20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference: Supporting Families in Times of Economic Uncertainty

ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (03/03/2010)(readMedia)-- The Mid-Atlantic Council on Family Relations (MACFR) has issued a call for presentation proposals for the 20th Annual Building Strong Families Conference. The conference, themed "Families in Economic Uncertainty," will focus on supporting families during downturns in the economy. Slated to be held at Elizabethtown College on October 19, 2010, the conference is being co-hosted by MACRF and the College's Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

The deadline for proposals is April 19, 2010. Topics may include maximizing family budgets, green living, dual earner households, job loss and impact on families and communities, managing debt, bankruptcy, creativity in hard economic times, pooling resources, work and family conflict, family businesses, and related matters. Proposals may include descriptions of successful programs, research findings, curriculum, panel discussions, participation exercises, or other creative formats. Joint presentations of faculty and students are being encouraged.

For more information and proposal guidelines, please visit the MACFR website or contact Michele Lee Kozimor-King, MACFR president and associate professor of sociology at Elizabethtown College, at kozimor-kim@etown.edu.

Elizabethtown College, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is a private coed college with degrees in liberal arts, fine and performing arts, science and engineering, business, communications and education. The hallmarks of an Elizabethtown education are academic rigor, high expectations and intellectual curiosity. Our faculty members are teacher-scholars, pursuing their academic areas of expertise while sharing that expertise with students. For more information, please visit www.etown.edu.

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