The next book club selection is The Accordion Family: Boomerang Kids, Anxious Parents and the Private Toll of Global Competition by Johns Hopkins sociologist Katherine S. Newman, who will participate in a book discussion with readers.
Renowned scholar and theorist Richard Lerner of Tufts University will be speaking at a co-sponsored session to bridge the 2013 TCRF workshop and NCFR conference.
The Human Development and Family Studies undergraduate programat Michigan State University has met the Standards and Criteria required for the Provisional Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) designation from the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). This program includes appropriate course work for each of the ten family life content areas required for the CFLE designation.
Poverty in childhood, especially deep poverty, is linked to a range of physical-biological, cognitive-academic, and social-emotional problems, and these problems persist into adulthood. The Society for Research in Child Development created a policy brief on the subject.
The U.S. population will be considerably older and more racially and ethnically diverse by 2060, according to projections recently released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The World Family Map report summarizes a large body of data on family strengths and challenges, as well as important educational outcomes for children and youth.
Mathematica Policy Research is offering a summer fellowship program to promote careers in social policy research, particularly for scholars who might otherwise be drawn to government or academe.
The Department of Psychology at Murdoch University, Australia seeks to recruit a post-doctoral research fellow for a three-year appointment beginning on or after June 2013.
A family studies graduate student at California State University, Northridge is seeking subjects to serve as respondents to a survey on online daters and their online dating experiences.
SAMHSA has a searchable online registry of more than 260 interventions related to mental health and substance abuse issues
January 15, 2013
The SAMHSA National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices is a searchable online registry of more than 260 interventions supporting mental health promotion, substance abuse prevention, and mental health and substance abuse treatment.