Zippy News: Advancing Community Health

Response to Georgia School Shooting

The loss of life from the shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, is a senseless tragedy. The hearts of the NCFR staff go out to the individuals and families affected by this violence.

NCFR members and Certified Family Life Educators (CFLEs) have created the following resources in response to prior mass shootings:

Please consider sharing these resources with your networks.

NCFR 2024 Plenary Presenter
Advancing Community Health: Building Bridges of Trust with Tribal Populations
Lancer Stephens, Ph.D.

NCFR is pleased to present the Friday plenary speaker, Lancer Stephens, Ph.D., at this year's annual conference, which will be held in Bellevue, Washington. NCFR looks forward to the contributions that Dr. Stephens will make at this year's conference. Center stage in Dr. Stephens' presentation is building community partnerships and public health, drawing upon a previous successful intervention with Oklahoma tribal populations. He will explore the historical differences of tribal populations and how said differences have led to current health scenarios.

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2024 NCFR Annual Conference | Nov. 20-23, 2024
NCFR 2024 is Coming to Bellevue, WA
Watch Your To-Do List Shrink!

NCFR would like to help you out and provide a list of items that you can check off your to-do list as you gear up for NCFR 2024.

Register to attend the conference—registration rates will increase after Oct. 17
Book your stay at the Hyatt Regency—reserve your hotel room by 5:00 p.m. PT, Oct. 25, to receive the NCFR discounted rate
Arrange your transportation plans to Bellevue and while in the area
Plan fun activities that you can take advantage of while in Bellevue
Discover the depths and many gems of our extensive full conference program

See when you, friends, peers, students, mentors, colleagues will be presenting at NCFR 2024

NCFR 2024 Bridge
Presenting NCFR Bridge — A Virtual Connection to NCFR 2024

For those who are unable to attend the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference in-person, NCFR has designed an alternative bridge experience to NCFR 2024.

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

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If you are presenting or have a role at the onsite conference, you must register to attend the conference onsite in Bellevue, WA.

Upcoming NCFR Webinar

Strategies for Teaching Family Life Education Methodology
Thursday, Sept. 12 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Chance A. Bell, Ph.D., CFLE

Family Life Education requires educators to have knowledge of families and family systems across multiple areas of family life (see the 10 Family Life Education Content Areas). Additionally, Family Life Educators and those seeking the Certified Family Life Educator designation need an understanding of education processes paired with a diverse skill set. Using a multifaceted approach, this webinar will enhance the capabilities and abilities of those who teach Family Life Education Methodology courses, or who will teach FLE methodology courses, to teach students, emphasizing support techniques in the students' development.

In this webinar, Chance A. Bell, Ph.D., CFLE, will explore methods to show students how to tailor program content and delivery approaches to resonate with diverse audiences, promoting inclusivity and relevance.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

NCFR Webinar

Integrating Emotion Coaching into Youth Mentoring Programs
Tuesday, Sept. 24 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Jen Krafchick, Ph.D., CFLE, and Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D., LMFT

Multiple indicators demonstrate high numbers of youth are struggling emotionally, especially youth with adverse childhood experiences. Youth need support to improve their emotional well-being. Those who work with youth need enhanced skills to offer appropriate support.

Emotion coaching in a mentoring context is a new and innovative approach. Coupled with trauma-informed practices and a diversity, equity, and inclusion framework, emotion coaching provides an effective approach to mentor/protégé interactions. Emotion coaching fosters youth's capacity for emotion regulation (i.e., identifying emotions, modifying or tolerating emotions, practicing regulatory strategies, and evaluating success of those strategies).

In this webinar, Jen Krafchick, Ph.D., CFLE, and Lindsey Weiler, Ph.D., LMFT, will provide the basic concepts of emotion coaching and its benefits.

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Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

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Go, Family Science!
Discover the Power of Family Science
And Share Resources to Spread the Word

Just as families are unique, Family Science is built on a set of traits that make it a unique social science discipline:

💬 Relationship-focused
➕ Strengths-oriented
🛑 Preventive
✔️ Evidenced-based
✋ Applied (or by another term: Translational)

Get free resources from NCFR to share how vital the work of Family Scientists' is to understanding and strengthening families — the power is yours!

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News & Updates
NCFR Student Affiliates

NCFR is pleased to announce the establishment of two new student affiliates, Cardinal Council on Family Relations at Lamar University, led by Janeal White, Ph.D., CFLE, and the University of Central Missouri, led by Jaimee Hartenstein, Ph.D.

These two student organizations have joined 22 other NCFR student affiliates. NCFR Student Affiliates give NCFR a local flavor. These local chapters provide opportunities for academic and career development, community service, and increase awareness of the family field.

Are you interested in starting a new NCFR affiliate? Find out more about starting a state/regional affiliate or student affiliate.

2024 NCFR Annual Conference
Student Access Grant Now Accepting Applications

Applications due Sept. 15

NCFR has a commitment to addressing systemic racism and opening doors where racial and ethnic barriers exist. To ensure inclusion of Family Science students who are from racial communities that have been historically marginalized, NCFR will continue to support through the NCFR Student Access Grant.

The grant will cover the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference registration fee and will provide a $500 travel stipend. Grantees who are not NCFR members will receive a one-year NCFR membership as well.

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NCFR Awards and Recognition
NCFR Seeks Nominations for 2024 Fellows

Nominations due Sept. 15

Fellow status in NCFR is an honor awarded to living members of NCFR on the basis of their outstanding contributions to Family Science. Nominations of all family scholars and professionals who have made contributions to the family field are encouraged.

Among the recognized areas of contributions are scholarship, teaching, outreach, practice, and professional service, including service to NCFR. Nominees must be nominated by another NCFR member.

Please submit your nomination materials by Sept. 15.

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NCFR Awards and Recognition
Czaplewski Fellowship Award

Past presidents of NCFR established this Fellowship in Administration in honor of retired Executive Director, Mary Jo Czaplewski (1984-99).

The purpose of this fellowship is to provide funding to support the efforts of family scholars who want to obtain and make mid-career moves into academic or nonprofit administration.

The fellowship is only awarded when there is a request for support. An award of up to $500 is given biennially to a qualified applicant.

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Advocacy for Family Science Discipline
RFI for the NICHD Strategic Plan 2025

Responses due by Sept. 27

The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) has released a Request for Information (RFI) for its strategic plan 2025. NICHD is updating its current (2020-2024) strategic plan. Feedback is being solicited as it pertains to scientific goals and opportunities for consideration and inclusion into the refreshed NICHD strategic plan. The strategic plan will help guide and facilitate the research that NICHD will support over the next five years.

NICHD is seeking input from researchers in academia and industry, health care professionals, patient and family advocates, and other interested members of the public. You can share your feedback and input with the NICHD.

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Advocacy for Families and Parents
Advisory from the Office of the Surgeon General

The U.S. Surgeon General has released an advisory on the mental health and well-being of parents, a critical and underappreciated public health priority. Over the past decade, parents have been consistently more likely to report experiencing high levels of stress in comparison to other adults. In this advisory, the Office of the Surgeon General highlights stressors that impact parents and caregivers and its bidirectional relationship to children's long-term well-being.

The advisory calls attention to the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families. This support requires and calls for thoughtful policy changes, expanded community programs that lend an umbrella of care, and a shift in cultural norms.

You can share your programs, your research, effective prevention and intervention strategies with the Office of the Surgeon General.

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Call for Articles | CFLE Network

Coaching as Part of Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Sept. 15

Parent coaching is a growing part of Family Life Education. NCFR wants to hear from CFLEs who are using coaching in their work with parents and families.

Examples of potential topics include:

The value of coaching as part of FLE work
Your story of how you are coaching parents
The challenges you have addressed as you support families
Tips and/or resources that you have found to help you coach families
How you use data or research to support your work as a coach

Authors are invited to contribute to the fall 2024 issue of CFLE Network on the theme Coaching as Part of Family Life Education.

The submission deadline is Sept. 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, Aug. 18 - Aug. 31

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 Aug. 18 and Aug. 31 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.

CFLE Service Opportunity

5 Positions Open: CFLE Academic Program Review (APR) Committee
Final Call: Apply by Sept. 11

NCFR is currently seeking five family professionals to serve as new committee members for terms beginning in 2025.

The Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) Academic Program Review Committee consists of approximately 10 appointed volunteer members who evaluate university and college applications for CFLE program approval and renewal. Term lengths run two years beginning Jan. 1, 2025, with the option to extend one year at a time up to four years.

More information in terms of qualifications, position responsibilities, and the application process can be found on the NCFR website linked below.

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Teaching Tuesday: The Need for Cultural Humility in Classrooms
Tuesday, Sept. 17, Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Presented by Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D.
Free for NCFR members

CFLE Conversations — Addressing Burnout: Personal, Professional, and Societal
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. CT
Facilitated by SaraKay Smullens, LCSW, CFLE
Free for CFLEs

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

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Video of the Week

Celebrating Hispanic Latinx American Heritage Month

Observed since 1968, this celebration recognizes the histories, cultures, and contributions of people with origins or ancestral descent from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. September also corresponds with Independence Day for Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, as well as the Argentinian Independence Revolution.

The Zippy video this week features students from a Latinx student organization at Boston University.

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New Employment Opportunities

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NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.

Chair, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Illinois State University

The College of Applied Science and Technology invites applications for the position of Chair to lead a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs. The Chair is responsible for strategic leadership, fiscal management, curriculum development and review, personnel recruitment, enrollment management, department accreditations, assessment, advancement, and oversight of the teaching and research labs. The Chair will encourage and support high quality research, teaching, and service, and advocate for the resources needed to sustain the Department's mission and vision. The potential start date for this position is July 1, 2025.

Location: Normal, Illinois
Required Education: Doctorate in an area appropriate to the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences
Application Deadline: Application review begins Oct. 1, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education
University of Georgia

The College of Family and Consumer Sciences invites applications for the position of associate dean for research and graduate education. The successful candidate will create programs that further the college's strategic priorities and align programs with the university's strategic plan. Additionally, the person in this role will facilitate interdisciplinary research across academic units, institutes, and centers to address high-priority issues; work closely with faculty, directors, graduate coordinators, and department heads to lead efforts and implement creative solutions to the needs of communities, families, and individuals using interdisciplinary methods; leverage the already strong position of the college into a leading position in the university for campus-wide initiatives.

Location: Athens, Georgia
Required Education: Doctorate in family and consumer sciences, or a related area
Application Deadline: Oct. 17, 2024; however, applicant screening will continue until the position is filled.

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Eleanor Berger Blumenthal Child Life Fellowship
University of Missouri

The Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) is pleased to announce the Eleanor Berger Blumenthal Child Life Graduate Fellowship. The successful applicant will instruct the child life practicum seminar, supervise undergraduate student practicum experiences, and may also instruct other HDFS undergraduate courses. Applicants should have a commitment to teaching excellence and exceptional service to students. This position will begin in the fall 2025 semester.

Location: Columbia, Missouri
Required Education: Master's degree in child life, or a closely-related field; intent to pursue a doctoral degree
Application Deadline: Jan. 1, 2025

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Professor of Population Science and Director, Population Research Center
University of Texas at Austin

The College of Liberal Arts is seeking a distinguished population scientist at the rank of professor/full professor and director of the Population Research Center (PRC), one of the nation's premier NICHD-funded population centers. Applicants should have a record of major contributions to the development of innovative and pathbreaking research that speaks to critical population problems confronting the U.S., and the global community, as well as an excellent track record of extramural grant support (e.g., NIH) for their research. Besides undergraduate and graduate teaching, research, and service, responsibilities as PRC director will include overseeing an outstanding set of core services supporting the development and management of large-scale research.

Location: Austin, Texas
Required Education: Doctorate in a population science discipline
Application Deadline: Application review begins Oct. 1, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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Assistant Professor
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Department of Counseling, Human Development, and Family Science (CHDFS) invites applicants for a 9-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a potential start date of Aug. 1, 2025. Responsibilities of the successful candidate will include: pursue and maintain an active program of research to include seeking funding from competitive agencies; teach two courses each fall and spring semesters; mentor graduate students; engage in professional and institutional service.

Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Required Education: Doctorate in human development and Family Science (HDFS), psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, family demography, or a closely related social science field
Application Deadline: Application review begins Sept. 15, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled.

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