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NCFR Weekly Zippy News
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025
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• New Vision, New Mission
• Sign Up for NCFR Events
• Recognizing 2024 NCFR Award Recipients
• NCFR Member Kudos
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• NCFR 2024: Looking Back
• Video of the Week
• PLUS Employment Opportunities
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A New Vision and Mission for NCFR
The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has decided upon a new vision and set of guiding principles to lead the organization in its work of understanding and strengthening families.
NCFR’s new vision is “Every Family Thriving.” This expansive vision is inclusive of all families and refers to the broadest possible definition of families. Together with a new set of Global Ends that describe the outcomes NCFR seeks to achieve, the new Guiding Principles look towards a future for NCFR that is impactful, transdisciplinary, and actively focused on justice.
You can read the full NCFR Guiding Principles here.
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SIGN UP FOR NCFR EVENTS
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Register TODAY
LGBTQIA+ Parenting Strengths: Implications for Policy-Engaging Scholarship and Practice
Wed., Jan. 29 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D.
NCFR members receive discounts on NCFR webinars / Become a member
Policies have the potential to support and empower caregivers who are raising LGBTQIA+ children and youth. Given how research can strengthen policies for LGBTQIA+ people and their families, this webinar will provide strategies for conducting policy-engaged, translational scholarship to support this community.
Join Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D., for this webinar in which you will be provided with a strengths-based summary of research surrounding parenting LGBTQIA+ youth, as well as empirically based recommendations and tools that can be used to empower LGBTQIA+ families in a research, policy, and practitioner setting.
Approved for 1.0 hour of CFLE continuing education
REGISTER TODAY
Can't attend live—that's okay—registrants can watch webinar recordings on demand!
Classroom licenses are also available
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CFLE Conversations
New Professionals in Family Life Education
Wed., Feb. 12 / 1 – 2 p.m. CT
Facilitator: Ashley Barksdale, LCSW, CFLE, CADC-II, PMH-C
Free for CFLEs / Renew your CFLE Credential
Are you a new CFLE? Join Ashley Barksdale, LCSW, CFLE, CADC-II, PMH-C, for this conversation to connect with and learn from other CFLEs currently working or aspiring to work in Family Life Education. All new professionals looking for an opportunity to meet and network with other Certified Family Life Educators are encouraged to attend. Ashley can help answer questions you might have and provide insight on navigating the expansive professional practice of 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.
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CFLE Conversations
Death, Dying, and Bereavement in Family Life Education
Wed., March 12 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Facilitator: Susan Maxymiv, M.A., CFLE-Retired, CT
FREE for CFLEs / Renew your CFLE Credential
Are you a CFLE with experience in death, dying, and bereavement? This networking event welcomes your questions, experiences, resources, challenges, and successes. Connect with professionals who work in similar fields or share your interests!
For more than 30 years, Susan Maxymiv, M.A., CFLE-Retired, CT, has worked passionately in the fields of thanatology (dying, death and bereavement), gerontology, and Family Life Education. As a practitioner, she has been the director of a community senior center and a funeral home bereavement care program. Ms. Maxymiv has worked with first responders utilizing critical incident stress management/debriefing and in hospice bereavement care. As an academic, she taught bereavement courses at Kent State
University.
Join Ms. Maxymiv and fellow CFLEs for an insightful discussion on end-of-life work.
This networking event is free for CFLEs.
SECURE YOUR SEAT
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CONGRATULATIONS, NCFR MEMBERS
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NCFR Awards & Recognition
NCFR Student Award
Congratulations to Pond Ezra, M.S., as the 2024 recipient of the NCFR Student Award. This award recognizes an NCFR graduate student member who has demonstrated excellence as a student and shows high potential for contribution to the discipline of Family Science.
Pond Ezra is recognized for their dedication to service and commitment to social justice, has the capability of transforming Family Science in the coming decades, and embodies the values of excellence and leadership this award seeks to honor.
READ MORE
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NCFR Awards & Recognition
Congratulations to 2024 NCFR Section Award Recipients
NCFR congratulates the following members who were recipients of Section Awards in 2024. More award recipients will be highlighted in coming weeks in Zippy News.
International Section
Jan Trost Award
Debra L. Berke, Ph.D., CFLE, Wilmington University
SNP Travel Scholarship
Kamil Janowics, Ph.D.
, SWPS University
Ran Kang, M.S., Sungkyunkwan University
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Families Section
Student Best Paper Award
Anisa Codamon, M.P.H., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Racial-Ethnic Identity as a Historical Resilience Factor for Black American Families"
New Professional Best Paper Award
Qingqing Yang, Ph.D., University at Albany SUNY
"The Inhibitory Control Trajectories of Spanish-English DLLs: The Role of Home Language Input and Classroom Language Input"
Travel Award
Briana Lanier Daniels, M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Warren Sawyers II
Religion, Spirituality, and Family Section
Outstanding Paper Award
Brandon Burr, Ph.D., CFLE, Utah Valley University
"Young Adults, Religion, and Marriage…is the Relationship Extinct?"
Student and New Professional Outstanding Paper Award
Ethan R. Jones, Ph.D., LMFT, AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, CFLE, Utah Valley University
"Investigating the Interplay Between Perceived Stress and Spiritual Factors: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Approach"
Research and Theory Section
Best Abstract by a Student and New Professional Award
Macy Halladay, Ph.D., University of Utah
"Becoming a Mom Pedagogue: Desire, Caring, and Emancipation"
SEE ALL AWARD RECIPIENTS
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NCFR Member News
Congrats to NCFR Members
NCFR wishes to congratulate the following members on their accomplishments:
• Ijeoma Opara, Ph.D., LMSW, M.P.H., has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
• M. Elise Radina, Ph.D., CFLE, is now associate provost at Miami University.
• Jeenkyoung "JK" Lee, Ph.D., and Matthew Ogan, Ph.D., were recently appointed postdoctoral fellows at the University of Missouri.
READ MORE
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NCFR Member News
Douglas Teti Appointed Editor, Family Relations
NCFR wishes to congratulate Douglas Teti, Ph.D., having been named the new editor of Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR). Dr. Teti will succeed current FR Editor, Wendy Middlemiss, Ph.D., CFLE.
CONTINUE READING
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On the Bookshelf
¡Te Amo Dad! Looking for the Cure
Marco Antonio Vásquez, Sr., B.S., CFLE-P,
Dianne Caroline
Vasquez, redactor
This book details true events of how a 25-year-old young man begins an odyssey to find a virus that probably never existed in 1998. The book also shows the love of a daughter for her father who wants to fulfill all his promises before turning 18, but it’s her who makes her dad’s dreams come true.
FULL BOOK INFORMATION
NCFR members and CFLEs: Have you written or edited a book that was published in the past year? We'll include your book in our Resource Library, along with one announcement in Zippy News. Learn more...
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LOOKING BACK AT NCFR 2024
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Experience NCFR 2024
Watch NCFR 2024 Livestream Sessions
In case you missed out!
Through the Whova app, you can catch up on conference sessions you may have missed! Take a look at the livestream schedule and then visit the Whova app to recapture any of the livestream sessions. Your conference registration gives you access to the Whova app.
As a reminder, your conference registration provides you with *free* access to conference recordings. Click here to watch sessions
Purchase a classroom license to use a conference recording in your classroom or organization.
Watch livestream sessions, such as:
Special Session (#136): Building Resilience: When Religious
Coping Helps and Harms Individuals, Families, or Communities led by Kenneth I. Pargament, Ph.D. (pictured above)
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CFLE Network
Call for Articles: Family Resource Management
Deadline: March 15
The spring 2025 issue of CFLE Network will explore Family Resource Management (FRM), one of the 10 content areas required to become a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE). FRM is an important, and often stressful, topic for families. Across time, many families navigate scarce resources such as time or money, value or goal conflicts, and difficult decision-making. CFLEs have the knowledge and tools to support families on the journey toward better resource management. Share how you address FRM in your Family Life Education (FLE) work.
The submission deadline is March 15. Please review the author guidelines. Use our CFLE Network Article Submission Form to submit your article. Contact the CFLE Network Editor Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE, with any questions or more information.
READ FULL CALL
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The Best of Family Focus
Winter 2025– *no call for authors
*Every five years, a Best of Family Focus issue is released. The winter 2025 issue of Family Focus will feature a curated selection of articles published between spring 2020 and winter 2024 that are as relevant today as the time when they were first published.
Each issue of NCFR Report features a "Family Focus" section containing research- and practice-based articles on that issue's theme, written by family scholars and professionals.
Access to Family Focus is a benefit of NCFR membership / Become a member
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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 Jan. 12 and Jan. 18 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.
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IN OTHER NEWS
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NCFR's Resource Library
Have you checked out NCFR's resource library— a rich resource, free and available to all. In the spirit of NCFR's commitment to providing you with a wealth of resources that can bolster your research, practice, and policy work, the resource library was curated. NCFR's library features a series of podcasts, articles, reports, and briefs covering a span of content areas.
CHECK OUT THE LIBRARY
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Video of the Week
As MLK holiday nears, Bernice King urges people to focus on his teachings
In this week's video, we commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who was born on Jan. 15. This year, the MLK holiday was recognized on Jan. 20 (annually observed on the 3rd Monday of January). This video features his daughter, Bernice King, encouraging and urging us to not lose hope. Dr. Bernice King also makes a proclamation—focus on her father's teachings and the work that he did beyond quotes and celebrations on one specific day alone.
WATCH VIDEO
Do you have a video of a local news story from your area? Email a link to Kristal Johnson and maybe we will feature it in Zippy News!
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NCFR JOBS CENTER
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New Employment Opportunities
Employers: Get your job opening included in Zippy News by posting it in
NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.
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Assistant Professor, Family Science
McNeese State University
McNeese State University is seeking applicants for a full-time, 9-month, unclassified, tenure-track position as assistant professor. The successful candidate will teach undergraduate courses in the Family Science Program, in various modalities. Responsibilities also include conducting research in the candidate’s area of expertise and disseminating results through scholarly presentations and or publications, as well as service to the department, college, university, community, or civic organizations.
Location: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Required Education: Doctorate in Family Science, marriage and family, family and child studies, or a related field before Aug. 20. Doctoral candidates may be considered.
Application
Deadline: Application review will begin immediately and will continue until position is filled
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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Tenure-Track/Tenured Professor, Child Development
Erikson Institute
Erikson Institute is seeking to hire an Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor (tenure-track/tenured) with a research agenda inclusive of equity and justice to join our child development and child life faculty. The successful candidate will demonstrate scholarly expertise in one or more focal areas (e.g., child and adolescent development, emotional safety and trauma-informed care, systemic healthcare inequity and medical racism, disability and ableism, etc.). This position includes teaching, mentoring students, as well as service activities. Depending on the candidate’s experience, hiring will be considered at the rank of assistant professor, associate or full professor.
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Required Education:
Doctorate or terminal doctoral degree (e.g., PsyD, EdD) in child development or related fields
Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. Apply by Jan. 31 for full consideration.
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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