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NCFR Weekly Zippy News
Friday, September 19, 2025
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• NCFR Olson Grant Recipients
• NEW 2nd Edition: Wisdom for Parents
• 2025 Graduates: Apply for NCFR Honors
• Call for Articles: Later Adulthood |
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NCFR Announces 2025 Olson Grant Recipients
NCFR and David H. Olson, Ph.D., proudly announce Nick Frye-Cox, Ph.D., Ben Burke, Ph.D., Haley Sherman, Ph.D., and Davina Quichocho, Ph.D. (l to r above) as the 2025 recipients of the NCFR Olson Grant: Bridging Research, Theory, and Practice.
Now in its sixth year, this $10,000 grant supports NCFR members whose work strengthens Family Science by uniting research, theory, and practice.
The team’s study, “All the Feels: Can Flexibility and Cohesion Turn Emotional Diversity into Marital Satisfaction?”, explores how couples’ emotional experiences shape relationship satisfaction, offering new insights to guide clinical tools and family interventions.
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NCFR Policy Brief
Promoting Positive Coparenting:
Toward Comprehensive and Inclusive Family Policies
Written by Nicolas Favez, Ph.D., and Mark E. Feinberg, Ph.D.
Coparenting is the way parents and parent figures work together—through cooperation, coordination, and managing conflict—to raise children. |
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Research shows that the quality of this relationship strongly affects both parents’ well-being and children’s development, regardless of family structure.
Yet, many social, economic, and family policies worldwide overlook coparenting. This gap misses opportunities to strengthen families and perpetuates gender inequalities and caregiver exclusion in work and services.
This policy brief takes an international view, offering evidence-based recommendations for policies that recognize and support coparenting. These recommendations balance broad applicability with clear guidance for researchers and policymakers.
READ FULL BRIEF
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NEW 2ND EDITION
Wisdom for Parents. Key Ideas from Parent Educators
Edited by Elizabeth A. Ramsey, Ph.D., CFLE
Wisdom for Parents is a compilation of articles, stories, reflections, and poems from Family Science professionals including parent educators and Certified Family Life Educators (CFLEs), college professors, counselors, social workers, clergy, and more. The collected professional knowledge is woven together to address a variety of relevant topics on the joys and challenges of parenting. |
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This book is for everyone: professionals, students, and parents can all benefit from this book. It is a valuable resource both in and out of the classroom setting.
This second edition includes updated entries from many of the original authors as well as new contributions. Many of the articles contain discussion questions for group settings or independent thought.
This book is now available for purchase and CFLEs receive a discounted price. Proceeds from its sale support the CFLE Scholarship.
LEARN MORE & PURCHASE |
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NCFR AWARDS |
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NCFR Awards and Recognition
Calling All 2025 Graduates
Apply for NCFR Honors by Sept. 22
Are you a 2025 graduate or soon-to-be graduate with a degree in Family Science? Apply to the NCFR Honors Student Recognition Program and receive recognition for your accomplishments. LEARN MORE
The NCFR honors program is an opportunity available to students of all academic levels. The application deadline for all 2025 semesters (spring, summer, and fall) is Sept. 22. Tell your friends!
APPLY TODAY
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ARE YOU READY FOR NCFR 2025? |
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2025 NCFR Annual Conference
This Year's NCFR Featured Presenters
You won't want to miss our exciting presenter lineup this year (to include, but not limited to) pictured above l to r:
MEET OUR PRESENTERS
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2025 NCFR Annual Conference
Discover Our Re-Imagined Conference Schedule
Nov. 19-22, 2025 | Baltimore, Maryland
Join us in November and learn how Family Scientists, Family Life Educators, practitioners, policymakers, students, and researchers deepen their understanding and effectiveness in fostering meaningful change within their communities.
This year's schedule has been maximized to allow for more time to learn, network, and connect:
★ New Section & Focus Group Meetings streamlined schedule
★ Thursday Morning "Affinity Fair" with continental breakfast
★ Collab Corner to recharge and meet with colleagues
★ Four Poster Sessions
★ Friday Night Party — sponsored by the Department of Family Science at the University of Maryland School of Public Health
★ More academic sessions added
★ More space between sessions to eat, network, make connections
View Schedule at a Glance
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After you register for the 2025 NCFR Annual Conference, reserve your room at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. Look for the blue "Book Hotel" button on your conference registration confirmation page. BOOK YOUR ROOM
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2025 NCFR Annual Conference
NCFR Sponsor & Exhibit Opportunities
Showcase Your Organization to Conference Attendees
Get maximum exposure for your organization and face time with your target audiences as a sponsor, exhibitor, or University Receptions participant at the 2025 NCFR Annual Conference.
Sponsors: There are more options this year to support the NCFR conference and receive recognition at NCFR academic sessions, in communications, and on social media. Find a level that fits your organization's needs. Learn more
Exhibits: Promote your products, programs, and services over three days of exhibit hours to hundreds of researchers, faculty, practitioners, and students who have convened to get new ideas and inspiration for their family-related work. Learn more
University Receptions: Colleges and degree programs can connect with prospective students and alumni at our annual college fair in Baltimore on Thursday, Nov. 20, from 6–8 p.m. Learn more
Reservations Due: Sept. 30, 2025
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REGISTER FOR TCRM WORKSHOP |
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2025 NCFR Annual Conference
Add the TCRM Workshop to Your Registration
Full day Nov. 18 | AM only Nov. 19
$40 for students | $60 for professionals
The Theory Construction and Research Methodology (TCRM) Workshop will be onsite at the 2025 NCFR Annual Conference. The TCRM Workshop is a longstanding tradition within NCFR and a great entry point if you are building an understanding in or have interest in theory and/or methodology, and advancing the study of families.
Working papers on family theory and research methodology are reviewed, discussed, and strengthened. TCRM presents an atmosphere of collaboration, invites engaged discussion between authors, discussants, and the audience alike. This year will feature a new format: question posters! The full schedule is now available online
Register for TCRM when you register for the conference — or add it to your registration anytime later.
REGISTER FOR TCRM
TCRM is made possible with the support of NCFR's Journal of Family Theory & Review.
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NCFR RESEARCH |
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NCFR Journals
The Latest NCFR Research: New JFTR Issue
Published Sept. 7–13, 2025
Every week, we seek to bring you a glimpse of the latest research from 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).
In addition to new early-view articles across the journals, JFTR's September issue is available now. Explore a retrospective of JFTR's Digital Scholarship Board, reflexive voices articles that reveal the person behind the science, numerous articles on theoretical and methodological advances, systematic reviews, and more.
SEE ALL NEW NCFR RESEARCH
If you are an NCFR member subscribed to one of our journals, you can access articles by logging into your NCFR account. You can also sign up for email alerts.
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NCFR RESOURCES |
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NCFR Policy Corner
This Week's Policy Highlights and Opportunities
NCFR’s Policy Corner is a bi-weekly segment dedicated to keeping our community informed, engaged, and connected around key policy and advocacy issues affecting families and Family Science.
On the radar for Sept. 18, 2025:
Federal
State and Local:
SEE FULL DETAILS FOR SEPT. 18
Have a policy issue on your radar? We’d love to hear from you! Share your insights with us at policy@ncfr.org.
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How to Engage in Public Scholarship
NCFR Resource Collection
Do you want your scholarly work to positively impact families’ lives? Learn ways you can engage in public scholarship: creating change through the translation and communication of scientific and evidence-based knowledge to those outside of academia.
In NCFR's resource collection, you’ll find NCFR webinars, conference sessions, and articles about:
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communicating via social media,
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creating and disseminating translational content,
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collaborating with other stakeholders to implement educational programs,
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conducting Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to collaborate with community members, and
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more across the spectrum of public scholarship activities.
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NCFR Nexus
Call for Articles: Later Adulthood
Submission deadline: Nov. 1
The Winter 2026 issue of NCFR Nexus will focus on later adulthood. With the U.S. population growing older, families and communities face new opportunities and challenges. Many adults thrive in independence, while others need significant support—often from unpaid family caregivers.
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Research on later-life well-being
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Community supports for healthy aging
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Family needs in elder caregiving
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Preparing professionals to serve older adults
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Family Life Education in multigenerational contexts
NCFR Nexus invites articles from researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers. Submissions are due Nov. 1, 2025, via the NCFR Nexus Article Submission Form.
READ MORE
Questions or ideas? Contact editor Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE, at nexuseditor@ncfr.org. |
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NCFR 2025 Promotional Flyer
Spread the word about the 2025 NCFR Annual Conference in your college, organization, and networks.
Download Department Flyer (PDF)
Download Plenary Presenters Flyer (PDF) |
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Video of the Week
Bouncy Balls in San Francisco
Who can resist the simple pleasure of seeing how far or how high a bouncy ball will go once you let it go? How about 250,000 bouncy balls, set loose down the famous hills of San Francisco?
In 2005, a team of adventurous filmmakers did just that to create a British commercial for Sony Bravia TV sets. Everything was shot live with nothing generated by computers. Even a frog that jumps through the frame was real.
WATCH VIDEO
Do you have a video of a local news story from your area, or something notable? Email a link to tripsullivan@ncfr.org and perhaps we will feature it in Zippy News!
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Employment Opportunities
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Assistant Professor of Child and Family Studies
California State University, Long Beach
The Department of Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) at California State University, Long Beach is the largest FCS program on the west coast. The department seeks a full-time assistant professor to teach courses in child and family development; supervise interns; advise and mentor students; participate in curriculum and program development; and maintain a consistent program of research, scholarship, or creative activities leading to peer-reviewed publications, community-based outputs, and/or conference presentations.
Location: Long Beach, California
Required Education: Doctorate
Application Deadline: Reviews of applications began Sept. 2, 2025; open until filled
SEE FULL DETAILS & APPLY
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