May is National Foster Care Month, meant to acknowledge foster parents, family members, volunteers, mentors, policymakers, child welfare professionals, and other members of the community who help children and youth in foster care find permanent homes and connections.
The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has recently published two discretionary research funding announcements titled “Child Care Administrative Data Analysis Grants” and “Research Connections.”
This week is National Prevention Week, meant to increase public awareness of and spur action around the prevention of behavioral health issues, such as substance abuse and mental illness.
A qualitative research commission, growing out of the August 2012 Journal of Marriage and Family "Exchange on Qualitative Research," has been formed to assess the qualitative climate at JMF and encourage more qualitative submissions. You are invited to share your ideas.
NCFR is all about family. Some of our staff wanted to take the opportunity this Mother's Day to recognize their wonderful mothers, to express the joy of being moms themselves, and to honor mothers everywhere.
Bowling Green State University’s National Center for Family and Marriage Research has new research brief called Young Adults in the Parental Home and the Great Recession.
Did you know that among all children under 18 years of age, 45 percent live in low-income families, and 22 percent live in poor families? Read more in The National Center for Children in Poverty's recently released fact sheet.
Implementing evidence-based programs is a hot topic in child and youth development. Three research briefs Child Trends released recently suggest that it's not enough to invest in programs that have been shown to work — we need to identify and invest in the components that make these programs work better.
Do you have a brother or sister with an intellectual or developmental disability?
Are you 18 years and older and live in the US?
Do you provide care and/or support to your brother or sister with a disability? This can include everything from living with your sibling, to driving them to the doctor, to talking on the phone and visiting.
We are now well into a new year, 2013. This is a particularly exciting time for NCFR as we celebrate our 75th year as an organization. Since many of us were not alive when the organization was born, I thought it would be fun to share with you information about what things were like in 1938 that may have further helped to birth NCFR.
Seventy-five years ago, filming began on what was to become the most watched movie of all time, The Wizard of Oz. While Judy Garland was singing "Over the Rainbow," and trying desperately to return home to her family, Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, the National Conference on Family Relations was celebrating its inaugural meeting in New York City.
The National Center for Family and Marriage Research has released an updated version of the family profile documenting the crossover in women's median ages at first birth and first marriage.
Each year the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) recognizes a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) who has contributed to the success of the CFLE program.
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