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Recovering Families. Using the Tools of Recovery in Parenting

Recovering Families is a 34 page parenting workbook designed to be used by parenting programs, drug and alcohol inpatient rehab facilities, outpatient counseling offices, and support groups that are working with parents who are recovering from chemical addiction.

Individual and Family Stress and Crises

The first comprehensive text on stress and crisis management specifically tailored to courses focusing on the family. Organized by stress model, this book helps readers understand the relationships among models, research, crisis prevention, and crisis management with individuals and families. Providing a balance of theory, research, hands-on applications, and intervention strategies, this innovative text presents a comprehensive overview of the field. An ideal core text for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in courses such as Family Crisis, Family Stress and Coping, and Dysfunctions in Marriage and Family.

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Donor Siblings - Audio Recording

Wendy Kramer will talk about the Donor Sibling Registry (DSR), which she created to help sperm donor siblings connect with one another. The internet-based nonprofit organization has connected over 7000 families, redefining how family is conceptualized.

Discussants: Alexis Walker; Yvette Perry; Ingrid Connidis

Facilitator: Katherine Allen

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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

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Burgess Award Address - Divorce and Children's Wellbeing: An Update - Audio Recording

Paul R. Amato, Ph.D., 2008 Award Winner

Presentation of Award and Session Presider: Shelley MacDermid, Award Committee Chair

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.

Iluminando Program. Free Domestic Violence Curriculum for Working with Faith Communities

The program’s goal is to give these church leaders the background and preparation they need in order to offer variety of domestic violence prevention and intervention activities in their churches and communities.  Please check out the manuals and powerpoints.

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

William Marsiglio
from Family Focus on Fatherhood

An Expanded Vision of Fathering and Youth Work

by William Marsiglio, Professor of Sociology, University of Florida

Although the multilayered cultural narrative of American fathering is slowly evolving in progressive ways, the word “fathering,” for too many, still signals notions of paternity, breadwinning, or something nebulous about “being there.” “Mothering,” on the other hand, more readily conjures up sentiments tied to nurturance, caregiving—the core stuff of relationships.

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Cohabitation Plenary Session - Video Recording

Two leading scholars will offer a plenary on cohabitation. Dr. Scott Stanley, Research Professor, Department of Psychology, and Co-Director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver, will discuss risk and findings from an ongoing longitudinal study in his presentation. Dr. Pamela Smock, Professor of Sociology and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan, will cite recent evidence from social science research and examine the meanings of cohabitation in the United States as they vary by social class, gender, and race/ethnicity.