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from 2012 NCFR Annual Conference

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1:15 pm - 3:00 pm | Regency Ballroom A/B

Childhood Obesity: From the Family Dinner Table to Public Policy

Plenary Session

Barbara Fiese, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign and Director of the Family Resiliency Center.

Presentation of the Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award to Katie Lowe. Presenter: Bethany Letiecq, Ruth Hathaway Jewson Award Committee Member

Presentation of the Ernest W. Burgess Award to Rand Conger, Ph.D. Presenter: Joyce Arditti, Research and Theory Section Chair-elect and Award Committee Chair

Presentation of the NCFR Student Award to Mallory Lucier-Greer. Presenter: Andrew Behnke, Students/New Professionals Board Representative and Award Committee Chair

Presentation of the NCFR Student Award to Amanda Williams. Presenter: Cassandra Dorius, Students/New Professionals Program Representative

Presider: Leigh A. Leslie, 2012 Program Chair

Sponsored by the University of Illinois, Department of Human & Community Development, Robert Hughes, Jr., Ph.D., Chair.

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Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs that have Significant Positve Impacts

Child Trends' latest brief, Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts, identifies 43 programs that have somewhat to very sizable, statistically significant impacts on adolescent or young adult outcomes. The brief uses Child Trends' online database of experimentally evaluated social interventions for children and youth, Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS), to identify programs with manuals that have positive impacts on a range of outcomes, such as behavior problems, physical health, and education.

Stepping up for Families - Annie E. Casey Foundation

from NCFR News

Annie E. Casey report on kinship care

July 10, 2012

This report explores the increased number of children living with extended family and close friends, a longtime practice known as kinship care.

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Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers

A new policy paper from Zero to Three, Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers, examines how staffed family child care (FCC) networks are uniquely positioned to improve the quality of care that infants and toddlers receive in FCC settings. It lists effective practices and shares examples of successful staffed FCC networks. This paper offers guidance for how states can maximize partnerships to integrate staffed FCC networks in early childhood systems. It concludes with action steps and state policy recommendations for implementing a staffed FCC network.

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Child Welfare Self-Assessment Tools for States and Counties

This tool stems from the collective vision of leading child welfare and early childhood development organizations. It is designed to help states and counties both prepare to meet the new federal requirements and conduct ongoing assessment and quality improvement efforts.

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Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health

Zero to Three's new report, Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health, highlights the scientific evidence for infant-early childhood mental health (I-ECMH) policies; examines issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I-ECMH services; and proposes a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.

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Search Institute American Family Assets Study

The American Family Assets Study from the Search Institute highlights critical strengths in families that contribute to positive outcomes for both kids and parents, introduces a new framework of Family Assets which focus on healthy relationships and practices in families, and emphasizes strengths that are relevant to a wide diversity of families in America.

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Amber Case: Cyborg Anthropologist

Anthropologist Amber Case studies the symbiotic interactions between humans and machines. In this fascinating brief TED talk (ted.com), Case, gives us a vision of how we are already acting like cyborgs. Quoting the lecture description, "Case, who predicts that intensification of the human-technology interface will quickly reduce the distance between individual and community, believes that the convergence of technologies will bring about unprecedented rapid learning and communication."

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Risk and Resiliency Among Gay Adoptive Fathers

Access the anonymous, 20-minute survey here

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Research subjects are needed

for study on gay adoptive fathers

June 26, 2012

Are you a gay, adoptive father to a young child(ren)? If so, you are invited you to participate in doctoral dissertation research on resiliency among gay-fathered families.

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