2017 Full Conference Schedule (PDF)
Below, find details about each session planned for the 2017 NCFR Annual Conference, Nov. 15-18 in Orlando, Florida. We have also created a series of sessions sorted by NCFR sections and interest areas.
Session pages will include presentation slides or handouts if the presenter(s) chose to make them available.
Jordan St. Charles, Stephanie Armes, James Muruthi, Hugh Milroy, Jay Mancini, Holly Hatton-Bowers, Gilbert Parra, Rachel Thomas, Carrie Smalley, Kaylee Seddio, Wendy Middlemiss; Discussant and Facilitator: Deb Burke
Symposium organized by the Education and Enrichment Section on trauma. Topics include homelessness, sex trafficking and refugee camps.
Colleen Murray, Jeffrey Crapo, Tyson Barrett, Kay Bradford, Brian Higginbotham, Rebecca Hubbard, Carolyn Henry, Sandra Bornemann, Áine Humble; Facilitator: Wendy Middlemiss
Papers on Hierarchies of Loss; Family Life Stage and Relationship Education Efficacy; Family Resilience and Dementia; and Family Resilience and Dementia
86 total posters in this session. Topics include Education Throughout the Lifecourse; Early Educational Programs Helping Families and Young Children; Marriage; Transition to Parenthood; plus ten more topics.
Wm. Michael Fleming, Andrea Farnham, Catherine O'Neal, Laura McKee, Erinn Duprey, Sara Algoe, Brooke Kranzler, Sean Brotherson, Geoffrey Zehnacker, Hans Saint-Eloi Cadely, Tiffani Kisler, Mary Sciaraffa, Cathy Fialon, David Yarbrough, Rene Pogue, Monica J. Martin; Facilitator: Kaylee R. Seddio
Lightning papers organized by the Education and Enrichment & Research and Theory Sections on trauma. Topics include Bystander Interventions; Peer, Parents, and Prejudice and Adolescent Outcomes; Cyber-digital Relationship Aggression; and more.
Scott Ketring, Tom Smith, Brandon Burr, Daniel Hubler, Marielle Jackson, Addison Elledge, Matthew Lefthand, David Schramm, Adam Galovan, Francesca Adler-Baeder; Facilitator: Adam M. Galovan
This session will include four papers that cover topics related to relationship education including results from an RCT study of couples education programs, clarifying the difference between relationship education and couples therapy, character strengths, and more.
88 total posters in this session. Topics include Identity and Cultural Awareness; Well-Being and Discrimination; Family Policies; Poverty, Homelessness, and Human Rights; plus seven more.
Leandra Parris, Renée Tobin, Ani Yazedjian , Norma J. Perez-Brena, Michelle Toews, Andrea Hutson, Mark Feinberg, Chelsea Garneau-Rosner, Carrie Lehman, Ashton Chapman, Emily Manning, Nate Stoddard, Victor W. Harris , Silvia Bartolic, Daniel Perlman, Ronald Bulanda, Anita Glee Bertram, Brandon Burr, Kaye Sears, LaDonna Atkins, Tawni Holmes, Melissa Powers, Kasey Wood, Julia Bernard, Meghan Dove, Johnnye Rogers, Michael O'Neal, Paul Fisher, Katy Gregg, Sherria D. Taylor, Margaret E. Machara, Kimberly Allen, I. Joyce Chang, Rebecca Ward, Kimmery Newsom, Lover Chancler, Keondria McClish, Yolanda Mitchell, Jackie Schwab, Robin Yaure, Pamela B. Payne, Naomi Brower, Grace Bingham, Catherine Dutton, Karen Blaisure, Crystal Duncan Lane, Bryce Dickey, David Knox, Lacey Bagley, Claire Kimberly, Maureen Blankemeyer, Kathleen Walker, Courtney Walsh, Tiah J. Wingate, Adrienne Edwards, Jenna Dewar, Jacki Fitzpatrick, Rhonda Buckley, Sterling Wall, Tumaki Aruanã da Silva Cassiano, Fernanda Ferreira de Morais Zanitti, Cristiana Mercadante Esper Berthoud, Judith Myers-Walls, Darin Knapp, Tami James Moore, Sylvia Asay
Each section will have individual member meetings the first 30 minutes, followed by a joint professional development session of three 25-minute sets of resource exchanges.
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