groups community coalition engages community members to (hooks, 2004; Portillo, 2013). This presentation is a advocate on behalf of their children and rupture the case study of one high school elective class that utilized ways educational institutions serve their children. This YPAR to bring together Latinx high school girls and a coalition also serves as a space for “help[ing] people group of Latinx undergraduate students to collaborate and mak[ing] the community knowledgeable about on an identity-community action based curriculum. resources …educat[ing] the community.” Connecting women of color feminisms with “Things Get Shut Down:” Exploring How community psychology practice and values, I use Community-based Youth Organizations Disrupt Gloria Anzaldúa’s (1987) “path of conocimiento [path and Reproduce Racial Harm of knowledge]” to describe this process. Focusing on stage one of the path called “El Arrebato,” or “the Bianca Baldridge, University of Wisconsin Madison; rupture,” we use ethnographic fieldnotes and student Marlo Reeves, University of Wisconsin Madison testimonios to narrate this process, analyzing the tensions that arose with administration, and the While schools are consistently included in national and importance of mentorship from both the university local discourse about race and educational opportunity, collaborator and undergraduate students invited to community-based educational spaces (e.g. after school teach the high school students CP skills as they built programs, community-based youth organizations) and the course. The presentation concludes with findings the strategies they employ are overlooked in the ways from the first year of the class. they challenge, disrupt and/or reproduce racial A Southwestern Mexican (Mestiza) Community inequality and harm for minoritized youth (Baldridge, Coalition: Advocating and Mobilizing toward Beck, Medina, & Reeves, 2017). Drawing on concepts Equitable Educational Opportunities in racial liberalism and scholarship on whiteness and white fragility in education, this study examines how David Lardier, The University of New Mexico; Ybeth broader racial discourses inform the pedagogical Iglesias, The University of New Mexico; Janelle practices of youth workers and how community-based Garcia-Cole, The University of New Mexico spaces might serve as a buffer for Black youth against racial harm. Employing a critical qualitative research

137 design (Madison, 2005) with interviews from youth students’ academic outcomes. We argue and provide workers of color working across multiple organizations preliminary empirical evidence that, in addition to and discourse analysis of print media and public events, aligning with certain academic standards, YPAR is also this study explores the racialized discourses an efficient and effective strategy for accomplishing the surrounding Black youth and educational opportunity goals of PBL, CRT, and civics education. Our in a predominantly white mid-western self-proclaimed qualitative case study of a YPAR initiative in three “liberal” college town. The presentation will focus on urban secondary schools brings interview, observation, preliminary findings from the first two phases of study: survey and document analysis data to bear on discourse analysis and interviews with youth workers. understanding why and how students’ do and do not Findings from observing public events focused on develop civic and academic competencies through their eliminating racial disparities in the city indicate that involvement. This project occurred under the auspices while the broader community is aware of racial of an education research-practice partnership, and we disparities, they do not connect those disparities to discuss the dynamics of implementing YPAR in such a structural inequalities present in the city or state partnership as well. exacerbated by opportunity and resource hoarding Design Your Neighborhood: Effects of Local among white community members (Lewis-McCoy, Design-based Education in Urban Middle Schools 2014; Lewis & Diamond, 2015), rather individual explanations for inequality are frequently offered. Katy Morgan, Vanderbilt University; Brian Christens, Findings from interviews reveal the presence of hyper Vanderbilt University; Melody Gibson, Nashville Civic paternalism and white fragility as an impediment to Design Center direct conversations about race and a lack of action against the disparities experienced by Black youth. Schools and their surrounding neighborhoods are Findings also show that these spaces may actually strongly interrelated, and inequalities in the urban reproduce racial inequality due to a reliance on environment are linked with educational and health paternalism and colorblind approaches to social inequities (Cohen & Schuchter, 2013; Rankin & problems in their work, resulting in their inability to Quane, 2002). Neighborhoods are also constantly being address issues of race and power. reshaped by market forces, urban policymaking, and The Civic and Democratic Outcomes of Youth the decisions of individuals and groups. This Participatory Action Research in K-12 Secondary combination of historical imprints and perpetual Schools reinvention provides a rich context for implementing progressive forms of of civic, geographic, historical, Madeline Herman, Cleveland State University; Adam and social science education. Moreover, although they Voight, Cleveland State University; Regina Giraldo- are often excluded from decision-making, young García, Cleveland State University; Matthew Linick, people have a stake in their neighborhoods, and can Cleveland Metropolitan School District exert influence when effectively engaged (Checkoway, 1998; 2013). The present study explores Design Your This study begins with an argument that youth Neighborhood (DYN), a school-based education participatory action research (YPAR) can serve as an initiative that engages urban middle school youth in organizational framework for combining three current addressing community issues through planning and trends in secondary education: (a) problem based design of the built environment. DYN teaches the learning (PBL); (b) culturally responsive (or sustaining) principles of community design, social determinants of pedagogy (CRT); and (c) civics education. These three health, and civic engagement and empowers youth to movements aim to engage students on deeper level than address inequity within the urban environment. The traditional direct instruction and may have particular approach to progressive education taken by the DYN importance for students in urban schools facing a range curriculum fuses several pedagogical practices, of structural challenges like high poverty rates, racism, including place-based education, experiential learning, and housing instability. YPAR is rooted in the critical and youth participatory action research. This pedagogy of Paulo Freire and typically engages young presentation will detail preliminary qualitative findings people in a cycle of identifying a sociopolitical problem from the first year of a longitudinal, quasi-experimental in their schools and communities, collecting and mixed methods study of DYN in an urban school analyzing data that answer a question related to the district. We will also examine and compare student problem, and using the new knowledge to inform trajectories on key civic variables (place attachment, action and change. YPAR is typically implemented in psychological empowerment, critical consciousness) out-of-school settings, but there are more and more and education variables (school importance, school instances of it occurring in K-12 schools, often as a connectedness, lifelong learning) between treatment leadership elective course or extracurricular activity. and control groups within the first cohort. Some scholars, though, have begun drawing connections between YPAR pedagogies and core 111 Coalitions in Community Psychology: Exploring content area academic standards. Our research question Their Role in the Field and Process for Making Change concerns how participating in school-based YPAR Symposium influences students’ civic outcomes and how the Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:00-10:15 AM Room: Palmer democratic engagement inherent to YPAR enhances Salons 6&7

Abstract 138 Coalitions are often used to address a wide range of community psychology issues, including substance use, Initial conditions and functioning over time among youth violence, and health promotion; however there is community coalitions in Mexico much to learn about how these entities function and ways to continue improving them. In this symposium, Louis Brown, University of Texas Health Science we will consider three current studies involving the Center at Houston (UTHealth); Rebecca Wells, processes by which coalitions operate. The first University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston presentation will discuss the findings of a systematic (UTHealth); Sarah Chilenski, Pennsylvania State review exploring what a coalition is in the community University psychology context. It will include three types of coordination that characterize the type of work Developing and sustaining community coalitions is community psychologists most frequently describe in critical to actualizing their potential for public health coalitions and ways future research and practice can improvement. The purpose of this study was to engage with them. The second presentation examines measure how substance use prevention coalitions in developmental trajectories of coalition functioning and Mexico functioned across their first four years, as well the role of initial readiness in a sample of substance use as to test associations between initial community prevention coalitions in Mexico. The third presentation readiness and subsequent coalition functioning. Data will discuss coalitions focused on suicide among derived from five waves of coalition member surveys. veterans, especially the factors contributing to and Due to different coalition founding dates, the sample detracting from shared goals. The session will conclude comprised of 19 coalitions at founding, six, and 18 with a discussion of the current state of coalition months, and seven coalitions at 36 and 48 months. We research in community psychology, lessons learned for tested for changes in coalition functioning using paired practice, and future directions for research. t-tests and Cohen’s d effect sizes. Regression models predicted coalition functioning with measures of initial Chairs: coalition readiness. In the first 18 months, measures of Louis Brown, University of Texas Health Science member engagement increased (role involvement Center at Houston (UTHealth); Jennifer Lawlor, Cohen’s d = .75; time invested Cohen’s d = .74), as did Michigan State University coordinator skill (Cohen’s d = .80), and participatory Discussant: leadership style (Cohen’s d = .97). Coalition Abe Wandersman, University of South Carolina functioning remained stable from 18 to 36 months, at which point initial funding and technical assistance Presentations: ended. During the sustainability phase from 36 to 48 What is a coalition in community psychology: A months, member engagement declined (role systematic review involvement Cohen’s d = -.93; time invested Cohen’s d = -1.72) yet coalitions increased in coordinator skill Jennifer Lawlor, Michigan State University; Kyle (Cohen’s d = .92), efficiency (Cohen’s d = .78), and Metta, Michigan State University; Zachary Neal, community support (Cohen’s d = .89). Among the Michigan State University measures of initial coalition readiness, community support for prevention and community champions Coalitions have a long history as part of the field of predicted several measures of process competence, but community psychology. While community only community champions predicted community psychologists often work with coalitions, these entities support for coalitions (β = .57) and community engage in a wide range of activities and structures that improvement (β = .52). Findings suggest community are not well defined within the field. In this champions and community support for prevention may presentation, we explore the following questions: (1) support later coalition success. Further, although What are the characteristics of coalitions that member engagement may decrease when coalitions community psychologists study? (2) What are the lose external funding, improved process competence themes in the way authors define coalitions in their and community support bode well for coalition work? To address these questions, we conducted a sustainability. systematic review of articles about coalitions in journals serving community psychologists. Findings Lessons learned in coalition building to better suggest coalitions can be characterized by a focus on support veteran led community suicide prevention local level community issues around health and wellness and include a diverse group of stakeholders. Leah Wendleton, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; Coalitions are defined by a focus on three types of Carl Lofaro, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs; coordination: knowledge coordination, negotiated Sarah Beehler, University of Minnesota Medical coordination, and action coordination. Each of these School, Duluth Campus; Nathaniel Mohatt, University types of coordination are used to address specific of Colorado Denver problems coalitions encounter and define the goals and techniques appropriate for resolving them. Community coalitions can be instrumental in pushing forward new initiatives and changes in a community. Many times, they bring together disparate stakeholders that may not normally work together around a single

139 concern that is important to everyone involved. resilience. Many of these efforts are guided by Together With Veterans (TWV) is a US Dept. of principles and values of community psychology. As Veterans Affairs Program for community-based, community psychologists, in Puerto Rico and abroad, it Veteran suicide prevention in partnership with rural is our responsibility to contribute to these efforts which communities. This program applies a public health jointly with others can free our island from its political model to increase access to care and reduce suicide colonialism, ideological coloniality, economic among rural Veterans by collaborating with Veteran dependence and purely individual constructions of leaders and their communities. TWV builds community resilience. coalitions led by Veterans and including various local stakeholders such as health, mental health, law Chairs: enforcement, veteran organizations, and social services Irma Serrano-García, University of Puerto Rico; Meg agencies. We then support the coalition in creating a Bond, University of Massachusetts - Lowell; Chris community action plan to implement multiple Keys, DePaul University evidence-based practices for suicide prevention while enhancing local sustainability and effectiveness of 113 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Theory efforts. We will describe the first three communities and Research - How Does “Lived Experience” Acquire involved in the Together With Veterans program and the Authority of “Experiential Knowledge”? A Tale of the characteristics of how these coalitions operate. We Two Health Social Movements—Self-Help/Mutual Aid will discuss factors contributing and detracting from Groups and Mental Health Consumer-Run Organization the shared coalition goals. We will also describe how Special Session we refined the program based on lessons learned and Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:10 AM Room: Harold how we adapted our methods to better support the Washington Library, Winter Garden communities’ work. Abstract 112 2018 Award for Distinguished Theory and Research: Recent research on patient’s illness and disability Resilience, Coloniality and Sovereign Acts: The Role of experiences has increased theorizing about lived Community Activism experience and questioned how epistemologically it can Special Session attain the status and authority of “experiential Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 9:45-10:25 AM Room: Harold knowledge.” Our paper (2019) showed how the lived Washington Library, Winter Garden experiences of many participants are collectivized through group processes of sharing stories over time Abstract resulting in deep experiential knowledge in self- Puerto Rico is a U.S. colony since 1898. For the past help/mutual aid groups and among long term seasoned decades, it has been mired in public debt and stagnant members. In contrast, mental health consumer-run development, pervasive social problems, massive initiatives in the U.S. appear to be operating with lived migration and ineffective governance. In 2017, the experience, not experiential knowledge. The island was hit by two hurricanes in the course of a differences in the history of these two social couple of weeks. Irma (Category 3) and María movements have resulted in contrasting goals, (Category 5) devastated our country tearing apart its definitions of peer, recovery technologies, and infrastructure, its communications networks, physically organizational structures which are sketched and may isolating communities and taking more than 3,000 help explain impediments to converting lived lives. After the initial days of the event, the term experience into experiential knowledge . “resilience” began to emerge in the media and social networks, as well as in political discourse, until it Chairs: became ubiquitous. Labeling Puerto Ricans’ capacity to Thomasina Borkman, George Mason University; tolerate misfortune and suffering, and to bear the worst Louis Brown, The University of Texas Healthy Science living conditions, as “resilient” gave our people a false Center sense of hope and offered both the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments a pretext to postpone or inequitably 114 Disrupting the Covert: Multi-level Responses to dispense aid. So called “resilience” also allowed Puerto Interrupting and Eradicating Microaggressions Ricans to avoid the impact of both colonialism and Symposium coloniality on the preexisting conditions the hurricanes Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: NLU highlighted. In this context, community activism has 4012/4014 played a major role, not only in rescuing communities, but in challenging the tenets that define resilience as Abstract individual survival and resistance. Community Microaggressions are verbal or non-verbal organizations provided the most active and constant aid communications that occur at multiple ecological levels in the initial stages of the debacle. They have generated which invalidate those with non-dominant group chains of solidarity and initiated “sovereign acts” – identities. Although microaggressions are not always efforts to regain power, combat dependency and albeit perpetrated with ill-intention, their occurrence in fragmented ways seek, consciously or not, strategies strengthens social inequities. Microaggressions are to overcome coloniality and generate community symptoms of pervasive social problems that are

intimately tied to systems of privilege, power, and 140 oppression across all dimensions of human diversity. Scholars have documented the types, frequency, and communities. While HSO staff might agree that impact of microaggressions. Even the most seemingly microaggressions of all kinds undermine their mission, innocuous microaggression can cause lasting negative few know how to reduce or eradicate them. Indeed, health consequences for targets. However, less is there is a paucity of scholarship about how to interrupt known about how microaggressions may be reduced or microaggressions within and outside of HSOs. resolved -- especially from the perspective of targets. Diversity trainings and immersive simulation activities To address this gap, this symposium highlights four are common and effective strategies to reduce prejudice studies that centered targets of microaggressions to and bias, while simultaneously increasing intercultural inform multilevel responses to eradicating awareness, reflexivity about privilege, and awareness microaggressions. The first presentation describes a of structural inequality. However, there are no qualitative study that used focus groups with human simulations in the published empirical literature that are service organizations (HSO) clients to understand how specifically designed to reduce microaggressions. an HSO free of microaggressions would be structured. Moreover, to our knowledge, published simulations These findings will inform the development of a were not designed by centering the experiences of microaggression simulation that can be integrated into targets of microaggressions. The present study trainings for HSOs. The second presentation examines addressed this gap by exploring how a microaggression racial microaggressions that students of color report in simulation designed for HSOs should be constructed therapy, and whether these microaggressions were from the perspective of HSO clients. The researchers successfully resolved. The third presentation explores investigated: 1) how a HSO free of microaggressions the state of the literature on microaggression would be structured from the perspective of clients, and interventions and presents findings from an on-going 2) what elements should be included in an effective evaluation of a multilevel intervention to reduce microaggression simulation from the perspective of microaggressions perpetrated by STEM university clients? The research team conducted six focus groups faculty. The final presentation investigates weight- with adults who received services from HSOs in the related stigma and the role of the Health at Every Size Baltimore City metropolitan area within the past two (HAES) movement in reducing microaggressions in years. Participants described several individual, health communities. Together, the presentations will interpersonal, and group dynamics that would facilitate generate conversation about ways to prevent, reduce, or or hinder an effective microaggression simulation. The eradicate microaggressions and other ‘isms.’ Given the findings will help increase understanding about the recent debate about the existence of microaggressions types of microaggressions HSO clients experience by as a valid concept, audience members will be their providers or others in the HSO setting. It will also encouraged to share perspectives about the highlight the knowledge, awareness, and skills staff microaggressions research program, as well as need to reduce or eradicate microaggressions, which perspectives from their experience or work regarding will ultimately inform the development of a ways to reduce or eradicate microaggressions. microaggressions simulation. Chairs: Therapy Clients' Perceptions of Culturally Surbhi Godsay, University of Maryland Baltimore Respectful Strategies to Address Therapeutic Racial County Microaggressions Discussant: Nkiru Nnawulezi, University of Maryland Baltimore Elaine Yeo, Roosevelt University; Susan Torres- County Harding, Roosevelt University Presentations: Despite an emerging research into understanding the Strategies for Reducing and Interrupting racial microaggression experiences of people of color Microaggressions in Human Service Organizations in everyday life, little is known about the effectiveness of responses that perpetrators of microaggressions may Surbhi Godsay, University of Maryland Baltimore engage in to repair the harm of racial microaggressions County; Lamont Stanley Bryant, University of after they occur, and whether these repair strategies Maryland School of Medicine; Taylor Darden, will protect the individual and relational well-being of University of Maryland Baltimore County; Nkiru people of color. People of color may experience Nnawulezi, University of Maryland Baltimore County therapy racial microaggressions when receiving clinical or counseling services, and White therapists may Microaggressions are interpersonal and environmental inadvertently be perpetrators of these microaggression communications that convey hidden messages to a experiences. If microaggressions occur in the target person that they are not wanted or respected. therapeutic setting, these experiences may be harmful Microaggression perpetration is especially problematic to the development of a positive client-therapist in human service organizations (HSO) because they relationship and negatively impact the quality of care undermine the fundamental mission to support and that people of color receive. This presentation will improve the well-being of individuals and review results obtained from a study using a mixed quantitative-qualitative methodology examining the occurrence of racial microaggressions and other forms

141 of client cultural mistreatment in therapy and their levels. We will include results of our ongoing impact on the respondents’ well-being. Results will be evaluation. presented from a content analyses of the client’s own perceptions of microaggressions in therapy and what Reducing Weight Related Microaggressions in the strategies their therapist might have used to either Medical and Behavioral Health Communities successfully or unsuccessfully address these microaggressions when they occurred. These responses Michelle Ronayne, Charles River Counseling Center will help therapists and mental health interventionists to become aware of and avoid engaging in these racial There has been a growing body of literature aimed at microaggressions. Additionally, the client’s understanding microaggressions and weight-related perspectives around what was helpful and what should bias in the medical and behavioral health community. have occurred will help inform strategies that will be There has been more focus on medical doctors, but beneficial and culturally respectful when an behavioral health providers are prone to it as well. interventionist inadvertently engages in such behavior. These biases are important to understand and reduce In turn, this will allow therapists and interventionists to because it can delay health care for individuals in larger respond in a way that supports the health and well- bodies. Additionally, we know that shaming people for being of people of color, as well as support the their bodies does not motivate change and can, in fact, maintenance of positive social relationships. perpetuate the internalized stigma. The rise of movements such as Health at Every Size (HAES) and Microaggressions in the Workplace: A Review and Fat Acceptance has brought more attention to the issue. a Case Study The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of continued weight-related stigma and the role of HAES Tugba Metinyurt, University of Massachusetts Lowell; and Fat Acceptance in reducing microaggressions in Meg A. Bond, University of Massachusetts Lowell; both the medical and behavioral health communities. Michelle Haynes-Baratz, University of Massachusetts Lowell 115 Hip-Hop H.E.A.L.S.: Radical Roles for Rap Music and Popular Culture in Youth Violence Prevention Microaggressions have been defined as brief and Workshop commonplace verbal, behavioral, or environmental Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: NLU 4020 indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile or derogatory slights and insults Abstract towards members of oppressed groups. Both Modern Rap music and its related Hip-Hop culture microaggressions – and their close cousin subtle biases have recently emerged as the one of the most popular -- stand in the way of an inclusive organizational dynamic influences among youth in the United States culture and adversely affect diversity within an as well as around the world. For example, Billboard organization. There is evidence that both magazine, USA Today, and other music industry microaggressions and subtle biases do harm to mental periodicals have proclaimed 2018 as the \"year of Rap\" and physical well-being and also to job satisfaction and given the recent sales reports confirming that Rap turnover. Despite the negative impact of music has now surpassed Rock music as the most microaggressions in the workplace, few systematic popular musical genre across all consumers in the interventions have been implemented to address them United States since 2017. Parents, providers, and other and even fewer have been carefully evaluated. The concerned adults are now confronted with the reality proposed paper will provide a systematic review of and pervasiveness of a musical genre that has often published interventions that have been designed to been misunderstood and sensationalized as \"thug reduce microaggressions based on race/ethnicity and music\" with little (if any) redeeming qualities. gender in the workplace as well as comment on the Although certain elements and artists in Rap/Hip-Hop state of efforts to evaluate these interventions. After definitely convey negative and destructive messages, summarizing the state of the literature vis-a-vis real- Hip-Hop H.E.A.L.S. (Helping Everyone Achieve world workplace interventions that address Liberation and Success) is an innovative model of microaggressions and subtle bias, we will share an violence prevention that employs strategically-selected overview of a multileveled intervention being songs, videos, and other popular media components implemented at a northeastern university to reduce from Rap music and Hip-Hop culture to promote microaggressions among faculty, particularly within prosocial strategies - as opposed to reinforcing male-dominated fields of science, technology, antisocial ones. This program is implemented through engineering and math (STEM). Recent research collaborative partnerships rooted in academic- suggests that microaggressions, as a particular community partnerships that include collaborative expression of subtle biases, have a powerful, design, development, and dissemination in multiple cumulative negative impact on access to research neighborhoods of major cities around the country. This support and advancement. This comprehensive Hip-Hop H.E.A.L.S. workshop will provide intervention was specifically designed to address participants with practical techniques and exemplars for microaggressions by challenging patterns at the employing Rap/Hip-Hop-related songs, videos, movies, individual, interpersonal, organizational, and policy music production, spoken word, choreographed dance,

142 and graffiti art to illustrate and reinforce evidence- space for constructive conflict. based violence prevention strategies. In addition, this workshop will highlight the role of Rap/Hip-Hop in Chairs: addressing the need for integrating trauma-informed Donna Maxey, MEd, RACE TALKS Uniting to Break techniques into community-based violence prevention the Chains of Racism; Shaina Pomerantz, JD, MSOL, programs as a means of improving engagement and RACE TALKS- Uniting to Break the Chains of outcome with urban youth from low-income, Racism; Carlos Covarrubias, RACE TALKS- Uniting ethnic/linguistic minority, and violence-exposed to Break the Chains of Racism; Stephanie Lam, RACE neighborhoods. Workshop attendees will participate in TALKS- Uniting to Break the Chains of Racism; hands-on experiences, small group discussions, Steven Sterling Mitchell, James P. Timilty Middle \"lessons learned\" reviews, and real-world applications School of the Rap/Hip-Hop model using actual music videos and other media materials. 117 The Stigma of a Criminal Record: Theoretical Pathways, Lived Experience and Policy Change Chairs: Symposium Jaleel Abdul-Adil, University of Illinois at Chicago Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: NLU 5006 116 Practicing Anti-Racist Strategies Through Abstract Community and Relationship Building One in five people in the U.S. may experience informal Workshop and legalized discrimination based on their criminal Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: NLU 4022 record (Gubernick, 2017; Logan, 2013). This may include being viewed with suspicion and disdain by Abstract others (Maclin & Herrera, 2006; Madriz, 1997), turned There is much difficulty in addressing racism from down by landlords and employers (HUD, 2016; Pager, within academia, given the reality that academic 2003, 2009), denied the right to vote (Uggen & institutions are overwhelmingly white-dominant. So, Shannon, 2010), and told they are ineligible for how does one talk about race in the absence of people financial and food assistance (Maur, 2015). Research of color? RACE TALKS--Uniting to Break the Chains frequently discusses criminal record-related stigma and of Racism, is a Portland, Oregon-based community discrimination, but there is a paucity of studies that dialogue group that hosts monthly dialogue forums, thoroughly document the incidence and impact of these affording complete strangers an opportunity to come experiences. In addition, few studies examine how and engage in meaningful conversations about race. individuals respond to criminal record-related stigma Portland faces a similar problem to academia-- it is a and discrimination—including their resilience levels white-dominant city. RACE TALKS affirms that you and coping responses—and how these experiences cannot engage in a meaningful discussion about race impact their overall quality of life. Beyond this with another party without first establishing some individual-level focus, there has been limited attention foundation of connection and trust. The first step to within academic spheres to opportunities for systemic having open dialogue about race is to have the courage change. This symposium explores the impact of to talk about race and admit ‘I don’t know what I don’t criminal record-related stigma and discrimination on know’ (Singleton, 2015). “Having courageous individual quality of life, as well as the strategies that conversations serves as a strategy for individuals use to overcome these challenges. In deinstitutionalizing racism” (Singleton, 2015, p. 26). In alignment with the core values that underlie community the spirit of praxis, Sensoy and DiAngelo’s (2009) psychology as a discipline, this symposium will open letter to faculty colleagues provides directions highlight systemic-level interventions—including that may help institutions form a cohesive unit when policy change initiatives—that may reduce the barriers working toward social change. These suggestions can that individuals with criminal records experience as be taken outside of academic institutions to be adapted they strive toward wellbeing and meaningful and applied in personal interactions with friends, community engagement. The discussants are family, acquaintances, as well as non-academic individuals with lived experiences in the criminal legal colleagues. Establishing an initial relationship is system, who will connect the research in this essential to engaging in race dialogue, be it within the presentation to their lived experiences. We will engage community you work or live. Here participants will and draw knowledge from the audience using build confidence to establish commonality as a strategy immediate-feedback texting technology and an to cultivate foundational relationships, practice interactive call-to-action to highlight ways that interruptions, and utilizes micro/macro aggressions as community psychologists can promote indiscriminate an opportunity to build relationships. These engaging wellness and justice for those marginalized by the and interactive activities will positively benefit ALL criminal legal system. participants through thoughtful reflection, sincere dialogue, a commitment to mutual respect, and building Chairs: community among diverse groups. Intergroup dialogue Elaina McWilliams, University of Maryland Baltimore can influence higher understanding between diverse County; La'Shawn Littrice, perspectives, generate public engagement, and create a

Discussant: 143 Christopher Beasley, University of Washington discrimination against them (Pager, 2003; Tyler and Presentations: Brockman, 2017); negatively impacting their self- Research for Policy Change: Experienced concept and mental health (Moore et al., 2016b), Discrimination and Rejection Due to a Criminal motivates maladaptive coping responses (Winnick and Record Bodkin, 2008); and impeding their community adjustment post-incarceration (Moore et al., 2016a). Bronwyn Hunter, University of Maryland Baltimore Additionally, people of color are disproportionately County impacted by criminal record-related stigma and women are often under-represented in criminal record related Research and policy consistently highlight the stigma research (Pager, 2003; The Sentencing Project, 2016). that is associated with a criminal record. This stigma is Across multiple stigmatized groups, research suggests driven by policies and laws that allow for that stigma impacts individuals through a sequential discrimination against individuals who have felony pathway: one first perceives societal stigma (Link et al., and/or misdemeanor convictions. For example, the 1997); then they may define themselves according to recently updated Collateral Consequences Inventory stigma-related stereotypes (i.e. internalized stigma) (Council of State Governments, 2018) lists more than (Corrigan et al., 2006, 2016) and experience 44,000 laws and policies across local, state and federal discrimination (Link et al., 1989, 1997); finally, they levels of government that allow for discrimination may respond with coping-oriented behaviors that against individuals who have criminal records. These impact multiple psycho-social life outcomes (Link et laws and policies include access to education, al., 1989, 1997; Markowitz, 1998; Winnick & Bodkin, employment, healthcare, and public benefits, among 2008). While numerous studies have supported others. In addition to discrimination, individuals who individual links within the above process, no study has have criminal records often experience rejection from evaluated a model representing this entire sequence. others. Unfortunately, there are no data that examine Furthermore, it is unknown whether these empirically- the specific discrimination and rejection experiences or supported links are significant among individuals with the frequency with which these challenges occur criminal records. This study utilized cross-sectional among individuals who have criminal records. This data from an online survey of 200 racially and gender presentation uses data from a national, online survey of diverse adults who had felony criminal records. We individuals who had a criminal record, including felony tested a serial mediation model representing the path by and/or misdemeanor convictions. More than 200 which criminal record-related stigma impacts participants were recruited using social media and individuals: from perceived stigma; to both internalized email, and all were compensated with a $30 money stigma and perceived discrimination as parallel order for completing the survey. We used several mediators, to coping approach, to quality of life. The validated measures to assess discrimination and significance of race, gender, age and time incarcerated rejection, and these scales were modified to reflect were assessed as covariates. This study aims to these experiences in relation to a criminal record. In illustrate the impact of criminal record-related stigma addition, we created a measure to assess specific types on individuals and its differential impacts on specific of discrimination and rejection in several broad groups. Furthermore, it may inspire longitudinal domains, including access to healthcare, benefits, research to confirm the temporal relationships that the education, employment and social exclusion by family findings suggest and guide interventions that address and friends, which uniquely impact those who have criminal record-related stigma. criminal records. The results from this study have important implications for policy changes given the Discrimination as a Moderator of the Relation vast number of individuals who are affected by the Between Resilience and Quality of Life Among criminal legal system. We discuss efforts to change Individuals Who Have Criminal Records policy in light of discrimination and rejection that our participants, with suggested recommendations for Munazza Abraham, University of Maryland Baltimore policy change at the local, state and federal levels. County; Bronwyn Hunter, University of Maryland Baltimore County A Theoretical Pathway from Criminal Record Stigma to Quality of Life: The Impact of Perceived Individuals with a criminal record (ICR) are commonly Stigma, Internalized Stigma, Discrimination, and assigned stigmatized labels including \"felon,\" Coping Approaches on Quality of Life \"convict,\" and \"ex-offender,\" and are overtly subjected to legalized discrimination in society. Over 6 million Elaina McWilliams, University of Maryland Baltimore individuals have no voting power due to felony County; Bronwyn Hunter, University of Maryland convictions (Uggen et al., 2016), and they may be Baltimore County legally denied housing, bank loans, higher education funding, and employment (Parker et al., 2016) as a Stigma can propel and magnify the adversities faced by result of their criminal record. Denial of such individuals with criminal records, fueling opportunities has far-reaching consequences, such as reinforcing poverty and associated stressors. In addition, discrimination decreases life satisfaction,

144 while increasing risks of mental and physical health of Special Populations, National Institute on Aging, concerns (Romero et al., 2018), family separation, and National Institutes of Health; Roey Ahram, Spencer prison recidivism (Burt et al., 2012). Certain factors Foundation; Shabnam Javdani, New York University; may buffer the impact of discrimination on adverse Nicole Allen, University of Illinois at Urbana outcomes. For example, resilience has been associated Champaign with a decreased risk of depression (Romero et al., 2018) and higher levels of life satisfaction (Rossi et al., 119 LGBT Resilience: Minority Identity, Sense of 2007). However, these associations have not been Community, and Organizing for Change examined with ICR populations. This presentation uses Roundtable Discussion data from a diverse sample of 200 individuals with a Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: Palmer criminal record. We evaluated the association between House The Spire Parlor resilience and general quality of life as well as the moderating effects of discrimination experiences. We Abstract hypothesized that there would be a significant positive This Roundtable Discussion is based on two studies, correlation between resilience and general quality of conducted in Italy and in the U.S., that have life and that discrimination experiences would implications for LGBTQ2/Gender and Sexual moderate this relationship. We also hypothesized that Minorities (GSM) advocacy and for international there would be significant differences between social community psychology. The Italian study explored 1) groups according to race, gender, and socioeconomic the development of minority identity, 2) sense of status. Given that discrimination against individuals belonging to a community, and, 3) positive aspects of with a criminal record is common and legal, these LGBT identity. Both quantitative and qualitative individuals are among the most intentionally oppressed results, while revealing gender and generational and disenfranchised in the U.S. Understanding the differences, indicate the construction of a positive self- experiences of individuals with a criminal record may image as an important factor in resilience. The better inform and advance applicable research, American study focused on the effectiveness of social restorative justice efforts, criminal justice policy change strategies by nonprofit organizations within reforms, and reentry support services. black LGBT and Queer communities. Strategies, which included consensus and community building and 118 Perspectives on Competing for Research Support power-based social action, were measured both Roundtable Discussion qualitatively and quantitatively. Among the findings Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: NLU 5016 were 1) the persistence of racism within LGBTQ spaces, and 2) the need for gender equity and gender Abstract identity inclusion within the broader LGBTQ The purpose of this roundtable is for community movement. Participants will discuss positive aspects of psychologists to learn more about obtaining external sexual minority affiliation including authenticity of support for their research programs through grants and self, empathy and compassion, freedom from gender- other funding sources. Obtaining such support is specific roles and rules, and the creation of different becoming more necessary for community psychology relationship and sexual models. They will also explore faculty to be successful researchers and often to be resilience through the achievement of LGBT minority promoted and/or tenured. Senior program officials from identity, which involves a sense of minority pride along public and private funding sources and a community with an understanding of intersectionality. Presenters psychologist who has been successful in obtaining will facilitate discussion to compare gender, generation, external funding for her work will take part. They will race, and social change within and beyond LGBT share their perspectives on application processes and communities in Italy and the U.S. Outcomes are the makings of a competitive application. The panelists participants’ ability to 1) apply findings of the studies will also provide current information regarding the to LGBT community settings in which they work, 2) range of funding opportunities available through their gain strategies to facilitate coping with minority stress agency, foundation or those sources that have funded and the development of consensus and community their research. They will have expertise in issues of building and resilience, 3) make comparisons of health, diversity, special populations, aging, education, approaches and practice that have implications for community decision making, juvenile justice, antisocial international community psychology, and 4) with behavior, and under-resourced communities. Attendees respect to individual and community resilience, analyze will be encouraged to engage with the roundtable minority identity and intersectionality and their impact panelists in an active question and answer session. As a within and beyond the LGBT community. result of taking part in this roundtable, we anticipate attendees will have a better understanding of what Chairs: constitutes a good grant and what funding programs are Judith Kent, National Louis University; Marah Dolfi, available to them in a variety of areas and from a University of Florence, Italy; Patrizia Meringolo, number of funding sources. University of Florence, Italy; Christine Smith, National Louis University Chairs: Christopher Keys, DePaul University; Carl Hill, Office 120 Community Organizations Reflect on

Transformational Practice: Spirituality, Healing, Well- 145 being and Social Change The Innovative Other Abstract Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: Palmer An increasing number of scholars, practitioners, and House The Water Tower Parlor activists have started to recognize the important role that youth, particularly those who are marginalized by Abstract hierarchy systems that perpetuate inequality (i.e., class The theoretical framework informing the themes for and race/ethnicity), play in shaping their future and the this session on “transformational organizing” builds on futures of their communities. This symposium the work of Gloria Anzaldua, Audre Lorde, Frantz continues the dialogue centered on one way youth Fanon, Ignacio Martin-Baro, and Chela Sandoval. They contend with these external forces. That is, studies all posit that radical, social transformation is rooted in examining critical consciousness among marginalized healing, spiritual and embodied well-being, and youth in diverse settings will be discussed to further intersectional solidarities of resistance with a social- understand how youth critically reflect on their social justice orientation. This Innovative Session will feature and economic conditions, perceive their sociopolitical four panelists from local grassroots community action and engage in action to change them. Study one organizations in Chicago who will engage in a critical, quantitatively examined the relationships between reflexive dialogue on the aims and practices of their multi-faceted aspects of class and youths’ reports of community-organizing work. Specifically, how these system justification and critical consciousness for practices support and make space for “transformational Black and Latinx youth. Relatedly, study two explored work” at the personal, relational and structural levels. whether youths’ societal beliefs (i.e., system Each panelist will represent an organization that fits at justification and external political efficacy beliefs), and least one of these descriptions: 1) A social- their developmental contexts (i.e., perceptions of justice/change organization that incorporates spiritual parents’ and friends’ civic involvement) are associated and indigenous practices in organizing, including with Latinx youths’ internal political efficacy, activist healing/wellbeing and/or community-development identity, and critical action. Study three qualitatively orientations. 2) An emphasis on embodied and social- explored Black and Latinx youths’ reports of the emotional well-being in organizing, with youth or impact of participatory strategies designed to develop adults, within or with others outside the organization. critical consciousness to promote program engagement 3) A transformational organizing: an organization that and improved research accuracy in a large-scale study identifies with that term and may or may not include of cross-age peer mentoring. In study four semi- practices in (1) or (2) 4) A community-organizing structured interviews with youth social justice activists group that does make (a1) or (2) a core part of their explored the connections between the components of work, but see structural social change as a healing critical consciousness (e.g., critical reflection, political practice. Transformational work should be understood efficacy, and critical action). The proposed symposium in a variety of ways. The four panelists will offer specifically addresses the conference theme on critical seven-minute reflections on an organizational practice perspectives, liberation, and applications of critical they see as transformational (if any) and why. After theory in the community. To fully address the each panelist speaks, an additional five minutes will be conference theme, this proposed symposium aims to allotted for the audience to ask questions of gather diverse scholars to collaboratively discuss their clarification, related to themes in the session’s work and generate synthesized knowledge on transformational framework. The panelists’ reflections marginalized youths’ critical consciousness. The and questions will help the audience decide which of moderator will highlight commonalities and differences the four small-group discussions (based on the across the papers and engage the panelists and audience descriptions above) they wish to join. Five to ten about integrating these ideas into practice. minutes will be reserved after those discussions for a concluding discussion that includes everyone. Chairs: Marbella Uriostegui, University of Illinois at Chicago Chairs: Discussant: Roderick Watts, The Graduate Center, City University Amanda Roy, University of Illinois at Chicago of New York; Jesica Fernandez, Santa Clara University; Jawanza Brian Malone, Kenwood Presentations: Oakland Community Organization Intersecting Experiences, Motivating Beliefs: The Joint Roles of Class and Race/Ethnicity in the 121 Youth of Color as Agents of Change: Examining Development of Youths’ Sociopolitical Perceptions Critical Consciousness among Marginalized Youth in and Participation Diverse Settings Symposium Marbella Uriostegui, University of Illinois at Chicago; Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: Palmer Melissa Uribe, University of Illinois at Chicago; Salon 12 Amanda Roy, University of Illinois at Chicago We examine the relationships between multi-faceted aspects of class and youths’ reports of system justification and critical consciousness. We consider

whether these relationships are the same for Black and 146 Latinx youth, recognizing that unique histories of discrimination and oppression may differentially shape Flanagan et al., 2014). Using CC theory, this project how youth see the world. Longitudinal data (collected explored whether youths’ societal beliefs (i.e., system at five waves between 2003 and 2016) from a sample justification and external political efficacy beliefs), and of African American and Latinx youth (M age=15; their developmental contexts (i.e., perceptions of their SD=.81) living in high-poverty neighborhoods were parents’ and friends’ civic involvement) are associated used for this study. A total of 396 participants with youths’ internal political efficacy, activist identity, completed survey items on class (e.g., Income-to- and critical action. These questions were explored with Needs Ratio, Financial Strain, Neighborhood Income, 723 Latinx youth (M_age = 16.90, SD = .53) from the Subjective Social Status [SSS], Violence Exposure) Stanford Civic Purpose Project. The majority of youth and perceptions of society (e.g. perceived inequality, were male (55.5%) and U.S. born (98.9%). Structural political efficacy, critical action, system justification). equation modeling indicated that youth who believed Structural equation modeling was used to examine the that the system is just (β = -.09, p = .05), and the path models among the full sample, Latinx subsample government is responsive to their needs (β = -.14, p = (n=106), and African American subsample (n=290). .01) engaged in less critical action. There was an Among the entire sample, income-to-needs ratio was interaction between youths’ internal political efficacy negatively related to system justification (β = -.10, p < and friends’ civic involvement, such that youth with a .05) but positively related to perceived inequality (β = greater internal political efficacy and more civically .19, p < .01). SSS was positively related to system engaged friends were likely to report a greater activist justification (β = -.21, p < .05). Neighborhood income identity (β = -.17, p = .02). These findings indicate that was negatively related to (β = -.11, p < .05) and youths’ beliefs about the U.S. and perceptions of their violence exposure was positively related (β = .12, p < friends’ civic involvement have implications for their .05) to critical action. Among Latinx youth, SSS was civic outcomes. positively related to system justification (β = .38, p < .01) while violence exposure was negatively related to Exploring the Role of Youth Participatory Action political efficacy (β = -.30, p < .01). In contrast, among Research in the Development of Critical African American youth, income-to-needs ratio was Consciousness among Black and Latinx Youth negatively related to system justification (β = -.12, p < .05) but positively related to perceived inequality (β = Cynthia Onyeka, Loyola University Chicago; Maryse .24, p < .01). At the same time, neighborhood income Richards, Loyola University Chicago; Katherine was negatively related to (β = -.13, p < .05) and Tyson-McCrea, Loyola University Chicago; Kevin violence exposure was positively related (β = .18, p < Miller, University of Chicago; Chana Matthews, .05) to critical action. Loyola University Chicago Societal Beliefs and Developmental Contexts As a critical time period in child development, Promote Latinx Youths’ Critical Action and Activist adolescence plays a substantial role in one’s future Identity quality of life. However, adolescents are frequently excluded from the development and implementation of Josefina Bañales, University of Michigan; Aixa programming focused on them. While services to build Marchand, University of Michigan; Nkemka Anyiwo, resilience against violence engagement for youth of University of Michigan; Fernanda Cross, University of color residing in high-poverty, high-crime communities Michigan; Michael Medina, University of Michigan; are vitally important, they often ignore the existing Channing Mathews, University of Michigan; Matthew needs from the youth perspective. Fostering critical Diemer, University of Michigan consciousness in participatory action research for young people can potentially build their capacity to Latinx youth face interpersonal and structural racism address the social inequalities that they face while that threatens their positive development, including working as co-designers and co-evaluators of services. their civic engagement (Wray-Lake et al., 2018). This study aims to explore youths’ reports of the Critical consciousness theory (CC) suggests that impact of participatory strategies designed to develop marginalized youth who critique social inequities might critical consciousness to promote program engagement take action against these inequities (Diemer, Rapa, and improved research accuracy in a large-scale study Voight, & McWhirter, 2016). However, marginalized of cross-age peer mentoring. 81 Black American and people often feel motivated to justify the social systems Latinx adolescent mentors (M age =17.59; 67% female) in which they live, thus reducing the likelihood they residing in low income, high crime neighborhoods in will engage in actions that challenge mainstream urban Chicago completed qualitative peer-to-peer institutions (Van der Toorn & Jose, 2014). Youths’ interviews about their time spent in the mentoring exposure to civic modeling from their parents and peers program. Transcripts of the interviews were reviewed have the potential to expose youth to the reality of and coded thematically based on the key areas of societal inequality, thereby facilitating youths’ interest from the topics discussed by the youth. The motivation to create social change, identity as an qualitative analyses of the interviews revealed three activist, and civic action (Ballard & Ozer, 2016; broad themes related to their involvement in the project: 1) Collective reflection on oppression as a base for resilience, 2) Opportunities to be agents of change

in their communities, and 3) Promotion of leadership 147 abilities. The findings suggest the importance of including youth engagement strategies in programs Abstract aimed at promoting critical consciousness as youth are Sexual and relationship violence (SRV) occur at high willing and able to utilize their own social capital to rates on college campuses in the U.S., and women and serve as agents of change. minoritized students are often at greatest risk for victimization (e.g., Coulter et al., 2017; Muehlenhard, A Qualitative Exploration of the Components of Peterson, Humphreys, & Jozkowski, 2017). Anti-SRV Critical Consciousness and their Links to Social scholars and practitioners work within complex, Justice Activism changing, and oppressive university and community systems to promote evidence-based policies and Esther Burson, New York University; Erin Godfrey, practices for preventing and responding to SRV. This New York University session builds on a discussion among members of the SCRA Women’s Committee listserv that resulted in a Critical consciousness (CC) has been called an SCRA webinar titled “Campus Sexual Assault in the “antidote for oppression” for enabling marginalized #MeToo Era: Research, Practice, & Action.” We will youth to resist and change oppressive systems (Watts, present processes, methodologies, and key findings Griffith, & Abdul-Adil, 1999). It has been linked to from scholars engaged in anti-SRV work at universities positive outcomes in mental health (Christens & across the U.S. Presentations focus on conducting Peterson, 2012; Zimmerman, Ramirez-Valles, & research that is relevant to current policy and practice Maton, 1999); occupational / educational attainment questions in the field, engaging campus stakeholders in (Diemer & Blustein, 2006; Diemer, 2009; Olle & this research using participatory methods, and infusing Fouad, 2015); and political / community participation research into our roles as anti-SRV activists on campus. (Diemer & Li, 2011; Foster-Fishman et al., 2010). CC Specific topics to be discussed include the strengths is typically construed as subcomponents of critical and challenges of campus-based vs. community-based reflection, political efficacy, and critical action, which services for survivors, addressing alcohol’s role in are theorized to work together to create an overall campus sexual assault, exploring the relationship critical consciousness (Christens, Winn, & Duke, 2016; between students’ perceptions of campus policy and Watts, Diemer, & Voigt, 2011). Research on CC, bystander intervention, and centering survivors in however, predominately focuses on only one or two of university policymaking and evaluation. The session these constituent parts, and fails to examine their will conclude with further discussion of community interplay (Godfrey & Burson, 2018). Furthermore, psychologists' roles as anti-SRV scholar activists on individual subcomponents of CC are used campus. interchangeably as a proxy for the overarching construct (Godfrey & Burson, 2018), leaving the Chairs: unique contributions of each subcomponent unmapped. McKenzie Javorka, Michigan State University; Lauren Only one paper has specifically examined the relation \"LB\" Klein, University of North Carolina at Chapel between reflection, efficacy, and action, with Hill inconclusive findings (Diemer & Rapa, 2015). Through Discussant: qualitative work, I explore the connections between the Megan Greeson, DePaul University components of CC. I conduct one-on-one, semi- structured interviews with youth social justice activists Presentations: recruited through respondent driven sampling Conflicts and Complexities: Issues in Campus- vs. (Heckathorn, 1997; 2002). A coding scheme is Community-Based Services for College Survivors of generated through memo-ing techniques (Corbin & Sexual Assault Strauss, 2008) and validated through discussions of relevance and specificity (Smagorinsky, 2008). I McKenzie Javorka, Michigan State University; examine (1) the nature of interactions among the Rebecca Campbell, Michigan State University components of CC; (2) ways these components combine to form an overarching critical consciousness; Community-based rape crisis centers and other and (3) how critical consciousness is related to community organizations have historically been the involvement in social justice activism. Qualitative work primary providers of sexual assault services (i.e., plays an important role in the history of critical advocacy, mental health, and medical care) for college consciousness research (see Watts et al., 1999), and is survivors. However, the availability of campus-based well-suited to refining theory to generate interventions services for college survivors has increased to support positive youth development. substantially in recent years (McCaskill, 2014). Current policy initiatives at the federal, state, and university 122 Campus Sexual and Relationship Violence: Using levels hold implications for campus service providers, Research to Inform Policy and Practice particularly around issues of survivor privacy and Symposium confidentiality, yet policy analysis and evaluation in Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 10:30-11:45 AM Room: Palmer this area is lacking. Some studies have also described Salons 6&7 tensions that campus-based victim service providers (especially advocates) face in working within university systems (Brubaker, 2018; Moylan, 2016).

The current study sought to explore strengths and 148 challenges in providing campus- vs. community-based services for college survivors of sexual assault. We biological sex of the participant was explored as a interviewed 22 U.S. national, multidisciplinary experts possible moderator of these relationships. on campus sexual assault about current issues in providing services for college survivors. Data were Cultivating a Vision for Addressing Alcohol’s Role analyzed using Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña’s (2014) in Campus Sexual Assault: A Researcher- pragmatic analytic approach. Participants described Practitioner Collaboration significant challenges for campus-based service providers, such as navigating the competing interests of Lauren \"LB\" Klein, University of North Carolina at universities and the complex web of policies that Chapel Hill; Andrew Rizzo, University of New governs survivors’ information on campus. By contrast, Hampshire; Lee Helmken Cherry, Berklee College of participants characterized community-based services as Music; Rebecca Woofter, Washington University in St. independent from university interests, yet less Louis responsive to students’ unique needs. This presentation will highlight key findings from the current study and Background: Alcohol use is implicated in 50 to 70% of discuss implications for practitioners and policymakers, campus sexual assaults (CSA), leading to great including ways to maximize the strengths (and attention to the intersections of sexual assault and minimize the potential for harm) of both campus- and alcohol use and abuse on college and university community-based services for college survivors. The campuses. Campuses are urged to address alcohol’s presentation will also detail the process of conducting role in CSA, but there is limited guidance for policy-relevant research at a time when the policies in prevention educators and administrators on how to question were shifting under our feet. actually do so. This qualitative study uses a critical feminist participatory action approach alongside the How do Perceptions of Campus Misconduct Campus Advocates and Prevention Professionals Processes Relate to Students’ Bystander Association (CAPPA) to explore how CSA prevention Intervention? specialists’ vision for addressing alcohol’s role in CSA. Methods: We conducted 23 in-depth interviews by Andrew Rizzo, University of New Hampshire; Morgan phone with a purposive sample of campus-based sexual Howard, University of New Hampshire; Jenn Demers, assault prevention specialists recruited through the Wichita State University; Victoria Banyard, Rutgers CAPPA listserv. Rigorous transcription and qualitative University data analysis methods were used as well as a participatory informant feedback process from College students’ perceptions of their school’s conceptualization through dissemination. Results: administration and police force in handling cases of Participants described five key themes related to their sexual violence have received little attention in relation vision for addressing alcohol’s role in sexual assault on to the prevention of violence through bystander campus, (1) proactivity, (2) consistency, (3) nuance, (4) intervention. There has been some recent research on equity, and (5) authenticity. Subthemes for how to how campus climates impact survivors’ reporting to pursue that vision include: administrative buy-in, their institution and seeking formal support after an adequate time, consistent messaging, multifaceted assault has occurred (Sabina & Ho, 2014; Stotzer & approaches, real-world skills practice, and authenticity MacCartney, 2016). However, there has been less of an with both students and colleagues. Prevention examination of how students’ perceptions of fairness of specialists also highlighted the importance of campus processes may impact their decisions to addressing victim-blaming, hypermasculinity, and intervene in bystander situations. School administrators intergenerational power. Conclusions and Implications: and campus police have the authority on campus to Campus-based prevention educator perspectives on respond to instances of violence. Thus, they may be current and ideal programming can be combined with perceived as representatives or proxies of the the best available research to inform interventions to community’s general attitude on whether violence (and address alcohol’s role in sexual assault across the social the people who commit violence) are accepted in this ecology. The creation process and impact of a community or if action to prevent violence is publication created based on this study, Addressing acceptable (Parzefall & Salin, 2010). The present study Alcohol’s Role in Sexual Assault: A Toolkit by and for is an examination of college students’ self-reported Prevention Specialists will also be discussed. bystander behaviors in relation to their belief in a just world, trust in their college’s support systems, and If We Don’t, Who Will? The Role of Activist- perceived fairness of procedural justice in campus Researchers in Centering Survivors in University police and administration sexual misconduct processes. Policymaking and Evaluation Additionally, given that sexual violence disproportionately affects female-bodied individuals Lauren Lichty, University of Washington Bothell; Kyra (Ford & Soto-Marquez, 2016) and that most formal Laughlin, University of Washington Bothell response apparatus (i.e. police forces) typically employ few women (Oehme, Stern, & Mennicke, 2015), Universities across the US display “No More” and “It’s on Us” banners and release statements condemning sexual and relationship violence (SRV) on campus.

149 And yet these same institutions, threatened by the will share resources (e.g., publications and toolkits) and specter of Title IX lawsuits and public scandal, seek strategies (e.g., trainings, behind-the-scenes guidance from lawyers rather than trained advocates coordination) we adopted, highlight moments where we when designing institutional responses to SRV. They broke from collaborative practices to confront anti- implement legally-conservative, compliance-driven survivor ideology, and discuss a selection of lessons learned for sustaining this work (Lichty, Rosenberg, & policies (e.g., mandated reporting; Holland, Cortina, & Laughlin, 2018). This session calls on university-based Freyd, 2018) that read to anti-SRV experts as and university-adjacent anti-SRV researchers and stringently anti-survivor, anti-trauma-informed practitioners to demand a seat at the policymaking table practice. The disconnect between institutional rhetoric and raise our voices in service of social justice for and practice often creates harmful conditions for student-survivors. survivors seeking support. Institutional betrayal abounds (Smith & Freyd, 2013). We contend that the 123 2019 Award for Distinguished Contributions to current state of university policy and practices reflect Practice in Community Psychology: There is a road, no simple highway: Musings on rural community practice what happens when one framework (a litigation-averse Special Session one) dominates policy-making. Through multi- Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 11:14-11:45 AM Room: Harold disciplinary collaboration and strategic dissemination Washington Library, Winter Garden of research and practice findings, we can expand opportunities to creatively address compliance Abstract obligations while more deeply committing to anti- The presentation will provide an overview of mental oppressive, survivor-centered response. This paper health in rural America, and the lessons learned from presents the experience of two activist-researchers, one 35 years of engagement in community engagement. faculty member and one student, joining ongoing Chairs: university-wide prevention and response policy Dennis Mohatt, Western Interstate Commission for development and evaluation practices. Typically, Higher Education; James Kelly, none; Demarée faculty, student, and community-based experts in SRV Michelau, Western Interstate Commission for Higher response and prevention have been excluded from these Education planning teams. We will discuss our efforts to effectively enter these spaces while centering survivors, trauma-informed best practices, and lessons from university- and community-based research in policy and practice conversations. As part of this session, we Thursday Lunch 123 West Region Meeting beings—in which all people are equal before the law; Committee/Council/Interest Group Meeting are entitled without discrimination to equal protection Day: 6/28/2019 Time: 12:00-1:00 AM Room: NLU 5030 by the law; and are worthy of being treated with dignity and respect. We envision a world in which the criminal Abstract Please join us for a West Region lunch meeting! We justice system, with the support of civil society, look forward to discussing regional updates and ideas provides a viable path towards justice and well-being for collaboration and gathering, including plans for a for all, and acts as a restorative rather than oppressive Community Research and Action in the West (CRA- force. Mission: To bring this vision into reality, our W) conference in the fall. strategies and solutions must be practical, context- specific, and informed by research. Thus, the mission Chairs: of the SCRA Criminal Justice Interest Group is to Gregory Townley, Portland State University support its members in their ongoing work by 124 Criminal Justice Interest Group Meeting providing a forum for discussion, collaboration, Committee/Council/Interest Group Meeting consultation, resource development, and knowledge- Day: 6/27/2019 Time: 12:00-1:00 PM Room: NLU 5006 sharing. The SCRA Criminal Justice Interest Group fosters a sense of community among its members due Abstract in part to a shared commitment to attend to the broader Vision: Our vision is a society in which the criminal social and historical context of the criminal justice justice system recognizes all individuals as human system, including its legacy of oppression.