This Quality Assessment Tool was designed to help family life educators and others who work with families to judge the quality of written and online materials aimed at families. It guides the user through an analysis of the content and construction of the materials. It focuses on factors that can be assessed by examining the materials themselves. It guides users through a four-step process to assess informational pamphlets, newsletters, booklets, and online articles; magazines; trade books; curriculum guides/workshop outlines; and Web sites.
The Sloan Work and Family Research Network form Boston College has a series of "topic pages" that provide helpful information on a wide variety of work-life issues.
What are some of the processes that family life educators can encourage to help people get beyond skills, to manage bias, ferret out cultural nonsense, and build strong family relationships?
According to conference evaluations, all who attended this presentation by Wally Goddard at the 2010 Annual Conference shared the same opinion...this was not a speech to be missed if you care about family life education and University outreach.
This video is for you...set aside some time to hear why skills, although the focus of much FLE, are only a small part of what enables people to sustain healthy relationships. Hear more about: perceptual systems and interpretive biases; cultural norms that support or challenge relationships, and processes that family life educators can encourage to help people manage bias, ferret out cultural nonsense, and build strong family relationships.
H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D., University of Arkansas Extension, 2010 Arcus Award Winner
The international character of San Francisco, the site for the 2009 NCFR Conference, will afford an exciting context for examining how diversity issues affect family scholarship, practice, policy, and education and how each of us might contribute to better understanding of the heterogeneity, as well as the commonalities of diverse families, not only in the United States, but also around the globe. [See page for links to the conference program booklet; audio/video order form; program schedule; and presentation downloads/handouts]
Application for Prior Approval of CFLE Continuing Education Credit. To be used by organizations seeking CFLE approval for their meeting, class or event.
