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Preconference Workshops / NCFR Seeking Family Relations Editor / Volunteer to the CFLE APR Committee / Sign Up for NCFR Events / Calls for Articles
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• NCFR 2024 Opening Plenary & Preconference Opportunities
• Call for Applications: Family Relations Editor
• Register for NCFR Events
• NEW Journal Articles
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• Answer the Calls for Articles
• CFLE Spotlight
• Other Events
• Video of the Week
• Employment Opportunities
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2024 NCFR Annual Conference
William J. Doherty, Ph.D., Joins Conference Plenary Lineup
Difficult Conversations: How Family Professionals Can Bridge Divides in an Era of Polarization
We are pleased to announce that NCFR Past President William J. Doherty, Ph.D., NCFR Fellow, will be the opening plenary presenter at this year's annual conference, which will be held in Bellevue, Washington.
We are excited for the contributions that Dr. Doherty will make to this year's conference. In his plenary presentation, he will share how family professionals can bridge divides families face over political polarization.
READ MORE
Not registered for the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference? What are you waiting for? REGISTER TODAY
You can also check out all that is in store for this year's annual conference — the schedule is available as a PDF download.
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2024 NCFR Annual Conference
Feminist, Fearless, and Fierce Leadership Retreat
Tuesday, Nov. 19 | Noon – 6 p.m. PT
$80 Professional & Student
The purpose of this preconference workshop is to engage feminist leaders, regardless of where they are on their leadership journey. This retreat is an opportunity to introspect on ones' journey, roles and identities as leaders in higher education, dialogue with one another, and build a community of supportive peer mentors. Add this retreat to your 2024 NCFR Annual Conference registration today!
ADD TO YOUR REGISTRATION
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2024 NCFR Annual Conference
Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop
Full day, Tuesday, Nov. 19 | AM, Wednesday, Nov. 20
$60 Professional | $40 Student
The Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop is a longstanding tradition within NCFR. This intimate, receptive workshop focuses on providing constructive feedback and collaborative discussion, and a collegial and cooperative context for family methods and theories to evolve, seeing to the advancement of moving working papers and ideas forward. Add TCRM to your 2024 NCFR Annual Conference registration today!
ADD TO YOUR REGISTRATION
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Donate to NCFR's Student Access Grant
Donating to NCFR Student Access Grant is a great way to show your support in ensuring that students from populations that have been ethnically and racially historically marginalized can engage in the full NCFR conference and membership experience. Consider donating
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Call for Nominations & Applications
NCFR Seeks Journal Editor, Family Relations
Apply by Aug. 1
Nominations and applications are sought for the editor of Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science. The committee anticipates selecting a candidate by Oct. 1, and the new editor will be announced at the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference in Bellevue, Washington.
The five-year term of the new editor will begin January 2025. Nominees and applicants must be members of NCFR.
LEARN MORE & APPLY
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Next CFLE Conversations
Navigating the Unspoken: CFLEs Tackling Difficult Topics in Education
Wednesday, July 31 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Facilitator: Jazmin Nagorski, CFLE
Free for CFLEs / Reinstate your CFLE Credential
Are you a CFLE tackling difficult topics in your work? Join Jazmin Nagorski, CFLE, for the July CFLE Conversation to engage in an open dialogue on approaching difficult topics in your work. Bring any questions, stories, challenges, or successes you might have.
RESERVE YOUR SEAT
If you are interested in facilitating a future CFLE Conversation, contact Jessica Oswald.
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Next NCFR Webinar
Integrating Adult Learning Principles into Family Life Education Practices
Tuesday, August 27 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE
Despite most professors and Family Life Educators having a primary job responsibility of educating adults, many find themselves with minimal training on the basic principles of adult learning. Given the significant amount of time education professionals spend developing, implementing, and evaluating educational content for learners, there is a clear need for a deeper understanding of the foundational concepts of adult education. This webinar is designed to bridge that gap by providing participants with a strong base of adult learning science from which they can make informed decisions about how to enhance their own teaching methods.
In this webinar, Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE, will provide practical strategies for how to engage with adult learners appropriately and effectively across nearly any delivery format or educational setting.
SIGN UP TO ATTEND
Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education
NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member
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Upcoming NCFR Teaching Tuesday
The Need for Cultural Humility in Classrooms
Tuesday, Sept. 17 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Free for NCFR members to attend
Presenter: Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D.
Cultural humility emphasizes an ongoing process of continual learning and critical self-reflection to work effectively with diverse families and communities, and challenge institutions to take accountability for their practices. Students are expected to encounter unfamiliar situations at the start of the cultural humility process and are assumed to handle challenges proactively. Today’s political restriction of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives requires Family Science students to seek additional support to stay motivated for continual learning. During this Teaching Tuesday, Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D., will share teaching and supportive strategies to address such barriers in building cultural humility.
After a brief presentation, participants will have the opportunity to discuss:
- the fit of Family Science courses into the cultural humility framework;
- overcoming stumbling blocks encountered in the learning process;
- how to stay dedicated and support oneself as anti-DEI initiatives unfold.
REGISTER FOR SEPT. 17
NCFR members can access past recordings of Teaching Tuesdays. If you would like to be a future session facilitator, contact Jessica Oswald.
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NCFR Journals
New NCFR Research Plus FR July Issue
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 July 7 and July 13 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.
Submit your scholarship for publication in an NCFR journal.
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NCFR Journals
Call for Articles: Journal of Family Theory & Review
The Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) invites submissions for the following special issues and emerging voices about intersectionality and how it might be studied in Family Science.
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Call for Authors | Family Focus
Methods and Measures in Family Science
Submit Your Proposal by Aug. 15
Interactions among individual family members are embedded in diverse social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. Yet historical measures and methods may not reflect interactions within and across families who have been historically marginalized. Understanding family relationships and interactions considering these intricacies demands innovation in the ways Family Scientists define family well-being and in the exploration of how family structures, processes, and relationships influence well-being.
Articles are sought that examine a wide range of methods and measures to deepen the scientific understanding of family functioning and well-being. Articles are welcomed that critique existing methods and measures, provide innovative designs and promising new approaches, and adapt tools and techniques from other disciplines to the study of family functioning and well-being.
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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.
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NCFR Awards & Recognition
Dawn Cassidy CFLE Special Recognition Award
Apply by Sept. 1
Each year, NCFR recognizes a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) who has demonstrated exceptional effort in promoting, supporting, or improving the CFLE credential or program.
The 2023 recipient was Dawn Cassidy, M.Ed., CFLE, and the award name was changed in her honor.
Please consider nominating a deserving colleague or applying for this year's award yourself! Nominations/applications are due by Sept. 1, and involve completing an application form, writing a statement of impact, a letter of support, and providing a vita or résumé.
NOMINATE OR SELF-NOMINATE
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CFLE Service Opportunity
5 Positions Open: CFLE Academic Program Review (APR) Committee
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 January 1, 2025, with the option to extend 1 year at a time up to 4 years.
More information in terms of qualifications, position responsibilities, and the application process can be found on the NCFR website linked below.
FIND OUT MORE / APPLY
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CFLE Updates
New & Renewed CFLE-Approved Programs
NCFR congratulates the following programs for recently renewing their CFLE approved status:
- Iowa State University - B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies
- Andrews University - M.A., M.Div., D.Min, Ph.D., in Family Life Education
Because of this status, students graduating from these programs can continue to 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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Opportunity to Earn CFLE Continuing Education Credit
Expressive Brushes: Using Art-based Mediums to Support Children & Youth During Change
Thursday, July 25 / 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 which will focus on the practical application of art-based mediums to foster empathy, perspective-taking, and effective communication among young individuals, particularly those in middle childhood (6-12 years old). The emphasis will be on the principles and strategies for using art as a tool to explore and process challenging social and emotional issues related to significant life changes.
Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education
LEARN MORE & REGISTER
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Video of the Week
World Listening Day
This week's Zippy Video is in recognition of World Listening Day, which happens to be today (July 18). World Listening Day is an annual observance. In this video, the speaker, Dr. Heather Spence, shares the importance of active listening, listening across boundaries, and being inclusive in the ways that we listen.
VIDEO LINK
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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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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Texas Tech University
The Texas Tech University is pleased to announce an opening for a nine-month, tenure-track, assistant/associate professor position. The successful candidate will be responsible for publishing and presenting scholarly work, pursuing and securing extramural funding, as well as teaching graduate (M.S. & Ph.D.) and undergraduate courses. The selected candidate will supervise couple, marriage, and family therapy practicum courses, and advise graduate students (including thesis and dissertation committees).
This position will begin fall 2025.
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Required Education: Doctorate in couple, marriage, and family therapy, or a closely related area
Application Deadline: Oct. 18, 2024
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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University of Missouri
The University of Missouri is seeking applicants for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with faculty at the Center for Family Policy and Research (CFPR), whose research focuses on early childhood education and development, especially among vulnerable and underrepresented populations. This position is a 12-month appointment with the possibility of continuation. The successful applicant will contribute to a team science infrastructure to build multidisciplinary collaborations working with faculty with active research funding in the CFPR, as well as seeking and writing federal grants.
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Required Education: Doctorate in human development and Family science, or a related field
Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin Sept. 16, 2024; Open until filled
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University announces the opening of an Extension Specialist/Behavioral Health, a 12-month, tenure track position with the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. This position has statewide responsibilities and will require travel. Extension Specialists provide New Mexico's citizenry and communities with effective leadership and collaboration to foster economic, educational, and community development.
The New Mexico Cooperative Extension Service (CES) delivers practical, research-based knowledge and programs that improve New Mexicans' quality of life.
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
Required Education: Doctorate in family studies, counseling, social work, human development, psychology, psychiatry, or a related field
Application Deadline: Aug. 30, 2024
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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Zippy News is the weekly e-newsletter of the National Council on Family Relations.
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