title: Bringing community psychology home: the leadership, community and values initiative.
abstract: Workplaces are amongst the most influential settings in the lives of adults and community psychologists have long been interested how to foster environments that are empowering, provide a sense of community, and support diversity. Yet, despite the fact that many community psychologists work in academic settings, there is a dearth of research that examines universities as work environments, both for faculty and staff members. This paper presents a case study of an initiative at the University of Washington, the Leadership, Community, and Values Initiative that is used a collaborative process to assess the workplace environment and effect positive changes. It is hoped that a description of key aspects of the assessment and efforts toward workplace improvement will serve as a call to community psychologists to turn more of their attention to an important setting that affects many of us, and virtually all of our students.
authors.affiliation: University of Washington, 314 Gerberding Hall, Box 351237, Seattle, WA 98195-1237, USA. Cauce@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Ana Mari
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Cauce
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D016272:Occupational Health; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014495:Universities; D014861:Washington