Not nearly enough people are trained to work specifically with soldiers, veterans and their families. By training high-quality mental health practitioners with a focus on military psychology and providing a hands-on practicum, we are doing our part to help solve this pressing problem. Especially in the days before and since Veterans’ Day this week, Joseph E. Troiani, … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Community
Highlights of the Adler School 60th Anniversary Colloquium: Dr. Harold Mosak
This academic year, the Adler School celebrates the 60th anniversary of its founding, based on the revolutionary ideas of Alfred Adler: that our health relies on our community life and connections, and socially responsible practitioners must advocate for the conditions and systemic changes necessary to achieve health, for the well-being of all. In 1952, Adler’s associate … Continue reading »
Celebrating Our 60 Years (and Counting) of Leading Social Change
The Adler School’s founding ideas and rich history provide a clear direction for our School – to lead the charge for social change. This theme was reinforced for all of us as Adler School faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends who gathered at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre Oct. 26 for our School’s 60th Anniversary Colloquium with speakers including President Ray Crossman, Ph.D. … Continue reading »
New EEOC guidance on arrest records and hiring decisions: Working with communities on their rights to accessing jobs
After more than 20 years, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) this spring revised its policy guidance on employers’ use of arrest records in making hiring decisions. The announcement received a great deal of media attention. In communities like Chicago’s underserved Englewood community, a significant number of residents are arrested in police sweeps but … Continue reading »
Arrests, Hiring, and Community Impact: The EEOC’s Updated Enforcement Guidance
For more than a year, the Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) has focused its pioneering Mental Health Impact Assessment (MHIA) on a proposal of the U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to amend its Policy Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest Records in Employment Decisions. Through its MHIA work, the ISE team has been examining the impact on … Continue reading »
Mark your calendar for discussion on ‘Religion: The Black LGBTQ Experience’
On May 21, the Adler School’s LGBTQ Mental Health and Inclusion Center and Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) will present “Religion: The Black LGBTQ Experience.” Join us for discussion on internal and external conflicts for African-American sexual minorities that are created when religious and sexual orientation identities do not reconcile with each other. Learn about … Continue reading »
A day of unity in Englewood
About 100 volunteers in bright green T-shirts split up into groups Saturday and cleaned main thoroughfares and yards in Englewood, clearing away much of the litter that has long plagued the neighborhood’s streets and lots. The volunteers worked together from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. for the first ever Greater Englewood Unity Day, part of Chicago’s … Continue reading »
Update: New partners, schedule announced for ‘Forced Out’ teach-in and March to End Mass Detention on April 5
We’re pleased to announce the schedule and recognize the more than 50 organizations that have partnered for next week’s “Forced Out: A Unity Forum at the Crossroads of Deportation & Incarceration”—organized by the Adler School’s Institute on Public Safety & Social Justice (IPSSJ) and the Illinois Coalition for Immigrants and Refugee Rights (ICIRR), and convened at … Continue reading »
Starting your private practice: ‘What They Didn’t Teach Me in Grad School’
So, you’re excelling in graduate school for professional psychology or are a recent graduate, and look forward to starting your own private practice. You certainly know enough about psychology to succeed. But, do you know anything about business? How about managing loan payments, or being an effective self-advocate? If you could use help, this workshop is for you. The … Continue reading »
Institute on Social Exclusion: Upcoming national lectures, innovation talks & more
Mark your calendar: Our nationally recognized leadership and faculty with the Adler School’s Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) will be speaking at these upcoming conferences and programs: “Social Exclusion: The Marginalization of African Americans in Health Care, Housing, and Employment” Symposium Keynote Address The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA) Saturday, Feb. 18, Chicago … Continue reading »
In the news: Issues framing ‘Deportation Through the Eyes of Children’
Many individuals living in the U.S. are undocumented. Studies have shown that being an undocumented immigrant can be detrimental to one’s mental health. Recently, Illinois Issues covered immigrant mental health issues based from an event hosted this fall by the Adler School’s Institute on Public Safety and Social Justice (IPSSJ). Click here to read “Undocumented anguish: … Continue reading »
A reflection on conversation on hierarchies of identity, coming out, racism, and colorism
In today’s post, guest blogger Katrina Sanford, MA, a doctoral student here at the Adler School, reflects on an event hosted last term by the School’s Institute on Social Exclusion. The panel discussion “A Conversation: Hierarchies of Identity, Coming Out, Racism and Colorism” was the first in a series of events intended to reframe mainstream LGBTQ discourse on salient … Continue reading »
Police officer and Adler School student honored for saving a man’s life
You may remember the story covered by most Chicago’ news outlets in August 2010 about Chicago Police Officer Claudio Salgado, and how he saved an elderly man from jumping into Lake Michigan. As you might know, Officer Salgado is a student in the Police Psychology program here at the Adler School. This month, we congratulate him as the Fraternal … Continue reading »
Mark your calendar: “Improving Health through Planning” Roundtable on Dec. 7
In partnership with Chicago’s Metropolitan Planning Council and the Center of Excellence in the Elimination of Disparities (CEED), the Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) at the Adler School of Professional Psychology invites you to a special roundtable and training on health impact assessment on Dec. 7. “Improving Health through Planning” will feature a range of … Continue reading »
Our presence at today’s Illinois Psychology Association annual poster competition
Congratulations to the Adler School students and members of the Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) selected to compete in today’s Illinois Psychology Association poster competition for graduate students at the 2011 IPA Annual Convention. The ISE poster being presented on “The Social Exclusion Simulation: Bridging Theory and Practice to Cultivate Social Responsibility in Adult Learners” is a quantitative program … Continue reading »
