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Safer Spaces Under Threat? Know Your Rights.
2025-11-06 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Detroit)
The event is November 6th 1-2:30 pm EDT
Under the current federal administration, some protections from immigration enforcement for sensitive locations like schools, hospitals, and religious institutions have been revoked. This puts people at risk.
Yet, we are not powerless. We can act more effectively with knowledge and practice.
Join this workshop to learn how you can protect yourself and others in what are called limited access spaces, such as in-session classrooms and offices. Let’s learn more about how to act together to protect our rights.
Workshop facilitators:
Amy Argenal is an assistant Teaching Professor in Sociology at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her scholarly activity centers the objective of inserting critiques from the global south through a community-engaged praxis to better understand movement and solidarity work on migration and human rights. She has spent the past ten years nuancing narratives around the root causes of migration from Central America.
Regina Langhout is a Professor in the Psychology Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her research examines empowerment in schools, neighborhoods, and the workplace. In this work, she is also interested in whiteness as a form of power that must be held accountable. She has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters. She is a fellow of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Society for Community Research and Action, an active member of SCRA’s immigrant justice interest group, and an associate editor for the American Journal of Community Psychology.
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Safer Spaces Under Threat

Indigenous IG Meeting
2025-12-12 16:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-13 16:00 - 17:00, 2026-04-10 16:00 - 17:00
Indigenous Interest Group will meet every two months on the second Friday of the month at 12:00 p.m. AK time, 1:00 p.m. PT, and 3:00 p.m. CT
October 10th 2025
December 12th 2025
February 13th 2026
April 10th 2026

Supporting Youth in the Current Sociopolitical Moment
2025-12-16 13:00 - 14:00 | SCRA Zoom Conference Line
Join the Society for Community Research and Action’s School and Youth Engagement Interest Group for a panel on Supporting Youth in the Current Sociopolitical Moment, featuring panelists working in diverse community settings.

Symposium on Community Psychology in Different Contexts
2025-12-20 10:00 - 11:00
This event will feature 2 speakers who will explore the application of community psychology principles in various contexts and situations, such as education, public health, social justice, and disaster response. The symposium’s objective is to provide participants with practical insights and strategies for adapting community psychology practices to diverse settings and challenges.
The event will take place at 9:00 a.m. (Mexico Time), 4:00 p.m. (Spain Time), and 10:00 a.m. (U.S. Eastern Time).

SCRA Winter Break
2025-12-22 - 2026-01-02
SCRA Administrative support is unavailable at this time.

Prevention and Promotion IG Meeting
2026-01-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom
Monthly meeting of Prevention and Promotion Interest Group

School and Youth Engagement IG Meeting
2026-01-14 13:00 - 14:00 | SCRA Zoom Conference Line
The School & Youth Engagement Interest Group will be having our next group meeting on Wednesday, January 14th at 1:00 PM EST (12:00 PM CST/ 10:00 AM PST). During this meeting, Scott Andrews will be doing a research share on his work as the Associate Director of Strategic Improvement for TutorSmart.

TutorSmart is a community-based educational nonprofit that works alongside schools, districts, and tutoring providers to help transform their tutoring programs into High-Impact Tutoring that is research-backed, data-driven, has quantifiable impact, and runs iterative cycles of continuous improvement — typically through a “Zero-Dollar Exchange” that doesn’t increase their partners’ costs, and lets them maintain ownership of their programs. TutorSmart is also deeply committed to participating in the wider movement of research and advocacy in fields related to their work — both to implement the best emerging insights and to add their own voice to the mix for the sake of others’ benefit.

Gaza Effect: from Decolonial Struggle to Global Liberation
2026-01-15 12:00 - 14:00 | SCRA Zoom Conference Line
This dialogue shall portray the Gaza Effect as a transnational phenomenon through which the resistance, steadfastness (sumud), and spiritual resilience of Gaza’s people have catalyzed a global awakening of conscience, solidarity, and agency. The Gaza Effect is a psychological and sociopolitical response to the failures of global neoliberal and capitalist systems to sustain moral, communal, and existential well-being. Gaza’s struggle transcends its geographical borders, inspiring a collective reawakening of global consciousness and a redefinition of liberation psychology as a praxis of solidarity and moral renewal.

ESC Meeting
2026-01-21 16:00 - 17:00
Ethical Statement Committee first meeting

ESC Meeting
2026-01-29 16:00 - 17:00, 2026-02-05 12:00 - 13:00
Ethical Statement Committee meeting

CERA Monthly
2026-02-13 15:00 - 16:15, 2026-03-13 15:00 - 16:15, 2026-04-17 15:00 - 16:15
CERA Monthly Meetings – The CERA Sandbox is a space for organic conversations and sharing content, ideas, quotes, poems, etc., around a topic of interest related to issues of culture, race, and social justice. We have had extraordinarily rich dialogues about historical, intergenerational, structural trauma, and land loss, among other topics. We will continue co-creating emerging themes during our conversations.
Anyone interested in taking the initiative to kick off the conversation can volunteer to bring a topic along with any idea/content or conversation kick-starter (e.g., podcast, poem, summary of a book/article, quote, etc.).
We will also have exciting virtual webinars and research symposia and colloquiums, which will be announced at a later date.

Sudan’s War Unframed
2026-02-16 12:00 - 13:00
The International Committee is currently planning its next dialogue event on Sudan, titled “Sudan’s War Unframed: Misconceptions, Global Neglect, and Grassroots Resistance.” The event will take place online via Zoom on February 16 at 5:00 PM GMT / 7:00 PM Cairo Time.

Sudan’s War Unframed Feb 16th

SCRA EC Midwinter Meeting
2026-02-26 12:00 - 20:00, 2026-02-27 12:00 - 20:00
Annual SCRA EC Midwinter meeting.
SCRA zoom line is unavailable during this time.

Immigrant Justice Interest Group
2026-02-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-05-22 13:00 - 14:00
Join the Immigrant Justice Interest Group on the fourth Friday of each month!
Immigrant Justice

Please email to co-chairs for zoom information or to be added to our listserv if you aren’t already receiving our updates.

SCRA Prevention and Promotion Interest Group Monthly Meeting
2026-03-17 19:00 - 20:30
Presenter: Tēa Casabar (Collge of Idaho)
This presentation will explore the impacts of youth participation in a Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) community project through a case study of the Caldwell Youth Action Pact.
We hope you will join us for this engaging discussion on youth-led community research and its implications for prevention and promotion work.

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Candidate Chat
2026-04-06 12:00 - 13:00
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Visibility and Engagement Committee Meeting
2026-04-14 14:00 - 15:00
For more information Contact Committee Chair Jonathan Scaccia.

Spring Chair Check In
2026-05-19 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-05-19 18:00 - 19:00 | SCRA Zoom Conference Line
Are you chair or in a leadership role of a SCRA interest group, council or committee?
Join us for our Spring Chair Check In
May 19th 2pm and 6pm EST.
Both session will cover the same content.

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Strategic Plan Town Hall Session
2026-06-02 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-06-02 19:00 - 20:00 | SCRA Zoom Conference Line
