SART member Elena Schuch and Pamela Rosecrance, doctoral student in counseling psychology at UT, have won a grant to support their work on sex education advocacy in East Tennessee. The grant, which is funded by the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, will pay door-to-door canvassers who will engage in “deep values canvassing.” This innovative approach to voter engagement has been shown to durably change attitudes over time by facilitating dialogue around important social issues, such as transphobia. Rosecrance and Schuch are partnering with Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood to implement deep values canvassing about comprehensive sex education in public schools. Their work will take place ins spring 2020 with Grzanka supervising the project; this project grew out of Elena and Pamela’s work in the Social Justice Practicum course at UT, which is the signature class of the scientist-practitioner-advocate training model at UT’s Counseling Psychology Program.
Congratulations, Elena and Pam!