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NCFR Weekly Zippy News

Thursday, March 21, 2024

Last Call for Affiliate Proposals — March 25
Two Grant Opportunities for Family Research & Practice
NCFR Member Update with the Board — March 26
Intro to Machine Learning — March 25
Reserve Your Seat: CFLEs Working in Social Work
Looking for Reviewers: NCFR Résumé/CV Program
Students: Scholarship Available for New CFLEs
Two Programs Renew CFLE Approval
Webinar: Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families
More Upcoming NCFR Events
Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention
NCFR's Early View Articles
NCFR Grant Writing Webinars
Video: Why Do We Celebrate Women's History Month?
Employment Opportunities

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Deadline Extension
Share Your NCFR Affiliate Work in November

Submit Proposals by March 25

The NCFR Affiliate Councils will host two workshops at the NCFR Annual Conference highlighting successful NCFR affiliate-level research, practice, ideas, and resources to be shared with others.

Suggested topics include:

resilience building when navigating change and during times of change;
resilience building through community service; and
empowering students and professionals' development, social action, and resilience work

Thank you to those who have already sent in proposals! The new deadline is Monday, March 25, 11:59 p.m. PST.

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

Funding Opportunities
NCFR Grant Opportunities for Family Research and Practice

NCFR Darling Family Life Education Research Initiative Grant
This new $5,000 biennial grant — made possible by Carol Darling, Ph.D., CFLE, and NCFR — is available to current NCFR members integrating research into the practice of Family Life Education.
>> LEARN MORE & APPLY

NCFR Olson Grant: Bridging Research, Theory, and Practice
This $10,000 annual grant — now in its fourth year— is available to current NCFR members working to creatively contribute to the discipline of Family Science by uniting research, theory, and practice in their work. This grant is made possible by namesake and benefactor David H. Olson, Ph.D.

>> LEARN MORE & APPLY

An application for Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval must be submitted prior to submitting a grant application.

Applications for both grants are due April 1, 2024, 11:59 p.m. CT.
Nonmembers may become a member to apply for either grant.
Need help? Check out NCFR's webinars on grant writing.

Member Opportunities
NCFR Member Update with the Board

Tuesday, March 26 / 6 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. CT / 4 p.m. MT / 3 p.m. PT
All NCFR members are invited to join on Zoom!

One of the goals of the NCFR Board of Directors is to increase engagement with NCFR members. To that end, we invite all NCFR members to join us on a Zoom call with board members. We will provide an update on board activities since the NCFR conference and make time to hear from you too!

If you cannot make the meeting, you can also send us a message using our contact form. Let's stay in touch!

Members will be sent a Zoom link via email closer to the event date.

NCFR Webinars
Introduction to Machine Learning

Monday, March 25 / Noon – 1:30 p.m. CT
Presented by Wonkyung Jang, Ph.D.

As an emerging skill within the Family Science discipline, machine learning (ML) offers a powerful toolkit to extract deeper insights from complex datasets, uncovering nuanced patterns and relationships that may have previously gone unnoticed.

Wonkyung Jang, Ph.D., will offer an exciting exploration of ML and its transformative applications in Family Science. Attendees will learn about real-world case studies demonstrating how ML has driven breakthroughs in Family Science, and be provided with hands-on guidance on processing, cleaning, managing, and analyzing data.

Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education

REGISTER TODAY

Registrants can watch webinar recordings on demand
Classroom licenses are also available

Call for Volunteers
Review NCFR Member Résumés/CVs

Apply to Volunteer by April 20

Calling NCFR Members: The Résumé and CV Review Program seeks volunteer reviewers. Volunteers should currently work with résumé & CV pedagogy or evaluation in other capacities.

Reviewers must be NCFR members and committed to providing quality feedback about content, formatting, structure, appearance, and more.

If you are interested in becoming a reviewer, learn more about the role.

APPLY TO BE A REVIEWER

Certification for Family Life Educators

Scholarship Available for First Time Applicants to CFLE Credential

Students finishing a degree program in the discipline of Family Science can apply to become a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) and further boost their professional credibility. An added bonus is that first-time CFLE applicants can apply for the CFLE Scholarship which covers up to 50% of their first application fee.

Search the list of programs with approved curricula.

If your current degree program is CFLE-approved, you can apply after you graduate for certification.
If your program is not on the list, you can take the CFLE Exam.
Apply for the CFLE Scholarship by Monday, April 15.

LEARN ABOUT CERTIFICATION

How Transracial Adoptive Families Can Acknowledge and Navigate Race

Tuesday, April 9 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by Katie M. Hrapczynski, Ph.D., LCMFT

In the context of the United States — where transracial adoptive families often involve White parents raising children of different racial backgrounds —concerns about meeting the developmental needs of these children are prevalent. However, many practitioners voice concern over feeling ill-prepared to work with transracial adoptive families. To best serve transracial families, practitioners must confront their personal beliefs and biases and become well-versed in the common and unique circumstances of transracial adoptive families.

Katie M. Hrapczynski, Ph.D., LCMFT, will discuss the historical context of transracial adoptions while also exploring individual factors, family dynamics, and environmental conditions that impact the well-being of transracial adoptees and their families. By the end of this webinar, attendees will possess a nuanced understanding of the complexities inherent in transracial adoptive families and will have practical tools to enhance supporting transracial adoptive families.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

REGISTER TODAY

Registrants can watch webinar recordings on demand.
Classroom licenses are also available

OneOp Webinar
Public Health Approaches to Suicide Prevention: Working with Military Spouses and Families

Thursday, April 4 / 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. ET

Join OneOp, a free and open-access multidisciplinary professional development resource for providers serving military families, for their webinar to explore how service providers can best support military spouses and family members through a trauma-informed lens of suicide prevention.

Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education

LEARN MORE & REGISTER

NCFR Journals Latest Research

The Latest Early-View Articles

Keep up with the latest research from NCFR's scholarly journals — Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR), and Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) — all of which publish early-view articles online.

New articles published last week between March 10 and March 16 across all three NCFR's journals can be found on the NCFR website.

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

Explore tips and strategies to find out how you can submit your manuscript to an NCFR journal.

CHECK OUT LATEST ARTICLES

NCFR Grant Writing Webinars

Looking to learn more about grant funding and how to apply for and manage grants? NCFR has four webinar recordings on-demand that cover various aspects of the grant writing process. Both NCFR members and CFLEs can access the webinar records free of charge. Presenters include Chalandra M. Bryant, Ph.D., CFLE; Joseph G. Grzywacz, Ph.D.; W. Michael Fleming, Ph.D., CFLE; and Marissa Heim, M.S., CFLE.

These webinars are all available for individual purchase or for department/classroom use.

All webinars are approved for CFLE continuing education credit.

WATCH ON-DEMAND GRANT WRITING WEBINARS

New Employment Opportunities

Employers: Get your job opening included in Zippy News by posting it in NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.

Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
East Tennessee State University

The Department of Counseling and Human Services at East Tennessee State University seeks a student-centered teacher/scholar to join our team as a 9-month assistant/associate/full professor (tenure or tenure-eligible at the time of employment). Primary responsibilities include teaching and coordination of the online graduate individual, family, and community sciences program. Additionally, the candidate will contribute to teaching human services undergraduate-level courses as needed, robust research and scholarly activities, advisement and mentoring, establishing positive relationships with human service organizations, and appropriate service to the department, college, university, and community.

Location: Johnson City, Tennessee
Required Education: Doctorate
Application Deadline: Open until filled

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