Participants will learn their personal leadership strengths, and how those abilities interact with the strengths of fellow faculty and staff members.

This presentation will give an overview of the MEND model and highlight some of the resent data supporting its effectiveness.

Effects of racial stressors adversely affect couples ability to provide relational and emotional support to each other. Data for this study are from a larger study of 700 African American married couples in their early years of marriage.

This is a time when those who wish to submit manuscripts for NCFR journals will learn about the process. There will be time for questions from the audience.

Invited Workshop organized by the Students and New Professionals group. Moderator/Facilitator: Adriana Umaña-Taylor

This workshop for members of NCFR affiliates (local chapters) will highlight how affiliates add value of the Family Science major/profession/field.

In this invited workshop, we will explore the lessons learned from research and practice about how to build healthy resilient communities from large cities like New York and Washington D.C. to small rural towns like Joplin, Missouri.

In this session, participants will learn how investigators work with philanthropy, and about new and creative approaches to solving health and health care problems

This workshop will address the ways that scholars engage and advocate for communities at the local, state, and national level in our professional and personal lives.

Those interested in becoming a Certified Family Life Educator are invited to attend. Dawn Cassidy will review the process and present helpful tips.

Workshop participants will learn about characteristics and components of good quality case studies; strategies for incorporating case study analysis into classroom teaching; and explore different approaches to designing a classroom action research project that will more definitively measure their effectiveness.

Attendees will understand how to conduct, and present the findings of a survival analysis in a manner that will allow their audiences to understand the results and use them in their own practice or research.

The purpose of this session is to match undergraduates with mentors in their projected field of work, facilitate career enhancing and meaningful interactions between mentors and mentees.