2023 Recipient

M. Elise Radina, Ph.D., CFLE, Miami University 
"Development and Preliminary Validation of a Health-related Family Quality of Life Instrument"

Purpose

This award recognizes outstanding professional achievement by presenting an award for the best professional paper written by a Families and Health Section member.

Award

The recipient receives a $200 cash award, one year of Families and Health (FH) section membership, and a plaque. The award is presented annually at the Families and Health Section (FH) annual meeting at the NCFR Annual Conference.

Criteria

The applicant:

• Must be a professional, which means he/she has been working in a field consistent with the mission of NCFR for five years or more; and
• Must be a member of NCFR and the FH Section. Not a section member yet? Joining is easy! Login to my.ncfr.org and click Join Additional Sections.
• Can only submit 1 paper per FH section award. Multiple submissions to the same category are not allowed.

Nomination/application process

• FH Chair-elect sends a notice to all FH Section members each year announcing the opportunity to submit a paper for evaluation for this award; and
• Applicants submit papers in APA formatting to the FH Chair-elect via email attachment (either a Microsoft Word or pdf document).
• Only scholarly papers are considered. Scholarly papers are considered research, professional review, theoretical development or critique, or presentation of new methodology. 
• Published papers may be considered; however, the paper must have been published the year before or the current year. Published papers must be prepared for blind review by the author(s) prior to submission.

Deadlines

June 1: Application deadline. Submit all materials to the FH Chair-elect, Daphne Hernandez.
August 15: The recipient will be notified by this date