Happy Holidays from FTF| FTF eNews November Vol.2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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First Things First eNews
  November 2011    Volume 2            

FTF Classes

Preparing for Marriage*

A class for  

engaged couples      

 

December 7 & 14   

(Wednesdays)

5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

First Things First

620 Lindsay Street
Chattanooga, TN 37403 

 

Click here to register

Dinner or Lunch provided by First Things First

 

Visit firstthings.org for additional classes 

 

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Boot Camp

for New Dads  

A class for about  

to be dads.  

 

December 17   

(Saturday)

9:00 p.m. to Noon

Erlanger Women's East
1751 Gunbarrel Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421  

 

 

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FAM U  

(Family University)  

 

* Funding for this project was provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Grant: 90FM004801. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families   
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FAMILIES ON THE RUN
December 3, 2011

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January 28, 2012
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Families on the Run

Ready, Set, Go! 

There's still time to register for the 7th annual Families on the Run this Saturday, December 3. This fun event not only promotes health and fitness, but it's also a chance for families to do something fun together for the holidays. Runners and families from all across the region will gather to compete in the 5K, 10K or non-competitive Kiddie K Fun Jog. The Chick-fil-A Santa Cow will be on hand, and participants are invited to enjoy a hot breakfast during our holiday party at the SportsBarn following the run.

Avoid the rush of race day and pick up your race packet on Friday, December 2 at the Downtown SportsBarn between 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.   

 

Visit firstthings.org for more information. 
 
FTF Holiday Survival Tip

Boundaries Over the Holidays 
'Tis the season to be jolly...and sometimes stressed beyond belief!  But there are simple ways to take some of the stress out of the Christmas holiday.  The following article, written by our own Julie Baumgardner, offers great advice for making the season happy and bright.

Click here for survival tips!
 
Secret Keeper Girl
Secret Keeper Girl
A Date Night for Moms and Daughters
Looking for the perfect holiday gift for your tween-age daughter? First Things First welcomes Secret Keeper Girl Live: Pajama Party Tour to the Chattanooga Convention Center on January 28!!  This amazing event is for mothers and their daughters ages 8-12, and offers inspirational messages about true beauty and modesty...and plenty of pajama party fun!! 

Here's what one mom had to say about SKG:
"I took my daughter to this event several years ago in Nashville. We had a blast! The message was great, it was high energy and she got to see that there are lots of moms out there saying the same things to their daughters about modesty. I would highly recommend this experience to any mom and her tweenage daughter. I am planning to be there on the 28th with both of my girls."
Karol Getz, Chattanooga mother of two daughters

The show is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Tickets are $15.00 with group discounts available. 
 

  

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Suite 100
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News and Notes from National Center for Family & Marriage Research

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News and Notes

November 2011

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Welcome

The National Center for Family & Marriage Research (NCFMR), established in 2007 at Bowling Green State University (BGSU), welcomes you to News and Notes, our monthly electronic newsletter. News and Notes aims to keep you informed about the activities of the NCFMR. We will also announce funding and research opportunities, provide registration details for conferences and workshops, and keep you updated on current research findings.

What's New at the NCFMR...

    

The following updates may be viewed on the NCFMR website.

 

 

NCFMR Releases New Family Profiles Series

U.S. Families in 2010 

 

The NCFMR is pleased to announce the release of a series of family profiles focusing on new findings about U.S. families. These profiles are the latest in the Center's series of marriage and divorce data resources using the 2010 ACS data.

 

US Families 2010 *View First Marriage Rate in the U.S., 2010 (FP-11-12) Family Profile  

 

*View Marriage Data Resources by Topic 

 

*View Divorce Data Resources by Topic 

 

    

Dividing Line 

 

Just Released Data Resources

 

Family Profiles

Original reports summarizing the latest statistics on U.S. families.

 

Data Points

Tables and figures integrating statistics and demographic perspectives designed to investigate the links between marriage and family well-being at all stages of the life course.

 

The Data Source

Documents describing newly released data sets used by the family research community.

 

Working Paper Series

A collection of working papers written by faculty affiliates, researchers, and advanced graduate students.  

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin and Laura Tach

 

  Dividing Line

 

NCFMR in the News

 

NCFMR Research Team Finds Education and Race Tied to Divorce Rate

 

 

New Research Finds College Educated Women are More Likely to Marry 

 

Research by Krista Payne, social science data analyst, and Larry Gibbs, graduate research assistant, has found that educational attainment is positively associated with marriage. Additionally, this finding spans all racial and ethnic groups with a college degree.  

 

First Marriage Rate for 1,000 Never-married Women Aged 18 and Older by

Educational Attainment
1st Marriage Rate

    

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2010   

 

 

 

Susan Brown Leads Two Sessions at NCFR 73rd Annual Meeting  

Family Instability and Child Well-being Symposium 

Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Grant 

 

Family Instability and Child Well-being 

At the annual meeting of National Council on Family Relations, held in Orlando, FL earlier this month, Co-Director Susan Brown led a symposium featuring former NCFMR grantees and a former NCFMR graduate research fellow who presented their ongoing work on family instability and child well-being. This interdisciplinary panel of scholars featured cutting-edge research on how various forms of family turbulence are linked to child and adolescent outcomes.

 

NCFR 2011

From left: Paula Fomby, Heather Bachman, Susan Brown, Patricia Pendry, and Lauren Rinelli-McClain  

 

  • View work by former grantees...
  • View work by former graduate research fellow...

Grant Writing 101 Seminar: Writing a Fundable Grant


Upcoming Events

 

 

December 2011

Request for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Open to NPC Research Affiliates and Other Poverty Researchers 

Date Due: December 1

Link to NPC 

 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

2012 Visiting Scholars Program

Date Due: December 2

Link to NPC 

 

Call for Papers -- International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences  

Date Due: December 13

Link to Interdisciplinary Social Sciences 

 

Fellowships in Public Policy Available for 2012-2013 -- Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to SRCD 

 

Call for Submissions -- International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)

Date Due: December 15

Link to IARR 

 

Call for Abstracts -- Second International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology

Children's Voices, Well-Being and Social Justice

Date Due: December 15

Link to ISA 

 

Call for Applications -- Population Association of America (PAA) Fellowship Opportunity

Science and Technology Fellowship Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 

Date Due: December 15

Link to PAA 

 

Call for Abstracts -- Asian Population Association (APA) Conference

Date Due: December 15

Link to APA 

 

Call for Applications -- Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program

Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence

Date Due: December 15

Link to Washington University in St. Louis 

 

Call for Submissions -- NCFR Report

Military Families 

Date Due: December 21

Contact nancygonzalez@ncfr.org to obtain submission guidelines

 

January 2012

Request for Proposals -- Stanford Center for the Study of Poverty & Inequality (CPI) New Scholars Grant Competition

Research on Monitoring Trends in Poverty and Inequality

Date Due: January 10 

Link to The Stanford Center 

 

Call for Papers -- American Sociological Association 2012 Annual Meeting

Real Utopias: Emancipatory Projects, Institutional Designs, Possible Futures

Date Due: January 11

Link to ASA 

 

Call for Applications -- National Poverty Center (NPC)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012

Date Due: January 13

Link to NPC 

 

Call for Applications -- Population Council 

Fred H. Bixby Fellowship Program  

Date Due: January 15

Link to Population Council 

 

Request for Applications -- 2012 NIH Director's Early Independence Awards Program

Date Due: January 30

Link to The NIH Common Fund 

 

AFREM's 2012 Annual Meeting and Invitation to Submit Workshop Proposals

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Hi everyone,

The Association for Filial and Relationship Enhancement® Methods (AFREM) will be holding its 2012 AFREM Annual Meeting on Saturday March 31, 2012, in Bethesda, MD. Please hold that date and plan to attend!

I am also writing to invite each of you to consider submitting a workshop proposal for the co-sponsored workshops to be offered by NIRE and AFREM in conjunction with AFREM’s Annual Meeting.

In addition, please consider inviting someone you know to submit a workshop proposal. This invitation is not limited to current members of AFREM.

The proposal can be for either a 3 hour or a 6 hour workshop, and should be in the broad areas of Relationship Enhancement and Filial methods. This includes topics involving the intersection of other methods with RE or Filial.

The likely dates for the workshops will be Friday and Saturday March 30-31, 2012, with the possibility of additional workshop(s) on Sunday April 1 depending on the number of workshop submissions and selections.

Please indicate on which days you would or would not be able to do a presentation (to give us maximum scheduling flexibility), or whether your schedule would permit you to present only on a specific day.

Please submit your ideas to me by January 20, 2012.

Please send your proposal to me at robscuka@earthlink.net.

We hope to see you in March for good socializing, networking, and, of course, great workshops with CE credits provided.

Also, as is our custom, there will be an organized "dutch treat" dinner on Friday evening for those who would like to attend.

In the meantime, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season.

Rob Scuka
Chair of the AFREM Conference Committee 

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Military Dissertation Study - Civilian Husbands

My name is Thomas Watson, LPC, NCC and I am completing my doctoral
dissertation in Counselor Education & Supervision from the Georgia School of
Professional Psychology at Argosy University in Atlanta, GA.  I grew up in a
career military family and currently work through a contractor with military
personnel and their families.

My IRB-approved, qualitative dissertation research focuses on the experience
of civilian husbands married to military women who have deployed.  The scant
literature, thus far, discusses issues including - but not limited to -
divorce rates, gender expectations, job portability, adaptation to military
culture  and childcare during deployments.  My goal, through
phenomenological inquiry, is to determine from what additional resources
civilian husbands might benefit while their wives are deployed overseas.

If there are civilian husbands among us on the list serve that have had the
experiences listed below and would like to participate in my study, I would
be very grateful.  If any of you know of individuals that might have had the
experiences listed below and think that the persons would like to
participate in the study, please feel free to forward them my contact
information in order for me to provide more details about the study.

"A task for future research is to identify the unique challenges faced by
the civilian husbands of military wives."  Karney & Crown (2007)

Thank you for taking the time to review my request.

Thomas Watson, LPC, NCC
Cell:  (678) 642-1519
E-mail:  dpiltes@bellsouth.net

Participant Experiences
1.  Civilian husbands with no current or prior military service experience
who have been married to military wives of any branch of the U.S. Armed
Services for at least five (5) years - any rank or status (i.e.,
Active-Duty, Reserve Forces, National Guard).

2.  There is at least one child under the age of 18 living in the household.

3.  There has been at least one deployment (mobilization) or duty order out
of the United States by the military wife (without her family) lasting at
least six months.

4.  There has been at least one family relocation because of the military
wife's job (i.e., transfer orders).


Bill

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Forum/The Future of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy 12/7

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Advancing Practice, Informing Policy

The Future of the Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy
Wednesday, December 7, 2011 • Noon-1:30 p.m. ET

To attend in Washington, D.C., register at
http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2551096398.
(Registration required.)

To watch the live video webcast or a recording, go to
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/urban-institute-events.
(No registration necessary.)

Panelist

•  David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for Reuters (moderator)
•  Terri Lee Freeman, president, Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
•  C. Eugene Steuerle, Institute fellow, Urban Institute
•  Elizabeth Boris, director, Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Urban Institute

This last 15th Anniversary Event of the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy will focus on the future—the challenges and opportunities for the nonprofit sector and philanthropy in the face of evolving economic and political realities and changing sector dynamics.

Join the discussion as a distinguished panel wrestles with such formidable questions as

•  What are the major forces that will affect the sector going forward?
•  What kinds of impacts can we foresee?
•  How can the nonprofit sector help to shape those forces?
•  Can we envision some optimum outcomes?
•  Can we begin to articulate strategies that could mobilize efforts to achieve desired outcomes?

Please join us as we conclude our 15th Anniversary Year celebrations.
At the Urban Institute
2100 M Street N.W., 5th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Lunch will be provided at 11:45 a.m. The forum begins promptly at noon.

 

 

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Watch the Flashes of Color "sneak peek"

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Dear friends of In Altum Productions: 

 

We are excited to share news about the Flashes of Color: Disability in the Age of Perfection film project.  

 

Flashes of Color "sneak peek" and website:  Watch our 11-minute sneak peek to meet some of the characters and learn about some of the stories we plan to tell in more detail in the full film. 

 

Kick-off fundraiser :  We held a successful fundraiser on October 7th.  Photos of the event can be found on our website. We deeply appreciate all who helped and attended!

  

Radio show: On October 18th, Filmmakers Daniel and Jordan Allott discussed the Flashes of Color project on Catholic Matters with Irene Lagan on the Guadalupe Radio Network. Click here to listen.     

 

Janice Benton, National Director of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability (NCPD), hosted the fundraising event

 

 

Trish Stone talks about her experiences as a mother and sister of people with disabilities

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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