This webinar will explore how culture impacts one’s work, school, and community as well as how understanding, accepting, and acknowledging these differences can help improve society. Attendees will learn about tools and techniques to work with families from diverse backgrounds by engaging in introspective activities. Worksheets will also be provided to help attendees in their work and can be used both during and after the webinar has ended.
Overall, this webinar will provide attendees with a thought-provoking and interactive opportunity to explore and understand one’s own biases so that they can recognize and improve workplace interactions.
Approved for 1 CFLE contact hour of continuing education credit.
Webinar date: Oct. 3, 2023
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
Ethnic-racial socialization includes verbal and nonverbal messages about the meaning of race and ethnicity. These messages impact how one understands the behaviors, perceptions, values, and attitudes of an ethnic group and are critical to ethnic-racial identity development. They also influence how one sees themselves and others as members of the ethnic group.
This webinar will focus on understanding the development of an African American ethnic-racial identity through these messages and the influence of diverse and systemic social processes on the views of oneself and others. Participants will be able to use the information gained to challenge and further understand perspectives on race and equity in community and therapeutic settings.
Approved for 1 CFLE contact hour of continuing education credit.
Webinar date: June 5, 2023
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
This webinar will begin to address this gap by offering resources to question one’s own research practices through an anti-racist lens. Specifically, the presenters will (1) define what the term "anti-racist" means in the context of research methods; (2) examine theories that undergird an anti-racist approach to research; (3) provide examples of anti-racist research across the lifespan, including within the framing, literature review, research questions and design, methodology, analysis, and dissemination processes; (4) share how to examine one’s own positionality and epistemological commitments and connect them explicitly with anti-racist principles; and (5) provide steps to creating an action plan to commit to an anti-racist research framework.
Approved for 1.5 CFLE contact hours of continuing education credit.
Webinar date: October 25, 2022
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
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This webinar will begin with an introduction to anti-racist pedagogy with examples on how to incorporate it into the classroom when teaching about children and families. The audience will then examine the dominant discourse of their discipline, challenge neutrality, and receive practical exercises to help work towards an anti-racist pedagogy. Exercises will also be shared to interrogate personal biases and practice managing personal and student biases when discussing racial topics in the classroom, including how to manage student responses to anti-racist practices when incorporated in the classroom.
Approved for 1 CFLE contact hour of continuing education credit.
Webinar date: October 11, 2022
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
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This webinar will highlight the foundational tenets of critical race theory, as introduced by original scholars in the 1970s, and explain its relevancy to the work and scholarship of family practitioners, scientists, and educators. The information presented will cover the essential questions of what critical race theory is and what it is not. The presenters will then highlight the work of Family Science scholars that have applied critical race theory in their own research and teachings.
The goal of the webinar is to equip attendees with an understanding of critical race theory and its application in family practice, research, and policies. Thus, by the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Define the foundational tenets of critical race theory;
- Describe the relevance of critical race theory to the applied practice and research of Family Science; and
- Identify both barriers and solutions to incorporating critical race theory to the applied practice and research of Family Science.
Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education credit.
Webinar date: July 19, 2022
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
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Forming a teaching environment that promotes respect and appreciation among peers while also recognizing and reducing bias and racism can be challenging. This webinar will provide information about an evidenced-based, pedagogical design that can help promote equity when teaching social science topics from a systems approach. For example, the presenter will share information about in-class activities that allow students to practice and discuss the systemic issues related to inequalities within and around families in the safety of the classroom. Using this design in their own classes, attendees will be provided with tools to (1) create and facilitate effective peer grouping, (2) promote student self-awareness into personal biases, racism, inequality, and (3) challenge students to become more competent in working with and appreciating differences in others within their own classrooms.
A brief summary of Malcolm Knowles and Abraham Maslow's work will be provided as a foundation to adult learning processes. Next, the presenter will share how to formulate and facilitate classroom community grouping and collaborative learning activities. This will include an introduction to a university classroom model called community grouping, that simulates family dynamics and sparks self-awareness into personal biases, racism, and inequality while challenging students to become more competent in working with and appreciating differences in others. Finally, an opportunity will be provided for participants to practice, apply, and share their experiences using the newly taught teaching methods.
By the end of this webinar, attendees will be able to:
- Establish diverse peer groups in university classrooms to simulate the emotional elements of family systems;
- Develop classroom activities that promote equity and self-awareness among students; and
- Foster student self-awareness of personal biases, racism, and inequality.
Approved for 1.0 hour of CFLE continuing education credit.
Approved for 1 CFLE contact hour of continuing education credit.
Webinar date: Feb. 16, 2022
Fee: $29 for NCFR student members / $49 for NCFR members & CFLEs / $89 for nonmembers & non-CFLEs
Beneficial to family scholars, practitioners, and policymakers, attendees will leave this webinar with the ability to:
- Dismantle family privilege in Family Science scholarship, teaching, practice, and policymaking;
- Recognize family privilege and White supremacy in research, practitioner, and policy settings;
- Reduce the ways in which family privilege manifests in Family Science and in society.
Approved for 1.5 hours of CFLE continuing education credit.
Webinar date: 5/11/2021
RegisterThis session is designed to give people the language to confidently engage in courageous conversations about race and racism. This session will include a thorough understanding of terms and developing a shared language to effectively engage in the discourse on race and racism. It will be an interactive session where the presenter will first share information with the group, have attendees evaluate their own views using a self-guided tool during lunch, and return for further discussion.
Approved for 2.0 hours of CFLE continuing education credit.
Webinar date: Aug. 26, 2020
Fee: FREE for NCFR members & CFLEs / $155 for non-members & non-CFLEs
To provide programs and services that are culturally responsive and equitable as society continues to become more racially and ethnically diverse, practitioners need to examine, challenge, and unlearn their implicit biases and adopt an equity-centered framework for serving individuals, families, and communities from various racially, ethnically, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
In this webinar, presenter Ebonyse Mead, Ed.D., CFLE, will discuss:
- the definition of implicit bias;
- examples of biases and microaggressions;
- root causes of biases and stereotypes (e.g., socialization and media influences);
- unlearning implicit biases;
- cultural disconnect; and
- key concepts and constructs, including individual, structural, and institutionalize racism; colorblindness; diversity; equity; inclusion; and culturally responsive practices.
Approved for 1 hour of CFLE education credit.
Webinar date: Nov. 14, 2019
Fee: $25 for NCFR student members / $45 for NCFR members / $85 for nonmembers
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