Scott Houser, Phd, Mdiv, Bcc, Narrative Facilitator / Intercultural Chaplain Email & Phone Number

Albuquerque, Nm, Us

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Waco, Texas, United States

Dallas, Texas, United States

Austin, Texas

The African Leadership Bridge is championing the next generation of African leaders through sustainable scholarships and a strong support network to provide the tools and experience needed to drive change in the African continent.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Managed Stop Stock Outs – a European government funded non-profit collaborative to ensure that South Africa's 3,500+ clinics remain fully stocked with essential AIDS/TB medications – and editor of HIV Nursing Matters and Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Initiatives of Change, USA, is part of a diverse global network with an 80-year track record of peace building, conflict transformation and forging partnerships across divides of race, class, religion and politics.

Austin, Texas, United States

Johannesburg And Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Led training seminars for US Peace Corps, Child Welfare Society, and South African Department of Correctional Services.Facilitated relationship development of U.S. - South African, and South Africa - Africa cooperative agreements. Mediated procurement of $3.4 million for caregiver retreats, job skills training and child/family support services in three South African provinces.

Austin, Texas Area

"A Journey Towards Healing: Stories of People with Multiple Woundedness in KwaZulu-Natal." (c)2011

Waco, Texas Area

Taught upper-level world religions and topics in Islam.

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Managed 4 oral history projects: 1) Zulu Mpophomeni Tourism Experience; 2) Msunduzi Municipality’s Greater Edendale Development Initiative; 3) KwaZulu-Natal Christian Council; 4) Memories of AIDS.Supervised 5 oral historians weekly and provided editorial oversight and archival compliance for transcripts submitted to Alan Paton Center, Pietermaritzburg.Conducted oral history training seminars with South African Department of Arts and Culture, as well as non-profit organizations.Negotiated and secured a memorandum of agreement with KwaZulu-Natal Department of Education, as well as memorandums of understanding with provincial school administrations.Initiated national certification process of Sinomlando’s memory/resiliency training curriculum with the South African Department of Labor’s Sector Education and Training Authority (SETA).Participated in national Caring Schools Network (CASNET) and its provincial chapter.Co-wrote “Psychosocial support through memory work to learners and educators affected and infected by HIV/AIDS in public schools in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,” submitted to Canadian International Development Agency.

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Taught and facilitated student awareness of the everyday reality/engagement of religion in public life among a cultural, linguistic, religious and socioeconomic diverse South African student body (SA is comprised of 9 provinces, 11 official languages, and 51 million people, including more than 1 million immigrants from neighboring countries).

Waco, Texas Area

Pietermaritzburg Area, South Africa

Led in the conceptualizing, development and management of a three year, children’s resiliency training project, which resulted in 125+ people obtaining memory trainer certification after a 3-month in-residence program, 2,000+ field workers obtaining memory facilitator diplomas, and 3,700+ orphans and vulnerable children and their families benefiting from psychosocial intervention.Co-edited, USAID Technical Application, “National Implementation of Training in Resiliency-Building for Caregivers of Orphans and Vulnerable Children in South Africa.”Trained in USAID compliance standards, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Gauteng And North West Province, South Africa

Trained diverse and formerly segregated South African Department of Education life orientation teachers in a sexual violence and HIV/AIDS curriculum entitled "Beyond Victims and Villains."

Waco, Texas, United States

Edited oral history transcriptions utilizing The Chicago Manual of Style

Recruit and orient prospective skilled international volunteers for short and long-term service.

Phd, History Of Religions

Activities and Societies: Ethnographic study of Jain community, Richardson, Texas. Summer seminar studies at Ecumenical Institute.

Psychology

Completed 18 of 36 required hours toward a Master's

Ba, Political Science

Diploma/Ged

M.Div, Theology