The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR) Annual Conference
The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR), a regional affiliate of the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR), in collaboration with the Applied Family Science and Psychology programs at Wilmington University, is pleased to announce its annual spring conference on “The Family in Global Context: Migrants, Immigrants, and Refugees” on April 12, 2018.
The keynote speaker is Eugenia Arvanitis, Ph.D., assistant professor of interculturality and diversity in education at the University of Patras in Greece. Dr. Arvanitis will share her experiences teaching language education to refugees and migrants in Greece, which has seen an increased number of refugees seeking asylum in the past five years.
Following the keynote, a panel of human service agencies will showcase the services they provide for refugees, immigrants, migrants, and their families. MACFR member states are Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Membership is not required to attend the conference.
