II International Conference on Community Psychology

Pre-conference Institutes

Community Collaborative Research

Community Coalitions

Preventing Violence Against Women

Promotion of Well-being and Recovery

Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect

Youth and Community Participation

Program Evaluation and Community Organizations

Community Psychology and LGBT Issues

PROGRAM
2nd June 2008

9.30	Introduction to LGBT Institute Participant Introductions Overview of Issues to Address in Improving the Well- Being of LGBT People and Communities
10.45	Break
11.00	LGBT Terminology: The Power of Words Homophobia, Heterosexism, & Oppression
12.30	Lunch Break
14.00	History of Community Psychology and LGBT Issues Overview of Successful International, National, Local LGBT Social Change Efforts Applying Principles of Community Psychology to LGBT Issues: What Community Psychology Can Offer in Promoting Positive Social Change
15.45	Break
16.00	Applying Principles of Community Psychology to LGBT Issues: Beginning to Build Your Community’s Action Plan
17.00	Closing

3rd June 2008

9.30	Reflections on Day One Overview of Different Levels of Social Change LGBT Community Action Plans: Applying Levels of Social Change
10.45	Break
11.00	LGBT Community Organizing for Social Change: Successes and Challenges
12.30	Lunch Break
14.00	LGBT Community Organizing for Social Change: Continuing to Build Your Community’s Action Plan Overview of LGBT Public Policy
15.45	Break
16.00	LGBT Public Policy: Continuing to Build Your Community’s Action Plan Workshop Wrap Up and Moving Forward
17.00	Closing

Gary W. Harper, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at DePaul University in Chicago, where he is also Director of the Master of Public Health Program and Co-Director of the Center for Community and Organization Development. The focus of his research and social action work is on improving the psychological and physical well-being of various groups of adolescents and young adults who experience oppression and marginalization, including lesbian/gay/ bisexual/transgender (LGBT) youth, urban ethnic-minority youth, homeless youth, and youth living with HIV. Although his primary focus has been on examining HIV sexual risk and protective factors among these groups of young people and developing culturally appropriate community-based prevention programs, Gary also addresses other areas of community intervention, as well as the formation of community-university partnerships to improve research and service delivery. For the past three years he has brought his social action work to Kenya, where he has been developing HIV prevention programs for youth in resource poor rural communities.

Gary is a former chair of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Committee on LGBT Concerns and was the founding chair of the LGBT Interest Group within the Society for Community Research and Action. He was the co-editor of the first column on LGBT issues in The Community Psychologist, co-editor of the first special issue of The Community Psychologist focused on LGBT Community Interventions, and also co-editor of the first special issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology focused on linking theory, research, and action related to LGBT people and communities. Gary also co-edited the first special issue of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology on LGBT racial and ethnic minority people and communities, and wrote the first chapter in an international community psychology textbook exclusively focused on LGBT issues, appearing in Nelson & I. Prilleltensky’s Community Psychology: In Pursuit of Wellness and Liberation.

Gary has published findings from his federally-funded LGBT research in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and has received several academic and community awards for his commitment to LGBT research, practice, and training, especially for LGBT communities of color. Recent recognitions include APA’s Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest, the APA’s Committee on LGBT Concerns Outstanding Achievement Award, SCRA’s Special Award for Distinguished Contributions to Practice in Community Psychology from an Academic Base, and the Society for the Psychological Study of LGB Issues’ Distinguished Contributions to Ethnic Minority Issues. Gary also works collaboratively with urban community-based organizations in Chicago that provide sexual health promotion services and social support programs to gay and bisexual Latino and African American male adolescents.

Registration fees:

Members of SCRA, ECPA, SPPC, APS/CCP and other National Community Psychology Associations who might sponsor the event
100€

Non-Members
150€

Students
100€

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