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.
Jorge Chavez, Robert Reyes, Mariana del Hierro, Omhagain Dayeen, , Jordan A. Arellanes, Kimberly Greder, Ruben P. Viramontez Anguiano, Anayeli Lopez, Larissa Kelly, Jennifer Greiving
Presented in this symposium are the voices of immigrant Latino families in response to educational and immigration policy in Midwestern cities. This symposium is unique in its approach through the use of qualitative methodology.
Kimberly Greder, Brianna Routh, Jerica M. Berge, Daphne C. Hernandez, Brenda J. Lohman, Tricia K. Neppl, Olivia Jaeoon Yoo, Yoojin Lee, Daniel Russell; Discussant and Chair: Jerica Berge
Experts in the field of Families and Health will present on individual, family, and neighborhood risk factors influencing body mass index (BMI) across the lifespan including, childhood, adolescents, middle adulthood (mid 30s), and end of life.
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.
Karen Hooker, Ingrid Arnet Connidis, Judith Treas, Gunhild O. Hagestad, Richard A. Settersten, Jr.; Discussant: Elaine Anderson; Chair: Karen Hooker
Special invited symposium on family policy and aging, organized by Family Policy and Families and Health Section. This session will be live streamed.
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.
Karen Bogenschneider, Elizabeth Day, Emily Parrott; Chair: Karen Bogenschneider
This symposium will focus on a study of research utilization by legislators in two states—one of the most politically polarized and one of the least politically polarized states in the nation.
Kandauda (K.A.S.) Wickrama, Seonhwa Lee, Catherine Walker O'Neal, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Tricia Neppl, Olivia Diggs, Rand D. Conger, Catherine Walker O'Neal; Discussant: Rand Conger; Organizer: Kandauda (K.A.S.) Wickrama; Chair: Frederick O. Lorenz
Special invited symposium on family policy and aging, organized by Families and Health and Family Policy Sections. This session will be live streamed.
86 total posters in this session. Topics include Military Families; Sexuality; Stress; Relationship Dissolution; Stepfamilies; Couples and Relationships; Parenting/Coparenting; Emerging and Young Adulthood; Neighborhoods and Neurons; and Substance Abuse.
Deirdre A. Quinn, C. Andrew Conway, Samuel H. Allen; Chair: Elaine Anderson
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.
Presiders: Roudi Roy, Ethnic Minorities Section Chair; Jerica Berge, Families and Health Section Chair; and Brenda Lohman, Family Policy Section Chair
After 60 minutes of individual member meetings, all members of these three NCFR Sections will have a joint session featuring multiple cross-section roundtables.
Maria L. Boccia, Paul Lanier, Samantha M. Brown, Kimberly Bender, Julie S. McCrae, Rebecca Orsi, Jon Phillips, Shauna Rienks; Discussant: Jay A. Mancini; Chair: Anne Farrell
This symposium includes three papers on toxic stress, which is the chronic experience of adversity absent the presence of a nurturing figure who can buffer these experiences. This session will be live streamed.
(Made possible with the support of Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago)
Kristina Lopez, Sandra Magaña, Wendy Machalicek, Samantha E. Goldman, Judith M. S. Gross; Discussant: Meghan Burke; Facilitator: Anne Farrell
Invited symposium on family policy and disabilities, organized by Family Policy and Families and Health Section. This session will be live streamed.
Karen Bogenschneider, Thomas Corbett, Emily Parrott, Patricia Strach, Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth, Elizabeth Day, Jacquelyn Thomas-Miller; Chair: Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth
This session previews a special issue of the Journal of Family Theory and Review that will consider what it will take for family policy to achieve firmer footing as a field of inquiry, particularly in the current political climate. This session will be live streamed.
88 total posters in this session. Topics include Families in International Context; Immigrant Families; Refugees; Adolescence Therapy; Divorce; Technology and Therapy; plus five more topics.
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