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The National Council on Family Relations membership has elected new officers who will take office in November at the 2016 NCFR Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Thank you to all members who volunteered their time reviewing conference proposals and serving as facilitators and discussants for our various sessions. The success of our sessions depends in large part on your hard work prior to and during the conference.
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I hope you enjoyed the various Families and Health sessions and activities at the 2015 annual conference in Vancouver. I am very fortunate to serve the Section with such a great team of Section officers, and we look forward to continuing to work on your behalf to enhance our Section.
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I share my personal stories related to family-friendly workplace policies in the hopes that others will take up family policy education and advocacy in the academy. There remains a great deal of work left to do, and a growing body of resources is available to support these efforts.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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As my first year as chair of the Advancing Family Science Section comes to an end I have been looking back at what we have accomplished as a Section and what I have learned as chair. We made significant progress on Section goals.
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The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) is delighted to announce that Kristi Williams, Ph.D., of The Ohio State University, has been named the new editor of the Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF). She will begin her four-year term as editor of the peer-reviewed journal — which has been the leading research journal in the family field for more than 70 years — with the publication of its February 2017 issue.
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The National Council on Family Relations and its Board of Directors are pleased to announce the two recipient projects of the organization's 2015-16 Innovation Grants initiative, which awards up to two $10,000 research grants per year.
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Learn more about the rich history of NCFR's Education & Enrichment Section, which celebrated its 75th anniversary as a section in 2014.
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The Ethnic Minorities section is pleased to be sponsoring a presentation by Atira Women's Resource Society on online violence at this year's conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Some brief research on NCFR award namesake Ernest G. Osborne paints a picture of who he was as an educator, a champion for the field, and a person. He sounds like a guy I would have enjoyed getting to know.
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I hope this report finds you enjoying the last vestiges of summer and looking forward to the start of a new academic year and, of course, the NCFR Annual Conference in Vancouver. The Family Policy Section has put together an exciting program
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NCFR Section business has now moved online, so Section meetings at the Annual Conference will be more focused on substantive matters. Given that the AFS Section has clarified its role to focus on pedagogical and administrative aspects of the discipline of family science, the Section meeting will emphasize these matters.
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The Annual Conference is quickly approaching, and we are in for quite a treat this year! The conference program is full of paper and poster presentations across a wide array of topics relevant to family therapists.
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The Religion and Family Life Section will be offering some exciting programming for the 2015 Annual Conference that is relevant to scholars and practitioners.
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In June, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in a landmark case regarding marriage for same-sex couples — Obergefell v. Hodges. Learn more about the questions the justices are considering and the possible outcomes.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Family Law and Public Policy
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A vibrant and effective section is based largely on the contributions of its members. Therefore, as we move ahead in implementing these new initiatives, we invite you to take this journey with us. We need to hear about what you like and what's not that helpful. And we need more people to serve in various capacities.
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In addition to lots of work being done on putting together the conference program, some of the initiatives that the AFS Section had identified to help reach the section's goals are also proceeding smoothly.
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We need to have family scholars embedded in programs such as the Fulbright Scholar Program. A critical element of the application process is a Letter of Invitation from a host institution. NCFR members in the International Section have an opportunity to foster these cross national relationships and develop collaborative research projects.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Research
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The Illinois Council on Family Relations (ILCFR) will host its annual conference on Friday, April 17, 2015 at the I-Hotel at Urbana-Champaign.
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The Northwest Council is gearing up for another great spring conference. This year's theme is "Resiliency in Children and Families."
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Greetings! Here's an update on activities at the Ohio Council on Family Relations (OHCFR), including elections, National Family Week, the spring conference, and the first OHCFR Impact Award.
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The annual conference of the Utah Council of Family Relations will be held April 3, 2015, at Utah State University, in Logan, Utah, with the theme "Relationship Education: Research, Application, and Policy."
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NCFR's statement on families and family policy asserts that public policy needs to be evaluated in terms of its intended or unintended effects on families, even when (at face value) policy seems unrelated to family life. Whereas this assertion certainly resonates with NCFR members who explicitly identify as family policy scholars, we invite all members of the NCFR community to reflect on it and to engage actively around policy matters.
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The Advancing Family Science Section has many tasks to accomplish in the coming year.
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