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In Memoriam
Jay A. Mancini

NCFR Fellow, Jay A. Mancini, Ph.D., passed away on Oct. 10, at the age of 75. Since 1973, Dr. Mancini had been a member of NCFR.

During his professional career as a Family Scientist, Dr. Mancini's work focused on a number of issues that included family gerontology, family leisure time use, building community capacity, sustainability of community-based programs, resilience and vulnerabilities of families, military youth and families, military family support systems, and psychological well-being of youth and families. His research spans a number of publications and he was the recipient of numerous awards.

Dr. Mancini has left a legacy of scholarship, mentorship, and leadership in the Family Science discipline.

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2024 NCFR Annual Conference

NCFR Bridge — A Virtual Connection to the Annual Conference

There may be many reasons it is difficult to attend the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference onsite in Bellevue, Washington. For this reason, NCFR has constructed an alternative bridge experience to NCFR 2024.

NCFR Bridge attendees will have access to select conference sessions live, watch recordings on demand, participate in live Q&A, network with colleagues, and more.

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If you are a presenter or have a specific role at the onsite conference, you must register and attend in-person.

NCFR 2024 Annual Conference
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2024 NCFR Annual Conference | Nov. 20-23, 2024 | Bellevue, Washington

There is still time to meet in Bellevue, Washington, for the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference, the premier conference for understanding families! All conference participants and presenters must register in order to attend.

The Hyatt Regency — our 2024 conference location — has sold out of guest rooms Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday nights, Nov. 20-22. Find alternate hotels within a mile of the Hyatt Regency with comparable pricing.

Register today — the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference is less than 4 weeks away!

Not an NCFR member? Save when you register for the conference AND join NCFR at the same time!

Support NCFR Student Access Grant
Make a Donation Today

Thanks to our generous Student Access Grant donors, grants have been awarded since 2020 to provide Students of Color with free conference registration, a travel stipend, and one year of NCFR membership.

This year's goal is to raise $8,000 to support grants to 10 students. Just under a quarter of the goal has been raised so far, so please help to support these students from historically marginalized racial communities.

Your donation supports students like the 2022 recipients pictured above (from left:) Francisca Martinez Jensen, Xueli (Sherry) Qiu, and Evelyn Barrales.

DONATE TO STUDENT ACCESS GRANT

Time to support this important initiative is running out. Please make your donation to the Student Access Grant today!

2024 NCFR Annual Conference | Nov. 19, full day / Nov. 20, morning only
2024 Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop
All Are Invited!

You are invited to the Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop at this year's annual conference! TCRM is a longstanding tradition within NCFR. The context for TCRM is collegial and cooperative, providing a space for moving ideas and working papers forward, offering valuable feedback to authors to strengthen their family methods and theories. Don't miss this meaningful experience to engage in active, intellectual exchange with one another!

$60 Professionals | $40 Students

2024 NCFR Annual Conference | Nov. 19, Noon – 6 p.m. PT
Feminist, Fearless, and Fierce Leadership Retreat
Sign Up Today | Registration is Limited to 43

You are invited to the Feminist, Fearless, and Fierce Leadership Retreat at this year's annual conference! This preconference session is an opportunity to engage feminist leaders in skill-building and introspection around one's roles and identities as leaders in higher education. You will find that this interactive session offers diverse presentations to encourage you to reflect on your leadership journey as well as provide space for building a community of supportive peer mentors. Don't miss this purposeful time to build your skills and reflect critically on your feminist leadership, no matter where you are on your journey!

$80 Professionals & Students

NCFR Webinar

Integrating Acceptance, Belonging, and Community Components into Early Childhood Education
Tuesday, Nov. 12 / 10 – 11 a.m. CT
Presented by: Sandy Lookabaugh, Ph.D., and Lisa Godwin, Ph.D.

Early childhood is the optimal time to introduce and reinforce prosocial attitudes and skills of acceptance, belonging, and community. Educators, at all levels, however, may be hesitant to directly engage in these conversations despite the importance of embedding these concepts within curricula and programing during this optimal time of learning.

As a result of attending the webinar, participants will be able to:

Instill a sense of acceptance, belonging, and community within early childhood learning experiences;
Use classroom materials as mechanisms to introduce conversations related to acceptance, belonging, and community;
Be intentional with their approach to learning experiences and conversations around acceptance, belonging, and community; and
Model appropriate language related to relevance and importance of acceptance, belonging, and community when talking with parents, colleagues, and administrators.

In this webinar, Sandy Lookabaugh, Ph.D., and Lisa Godwin, Ph.D., will offer methods on how to instill a sense of acceptance, belongingness, and community within planned learning experiences and conversations, and more!

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Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

NCFR Teaching Tuesday

Using Reflexive Pedagogy to Enhance Student Learning
Tuesday, Dec. 10 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Free for NCFR members to attend
Presenter: Lyndal Khaw, Ph.D.

Reflexive pedagogy is a teaching and learning approach used with the intention of creating more self-awareness, fostering critical thinking, and facilitating meaning-making through lived experiences and shared knowledge. Helping students to think reflexively can be especially beneficial in courses that focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). To teach and learn reflexively goes beyond the occasional reflection paper assignment or two. During this Teaching Tuesday, Lyndal Khaw, Ph.D., will have an open dialogue on how reflexive pedagogy can be incorporated into all aspects of a course, including the language in a syllabus, selection of course materials, discussion touchpoints, and class activities.

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

ideas on how to incorporate reflexive pedagogy into their teaching practices;
opportunities for and challenges of using reflexive pedagogy; and
how reflexive pedagogy can be measured for effectiveness.

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

Upcoming NCFR Events

Here are more events that you can place on your calendar!

CFLE Conversation: Navigating the Ethics of AI in Family Education
Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2 – 3 p.m. CT
Presented by Lisa Krause M.A., CFLE, CFLC
FREE networking session for Certified Family Life Educators (CFLEs)

LGBTQIA+ Parenting Strengths: Implications for Policy-Engaging Scholarship and Practice
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. CT
Presented by Rachel H. Farr, Ph.D.
Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education

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Ball State Changes Degree Concentration to ‘Family Science’

NCFR is pleased to announce that Ball State University has changed the name of a concentration within the newly named Family and Child major to Family Science (formerly Family Studies).

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If your program is considering a name change to include 'Family Science,' NCFR has sample documents and resources available that other schools have successfully used to make their case. ACCESS RESOURCES >>

Immigration and Families Resource Collection

This resource collection explores implications for practitioners when working with and supporting immigrant populations such as increasing knowledge of parent-child and intergenerational relationships amongst mixed-status families, identifying and utilizing culturally relevant resources, addressing family conflict and trauma, and more. This resource collection also explores the implications for policymakers when addressing issues that affect the well-being of immigrant families, such as the fear and risk of deportation, structural racism, and anti-immigration legislations.

This resource collection is an excellent tool for practitioners, students, teachers, policymakers and researchers to learn more about this important family topic.

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NCFR Journals
Call for Articles: Journal of Family Theory & Review
Proposal deadline extended to Nov. 1

Authors are invited to contribute to the special issue of Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) on the topic of "Theorizing and Doing Critical Intersectional Family Science." This special issue will take into consideration the ways in which intersectionality has been utilized, how it has evolved, challenges to applying and operationalizing intersectionality, as well as how the next generation of Family Scientists can extend the theory and its practical and methodological applications.

The deadline has been extended to Nov. 1.

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Call for Submissions | Family Focus
The Psychological Impact of Privilege
Proposal Deadline Nov. 20

Family life provides early learning experiences to create and maintain healthy relationships with other people, an important component of health and well-being. Yet family life experiences are influenced by one’s social address, which includes characteristics of one’s identity (e.g., race, religion, sexuality, class). Social address is associated with social advantages, or privileges, that influence family life experiences.

For this issue of Family Focus, the editor invites you to consider the psychological impact of social advantages that promote exclusion, injustice, and isolation. Specifically, in which ways does privilege disrupt the ability of individuals, families, and society to create and maintain healthy relationships?

Prospective authors should submit their proposals by Nov. 20 using the online submission form. All authors will be notified by Dec. 2, and articles are due Jan. 10, 2025. Contact the editor with questions.

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Call for Articles | CFLE Network

Cultivating Cultural Humility in Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Dec. 15

Cultural humility involves self-reflection, an understanding that one’s own culture is not inherently superior, and appreciation of and a willingness to learn from the experiences of people from other backgrounds and cultures with the goal of authentic relationship building. The winter 2025 issue of CFLE Network will explore and expand on cultural humility in the context of Family Life Education (FLE). Articles are sought exploring “why” and “how” Family Life Educators should and can cultivate cultural humility in their work.

Examples of potential topics include:

The value of cultural humility as part of FLE work
Research supporting the importance of cultivating cultural humility in FLE
Your story of how you are cultivating your own cultural humility
The successes and/or challenges you have addressed as you support families on their journey towards cultural humility
Tips and/or resources that you have found to help you in this work
Differing perspectives on this topic (e.g. student/teacher; program leader/program participant)

The submission deadline is Dec. 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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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 Sept. 21 and Oct. 19 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 ahead of submitting your manuscript for publication in an NCFR journal.

New Recording Available
Watch NCFR Content on Demand

Thank you to Jen Krafchick, Ph.D., CFLE, and Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D., LMFT, for leading a recent webinar on the effectiveness of emotion coaching and its ability to foster youth's capacity for emotion regulation.

This on-demand webinar is available for purchase and readily accessible to those that registered for the live webinar. PURCHASE + WATCH RECORDING

Purchase a classroom license for your class, your department, or organization. Become a member and save on your classroom license!

Video of the Week

Celebrating Italian American Heritage Month

Celebrate Italian American Heritage Month! Harbor Commissioner and employees of the Port share their personal experiences and personal narrative throughout the generations of their families. Reflect on the history, traditions, and culture of Italian Americans and the importance of carrying the influences of the past into the future.

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New Employment Opportunities

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NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.

Assistant or Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Human Development and Family Science
University of Vermont

The College of Education and Social Services invites applications for a full-time, nine-month, tenure-track position in Human Development and Family Science at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Applicants whose scholarship and teaching integrate human development and Family Science with social justice principles are desired. The successful candidate will publish in peer-reviewed scholarly outlets and seek extramural funding thereof, demonstrate excellence in undergraduate teaching and advising, as well as engage in academic and professional service activities.

Location: Burlington, Vermont
Required Education: Doctorate in human development and Family Science or a closely related discipline
Application Deadline: Application review begins Nov. 1, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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Assistant/Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Marriage and Family Therapy
Oklahoma State University

The College of Education and Human Sciences seeks candidates for a full-time, eleven-month, career-track faculty position as an assistant or associate professor of professional practice in the area of marriage and family therapy (MFT). The successful candidate will teach undergraduate and graduate courses, mentor and advise MFT graduate students, serve as the MFT clinic director, facilitate regular clinical trainings and staff meetings with student clinical interns, participate in ongoing MFT program development as well as accreditation requirements and recruitment efforts.

Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
Required Education: Doctorate in marriage and family therapy or related focus; ABD candidates will be considered but degree must be conferred prior to official start date
Application Deadline: Application review will begin Oct. 15, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Couple and Family Therapy
University of Colorado Denver

The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) announces a tenure-track faculty position in the COAMFTE accredited couple and family therapy program (CFT). Primary responsibilities include teaching graduate courses, developing and carrying out a rigorous research agenda, supporting the ongoing development of the master's degree in CFT through program evaluation and course development and revision, as well as live and/or virtual clinical supervision, and supporting the development and maintenance of partnerships within the greater Denver area community. The successful candidate will begin fall 2025.

Location: Denver, Colorado
Required Education: Doctorate in marriage and family therapy or human development and Family Science (with focus on MFT) from a COAMFTE accredited program
Application Deadline: Applicants should apply by Nov. 30, 2024, to be considered for the position; applications accepted until the position is filled.

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