Family and Human Dynamics Research
Institute
Family Impact Seminars: Where Research Meets Policy on Family
Issues
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Family Impact Seminars are non-partisan and non-advocacy forums
to encourage dialogue between state legislators, policymakers and
researchers. Seminar topics are developed based on critical issues
with an impact on families that are currently being addressed by
legislators. The seminars serve as a vehicle for communicating
research findings on legislative issues to policy makers. Research
findings can broaden the information available to legislators,
particularly to identify the family perspective.
Arizonans consistently
report that families are the central element in their lives.
Families are the social, moral, and economic cornerstones
of society. Families rear children, economically take care of
their members, teach moral values, and take care of the sick, elderly
and disabled in ways no other institution can do or do as well.
Family Impact Seminars give a voice to this priority of family
that might otherwise go unheeded in policy development. The family
perspective examines how families are affected by problems, whether
and how they may contribute to problems, and/or whether policy
responses would be more effective if approached from a family
rather
than an individual perspective.
Arizona and ASU are new contractors
to the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison,
Cooperative Extension. Our first Seminar is slated for November
2008. More information about the seminar will be posted here
by mid-summer 2008.
To see Family Impact Seminars (FIS) as
done in other states, and to better understand the rationale
for the development
of FIS,
visit the UW
Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars.
Contacts for Arizona FIS:
Richard Fabes, Ph.D.
Dee and John Whiteman Distinguished Professor
Founding Director, School of Social and Family Dynamics
Co-Director, Family and Human Dynamics Research Institute
Box 873701
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-3701
Phone: 480-965-6978
Fax: 480-965-6779
E-mail: rf@asu.edu
School Homepage: http://www.asu.edu/ssfd
Mary G. Warren, Ph.D.
Director, Family Impact Seminars
Family and Human Dynamics Research Institute
Box 873701
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-3701
Phone: 480-965-0962
Fax: 480-965-6779
E-mail: Mary.G.Warren@asu.edu
School Homepage: http://www.asu.edu/ssfd
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