CFLE in the News
CFLEs as Authors
The third edition of Family Life Now by Kelly J. Welch, CFLE, is now available through Sage Publications. The book provides a candid, thoughtful examination of marriages, families, and intimate relationships that follow the Family Life Education framework. Written in a student-friendly, conversational style, the text encourages readers to draw on their own backgrounds and experiences to understand theories and concepts vital to the family sciences. Welch incorporates scholarship from the social and behavioral sciences to cover topics that are important to students today, such as LGBTQ+ individuals and relationships, cohabitating, and financial compatibility with a partner.
The fourth edition of Family Life Education: Working with Families Across the Lifespan is available through Waveland Press. Authored by three CFLEs, Carol Darling, Ph.D., Dawn Cassidy, M.Ed., and Sharon Ballard, Ph.D., the text exposes readers to the diverse landscape of the field while laying a comprehensive, research-based, and practical foundation for current and future Family Life Educators. This new edition includes PowerPoint slides, created by Cynthia Wilson. Ph.D., who is also a CFLE!
CFLE Receives $6.5 Million in Grant Funding
Jerica M. Berge, Ph.D., M.P.H., LMFT, CFLE, received two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants, totaling more than $6.5 million, to research cardiovascular health among a diverse population of children at the University of Minnesota (UMN). Dr. Berge is a professor and vice chair for research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the UMN Medical School. Dr. Berge’s NIH research agenda focuses on weight and weight-related health behaviors across the lifespan, families and health, women’s health, and integrated care. She conducts both childhood obesity prevention and treatment studies within primary care settings with the goal of decreasing childhood obesity disparities in low-income and minority households. Dr. Berge is a longtime NCFR member and CFLE and has served as chair of the Families and Health Section and on the CFLE Advisory Board. She is a recipient of the 2017 CFLE Special Recognition Award.
MUW Students Provide FLE in the Community
Students from a Program Planning and Evaluation course at Mississippi University for Women (a CFLE-approved school) recently provided Family Life Education to students at a local high school. The program was designed to give the high school students a basic understanding of the postsecondary education or training options available to them and how a desired lifestyle and expected wages can influence career choices. Dr. Dorothy Berglund, CFLE, a professor of Family Science and the chair of the Department of Psychology and Family Science, said it is the first class in which students are introduced to the entire logic model for programming, from coming up with the idea, to conducting a needs assessment, to program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Six Programs Renew Their CFLE-Approved Program Status
One graduate program and five undergraduate programs recently renewed their status as NCFR CFLE-approved programs. The graduate program was the Human Services—Family Studies Track at Warner Pacific University. The undergraduate programs include Great Lakes Christian College, Family Life Education; Middle Tennessee State University, Child Development & Family Studies; University of Georgia, Human Development & Family Science; University of Louisiana, Lafayette; Human Development & Family Science and the Human Development & Family Studies program at Winthrop University.