Working Family Resource Center, in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education, will be presenting a free webinar for Spanish-speaking families.
El Centro de Recursos Para La Familia, en colaboración con el Departamento de Educación del estado de Minnesota, estarán presentando gratuitamente un seminario a través de internet (Webinar).
The World Family Map report summarizes a large body of data on family strengths and challenges, as well as important educational outcomes for children and youth.
Stephen T. Russell, sociologist and expert on adolescent sexuality from the University of Arizona, talks about his research on the special vulnerabilities of LGBT youth in their communities. He assesses the state of the field today as well as his thoughts about where research should go in the future.
As a Certified Family Life Educator and as a practicing Muslim woman, I have had the opportunity to reflect about diversity, be it within Islam or in the broader context of working in family education.
by Deborah Gentry, Ed.D., CFLE, NCFR Academic Program Liaison
In keeping with the theme of multiculturalism for this issue of the newsletter, I have chosen the CFLE Content Area 1 – Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts as a focus for this column. Several recent happenings in my life have reinforced my high regard for the importance of this Content Area and its objectives.
Recently, I sat with my family watching the televised presentation of the London Summer Olympics. We were interrupted with breaking news from a Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb where a shooting took place during worship at a Sikh temple. While there have been many days I have wondered if my chosen path makes a difference in the world – yesterday I realized just how important pluralistic education is to our families, our communities, and our nation. In stunned silence my husband, two children and I watched the tragedy unfold.
Reviewed by Professor Richard Glotzer, Ph.D., CFLE
Sociologists George Yancey and Richard Lewis remind readers that the American context is evolving both demographically and interpersonally. Interracial Families explores attraction, dating and family formation in an emerging environment that is less socially bounded and retaliatory about personal choices than even in the recent past.
This second edition of Black Fathers built upon and continued the tradition of the first edition by looking into the soul of Black America and seeing the integral role that the Black father plays.
