National Council On Family Relations

Information dissemination in 2024:NCFR published five issues of its flagship scholarly journal, Journal of Marriage, and Family, five issues of its journal Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science and four issues of its Journal of Family Theory & Review in 2024. A total of 283 articles were published. The journal issues were provided to 2,303 active members in 2024. NCFR journal articles reached readers in 217 countries with around 1.4 million views across the three journals. NCFR created and published two policy briefs in 2024, titled Reducing the Digital Divide for Families: State and Local Policy Opportunities and The Role of Taxation in Family Inequality: Possibilities for Reform. The briefs were disseminated to state policymakers and NCFR members who are encouraged to share with others. The NCFR website provides curated resources to disseminate NCFR's policy-related activities, and a description of NCFR's policy-related activities. Additional research and policy briefs were in production at the end of 2024.In 2024, NCFR created one new resource collection, Public Scholarship Harassment Resources, and updated the Immigration and Families collection to include practitioner and policy implications, for review by internal audiences. Additional resources are continuously added to previous resource collections. Resource collections are a method to disseminate research such as NCFR journal articles, webinars, conference recordings, articles from NCFR Report and CFLE Network, and occasionally outside resources. NCFR offered Teaching Tuesdays for a second year. Teaching Tuesdays are an interactive event for NCFR members to learn and discuss academic pedagogy. Four Teaching Tuesdays were held during 2024. Events were titled: Using Reflexive Pedagogy to Enhance Student Learning, The Need for Cultural Humility in Classrooms, Visual Thinking Strategies, and Teaching Family Life Education Methodology. These free events averaged 38 registrants and 16 participants per event. NCFR published four issues each of its NCFR Report member magazine (containing Family Focus articles), and CFLE Network newsletter, which contain educational articles and resources for members and CFLEs pertaining to their professional interest areas. NCFR's weekly email newsletter "Zippy News" provides announcements about educational and professional opportunities in the family field.

Membership services in 2024:NCFR also offered the Student Access Grant for a fifth year, supporting registration fees, one year of NCFR membership, and a $500 travel stipend to attend the 2024 NCFR annual conference. The grant was given to ten students from historically marginalized racial or ethnic populations, providing access and inclusion to the NCFR membership and conference. NCFR fundraised $18,954 from members to fund and support the 2024 Student Access Grant.For the fifth year, NCFR and David H. Olson, Ph.D. sponsored the annual $10,000 NCFR Olson Grant: Bridging Research, Theory, and Practice. The grant was established to enable projects that bridge research, theory, and practice in Family Science. In its inaugural year, NCFR awarded the first recipient of the NCFR Darling Family Life Education Research Initiative Grant. This grant awards $5,000 every other year to one awardee. Carol Darling established the grant to support Family Life Educators, researchers, and programs that often lack funding to conduct research needed to support and maintain their projects and services.The 2024 Honors Program recognized 26 graduating students in the Fall, Spring and Summer graduation terms. 23 volunteer member reviewers made this program possible.The 2024 CV and Resume Review Program reviewed 75 NCFR members' resumes and CVs with the support of 11 volunteer member reviewers.The 2024 Mentoring Academy created 13 mentor and mentee pairings for a two-year partnership starting at the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference in Bellevue and finishing at the 2025 NCFR Annual Conference in Baltimore. Eleven 2023 mentor and mentee pairings completed their two-year partnerships at the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference in Bellevue.The NCFR Job Center featured 87 posted jobs in 2024.