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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. See our line-up of speakers below which includes a children’s civil rights attorney, a physician who is a community activist/organizer, a veteran researcher on children and families, and an expert on LGBT and minority youth.

Major Sessions

Plenary speakers and presentation titles

• Deana Pollard Sacks, J.D., L.L.M. Professor of Law, Texas Southern University
  Mitigating Media's Harmful Effects on Youth: The Importance of Proactive Parenting and Counterspeech
• America Bracho, M.D., M.P.H., Executive Director, Latino Health Access, Santa Ana, California.
  Involving Community Members (Promotores) in Children’s Well-Being
• Kristin Moore, Ph.D., Senior Scholar, Child Trends.
  What is Child Well-Being? Does It Matter How We Measure It?
• Stephen T. Russell, Ph.D., Professor and Interim Director, Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, University of Arizona.
  LGBTQ Youth Well-Being: The Role of Parents and Policy
  

75th Anniversary Address

Revolution in Intimate Life and Relationships in the Past 75 Years
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.

Special Sessions topics

• Abiguous loss featuring Pauline Boss
• "Pathways to Prison"
• Research methodology
• Feminist research
• Building family programs in Honduras
• Latino(a) families in later life
• Health disparities
• Leadership training featuring Patricia Hyjer Dyk

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