The 2017 National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference in Orlando will challenge scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to ask how family relations and functions advance the lives of children and adults, as well as build stronger schools, communities, workplaces, and nations.

The National Council on Family Relations' 2016 Annual Conference in Minneapolis used the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as a framework to showcase research, teaching, and practices that address human rights and diverse families.

The National Council on Family Relations' 2015 Annual Conference in Vancouver considers risks, resilience, and recovery around the world in light of conflict, violence, and war.

NCFR's 2014 conference in Baltimore celebrated the 20th anniversary of the U.N.'s International Year of the Family.

With pre-conference workshops Tuesday, Nov. 5.

Stimulating, Enlightening, Affordable, Warm

Innovation is the creation of new objects or ideas - it is the process by which people introduce, re-think, adapt, surprise, generate, transform, and otherwise move some part of the world in a new direction.

The international character of San Francisco, the site for the 2009 NCFR Conference, will afford an exciting context for examining how diversity issues affect family scholarship, practice, policy, and education and how each of us might contribute to better understanding of the heterogeneity, as w

The lenses through which we view family affect what is seen and unseen, as well as how our research findings are understood.

The 2007 conference focuses on the challenges families face as they balance the relational, social, spiritual, health-related, financial, occupational and other dimensions of their daily lives.

Contemporary families live in a world that is complex, increasingly interconnected, and culturally diverse. NCFR 2018 will focus on innovative approaches, theories, research, policies, and programs that support and strengthen families in all types of Western and non-Western settings.

The 2019 NCFR Annual Conference was held Nov. 20–23, 2019, in Fort Worth, Texas.

The NCFR Annual Conference is the premier international event for scholars and professionals dedicated to understanding and strengthening families.

Tuesday, Nov. 2 - Friday, Nov. 5
Conference Program Chair: Tammy L. Henderson, Ph.D., CFLE

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2022 NCFR Annual Conference online or in person!

The National Council on Family Relations’ (NCFR) second virtual Family Life Education Summit will provide an opportunity for both experienced and new Family Life Educators to come together to share information and insights into this important practic

The 2021 Family Life Education Summit was held on Friday, June 25, 2021. This was NCFR’s first virtual event to focus solely on family practitioners at all experience levels working with and for families.

2023 Family Life Education Summit on Friday, June 23, 2023. This is a virtual event to focus solely on family practitioners at all experience levels working with and for families.

NCFR conference registration is now open! 

The 2024 NCFR Annual Conference will be held in Bellevue, Washington.