Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4088683 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Yolanda Suarez-Balcazar |
| PRENOMES | Yolanda |
| SOBRENOME | Suarez-Balcazar |
| ASSINATURA | SUAREZ-BALCAZAR Y |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1963-3129 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 162 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A conceptual model for co‐developing a culturally tailored intervention for Latina immigrant caregivers of children with disabilities
The growing diversity of the U.S. population, partly due to immigration, has called attention to scholars and practitioners to attend to immigrants' cultural beliefs, values, and ways of doing when designing interventions to promote health and wellbeing. In this paper, we propose a contextual and dynamic model for co‐developing a culturally tailored intervention with the community to advance equity and empowerment of Latinx immigrant caregivers o…
Advancing immigrant and refugee rights
This introduction to the special issue Advancing Immigrant and Refugee Rights: Promoting Empowerment, Justice, Equity, and Liberation situates contemporary migration within a context of escalating global displacement, structural violence, and political backlash. It highlights the urgent need for community psychology to respond to these conditions through praxis that centers migrant voices, challenges exclusionary systems, protects human rights, a…
Promoting caring communities through collective action
Current times call for the promotion of caring communities through collective action. In caring communities, we feel connected, experience a sense of belonging, and deeply care about each other's health and well‐being. Seymour Sarason's notion of social change as the creation of settings may have anticipated the art and practice of creating caring communities. Caring communities are thriving environments where members are there for one another, p…
Reproductive justice for B lack, Indigenous, Women of Color
Historically, atrocities against Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color's (BIWoC) reproductive rights have been committed and continue to take place in contemporary society. The atrocities against BIWoC have been fueled by White supremacy ideology of the “desirable race” and colonial views toward controlling poverty and population growth, particularly that of “undesirable” races and ethnicities. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, this paper aims to…
Disability rights and empowerment
People living with physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities experience complex social, environmental, political, and cultural challenges along with stigma and marginalization in education, employment, and community life. These multiple and complex barriers often hinder their full and effective participation in society. In this reflection, we curated articles on physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabi…
Navigating participation and ethics with immigrant communities
Community‐engaged asset mapping with Latinx immigrant families of youth with disabilities
Asset mapping is a participatory methodology that engages community members in identifying services and settings that promote health and well‐being. This study aimed to identify community assets from the perspective of Latinx immigrant families with youth with disabilities. Latinx immigrant families ( n = 21) participated in the mapping, followed by a reflection session and an open forum ( n = 30). The findings revealed that families identified f…
Promoting justice through community‐based research
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to promoting justice focus on working from the ground up and giving a voice to marginalized communities regarding their concerns, potential solutions, and how to address social justice issues that matter to them. The pursuit of justice is often related to efforts to attain personal as well as collective well‐being. In this paper, we illustrate three exemplars of community psychologists' eff…
Goal Setting with Latinx Families of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Impact of Covid-19 on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Latinx Caregivers of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entire world in unprecedented ways. However, populations that have had a history of marginalization have experienced a more profound impact. One such group is Latinx families of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the Unites States. In this study, we used a mixed methods approach to explore the impact of the pandemic on the mental health and well-being of Latinx caregivers of c…
Walkability Safety and Walkability Participation
Walking is correlated with both improved physical and emotional health. However, walking behavior is often heavily influenced by environmental conditions. The goal of this study was to examine actual and perceived walkability safety and the relationship between perceived walkability safety and self-rated levels of walkability participation, defined as the number of places one walks within the community on a regular basis. Researchers used a mixed…
Latinx Parents' Perceptions of Neighborhood Walking Safety for Their Youth With Intellectual Disabilities
Increased walking distance and frequency has been linked to positive health outcomes. Neighborhood walkability disproportionately impacts youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). We investigated concerns of Latinx parents of youth with IDD about walkability and their impact on families' walking behavior. We surveyed Latinx parents of youth with IDD (n = 21) and compared results with the general population. Results were triang…
Meaningful Engagement in Research
Highlights CBPR strategies for meaningful engagement in research Need to address health disparities experienced by Latinx immigrants through meaningful engagement in research Populations experiencing marginalization as co‐creators of knowledge
Applying Community‐Based Participatory Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity
This special issue highlights work that contributes to our understanding of health disparities and community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to promoting health equity across diverse populations and issues that matter to communities. We take on a global perspective, and thus, various efforts across international contexts are illustrated. Articles elucidate a variety of CBPR approaches designed to empower and build capacity among in…
Barriers to and facilitators of community participation among Latinx migrants with disabilities in the United States and Latinx migrant workers in Canada
Individuals migrate to improve their wellbeing and quality of life, and often experience adverse situations, both during the process of migration and once within the host country. The purpose of this paper is to unpack the barriers to and facilitators of community participation, among Latinx immigrants with disabilities in the United States and Latinx migrant workers in Canada, following the Social Ecological Model. The authors draw from an appra…
A Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Roma Health Justice in a Deprived District in Spain
Addressing health disparities and promoting health equity for Roma has been a challenge. The Roma are the largest disadvantaged ethnic minority population in Europe and have been the victims of deep social and economic injustices, institutional discrimination, and structural antigypsyism over many centuries. This has resulted in a much worse health status than their non-Roma counterparts. Current strategies based on ameliorative and top-down appr…
On Becoming Scholars and Activists for Disability Rights
In this paper, the authors discussed the nexus between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the founding of the field of Community Psychology. Contributions of the latter and future areas of research are reviewed here in three areas of importance to both fields: Community living and participation, employment, and transition from high school. Community psychology can make potential contributions to advancing research in these three areas. Impli…
Employment Outcomes among African American and White Women with Disabilities
Compared to individuals without disabilities, those with disabilities experience inequalities in finding and sustaining employment that are more profound among women and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in employment outcomes for African American and white women with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. The VR data that this study used included 18,602 women, 18-65 years old at entry int…
Embracing our principles and moral compass
Understanding and Measuring Evaluation Capacity
This study describes the development and validation of the Evaluation Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), a measure designed to assess evaluation capacity among staff of nonprofit organizations that is based on a synthesis model of evaluation capacity. One hundred and sixty-nine staff of nonprofit organizations completed the ECAI. The 68-item measure assessed participants’ perceptions of individual and organizational predictors of two evaluati…
Moving From Science to Practice in Evaluation Capacity Building
A synthesis of the state of the literature is discussed in this section of the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) forum organized around four critical questions: (1) What is ECB? (2) How can we make it happen? (3) How do we know it is happening? and (4) What is its impact? The authors argue that to move the field of ECB forward we need to envision the science of ECB, not as the sole activity of creating new knowledge but in a close congruent and …
A Case Study of Liberation Among Latino Immigrant Families Who Have Children with Disabilities
Latino immigrant families with children with disabilities experience multiple sources of oppression during their settlement process in the United States. Unfair social structures and dominant cultural values and norms and the way they influence the immigrants’ personal life stories generate a cycle of oppression very difficult to break. This paper presents a case study of how a group of Latino parents carried out a process of liberation fueled by…
Ciclovìa in Chicago
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
A Catalyst-for-Change Approach to Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has become a popular approach for helping community-based organizations (CBOs) to meet their funders’ demands for accountability. This case study reports the ECB process with one staff member using a catalyst-for-change approach. The authors analyzed the role of the catalyst in diffusing evaluation knowledge and skills and in promoting evaluation mainstreaming and use within the CBO; and the outcomes achieved as…
Using the Internet to conduct research with culturally diverse populations
People from around the globe rely on the Internet for daily use in a variety of ways from downloading information and staying connected with friends and family to collecting data for research purposes. Although the authors have seen rapid growth in access to the Internet among multicultural populations, some groups are still far behind. In particular, those with most limited access include non-English-speakers and low-income and working-class ind…
Meaningful Engagement in Research
Highlights CBPR strategies for meaningful engagement in research Need to address health disparities experienced by Latinx immigrants through meaningful engagement in research Populations experiencing marginalization as co‐creators of knowledge
A contextual‐behavioral model of empowerment
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Emproverment—the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources—is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscript presents a contextual‐behavioral model of empowerm…
A Case Study of Liberation Among Latino Immigrant Families Who Have Children with Disabilities
Latino immigrant families with children with disabilities experience multiple sources of oppression during their settlement process in the United States. Unfair social structures and dominant cultural values and norms and the way they influence the immigrants’ personal life stories generate a cycle of oppression very difficult to break. This paper presents a case study of how a group of Latino parents carried out a process of liberation fueled by…
Psychosocial empowerment and social support factors associated with the employment status of immigrant welfare recipients
We analyzed the role that psychosocial empowerment and social support factors play in the employment status of immigrants who participate in jobreadiness programs financed by the European Social Funds and the Welfare Services of Andalusia, a region in the south of Spain. The goal of these programs is to find new ways to improve immigrants' social–labor participation and community integration. By means of a logistical regression analysis applied t…
Promoting justice through community‐based research
Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to promoting justice focus on working from the ground up and giving a voice to marginalized communities regarding their concerns, potential solutions, and how to address social justice issues that matter to them. The pursuit of justice is often related to efforts to attain personal as well as collective well‐being. In this paper, we illustrate three exemplars of community psychologists' eff…
Experiences of Differential Treatment among College Students of Color
Additional informationNotes on contributorsYolanda Suarez-BalcazarYolanda Suarez-Balcazar is associate professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. Lucia Orellana-Damacela, Nelson Portillo, and Chelsea Andrews-Guillen are graduate students in the Department of Pyschology at Loyola University Chicago. Jean M. Rowan was an undergraduate student at Loyola. This study was conduc…
Multicultural training practices in community psychology programs
Surveyed the directors of 56 community psychology graduate programs to assess multicultural training practices and attitudes. Although most program directors agreed that multicultural training is important in their mission to educate students, less than half the programs (48%) required their students to take any relevant course work and only half of the programs surveyed had any faculty who were members of an ethnic minority group and one third h…
Community‐engaged asset mapping with Latinx immigrant families of youth with disabilities
Asset mapping is a participatory methodology that engages community members in identifying services and settings that promote health and well‐being. This study aimed to identify community assets from the perspective of Latinx immigrant families with youth with disabilities. Latinx immigrant families ( n = 21) participated in the mapping, followed by a reflection session and an open forum ( n = 30). The findings revealed that families identified f…
Understanding and Measuring Evaluation Capacity
This study describes the development and validation of the Evaluation Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), a measure designed to assess evaluation capacity among staff of nonprofit organizations that is based on a synthesis model of evaluation capacity. One hundred and sixty-nine staff of nonprofit organizations completed the ECAI. The 68-item measure assessed participants’ perceptions of individual and organizational predictors of two evaluati…
Introducing systems change in the schools
A major public health crisis facing America's society is the increase in child and youth obesity, which has seen a fourfold increase in the last four decades. Major concerns include what children eat for school lunch and what other foods are available in schools. This paper illustrates efforts towards systems change in the luncheon program and food vending machines in the Chicago Public Schools. We discuss the different factors that lead to such …
Barriers to and facilitators of community participation among Latinx migrants with disabilities in the United States and Latinx migrant workers in Canada
Individuals migrate to improve their wellbeing and quality of life, and often experience adverse situations, both during the process of migration and once within the host country. The purpose of this paper is to unpack the barriers to and facilitators of community participation, among Latinx immigrants with disabilities in the United States and Latinx migrant workers in Canada, following the Social Ecological Model. The authors draw from an appra…
Applying Community‐Based Participatory Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity
This special issue highlights work that contributes to our understanding of health disparities and community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approaches to promoting health equity across diverse populations and issues that matter to communities. We take on a global perspective, and thus, various efforts across international contexts are illustrated. Articles elucidate a variety of CBPR approaches designed to empower and build capacity among in…
On Becoming Scholars and Activists for Disability Rights
In this paper, the authors discussed the nexus between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the founding of the field of Community Psychology. Contributions of the latter and future areas of research are reviewed here in three areas of importance to both fields: Community living and participation, employment, and transition from high school. Community psychology can make potential contributions to advancing research in these three areas. Impli…
Moving From Science to Practice in Evaluation Capacity Building
A synthesis of the state of the literature is discussed in this section of the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) forum organized around four critical questions: (1) What is ECB? (2) How can we make it happen? (3) How do we know it is happening? and (4) What is its impact? The authors argue that to move the field of ECB forward we need to envision the science of ECB, not as the sole activity of creating new knowledge but in a close congruent and …
Participatory Action Research With Colombian Immigrants
This article describes a participatory needs assessment process in which Colombian immigrants in Chicago collaborated with university researchers to identify their common concerns and implement self-help efforts to address some of their most pressing needs. A total of 261 Colombians completed a needs assessment survey, and 46 attended a public forum in which the issues were discussed and groups of volunteers were organized to coordinate and plan …
The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership
Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutritio…
Realities and Myths of Safety Issues for Community Researchers Working in a Marginalized African American Community
Community psychologists often conduct research in collaboration with marginalized communities in which safety is an issue. However, we rarely talk about what specific safety issues we experience and how we deal with them. Our story describes the realities and myths of neighborhood safety that were experienced in a low‐income African American neighborhood of Chicago, while collaborating on a project designed to increase access to the Internet to o…
Reproductive justice for B lack, Indigenous, Women of Color
Historically, atrocities against Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color's (BIWoC) reproductive rights have been committed and continue to take place in contemporary society. The atrocities against BIWoC have been fueled by White supremacy ideology of the “desirable race” and colonial views toward controlling poverty and population growth, particularly that of “undesirable” races and ethnicities. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, this paper aims to…
A Catalyst-for-Change Approach to Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has become a popular approach for helping community-based organizations (CBOs) to meet their funders’ demands for accountability. This case study reports the ECB process with one staff member using a catalyst-for-change approach. The authors analyzed the role of the catalyst in diffusing evaluation knowledge and skills and in promoting evaluation mainstreaming and use within the CBO; and the outcomes achieved as…
Building International Collaborative Capacity
Europe is in the process of building a more participative, just, and inclusive European Union. The European Social Fund , which is an initiative developed to actively promote multinational partnerships that address pressing social issues, is a good example of the European transformation. This article describes the steps taken to develop and evaluate the activities of an international network promoting collaborative capacity among regional partner…
The Use of Research Participation for Mentoring Prospective Minority Graduate Students
Les AA. presentent un programme de tutorat en faveur des etudiants de premier cycle issus des minorites ethniques ou de femmes et qui aspirent a passer leur licence. Ils soulignent que ce programme fait comporte une initiation a la pratique de recherche. Ils montrent que ce type d'initiative permet aux etudiants de clarifier leurs projets sur le plan professionnel, de developper leurs competences dans le domaine de la recherche, d'ameliorer leurs…
A conceptual model for co‐developing a culturally tailored intervention for Latina immigrant caregivers of children with disabilities
The growing diversity of the U.S. population, partly due to immigration, has called attention to scholars and practitioners to attend to immigrants' cultural beliefs, values, and ways of doing when designing interventions to promote health and wellbeing. In this paper, we propose a contextual and dynamic model for co‐developing a culturally tailored intervention with the community to advance equity and empowerment of Latinx immigrant caregivers o…
Disability rights and empowerment
People living with physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabilities experience complex social, environmental, political, and cultural challenges along with stigma and marginalization in education, employment, and community life. These multiple and complex barriers often hinder their full and effective participation in society. In this reflection, we curated articles on physical, sensory, intellectual, and/or developmental disabi…
Employment Outcomes among African American and White Women with Disabilities
Compared to individuals without disabilities, those with disabilities experience inequalities in finding and sustaining employment that are more profound among women and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in employment outcomes for African American and white women with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. The VR data that this study used included 18,602 women, 18-65 years old at entry int…
Ciclovìa in Chicago
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
Supportive transactions
Mutual-aid groups provide a context in which people who share similar problems, conditions, or concerns give and receive support. Members of two different peer-led mutual-aid groups participated in this study: one for low-income women and the other for people with multiple sclerosis. This study describes use of a self-help behavioral assessment instrument to observe supportive transactions directly in actual group meetings. In a quasi-experiment,…
Methodological Issues in Applied Social Psychology
A contextual‐behavioral model of empowerment
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Emproverment—the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources—is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscript presents a contextual‐behavioral model of empowerm…
Multicultural training practices in community psychology programs
Surveyed the directors of 56 community psychology graduate programs to assess multicultural training practices and attitudes. Although most program directors agreed that multicultural training is important in their mission to educate students, less than half the programs (48%) required their students to take any relevant course work and only half of the programs surveyed had any faculty who were members of an ethnic minority group and one third h…
Community Assessment in a Suburban Hispanic Community
The Hispanic population is growing rapidly and is composed of individuals from many countries with varying levels of acculturation, education, income, and citizenship status. The Genesis Health and Empowerment Program was developed locally in 1993 to improve the health status of Hispanics living in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA. Understanding the quality of life and its cultural patterning for the community is an essential aspect of planning and imp…
The Use of Research Participation for Mentoring Prospective Minority Graduate Students
Les AA. presentent un programme de tutorat en faveur des etudiants de premier cycle issus des minorites ethniques ou de femmes et qui aspirent a passer leur licence. Ils soulignent que ce programme fait comporte une initiation a la pratique de recherche. Ils montrent que ce type d'initiative permet aux etudiants de clarifier leurs projets sur le plan professionnel, de developper leurs competences dans le domaine de la recherche, d'ameliorer leurs…
Theory and Research on Small Groups
The Social Psychology of Politics
Experiences of Differential Treatment among College Students of Color
Additional informationNotes on contributorsYolanda Suarez-BalcazarYolanda Suarez-Balcazar is associate professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago. Lucia Orellana-Damacela, Nelson Portillo, and Chelsea Andrews-Guillen are graduate students in the Department of Pyschology at Loyola University Chicago. Jean M. Rowan was an undergraduate student at Loyola. This study was conduc…
Psychosocial empowerment and social support factors associated with the employment status of immigrant welfare recipients
We analyzed the role that psychosocial empowerment and social support factors play in the employment status of immigrants who participate in jobreadiness programs financed by the European Social Funds and the Welfare Services of Andalusia, a region in the south of Spain. The goal of these programs is to find new ways to improve immigrants' social–labor participation and community integration. By means of a logistical regression analysis applied t…
The Making of an Interdisciplinary Partnership
Interdisciplinary partnerships foster innovation to address pressing social problems. This paper describes an interdisciplinary partnership called the Chicago Food System Collaborative (CFSC) composed of a team of partners from four academic institutions and three community-based organizations representing a total of eight disciplines that included: community development and community organizing, community psychology, geography, nursing, nutritio…
Realities and Myths of Safety Issues for Community Researchers Working in a Marginalized African American Community
Community psychologists often conduct research in collaboration with marginalized communities in which safety is an issue. However, we rarely talk about what specific safety issues we experience and how we deal with them. Our story describes the realities and myths of neighborhood safety that were experienced in a low‐income African American neighborhood of Chicago, while collaborating on a project designed to increase access to the Internet to o…
Introducing systems change in the schools
A major public health crisis facing America's society is the increase in child and youth obesity, which has seen a fourfold increase in the last four decades. Major concerns include what children eat for school lunch and what other foods are available in schools. This paper illustrates efforts towards systems change in the luncheon program and food vending machines in the Chicago Public Schools. We discuss the different factors that lead to such …
Using the Internet to conduct research with culturally diverse populations
People from around the globe rely on the Internet for daily use in a variety of ways from downloading information and staying connected with friends and family to collecting data for research purposes. Although the authors have seen rapid growth in access to the Internet among multicultural populations, some groups are still far behind. In particular, those with most limited access include non-English-speakers and low-income and working-class ind…
Building International Collaborative Capacity
Europe is in the process of building a more participative, just, and inclusive European Union. The European Social Fund , which is an initiative developed to actively promote multinational partnerships that address pressing social issues, is a good example of the European transformation. This article describes the steps taken to develop and evaluate the activities of an international network promoting collaborative capacity among regional partner…
Participatory Action Research With Colombian Immigrants
This article describes a participatory needs assessment process in which Colombian immigrants in Chicago collaborated with university researchers to identify their common concerns and implement self-help efforts to address some of their most pressing needs. A total of 261 Colombians completed a needs assessment survey, and 46 attended a public forum in which the issues were discussed and groups of volunteers were organized to coordinate and plan …
A Catalyst-for-Change Approach to Evaluation Capacity Building
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has become a popular approach for helping community-based organizations (CBOs) to meet their funders’ demands for accountability. This case study reports the ECB process with one staff member using a catalyst-for-change approach. The authors analyzed the role of the catalyst in diffusing evaluation knowledge and skills and in promoting evaluation mainstreaming and use within the CBO; and the outcomes achieved as…
Ciclovìa in Chicago
Ciclovìas create temporary spaces for physical activity by closing off streets to motorized traffic for short periods of time—typically a day at a time. In Chicago, these health promotion events are called “Open Streets” and follow a route through five diverse communities. We report findings for evaluation of 2008--2009 Open Streets events. The evaluation creates a framework for examining Ciclovìa outcomes and tracks attendance, participant chara…
A Case Study of Liberation Among Latino Immigrant Families Who Have Children with Disabilities
Latino immigrant families with children with disabilities experience multiple sources of oppression during their settlement process in the United States. Unfair social structures and dominant cultural values and norms and the way they influence the immigrants’ personal life stories generate a cycle of oppression very difficult to break. This paper presents a case study of how a group of Latino parents carried out a process of liberation fueled by…
Understanding and Measuring Evaluation Capacity
This study describes the development and validation of the Evaluation Capacity Assessment Instrument (ECAI), a measure designed to assess evaluation capacity among staff of nonprofit organizations that is based on a synthesis model of evaluation capacity. One hundred and sixty-nine staff of nonprofit organizations completed the ECAI. The 68-item measure assessed participants’ perceptions of individual and organizational predictors of two evaluati…
Moving From Science to Practice in Evaluation Capacity Building
A synthesis of the state of the literature is discussed in this section of the Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) forum organized around four critical questions: (1) What is ECB? (2) How can we make it happen? (3) How do we know it is happening? and (4) What is its impact? The authors argue that to move the field of ECB forward we need to envision the science of ECB, not as the sole activity of creating new knowledge but in a close congruent and …
Embracing our principles and moral compass
Employment Outcomes among African American and White Women with Disabilities
Compared to individuals without disabilities, those with disabilities experience inequalities in finding and sustaining employment that are more profound among women and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in employment outcomes for African American and white women with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. The VR data that this study used included 18,602 women, 18-65 years old at entry int…
On Becoming Scholars and Activists for Disability Rights
In this paper, the authors discussed the nexus between the Americans with Disabilities Act and the founding of the field of Community Psychology. Contributions of the latter and future areas of research are reviewed here in three areas of importance to both fields: Community living and participation, employment, and transition from high school. Community psychology can make potential contributions to advancing research in these three areas. Impli…
A Community-Based Participatory Action Research for Roma Health Justice in a Deprived District in Spain
Addressing health disparities and promoting health equity for Roma has been a challenge. The Roma are the largest disadvantaged ethnic minority population in Europe and have been the victims of deep social and economic injustices, institutional discrimination, and structural antigypsyism over many centuries. This has resulted in a much worse health status than their non-Roma counterparts. Current strategies based on ameliorative and top-down appr…
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