Initiative

Timelines

 

For a peek at where we are now and into our future, here is our timeline. The SOCACT plans in five-year blocks, so find the correct year and see what's happening. Just remember that the best laid plans are always subject to change by the Unknown and the Indecipherable! Contact us via e-mail or voice mail to get an update.

 
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  2003   2004    2005   2006
  2007   2008   2009   2010

                                 

 

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2007
  • Begin search for an appropriate institutional site to replicate SOCACT as an international service-learning model
  • Identify funding to bring aboard a Project Manager
  • Begin goal setting for new 5-year cycle linking community partners in South Bend, Indiana and Durban, South Africa.
  • Begin planning the partnership with Giving Hope Project in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
  • July: Project Director to Kigali, Rwanda; Kampala, Uganda; and Huwaya District, Tanzania to launch the Giving Hope Project monitoring.
  • Child Rights Exhibit:  complete paperwork for Institutional Review Board approvals.

 
  • Breaking Silence to continue building international network for LGBT issues

 
  • Art Explore at Center for the Homeless: seek Administrative Agreements about details of the partnership with Umcebo Trust, Durban South Africa.

 
  • Giving Hope Project: complete paperwork for Institutional Review Board approvals.

 

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2008

  • Complete Administrative Agreements with appropriate institutional site to replicate SOCACT as an international service-learning model
  • Begin transfer of administrative responsibility to Project Manager
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  • Jun: South Bend, IN team to Durban, South Africa
  • July: Project Director from South Bend, IN to Kigali, Rwanda
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  • Begin implementation of new 5-year cycle linking community partners in South Bend, Indiana; Durban, South Africa; and Kigali, Rwanda.
  • Child Rights Exhibit: install traveling exhibit in venues around Michiana, including IU-South Bend in Spring, 2009.
  • Art Explore at Center for the Homeless, South Bend, IN partnered with Umcebo Trust, Durban South Africa.
  • Breaking Silence: continue building international network for LGBT issues
  • Giving Hope Project: create instruments and train coders for qualitative analysis.

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2009

  • Institutionalize replication of SOCACT as international s-l model according to agreements in 2008
  • Complete transfer of administrative power to Project Manager
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  • Jul: Dr. Bryant from South Bend, IN team to Kigali, Rwanda
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  • Continue implementation of project initiatives, with provisional end for writing for the International Community Psychology Meeting, San Paolo, Brazil.
  • Child Rights Exhibit: analysis of installation impact and write for presentation at Community Psychology conference.
  • Art Explore at Center for the Homeless, South Bend, IN partnered with Umcebo Trust, Durban South Africa.

 
  • Breaking Silence: continue building international network for LGBT issues

 
  • Giving Hope Project: continue qualitative analysis as needed. Generate second progress profile.

 

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2010

  • Write about the replication of SOCACT as an international service-learning model at a new institution
  • Define new role for Dr. Bryant in relation to SOCACT
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  • Jun: South Bend, IN team to Durban, South Africa
  • July: Dr. Bryant from South Bend, IN to Kigali, Rwanda
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  • Begin goal setting for new 5-year cycle linking community partners in South Bend, Indiana;  and Durban, South Africa.
  • Begin planning the evolution of the partnership with Giving Hope Project in Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.
  • Child Rights Exhibit: next stop for traveling exhibit?

 
  • Art Explore at Center for the Homeless, South Bend, IN partnered with Umcebo Trust, Durban South Africa.

 
  • Breaking Silence: continue building international network for LGBT issues

 
  • Giving Hope Project: continue qualitative analysis as needed. Generate final progress profile.

 

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Contact:

Dr. Dé Bryant, Director
Social Action Project
Psychology Department, Indiana University South Bend
1700 Mishawaka Avenue, South Bend, IN 46634
(574) 520-4447 -- tel (574) 520-4538 -- fax
dbryant@iusb.edu