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NCFR Weekly Zippy News
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025 |
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• NEW Policy Brief: Tax Reform
• See You In Baltimore!
• Reminisce NCFR 2024
• Spring Into NCFR Events |
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• NCFR 2024 Award Recipients
• Video of the Week
• PLUS Employment Opportunities
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NCFR Research & Policy Brief: NEW Release
The Role of Taxation in Family Inequality: Possibilities for Reform
Federal tax policies can play a crucial role in promoting families’ health, education, and social mobility outcomes. Although some tax policies (e.g., Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Tax Credit) have provided critical income support for families with children, other tax reforms over the past 40 years have disproportionately benefited wealthy families, further widening income and wealth inequality in the United States.
Reforming tax policies to support the flourishing of families across the income spectrum, ensure tax fairness, fund expanded child and family tax benefits, and reduce ethno-racial income and wealth inequality, which holds promise for advancing family well-being. |
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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
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.
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CONGRATULATIONS, NCFR MEMBERS |
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NCFR Awards & Recognition
2024 Inaugural NCFR Darling Grant
Congratulations to Alice Ann (Ali) Crandall, Ph.D., the 2024 inaugural recipient of the NCFR Darling Grant. This new $5,000 biennial grant is available to NCFR members integrating research into the practice of Family Life Education (FLE).
Dr. Crandall's grant proposal, Online Family Life Education Modules Across Three Generations, will examine the effectiveness of asynchronous online Family Life Education (FLE) modules for young, midlife, and older adults on improving family health. Participants will be invited to a three-generation study of family health (young adults, parents, and grandparents) in FLE to examine changes in individual knowledge/skills and between groups (e.g., young adults vs parent vs grandparent).
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NCFR Awards & Recognition
Congratulations to 2024 NCFR Section Award Recipients
NCFR wishes to congratulate the following members who were recipients of Section Awards in 2024. More award recipients will be highlighted in the following weeks of Zippy News.
Family Policy Section
Best Conference Proposal Award– New Professional
So Young Park, Ph.D., J.D., University of Missouri
"Judicial Landscape for LGBTQ Parents"
Best Conference Proposal Award– Student
Ines De Pierola, doctoral student, M.S., Oregon State University
"Paid Family Leave and Material Hardship"
Outstanding Research Proposal for Family Policy Research
Karen Talley, doctoral student, B.S., University of Missouri-Columbia
"From Providers to Policy: The needs of LGBTQ+ survivors of interpersonal violence"
Family Therapy Section
Best Paper Award– Student
Soyoul Song, M.A., University of Minnesota
"Acculturative Stress and Mental Health in Immigrant Families With 1st Generation Adolescents in the U.S.: A Critical Review of the Literature"
Best Poster Award– Student
Simran Uppal, M.A., LMFTA, Seattle University
"Creative Teletherapy Interventions That Honor Indian Culture"
Best Paper Award– New Professional
Lexie Unhjem, Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Paradigms of Parenting: Intensive Parenting Across Identities Explored Through Mixed Methodology"
Best Poster Award– New Professional
Chi-Fang Tseng, Ph.D., Michigan State University
"Emotion Access and Navigation in Chinese Couples: Insights and Adaptations From Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy"
Feminism and Family Science Section
Alexis J. Walker Award for Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Family Studies
Leigh A. Leslie, Ph.D., University of Maryland
SEE ALL AWARD RECIPIENTS |
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REMINISCE ABOUT 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
Watch livestream sessions, such as:
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NCFR 2025 |
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Meet You In Baltimore!
2025 NCFR Call for Proposals
NCFR 2025 is scheduled for Nov. 19-22 in Baltimore, Maryland. We hope you are making plans to join us there!
This is a great opportunity to ready your work that reflects our conference theme, "Power, Privilege, and Difference: Lived Experiences of Changing Families and Societies." 2025 Conference Chair Sadguna Anasuri, Ph.D., CFLE, and the Conference Program Committee are working diligently on developing a program with the theme in mind.
Take a moment and check out the sneak peek call for proposals! A more detailed call will be posted in early 2025. The online proposal submission system will open late January 2025 with proposals due March 3, 2025.
VIEW CALL FOR PROPOSALS |
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NCFR RESEARCH |
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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.
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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 Dec. 15 and Jan. 11 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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Child Trends
A 100-Year Review of Research on Black Families
Members of the executive team, research staff, and experts at Child Trends recently published a new major report — written by Chrishana M. Lloyd, Ph.D., Mavis Sanders, Ph.D., Sara Shaw, Ph.D., Abigail Wulah, M.S., Hannah Wodrich, B.S., Kristen Harper, Ed.M., and Zabryna Balén, M.P.H. Their research presents a decade-by-decade overview and analysis to inform ways to support the well-being of Black families through research, policymaking, and program development.
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Academic Programs Renew CFLE Approval
NCFR is pleased to announce that degree programs at Central Michigan University and Longwood University have recently renewed their CFLE-approved status.
- Central Michigan University - B.S., B.A., and B.A.A. in Child Development & B.S., B.A., and B.A.A. in Family Studies
- Longwood University - B.S. and B.A. in Sociology, Family Science concentration
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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Video of the Week
Jimmy Carter's grandson Jason recalls humorous cell phone snafu by his 'Paw-Paw'
In this week's video, President Jimmy Carter's grandson shares some anecdotes at the funeral — one of which showing how the former president was a down-to-earth person, including how he had trouble initially using a cell phone.
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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Tenure-Track Faculty, Family Science
Mount Saint Vincent University
The Department of Aging and Family Science (formerly Family Studies and Gerontology) is seeking applicants for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level. The successful candidate will be required to teach undergraduate and graduate courses on campus (e.g., parent-child relationships, resilient, racialized and LGBTQ families). Workload for the position includes research, teaching, curriculum development, and other department responsibilities, as well as collegial service to the university and external communities.
This position will commence July 1, 2025.
Location: Halifax, NS, Canada
Required Education: Doctorate in Family Science or its equivalent
Application Deadline: Application review will begin Feb. 15; open until filled
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY |
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