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NCFR 2024 Plenary Presenter
Civility Rising! Best Practices to Inspire Healthy Work Environments
Cynthia Clark, Ph.D.

We are pleased to present our Saturday plenary speaker, Cynthia Clark, Ph.D., at this year's annual conference, which will be held in Bellevue, Washington.

We are excited for the contributions that Dr. Clark will make to this year's conference. Work and family matters take center stage in Dr. Clark's presentation. She will describe the impact of workplace incivility and offer strategies to foster healthy, productive work environments.
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2024 NCFR Annual Conference

Feminist, Fearless, and Fierce Leadership Retreat
Tuesday, Nov. 19 | Noon – 6 p.m. PT
$80 Professional & Student

The purpose of this preconference workshop is to engage feminist leaders, regardless of where they are on their leadership journey. This retreat is an opportunity to introspect on ones' journey, roles and identities as leaders in higher education, dialogue with one another, and build a community of supportive peer mentors. Add this retreat to your 2024 NCFR Annual Conference registration today!

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2024 NCFR Annual Conference

Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop
Full day, Tuesday, Nov. 19 | AM, Wednesday, Nov. 20
$60 Professional | $40 Student

The Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop is a longstanding tradition within NCFR. This intimate, receptive workshop focuses on providing constructive feedback and collaborative discussion, and a collegial and cooperative context for family methods and theories to evolve, seeing to the advancement of moving working papers and ideas forward. Add TCRM to your 2024 NCFR Annual Conference registration today!

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Call for Nominations & Applications
NCFR Seeks Journal 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 NCFR 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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Upcoming CFLE Conversations

Navigating the Unspoken: CFLEs Tackling Difficult Topics in Education
Wednesday, July 31 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Facilitator: Jazmin Nagorski, CFLE
Free for CFLEs / Reinstate your CFLE Credential

Are you a CFLE tackling difficult topics in your work? Join Jazmin Nagorski, CFLE, for the July CFLE Conversation to engage in an open dialogue on approaching difficult topics in your work. Bring any questions, stories, challenges, or successes you might have.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT

If you are interested in facilitating a future CFLE Conversation, contact Jessica Oswald.

Next NCFR Webinar

Integrating Adult Learning Principles into Family Life Education Practices
Tuesday, August 27 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE

Despite most professors and Family Life Educators having a primary job responsibility of educating adults, many find themselves with minimal training on the basic principles of adult learning. Given the significant amount of time education professionals spend developing, implementing, and evaluating educational content for learners, there is a clear need for a deeper understanding of the foundational concepts of adult education. This webinar is designed to bridge that gap by providing participants with a strong base of adult learning science from which they can make informed decisions about how to enhance their own teaching methods.

In this webinar, Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE, will provide practical strategies for how to engage with adult learners appropriately and effectively across nearly any delivery format or educational setting.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

Upcoming NCFR Teaching Tuesday

The Need for Cultural Humility in Classrooms
Tuesday, Sept. 17 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Free for NCFR members to attend
Presenter: Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D.

Cultural humility emphasizes an ongoing process of continual learning and critical self-reflection to work effectively with diverse families and communities, and challenge institutions to take accountability for their practices. Students are expected to encounter unfamiliar situations at the start of the cultural humility process and are assumed to handle challenges proactively. Today’s political restriction of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives requires Family Science students to seek additional support to stay motivated for continual learning. During this Teaching Tuesday, Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D., will share teaching and supportive strategies to address such barriers in building cultural humility.

After a brief presentation, participants will have the opportunity to discuss:

the fit of Family Science courses into the cultural humility framework;
overcoming stumbling blocks encountered in the learning process;
how to stay dedicated and support oneself as anti-DEI initiatives unfold.

REGISTER FOR SEPT. 17

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

NCFR Member Benefits

Submit Your Résumé/CV this Fall

NCFR members have an exclusive benefit to ensure their CV or résumé will stand out from the crowd. Three times a year, any NCFR member can submit either of these documents for a free review from seasoned NCFR members.

The fall submission period is right around the corner, and begins Aug. 1 until Aug. 15. Prepare your documents so you are ready!

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: This is also an excellent time for you to submit your application to be a part of this important work as a Résumé/CV Volunteer Reviewer. Please see our reviewer application form to learn more and apply.

SUBMIT YOUR RÉSUMÉ/CV ON AUG. 1

NCFR Honors Student Program
Apply for NCFR Honors this Fall

Are you graduating this fall? Apply to the NCFR Honors Student Recognition Program to distinguish yourself as a top candidate as you launch your career in Family Science!

This program recognizes the exceptional academic, service, and leadership accomplishments of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in the Family Science discipline.

Apply by Oct. 7. It can take time to gather all the necessary application materials, so here's a head start!

APPLY FOR STUDENT HONORS

Professors: Please share with your students!

NCFR Students
Students: Become Certified in Family Life Education

Finishing a degree program in the near future? Did you know you can apply to become a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) and further boost your professional credibility?

If your degree program is a part of the distinct list of CFLE-Approved Programs, you can apply right away for certification.

If your program is not a CFLE-Approved Program, don't worry — you can still seize this opportunity by taking the CFLE Exam.

Scholarships are available for first-time applicants and current CFLEs who demonstrate financial need.

SEE THE LIST OF CFLE-APPROVED PROGRAMS

NCFR Journals
New NCFR Research

Keep up with the latest research from all three of NCFR's scholarly journals advancing Family Science — Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR), and Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR).

New early-view articles published between July 14 and July 20 across NCFR's journals can be found on the NCFR website.

NCFR members with journal subscriptions have access to the full text of articles on the journals section of the website.

Explore our tips and strategies to learn how you can get your research published in one of NCFR's journals!

Summer Issue of Family Focus
Focus on Romantic Relationships: 100th Issue of Family Focus

NCFR is proud to present its 100th issue of Family Focus! That's right — the summer 2024 issue is an incredible milestone for Family Focus, a section of NCFR Report. From its inception to now, Family Focus has served as a resource that instructors use in the classroom and that members draw on for personal and professional enrichment. This issue's topic is Romantic Relationships.

Access to Family Focus articles is a benefit of NCFR membership — join today!

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Call for Authors | Family Focus

Methods and Measures in Family Science
Submit Your Proposal by Aug. 15

Interactions among individual family members are embedded in diverse social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Yet historical measures and methods may not reflect interactions within and across families who have been historically marginalized. Understanding family relationships and interactions considering these intricacies demands innovation in the ways Family Scientists define family well-being and in the exploration of how family structures, processes, and relationships influence well-being.

Articles are sought that examine a wide range of methods and measures to deepen the scientific understanding of family functioning and well-being. Articles are welcomed that critique existing methods and measures, provide innovative designs and promising new approaches, and adapt tools and techniques from other disciplines to the study of family functioning and well-being.

Prospective authors should submit their proposals by Aug. 15 using the online submission form. All authors will be notified by Aug. 22, and articles are due Oct. 15.

Contact the Family Focus Editor Joyce Serido, Ph.D., with questions or for more information.

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Call for Articles | CFLE Network

Coaching as Part of Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Sept. 15

Parent coaching is a growing part of Family Life Education. NCFR wants to hear from CFLEs who are using coaching in their work with parents and families.

Examples of potential topics include:

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

Authors are invited to contribute to the fall 2024 issue of CFLE Network on the theme Coaching as Part of Family Life Education.

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

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

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Advancing Family Science

Add an Elevator Pitch Activity to Your Fall Syllabi
Use NCFR's FREE Guide With Your Students

Help your students explain their Family Science or HDFS major using NCFR's guide to the Family Science elevator pitch.

Share the free guide, How to Explain Family Science to Anyone, or use any of the material to inform an activity or assignment. The guide includes:

steps to craft a short, memorable elevator pitch
sample language
fillable template
FAQ
additional resources

GET THE GUIDE

More NCFR Resources for Your Classroom

Classroom Resources for Faculty

Are you looking for teaching resources to use with your students? NCFR can help! Take advantage of these NCFR resources:

NCFR members can use Family Focus articles and NCFR research and policy briefs for free with their students. Request an article and we'll get you the format you need!
Recordings of NCFR webinars and conference sessions are available to use with your students. NCFR members receive a discount on classroom licensing!
Find even more resource material in the NCFR Resource Collections, which are dedicated to specific topics.
The book Family Life Education: The Practice of Family Science is available for purchase in the NCFR Store; useful for seasoned professionals and students alike.

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Opportunity to Earn CFLE Continuing Education Credit

Navigating TRICARE's Autism Care Demonstration: A Guide for Providers & Military Families
Wednesday, July 31 / 11 a.m. – Noon ET

Join OneOp, a free and open-access multidisciplinary professional development resource for providers serving military families, for their webinar on the TRICARE Autism Care Demonstration, a critical program designed to support military families with members diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). This webinar will offer practical advice on navigating the system effectively, from obtaining the necessary referrals and authorizations to understanding the ongoing support and monitoring processes.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

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Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Couple, Marriage, and Family Therapy

Texas Tech University

The Texas Tech University is pleased to announce an opening for a nine-month, tenure-track, assistant/associate professor position. The successful candidate will be responsible for publishing and presenting scholarly work, pursuing and securing extramural funding, as well as teaching graduate (M.S. & Ph.D.) and undergraduate courses. The selected candidate will supervise couple, marriage, and family therapy practicum courses, and advise graduate students (including thesis and dissertation committees).
This position will begin fall 2025.

Location: Lubbock, Texas
Required Education: Doctorate in couple, marriage, and family therapy, or a closely related area
Application Deadline: Oct. 18, 2024

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Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Development and Family Science

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri is seeking applicants for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with faculty at the Center for Family Policy and Research (CFPR), whose research focuses on early childhood education and development, especially among vulnerable and underrepresented populations. This position is a 12-month appointment with the possibility of continuation. The successful applicant will contribute to a team science infrastructure to build multidisciplinary collaborations working with faculty with active research funding in the CFPR, as well as seeking and writing federal grants.

Location: Columbia, Missouri
Required Education: Doctorate in human development and Family science, or a related field
Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin Sept. 16, 2024; Open until filled

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