The Ohio Council on Family Relations (OHCFR) was a member of the Midwest Regional Council, one of the original NCFR affiliates, as far back as the 1930s. Today, OHCFR, now its own affiliate, strives to remain visible, relevant, and useful to Family Science professionals, academics, students, and interested others through new forms of engagement and promotion. In the past few years, we’ve focused on broadening our scope using low-cost, high-impact technology. Take a look at what we accomplished in academic year 2017–2018 and are continuing into this next year:

• Presented at the Affiliate Council Workshop at the NCFR Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, November 2017. Six of the OHCFR board members worked together to describe our efforts to use social media, webinars, and other online tools to engage our audience and promote our messages.
• “Fall in Love with Family Life Education” social media campaign, February 2018. In honor of Family Life Education Month, we promoted Family Life Education (FLE) and family resources throughout February. This campaign required all board members to generate content related to FLE and the OHCFR Social Media Team posted the content throughout the month. This campaign resulted in 31 posts, with each post reaching about 400 people.
• Spotlighting OHCFR professionals and board members throughout the year.  To promote the work being done in our state, we are interviewing professionals, students, and OHCFR board members through email and featuring their stories on the OHCFR website and Facebook page. This has been a great way to highlight the diverse careers and paths in the discipline of Family Science.
• Continued quarterly live webinar series! We started offering quarterly webinars last year, to great success. All webinars are free to OHCFR and NCFR members, and most include CFLE CEUs provided by NCFR. This year’s line-up includes
  • Spring 2018: Childhood Trauma
  • Summer 2018: Mental Health First Aid
  • Fall 2018: Sexual Assault Prevention
  • Winter 2018: Self- Care and Compassion Fatigue

Keep up with us on Facebook (fb.me/OHCFR) or at our website (oh.ncfr.org).