National Sex Ed Conference is the premier pace for sexuality educators to network and learn! Open to health educators, community educators, teachers, professors, nurses, social workers, counselors, therapists, scholars…if you teach sex ed, this is the conference for YOU!
by Laura E. Gültekin, M.S., FNP-BC, RN, graduate student, University of Michigan School of Nursing, and Barbara L. Brush
In recent years, aggressive national efforts have yielded modest reductions in the overall number of individuals facing homelessness. Nonetheless, the number of homeless persons in families has increased by 20% since 2007.
by Angela Wiley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Applied Family Studies and Extension Specialist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The complex problem of childhood overweight and growing desperation to find effective interventions have led to hand wringing and occasional blaming of everything from parents, to schools, to individual food and beverage items. The family context is of primary importance for the younger generation, and effective intervention involves identifying and building on the strengths inherent in family contexts.
I realize that you won’t receive this NCFR Report piece until summer, but I wanted to provide you with a summary of the activities we as a section are involved in as we prepare for the 2012 annual conference in Phoenix. Boy, it has been a busy time!
Nurses have always been involved with in health care and health education of families in agencies and throughout the community in American history. It was not until more recent times starting in the early 1980s, that the nursing profession began to identify a specialty called Family Nursing or Family Health Care Nursing.
What an exciting time to be a member of our section. We have embarked on our "Walk to Phoenix" project - a project that will keep the NCFR membership involved all year as we anticipate and prepare for the 2012 Annual Conference with its focus on Families and Health! I encourage all of you to participate.
Military families...research, historical overviews, practice and programs. Introduction by Shelly MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D. CFLE, Purdue University.
Special access: Since the well-being of military families has re-emerged as an important topic for our nation during the last decade, this issue of NCFR Report is available to all readers.
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