“Promoting Healthy Families: Changing Families in Changing Times”

 

Sponsored by the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Baylor University

March 25 and 26, 2010

Lodging at Clarion Inn

Registration and all presentations are at Baylor’s Bill Daniel Student Union Building (SUB)

Shuttle Options

801S. 4th St

Waco, TX 76706

(254) 757-2000 

 

 

PRE-CONFERENCE – Thursday, March 25, 2009

 

7:30am - 12pm         Registration (all morning)

 

8 – 11am                   Standards of Practice for Parent Coordinators: Texas Family Law and CFLE (.3 hrs of CEU’s)

Deb Cashen, Executive Director, Parenting Partnerships Inc.; TCFR President 2010-2012

Lisa N. Walker, Ph.D., LMFT, Private Practice, Adjunct Faculty, HDFS, University of Texas-Austin

 

CONFERENCE – Thursday, March 25, 2009

11 - 11:30am            Student Meeting (for all undergraduate and graduate students)

 

11:30am - 12pm      Poster Session (Posters remain up all day Thursday, and Friday morning until 12pm.)

                                     

12 –1:30pm              Luncheon and Keynote (.1 hr of CEU’s)

·         Welcome from Current TCFR President Stephen Green, Associate Professor and Extension Child Development Specialist, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, The Texas A&M System

·         Keynote: Joyce James, Deputy Director, Texas Department of Family & Protective Services

 

1:30 –1:45pm           Break

 

1:45-2:45pm             1^st Concurrent Session

  

Students attend special meeting (Career Options and Advice in Working with Families at the Local, State, and Federal level)

                                   

Professionals attend a workshop session (.1 hr of CEU’s)

A.   Workshop #1: Estrangement Between Emerging Adults and Their Parents: Using New Media to

 Discuss the Consequences…Elizabeth Vagnoni, RBI Creative Consultants

B.   Workshop #2: Exploring Relational Dynamics in a Multigenerational Family: Implications for Parent and Family Life, Victoria Calvin, University of North Texas-Denton

 

2:45 – 3pm                Break

 

3     –  4pm            2^nd Concurrent Session Choices (.1 hr of CEU’s)

  

A.   Research Panel #1:

·         Meal Time Barriers to Healthy Meal Time Experiences, LuAnn Soliah, Ph.D., R.D., CFCS, Professor, and Janelle Walter, Ph.D., R.D., CFCS, Professor, Baylor University

·         Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers and Parents, Margaret E. Matyastik Baier, Ph.D., LMFT, Assistant Professor, Baylor University

·         Two-Worlds – Adolescent and Parent: Perceptions of Family Functioning in a Military Middle School Sample, Janet Crow, PhD, CFLE, and Amanda Seybold, Baylor University

B. Workshop #3: Formula for Success in the Special Education Arena, Susan March, M.Ed., CFLE,  Parenting Partnerships, Inc.

 

4-4:15pm                   Break

                                     

4:15-5:30pm             Strategy Session with Joyce James (.15 hrs of CEU’s)

Professionals and students will work with Joyce James in pre-selected breakout groups (e.g., policy, practice, education, research, social action) to identify concrete ways for family professionals from all backgrounds to more strategically partner within and between sector (government, non-profit, education, faith-based, for-profit/corporate, university, healthcare).

 

5:30pm                      Professionals and students are encouraged to dine at a local restaurant while continuing conference discussions, building new partnerships, networking, and discussing career opportunities.  

 

                                    **Please see list of sample area restaurants located in conference registration packet.

                                    **Please carpool as much as possible—restaurant parking may be limited.

                                    **Questions? Please ask a volunteer at the Registration Table.

 

CONFERENCE – Friday, March 26, 2009

 

7:30                            Registration (all morning)

 

8-9am                         3^rd Concurrent Session (.1 hr of CEU’s)

  

A.   Research Panel #2 (topics 3-5)

·         Perceptions of Recession Economic Strain and Family Adjustments among Middle Class Families, Anisa Zvonkovic, Ph.D., Professor and Chair of HDFS, NaYeon Lee, Erika Brooks, Jennifer Rojas, Erin Kostina-Ritchey, Texas Tech University

·         Marriage Education with Hispanic Couples: Evaluation of Communication Workshops, Kim Kotrla, Ph.D., LCSW, Assistant Professor, Baylor University, Preston Dyer, Ph.D., LCSW, Professor Emeritus, Baylor University

B.   Workshop #4: Building Strategic Partnerships, Mary Beth Harrington, Texas Association of Nonprofits

C.   Workshop #5: Bridging the Digital Divide for Texas Families, Jaylie Beckenhauer, Ph.D., CFLE, Instructor, Tyler M. Horner, Ph.D., CFLE, Lecturer, Baylor University

                                   

9-9:15                         Break

 

 

9:15-10:15                 4^rd Concurrent Session (.1 hr of CEU’s)

 

A.   Workshop #6: Co-parenting Communication, Deborah Cashen, Executive Director, Parenting Partnerships, Inc.

B.   Workshop #7: Mothers Managing the Daily Goodbye: Exploring Maternal Separation Anxiety, Joyce

Nuner, PhD, Assistant Professor, Baylor University

C.   Workshop #8: Real Lives of “Army Wives” and Other Military Spouses: What Research Says about the

Impact of War Time Military Deployment on Marriage, Janet Crow, PhD, CFLE, Baylor University

           

10:15-10:30              Break

 

10:30-11:30              Round Table (rotates every 20 minutes, so you can attend 3) (.1 hr of CEU’s)

A.   Work Related Travel and Its Effects on Dietary Habits and Physical, Sha’Tia Safford, Texas  

 Tech University

B.   Self-Esteem and Eating Disordered Behavior in Adolescents: What is the Relationship?

Nancy Trevino, B.S., Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Ph.D., Texas Tech University

C.   Parent Coordination in Rural West Texas: A Preliminary Investigation of Understanding,

 Janis Henderson, Miriam Mulsow, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Texas Tech University

D.   Budgetary Constraints on Clothing Purchase Decisions for Married Couples, Jeong-Ju (Jay) Yoo, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Baylor University

 

11:45 – 12:00           Break

 

12:00 – 2pm             Awards Luncheon & Capnote Speaker 

• Incoming TCFR President Deb Cashen, Executive Director, Parenting Partnerships, Inc.
• Officer Election Results Announced
• Moore Bowman Award
• Meritorious Service Award
• Student Paper Awards
• Please turn in your conference evaluations to confirm your CEU’s

 

**Thank You to all who helped to make this a Successful Conference!

 

TEXAS COUNCIL ON FAMILY RELATIONS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2009-2010

 

PRESIDENT                                                                        STEPHEN GREEN

PRESIDENT-ELECT                                                          DEBORAH CASHEN

PAST PRESIDENT                                                             DAVE SAGER

PROGRAM VICE-PRESIDENT                                       TYLER HORNER

PROGRAM VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT                          LANE POWELL

COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR                                  MARCUS TANNER

MEMBERSHIP VICE-PRESIDENT                                 JOANNE ROBERTS

SECRETARY                                                                       JEAN PAULSEL

TREASURER                                                                      STEVE WAGES

 

MEMBERS AT LARGE                                                     SANDY RENICK (2009-2010)

                                                                                               ANGELA NIEVAR (2009-2010)

                                                                                               PAT MULLINS (2009-20010)

                                                                                               SUSAN MARSH (2009-2011)

                                                                                               MARGARET BAIER (2009-2011)

MONTE WAINSCOTT (2009-2011)

                                                                                                JENNIFER MARTIN (2009-2011)

                                                                                                JO ANN ENGELBRECHT (2009-2012)

                                                                                                MIRIAM MULSOW (2009-2012)

                                                                                                NERISSA LEBLANC GILLUM  (2009-2012)

                                                                                   

LOUISIANA BOARD LIAISON                                      JAN COLVIN

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE LIAISON                   BRITTON WOOD

NOMINATING COMMITTEE                                       DAVE SAGER (2009-2010)

STUDENT/NEW PROFESSIONAL TEXAS                   ELISE HOWARD (2009-2010)

STUDENT/NEW PROFESSIONAL TEXAS                   SHELIA LUMAR (2009-2011)

STUDENT/NEW PROFESSIONAL LOUISIANA

STUDENT/NEW PROFESSIONAL LOUISIANA

NCFR LIAISON                                                                   RICHARD SALE