The Center for Families
The Center for Families empowers all families to thrive in nurturing environments that meet their essential needs, reduce their exposures to risk, and enhance their individual and collective strength and resilience.
How we empower families . . .
Opportunity
Promote the study of families from a multidisciplinary, life course perspective while also increasing the opportunity for new knowledge.
Collaboration
Foster collaboration among academics, policymakers, and practitioners to identify where research about families is needed.
Recognition
Identify high-quality family research from around the world, used to inform decisions that impact families.
LATEST RESEARCH AND NEWS
- Due February 2: Funding Program Submissions
Each year, the Center for Families’ offers funding opportunities that encourage collaborative, multi-disciplinary work focused on families across the life - Kanter Lecture: How Supervisor Training Transforms Employee Exhaustion and Family Engagement
Learn how small changes in leadership and workplace culture can make a big difference in well-being, performance, and family engagement at this year’s Kanter Lecture, March 6 at 3 p.m. Kanter Award Finalist, Ellen Ernst Kossek will highlight how training supervisors to be more supportive can help employees feel less burned out and more engaged. - Faculty Partners featured at this spring’s Westwood Lecture SeriesSooyeon Jeong and Mark Suchman, were announced as part of the spring lineup for Purdue University’s Westwood Lecture Series, which provides an opportunity for university faculty to interact with colleagues on scholarly work from a wide range of fields.
CURRENT INITIATIVES
Families, in all their diverse forms, are the foundation of society. No culture has been able to provide anything better than the family for producing strong individuals for the journey of life.
—Dr. Donald Felker, Dean of School of Consumer and Family Science, 1987-1992
150+ Faculty Members
have engaged in projects that have added to the creation and dissemination of new knowledge
Who are our Faculty Partners?$700 Thousand+
of funding provided directly to support over 150 students and faculty and their research
Read about funded research30 Years
of harnessing the power of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and friends to improve our quality of life
Learn about Center milestonesYOUR SUPPORT MAKES AN IMPACT
Every gift, no matter how large or small, makes it possible for the center to be involved in innovative initiatives that impact individuals and families.
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