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The WIC Program

a review of the research

March 21, 2012

The USDA's Office of Research and Analysis just published a report named Effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): A Review of Recent Research.

from Zippy Weekly Videos

In this 1953 short film, a young lady named Molly prepares for and experiences menarche. This film shows how times have changed -and also how some things will never change. Throughout time, the onset of menstruation is a girl's biological rite of passage. Good education helps to ensure that the experience is positive and not scary.

Ft Hood Soldier returns home, photo by Jonathan D. Blundell

from Family Focus on Military Families

Returning home: What we know about the reintegration of deployed service members into their families and communities

by Lydia I. Marek, Ph.D., LMFT, Family and Community Research Laboratory, Virginia Tech, W. Glenn Hollingsworth, M.A., Carissa D’Aniello, M.A., Kathleen O’Rourke, M.A., Donna-Jean P. Brock, M.A., Lyn Moore, M.A., John L. Butler VI, M.S., Jing Zhang, M.S., Bradford Wiles, M.A.

As nearly one half of all military personnel are parents, and almost two million children have a military parent. With the number of returning service members increasing, they and their families must now reassemble their lives after each member has experienced profound change.

from Professional Resource Library

Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths Booklet

How does underage drinking correlate with adult alcoholism? What preventable problem injures 1900 U.S. teens per year? Which prescription pain medications were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined? The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the U.S. answers these questions and more in a free online booklet in PDF format called "Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths"

from Events Calendar

Australian Institute on Family Studies conference

Family Transitions and Trajectories

July 25, 2012 - July 26, 2012

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

The AIFS Conference is the premier event for discussing cutting-edge research findings, policy priorities and topical issues important to family wellbeing in Australia.

from Professional Resource Library

Head Start Children, Families, and Programs: Present and Past Data from FACES

Using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this report for the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a portrait of children entering Head Start for the first time in fall 2009, as well as of their family backgrounds, and the classrooms and programs that serve them. The report also offers comparisons across the past decade of the Head Start program to delineate trends and changes in the population served and the services provided.

from CFLE CEU Approved Meetings

Traumatic Stress and Youth

How do we intervene with our most challenged teens?

March 29, 2012

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The annual Lessons from the Field seminar series showcasing current research and its practical application.

from Career Resources

Taking family research into the marketplace of ideas: strategies, tips and insights on working with media

By Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.

Will your career involve working with the media? The challenges of getting research out via popular media are significant in today's high-tech world of information (and misinformation!) overload. In this article, Marthi Erickson discusses working with the media based on her many years of expertise.

from The N=1 Experiment Blog

One kid, two kid, red kid, blue kid - choosing the size of your family

By Nancy Gonzalez, CFLE

Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | March 07, 2012

In this election cycle, for the first time in my adult life, family planning issues are front and center. I never expected contraception to be part of the political discourse, especially contraception practiced by a married couple. I can't think of a more personal--or more important--decision for couples to consider. Whether parents are in red states or blue states, this choice has social, ethnic and religious influences that are very, very strong. One of our NCFR members just wrote a book to help people think though this crucial decision.