Participation in Research Study on Unemployment and Marriage

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From: Andrew Bland <abland3@indstate.edu>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:36 PM
Subject: Request to Announce Research Study on Unemployment and Marriage
To: "billcoffin68@gmail.com" <billcoffin68@gmail.com>


Hi Bill,

My name is Andrew Bland.  I am a doctoral candidate in the counseling psychology program at Indiana State University.  I am preparing dissertation research on the impact of unemployment on marital relationships in the current economy.

I am writing to request your assistance in recruiting participants for this research.  I am seeking as many as 500 married couples of diverse ethnic, occupational, and socio-economic backgrounds to complete an online questionnaire.

I am hoping that you can disseminate this link to people who you know who are married and unemployed:

           https://indstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_em8L1x2qzOoEbg8

Below is the text for an electronic announcement that I would appreciate your distributing via list-serves, online message boards, Facebook, e-mail, and in paper bulletins.  (You can just copy and paste.)  Please forward this message to anyone else who may be able to distribute the link and ask them to forward it as appropriate.  Upon request, I can also provide hard copies of paper flyers.

If you have any questions about this study, please contact me at abland3@indstate.edu or 812-872-2429.

Thank you,

Andrew Bland
Counseling Psychology Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Communication Disorders and Counseling, School, and Educational Psychology
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809

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Recruitment Message

ARE YOU OR YOUR SPOUSE UNEMPLOYED?

Participants Needed!

I am seeking couples to complete a brief online questionnaire on how unemployment impacts marriages in the current economy.

Your participation and your responses will be kept confidential.
Interested in Participating?
Please go to https://indstate.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_em8L1x2qzOoEbg8
Have Questions?  Please contact Andrew Bland, M.A.: abland3@indstate.edu

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- http://trunk.ly/billcoffin/

Strengthening Families Summit June 8 & 9 The Family Strengthening Coalition

Strengthening Families Summit June 8 – 9
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Strengthening Families Summit June 8 - 9

The event, The Kansas Strengthening Families Summit, will take place Wednesday, June 8, on the campus of Newman University, 3100 McCormick, and Thursday, June 9 on the campus of Friends University, 2100 W. University, both in Wichita. The event will feature a keynote address by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, and a variety of presentations, speakers and workshops designed to gather the latest research about and the most effective approaches to making Kansas families stronger and healthier.

The event will gather together national, regional and state experts, policy makers, community leaders, and social service practitioners and clinicians who are committed to taking informed action to help strengthen Kansas families. The summit is designed to collect the latest research on the social and economic impact of healthy family relationships, learn about current evidence-based practices to strengthen families, and build new connections for state and community collaboration.

“A large focus of the summit will be to capture as much of each participants’ comments throughout the two days as we can, and to assimilate this into priorities and an action plan to benefit families in Kansas,” said Mike Duxler, Ph.D., a summit organizer who is associate professor of social work at Newman University and program manager of Marriage for Keeps, Catholic Charities, Wichita. “We want to share our collective expertise in the area of marriage and family, with the dual purpose of applying research findings and identifying innovative and impactful strategies that have a proven track record.”

Duxler noted that Brownback, who will join with members of his cabinet to speak at the summit, has stated that two main goals of his administration are to turn the economy around and to strengthen families, and that one can’t be done without the other.

Duxler said as many as 400 people are expected to attend the summit, representing many professions, groups and fields of interest, including medical, faith, African-American, Hispanic, business, government, the legal system, education, and many others. The summit is funded entirely from in-kind support from universities and financial contributions from local businesses and non-profit groups.

On June 8, sessions and presentations by nationally and regionally known speakers will take place during the day at Newman University, while 10 to 12 critical conversation forums made up of topic-specific issues related to family strengthening will take place in the evening. The evening forums will be held on the campuses of Newman, Friends, Wichita State University and the Kansas University Medical Center-Wichita, with no more than 15 people per group led by a national leader in each respective area. On June 9, the summit will feature a variety of sessions and topic-specific workshops led by many summit participants who spoke June 8. All workshops will take place on the Friends University campus.

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