Well-being of Children and Youth in Families and Communities

Conference details, registration options, and online registration will be available in mid-February.
 

Judith Fischer, Texas Tech University, Program Chair

How do family professionals understand the well-being of family members who are children and adolescents? For the 2013 conference, I would like to bring together all of us (researchers, practitioners and program evaluators, policy makers, community members, etc.) to examine the well-being of child and adolescent family members. The multidimensional concept of well-being is associated with individual characteristics, family and social contexts, political and historical contexts, and their interactions. The conference should empower and inform participants to take the next steps to better understand and enhance the well-being of children and adolescents, and, in turn, their families and communities. Confirmed speakers include a children’s civil rights attorney, a physician and community activist/organizer, and a researcher on LGBT and minority youth. A confirmed special session explores a community-based residential program for at-risk children in Honduras.

Major Sessions
 

The following speakers are confirmed. Presentations are in planning; watch for titles and details in early 2013.

• Deanna Pollard Sacks, J.D., L.L.M. Professor of Law, Texas Southern University (plenary)
• America Bracho, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, California (plenary)
• Stephen T. Russell, Professor and Interim Director, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona (plenary)
• Kristin Moore, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Child Trends (plenary)
• Dudley Chancey, Professor of Youth and Family Ministry, Oklahoma Christian University (special session)

75th Anniversary Address

Stephanie Coontz, faculty at The Evergreen State College, Co-Chair and Director of Public Education at the Council on Contemporary Families, and leading family researcher and author, will deliver a special presentation at the 2013 annual conference. Her session is the lead-off event for the NCFR 75th anniversary celebration starting late afternoon on Friday and is followed by the anniversary reception, anniversary program, and fajita festival.

(Pre-conference workshops will be held Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013.)