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Community Psychology

CP TIG Week: The Stories our Communities Tell: How Evaluations Can Promote Equity and Parity in Access to Service Provision by Martha Hernandez-Martinez & Lumarie Orozco

3 Comments / Community Psychology / January 30, 2021

Hello everyone! We are Martha Hernandez-Martinez, MPA & Lumarie Orozco, MA,  community psychologists currently working at Casa de Esperanza, a national advocacy organization on domestic violence focusing on Latino communities. Through the National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities (NLN), Casa de Esperanza’s national clearinghouse for policy, training, and research, we provide training and …

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CP TIG Week: How Community Psychology Values Influence Your Evaluation by Sonji Jones, Judah Viola, & Cari Patterson

3 Comments / Community Psychology / January 30, 2021

Greetings! We are Sonji Jones, Judah Viola, and Cari Patterson, affiliated with National Louis University’s Community Psychology doctoral program. We find overlap between core Community Psychology values and those for evaluation. Following are examples of how three core values emblematic of Community Psychology – empowerment, participatory approaches, and social justice – come together in our …

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CP TIG Week: Building Relationships for Community Transformation: Engaging the Community by Brittany Cook

2 Comments / Community Psychology / January 30, 2021

Hi! I’m Brittany Cook, Ph. D., with the Wandersman Center. I’m trained as a clinical-community psychologist, so the principles of community psychology are always in the forefront of how I approach evaluation work. One of the partners of our center that I work closely with is Serve & Connect, a community non-profit founded by fellow …

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CP TIG Week: Incorporating Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) into all stages of the evaluation processes by Elizabeth McGee

3 Comments / Community Psychology, Uncategorized / January 30, 2021

Hi, I’m Elizabeth McGee, Founder and Senior Consultant at LEAP Consulting, helping nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions achieve impact through meaningful evaluations and strategic support. Lessons Learned: How we carry out our work as evaluators has a direct impact on the way programs and organizations see themselves, interpret their data, make recommendations and learn lessons. Ensuring that Diversity, …

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CP TIG Week: Community Psychology Foundations for Practice: Practicing our Values by Ann Price & Susan Wolfe

1 Comment / Community Psychology, Uncategorized / January 30, 2021

We are Ann Price of Community Evaluation Solutions and Susan Wolfe, of Susan Wolfe and Associates. We are both community psychologists and bring our community psychology values to everything we do. We do a lot of work with community coalitions primarily through training and evaluation. The primary values that ground our work include: respect for …

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CP TIG Week: Finding Inspiration in 2021 by Ijeoma Ezeofor

1 Comment / Community Psychology / January 30, 2021

Hi, welcome to the Community Psychology TIG week! I’m Ijeoma Ezeofor and I’m an Evaluation and Learning Consultant at TCC Group and the Program Chair for the Community Psychology TIG. Community psychology has been described as a well-kept secret as many people are unfamiliar with it. In brief, community psychologists are committed to emphasizing prevention …

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CP TIG Week: The Evolution of Action-Orientation in the Field of Community Psychology by Elizabeth McGee

1 Comment / Community Psychology / June 7, 2019

Hi, I’m Elizabeth McGee, Founder and Senior Consultant at LEAP Consulting, helping nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions achieve impact through meaningful evaluations and strategic support. I want to talk about the evolution of action-orientation in the field of Community Psychology. Lessons Learned: A Community Psychologist is action-oriented when they are preemptive and intentional in supplying …

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CP TIG Week: Mentor Me by Ann Price

Community Psychology / June 7, 2019

Hello fellow evaluators! My name is Ann Price and I am President of Community Evaluation Solutions (CES), based in Georgia. This year’s conference theme, Paths to the Future of Evaluation: Contribution, Leadership, Renewal resonates with me. I am often called upon to speak with evaluation classes and frequently meet with evaluators considering consulting as a …

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CP TIG Week: About Evaluating Health Promotion Efforts by LaShaune P. Johnson

2 Comments / Community Psychology / June 4, 2019

Howdy, 365ers!   My name is LaShaune P. Johnson, I am faculty at Creighton University and the founder of Estella Lucia Evaluation, LLC.  I have a passion for health promotion, particularly among families of color.  I have been a researcher and evaluator for projects on African American breast cancer, childhood obesity, adolescent sexual health, and Muslim …

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CP TIG Week: What Moments Were CRITICAL? Reflection in Evaluation by Jonathan Scaccia and Paul Howard

Leave a Comment / Community Psychology / June 3, 2019

Hi, we’re Jonathan Scaccia of the Wandersman Center and Paul Howard of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and we’d like to share a method that we’ve been using in our evaluation work for the past 4 years: The Critical Moments Methodology. Lessons Learned: Community psychology puts a strong emphasis on participation and inclusion in …

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