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

Lee Badgett, Ph.D., will offer strategies for family researchers to use their ideas, research, and knowledge to change the world.

This session will be live streamed.

This session will include four papers that cover topics related to military families including adolescents’ well-being, parental social support, mental health and unit cohesion, and systemic relationship programs for military couples.

This session's four papers cover topics related to Home Visiting including predictors of burnout, the Family Life Education approach, engaging families, improving early school attendance, and more.

This session's four papers address topics related to family stories including emerging adults' hookup scripts, black female adolescent athletes, sex stereotypes on female students’ in STEM in Kenyan Universities, and more.

This session's four papers cover topics related to neighborhoods including black and Latino families, trauma, segregation, and child behavioral adjustment.

This session's four papers cover topics related to ethnic identity including Southeast Asian Families in the United States, “parachute kids”, Hmong College Students, and The Trump Effect on Racial Socialization & Ethnic Identity.

Lightning papers organized by the Families and Health Section on aging. Topics include elder maltreatment; depressive symptoms among Mexican Americans; "Sex, Dementia, and Long-Term Care"; and more.

This session's four papers cover social justice topics including Culturally Responsive MFT through Cultural Brokering, therapy practice in Cambodia, Graduate Student Parents, and Leaving Violent Marriage: Case Study of an Iranian Woman.

This session's four papers cover international research topics including fathers’ daily emotional support and adolescents’ self-evaluation in Korea, family mealtimes in Jamaica, Chinese scholars’ acculturation to the U.S., and father involvement in Norway and South Korea.

Panelists with an array of experiences from college across the country will discuss issues related to creating ethnically diverse academic environment such as: benefits, challenges, successes, and lessons learned. This session will be live streamed.

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.

This symposium focuses on the BioBehavioral Family Model developed by Dr. Wood to explain the link between close relationship and physical health. Specifically, we will present empirical research testing the expansion of all the BBFM constructs.

Lightning papers organized by the Families and Health Section on aging. Topics include Father Support and Involvement: Impacts on Long-term Maternal Mental Health; Sibling Relations; Work-Family Processes and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior; and more.

This symposium organized by the Family Policy section explores the demographics of the transgender population, a review of emerging transgender policy initiatives, and a discussion of these policies.

This session's four papers cover these family therapy topics: Effectiveness of ABFT for Reducing Family Dysfunction among Suicidal Youth; Barriers to Rural Mental Health Care: Clinicians’ Perspectives; Applying Telemental Health Interventions; and Chronic Disease and Attachment: Predicting Trajectories of Physical Health.

This session's four papers cover these topics: Unmarried Middle-Aged Koreans Living with their Parents in Seoul; Sojourning Japanese Mothers and Children; Parental Involvement of Immigrants to the U.S.; and Contemporary Educational Practices in Colombia.

These three papers draw on qualitative life history interviews to explore coping strategies for early childhood traumas; grieving processes due to homicide survivorship; and family resilience during reentry from paternal incarceration.

Symposium organized by the Research and Theory Section on aging. Topics include spouses as gatekeepers; social networks and neighbors; friendships and preventive health behaviors; and leisure and retirement for couples

It's our own college fair! All conference attendees are invited to learn about academic programs and meet faculty and students. Greet your fellow alumni. Food and prizes available!

Focus groups have discussions on specific interests. They are open to all members.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS SESSION WAS MOVED FROM SESSION 135 ORIGINALLY SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, 11:30AM.

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

All attendees are welcome to attend the member meetings of NCFR Sections.

All attendees are welcome to attend the member meetings of NCFR Sections.

All attendees are welcome to attend the member meetings of NCFR Sections. These are opportunities for you to become more involved with NCFR and the Sections that match your areas of interest.