Hurry - Letter of intent due this Thursday, March 31
March 29, 2011
Funds are available for supporting secondary analyses of the Head Start Impact Study to answer questions related to the characteristics of effective Head Start centers, classrooms, and teachers.
Contemporary family life educators must operate in a wide range of settings and with increasingly varied populations and families. In the second edition of their successful Family Life Education, Powell and Cassidy expertly expose readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, practical foundation for future family life educators. The authors broad overview of the field features a blend of theory and practice, with full chapters on sexuality education, marriage education, and parent education-areas that have received evaluation and certification attention.
Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.
Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.
The Ounce of Prevention organization promotes family policy that underscores optimal early childhood development. They produced this video to illustrate just how important an ounce of prevention is worth. Click here to read about the evidence that answers the question, "Why Invest Early?"
This film is vintage family life education at its best. This 50s-era educational short film seeks to teach adolescents how to have a successful date. The educational consultant for the film is NCFR's own Evelyn Millis Duvall, our late Executive Director from several terms ago. Enjoy a trip back 60 years.
We're Here, We're Here! Help NCFR promote Family Life Education
February 03, 2011
In an effort to increase awareness and understanding of family life education, NCFR is leading an effort to have February declared as Family Life Education Month throughout the country.
Chapter two of the NCFR publication, Family Life Education: Integrating Theory and Practice, edited by David J. Bredehoft, Ph.D., CFLE and Michael J. Walcheski, Ph.D., CFLE. (2009).
