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Young Adult Development Project

The MIT Young Adult Development Project was created to capture the powerful new research findings that are emerging about young adulthood and to make these insights more accessible to those who need them, including colleges and universities, employers, parents, human service providers, and young adults themselves.

Nurturing Parenting Programs

The Nurturing Parenting Programs are a family-centered initiative designed to build nurturing parenting skills as an alternative to abusive and neglecting parenting and child-rearing practices.

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Intervention Studies Fostering Parental Couple Relationships - Video Recording

Philip Cowan, Ph.D. and Carolyn Cowan, Ph.D.

Philip and Carolyn Cowan are Professors Emeriti of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley

The Cowans will be reporting on more than a decade of intervention studies on parental relationships with young children, particularly in times of transition. Their recent studies contrast the impact of couples' groups and fathers' groups and how interventions encourage low income fathers to become and stay involved with their young children.

Session Presider: Anisa Zvonkovic

Pew Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.

Family Life Education. Working with Families Across the Life Span

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.

California Evidence-based Clearing House

The CEBC website's simple and straightforward format enhances the user's ability to conduct literature searches, review extensive literature, or understand and critique research methodology. The website features brief and detailed summaries that provide salient information on each reviewed program.

Sharon Preves
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Intersex variations of sex development: Implications for families

by Sharon Preves, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Chair of Sociology, Hamline University

Welcoming a newborn child into an expectant family and surrounding community is fraught with emotion. Imagine how emotions in the delivery room might change if a newborn were pronounced "intersexed,"-a condition with external genitalia that are not clearly female or male, as occurs in 1 or 2 in 2,000 births.

Grandparent Resource Sites

The Grandparent Resource Site Grant provides a holistic system of services to grandparents, grandchildren and professionals with the goal of enhancing the abilities of kinship care families to foster school readiness in young children. The goal of this initiative is to enhance and advance the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of preschool-aged children by supporting and educating grandparents, grandchildren and professionals

Nursing Homes and Assisted Living: The Family Guide to Making Decisions and Getting Good Care

A complete guide for family members  facing the practical and emotional issues  that arise in seeking nursing home care and who are learning to be  "the family member" of someone in a nursing home or senior's housing.

Casey Life Skills

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.