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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Register Today: Helping Professionals Utilize Microskills
Who Will Be This Year's NCFR Awardees?
Spring Cleaning for Your Résumé/CV + Call for Volunteer Reviewers
U.S. Immigrant Families Webinar
Affiliate Councils Community Meeting
Teaching Tuesday: Visual Thinking Strategies
Register in Advance: 6 Steps to Growing YOUR FLE Practice
Reserve Your Seat in the Next CFLE Conversation
Latest NCFR Research
Call for Resources: Child Trends, Relationship Education Program
On Demand: Supporting Transracial Adoptive Families
Zippy's Video of the Week: Drawing with a Typewriter
Employment Opportunities

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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.

The information shared will be particularly beneficial for therapists (or those studying to become therapists), but the skills can also be used by Family Science professionals (e.g., CFLEs and students studying to become a CFLE) during group facilitation, coaching, and when engaged in direct service with clients.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

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NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

Call for Nominations
Who Will Be This Year's NCFR Awardees?

Most Award Deadlines are May 1

Don't miss out on the opportunity to self-nominate, or nominate your students and/or your colleagues for an award from NCFR and its member groups. Many awards include cash prizes or conference travel stipends.

The awards below recognize graduate student excellence, outstanding research, social justice work, and mentorship:

SEE ALL AWARDS OPEN FOR 2024

NCFR Member Benefits

Spring Cleaning for Your Résumé/CV
Submission Window April 19 - May 6

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 spring submission period is April 19 - May 6, 2024. Submit your documents for review today.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: Applications are also being accepted for résumé/CV reviewers now until May 6. Please see our reviewer application form to learn more and apply.

SUBMIT YOUR CV/RÉSUMÉ

NCFR Webinar

U.S. Immigrant Families: Understanding Policy to Inform Practice
Thursday, May 2 / 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT
Presented by: Colleen Vesely, Ph.D.; and Kevin Ferreira van Leer, Ph.D.

In 2021, over 25% of U.S. children had an immigrant parent. As family scholars and practitioners, it is crucial to grasp the myriad policies currently impacting immigrants to fully support the well-being of children in immigrant families. This webinar will provide valuable insights into key immigration policies and how those policies shape the lives of immigrant families in the U.S.

Join Colleen Vesely, Ph.D., and Kevin Ferreira van Leer, Ph.D., as they provide insights into family-related policies and how they shape immigrant families’ experiences in the U.S., as well as recommendations for how to best work with and support immigrant families within the current policy context.

Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education

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NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

NCFR Affiliate Event
Invitation: State/Regional & Student Affiliates

Monday, May 6, 3 p.m. ET / 2 p.m. CT / 1 p.m. MT / Noon PT

One of the goals of the Affiliate Councils Board (ACB) is to increase engagement with and among the affiliates. To that end, we invite student and state/regional affiliate officers, faculty advisors, and members to participate in this meeting. We’ll provide an update from the ACB and want to also hear from you! Please be prepared to share about any upcoming or recent events your affiliate has hosted.

We realize not everyone will be able to make this meeting but we hope to have representation from each affiliate present!

SAVE THE DATE

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.

REGISTER IN ADVANCE: 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.

This three-part comprehensive training is intended for practitioners working in the community and students wishing to learn more about growing a FLE practice. NCFR member Jody Johnston Pawel, LSW, CFLE, CTSS, will offer resources, action steps, and group feedback for practice and application.

REGISTER TO ATTEND - LIVE TRAINING
This training is limited to 35 attendees & is not available for on-demand purchase

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.

NCFR Journals
Read the Latest Research in NCFR Journals

Keep up with the latest research from the three scholarly NCFR journals — Journal of Marriage & 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 between March 31 and April 13 across all three 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.

See how you can submit your scholarship to an NCFR journal.

Child Trends
Call for Resources: Relationship Education Programs

Send Resources by June 7

Families and relationships are the cornerstone of our society, and healthy and stable family life is strongly linked to the well-being of parents and their children. Child Trends, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, is conducting a systematic review to identify core components of relationship education programming.

To ensure their review draws upon the learnings from unpublished research, not just published research, Child Trends is interested in information about any unpublished research related to relationship education programs.

LEARN MORE

New Recording Available

How Transracial Adoptive Families Can Acknowledge and Navigate Race

Thank you to Katie M. Hrapczynski, Ph.D., LCMFT, for leading a recent NCFR webinar on ways to best serve transracial adoptive families. This webinar fosters practitioner competency and skills essential for working effectively with transracial adoptive families.

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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New Employment Opportunities

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Post-Doctoral Research Associate
University of Georgia

The post-doctoral research associate position is grant-funded. The candidate will work with the University of Georgia Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) project, Couples and Relationship Enrichment (CARE) lab, and the Family, Relationship, and Marriage Education Work (FRAMEWorks) grant-funded project. The candidate will engage in scholarly and creative research and evaluation of the project and the CARE lab, as well as conceptualize and prepare grant proposals to the support and continuation of research conducted within the CARE lab.

Location: Athens, Georgia
Required Education: Doctorate; candidate anticipate August 2024 graduation
Application Deadline: April 30, 2024

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