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Thursday, April 11, 2024

6 Steps to Growing YOUR FLE Practice
Students: Apply for NCFR Awards
Editor, Family Relations: Nominate or Apply
Family Focus: Call for Authors
Two Opportunities to Submit Your Article to CFLE Network
Renewed CFLE-Approved Programs
CFLE Conversations: New Professionals in Family Life Education
Register To Attend: Helping Professionals Utilize Microskills
Teaching Tuesday: Visual Thinking Strategies
NCFR Events: Save the Date
On Demand: Machine Learning Webinar
Zippy's Video of the Week: Stumpy, the Washington D.C. Celebri-Tree
Employment Opportunities

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Family Life Education Practitioner Workshop
6 Steps to Growing YOUR Family Life Education Practice
Wednesdays, July 10, 17 & 24 / 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. CT
Approved for 7 hours of CFLE Continuing Education
Become a member today and save on this 3-day event!

Starting and growing a Family Life Education (FLE) practice, program, or business may seem like an overwhelming idea. However, this three-part comprehensive training equips you with the essential knowledge of WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW to navigate the process of starting and growing a FLE practice effectively.

It is common for Family Science students to feel overwhelmed by the job search process. This is especially true if they do not plan to pursue a career as a college or university faculty member or researcher.

Luckily, NCFR member Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS, is here to help.

REGISTER TO ATTEND
Limited to 35 attendees

Call for Nominations
Students and New Professionals: Apply for NCFR Awards for Funding & Recognition

Most Award Deadlines are May 1

Now's your chance to nominate yourself, your students, or your colleagues for an award from NCFR and its member groups. Many awards include cash prizes or conference travel stipends.

The following awards are open to students (undergraduate or graduate) and new professionals who earned their last degree within the past five years.

NCFR Student Award for Graduate Students
Ruth Jewson Award for Doctoral Candidates
Feldman Outstanding Research Proposal in Family Policy
Jessie Bernard Outstanding Research Proposal from a Feminist Perspective
Jessie Bernard Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Scholarship Paper
President-for-a-Day Award
International Section Travel Scholarship

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Call for Nominations & Applications
Editor, Family Relations
Apply by Aug. 1

Nominations and applications are sought for the editor of Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science. The committee anticipates selecting a candidate by Oct. 1, and the new editor will be announced at the 2024 annual conference in Bellevue, Washington.

The five-year term of the new editor will begin January 2025. Nominees and applicants must be members of NCFR.

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Call for Authors | Family Focus
Health Disparities
Submissions Due May 20

NCFR members are invited to contribute an article to the spring 2025 issue of the Family Focus section of NCFR Report on the theme Health Disparities. Access to Family Focus articles is a benefit of NCFR membership.
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Articles are sought that address both mental and physical health issues, how those issues affect family functioning and interactions, as well as promising approaches and practices for addressing health disparities.

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Call for Authors | CFLE Network

Working with Families in Difficult Moments
Submit Your Proposal by Saturday, June 15

Many Family Life Educators support families as the families navigate difficult moments involving challenges such as discrimination, poverty, mental illness, physical illness, family separation and reunification, difficult conversations, and other challenging circumstances. Family Life Educators themselves also experience difficult moments, such as facilitating groups in which participants have polarizing viewpoints or navigating their own feelings of compassion fatigue.
The purpose of the summer 2024 issue of CFLE Network is to learn from each other’s experiences. One way to do this is by sharing your stories and strategies that you have found helpful as you have moved through difficult moments in your work.

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The submission deadline is June 15, 2024. Please review the author guidelines. When you submit your article, please use our new CFLE Network Article Submission Form.

Email Network Editor, Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE, with questions or for more information.

Call for Authors | CFLE Network

Coaching as a Part of Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Sunday, September 15

Parent coaching is a growing field. NCFR wants to hear from CFLEs who are using coaching in their work with parents and families.

Examples of potential topics include the following:

The value of coaching as part of FLE work
Your story of how you are coaching parents
The challenges you have addressed as you support families
Tips and/or resources that you have found to help you coach families
How you use data or research to support your work as a coach

LEARN MORE

The submission deadline is Sept. 15, 2024. Please review the author guidelines. When you submit your article, please use our new CFLE Network Article Submission Form.

Email Network Editor, Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE with questions or for more information.

2 CFLE-Approved Programs Renewed

NCFR congratulates the following programs for recently renewing their CFLE-approved status:

Indiana State University - Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Science
Freed-Hardeman University - Bachelor of Science in Family Science

Graduates of these programs can now apply for the CFLE credential through the CFLE-approved program process once they have completed the identified CFLE coursework.

Thank you to these programs for their dedication to Family Life Education. For a list of CFLE-approved programs, visit NCFR’s Degree Programs Guide.

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CFLE Conversations

New Professionals in Family Life Education
Wednesday, May 8 / 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. CT
Facilitator: Ashley Barksdale, LCSW, CFLE, CADC-II
Free for CFLEs / Renew your CFLE Credential

Are you a CFLE with questions about the professional practice of Family Life Education? Join Ashley Barksdale, LCSW, CFLE, CADC-II, for the May 8 CFLE Conversation to connect and learn from other CFLEs currently working or aspiring to work in Family Life Education.

This networking event is free to CFLEs.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT

If you are interested in facilitating a future CFLE Conversation, contact Jessica Oswald at jessicaoswald@ncfr.org.

Upcoming Webinar

Helping Professionals Utilize Microskills to Promote Engagement
Monday, April 22 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Rachel Tambling, Ph.D., LMFT; and Carissa D’Aniello-Heyda, Ph.D., LMFT

Microskills refer to specific communication techniques and strategies that are employed to establish rapport and effectively interact with families. These skills are essential in everyday interactions and significantly influence how we communicate, solve problems, work together, and handle tasks when engaging with families. Despite their significance, the development of these skills is often overlooked or undervalued.

Join Rachel Tambling, Ph.D., LMFT, and Carissa D'Aniello-Heyda, Ph.D., LMFT, as they introduce various microskills through demonstrations. Participants will practice microskills during the webinar and be better equipped to develop productive helping relationships with families and achieve positive outcomes in their support efforts.

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NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

NCFR Teaching Tuesday

Visual Thinking Strategies
Tuesday, May 7 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Free for NCFR members to attend / Become a member
Presenter: Deborah Barnes Gentry, Ph.D., CFLE

At the next Teaching Tuesday event, presenter Deborah Barnes Gentry, Ph.D., CFLE, will discuss visual thinking strategies (VTS), an educational approach that utilizes art to foster critical thinking, observational skills, and communication. An example of how VTS could be applied to teach the main constructs and propositions of a selected theoretical framework of family dynamics will be shared.

By attending this session, participants will have the opportunity to discuss:

the history, features, and processes of VTS
applications of VTS appropriate for a Family Science course
how to use one or more VTS to promote observational, critical thinking, and communication skills among Family Science students/learners

REGISTER FOR TEACHING TUESDAY

NCFR members can access past recordings of Teaching Tuesdays. If you would like to be a future session facilitator, contact Jessica Oswald at jessicaoswald@ncfr.org.

More Events and Webinars

U.S. Immigrant Families: Understanding Policy to Inform Practice
May 2, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT | Presented by Colleen Vesely, Ph.D.; and Kevin Ferreira van Leer, Ph.D., Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education
CFLE Conversations: Family Life Education Within the Church
May 22, 2 – 3 p.m. CT | Facilitated by Regina Natasha Williams, M.S., CFLE, Free for CFLEs
Guidance for Practitioners on Supporting Parent-Child Communication about Sexual Health
June 11, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT | Facilitated by Deborah Roffman, CFLE, CSE, Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education

New Recording Available

Machine Learning

Thank you to Wonkyung Jang, Ph.D., for leading a recent NCFR webinar on the utility of machine learning (ML) in Family Science research. ML offers a powerful toolkit to extract deeper insights from complex datasets, uncovering nuanced patterns and relationships that may have previously gone unnoticed.

The on-demand webinar is available for purchase and readily accessible to those that registered for the live webinar. Classroom licenses are available.

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Video of the Week

Stumpy, the Washington D.C. Celebri-Tree

A frail and hollowed-out cherry tree in Washington, D.C., nicknamed "Stumpy" has united the U.S. capital. Each year, this "celebri-tree" inspires locals and tourists alike with its death-defying blossoms each spring. This week's video tells the story of an unlikely homegrown hero and it's devotees.

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New Employment Opportunities

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Tenure Track Faculty, Marriage and Family Therapy
Abilene Christian University

This is a tenure-track position in a COAMFTE-accredited residential (in-person) M.MFT program. The candidate will teach MFT courses, supervise graduate interns, mentor student research, and serve on committees. Applicant should possess a well-defined program of research as evidenced by peer reviewed publications and presentations. The candidate should be able to integrate spiritual issues with teaching and therapy.

Location: Abilene, Texas
Required Education: Doctorate
Application Deadline: May 3, 2024

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