CYFAR 2009 Conference Proceedings
Keynote Presentations
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Children’s Development in the Context of Their Parents’ Relationships
Francesca Adler-Baeder, speaking from an extensive research background on families under stress and children's experiences in diverse family types as well as practical experience working with a broad spectrum of families, engages us in ways to better understand and empower families under stress to nurture their children. She provides practical applications, discussing the systems approach used in a statewide initiative in which practitioners and researchers have built real partnerships for effecting positive change. Adler-Baeder is a professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University. Adler-Baeder serves as co-director of the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network (NERMEN), oversees the National Stepfamily Resource Center, and directs several research projects on children and couple relationships.
Stories from the By-ways of Life: Tales of Hopes, Dreams and Things In-between
4-H Family Strengthening Distinguished Lecture
- Stories from the By-Ways of Life: Tales of Hopes, Dreams and Things In-Between (DOC)
- Stories from the By-Ways of Life: Tales of Hopes, Dreams and Things In-Between Presentation (PDF)
Braun combines the quantitative and qualitative findings from a 17-state, longitudinal research study of rural, low-income mothers and their families in a compelling presentation to increase our understanding of the hopes, dreams and experiences of these families. As in the oral storytelling tradition, mothers will tell of challenges they face in raising children, making ends meet, food security, health, employment and civic engagement within the communities where they live. Bonnie Braun, Ph.D., is the Herschel S. Horowitz Endowed Chair and director, Center for Health Literacy, University of Maryland-College Park School of Public Health, and a family policy specialist in the Department of Family Science. She served as president of the 100 year-old American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences.Braun is the CYFAR 2009 4-H Family Strengthening Distinguished Lecturer. Braun’s lecture is sponsored in part by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, who believe that children do better when families do better and families do better in supportive communities. The goal of this lecture is to share research and practical examples of the reality of this statement and what this might mean for youth, families and communities.
Designing Systems that Match the Needs of Diverse Families: Focusing on Attachment, Culture and Trauma
Chandra Ghosh Ippen examines how attachment, culture and trauma serve as key contextual forces that shape human development and perspective, and the need for practitioners to learn effective ways to work with children and families from multiple ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds in today's increasingly culturally diverse society. Her presentation includes a review of theoretical models, core concepts and examples central to working with diverse populations.Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D., is associate research director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). She serves as co-chair of Cultural Competence Consortium of the NCTSN.
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