Dr. Ellen Wartella, Director of the Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University, will be giving an I-TOPP Lecture titled \"Food Marketing and the Childhood Obesity Crisis\" on April 5, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Room 7 in Christopher Hall. Read More
Meghan Fisher has joined the Family Resiliency Center staff as the project coordinator for the BackPack Program Evaluation and the FAAM (Family Approach to Asthma Management) project. Read More
The Autism Program at the Family Reiliency Center is offering a social skills program for children ages 8-10. This program promotes positive social relationships with peers in an interactive and fun way. Read More
The Autism Program and the C-U Autism Network is now offering a Spanish Autism Support Group for families and professionals. An informational meeting will be held from 6:30-7:30 pm on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at the Family Resiliency Center, 904 W. Nevada Ave. For more information read more.
Applications are now being accepted for the position of Visiting Research Coordinator, Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
Two researchers from the Family Resiliency Center's STRONG Kids Program have discovered that pre-schoolers who watch television are more prone to eating sweet and salty foods compared to fruits and vegateables. Read more...
Applications are now being accepted for the position of Visiting Recruitment Coordinator, Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center welcomes Dr. Myles Faith to campus, as part of the I-TOPP Lecture Series on Tuesday, December 6, from Noon - 1 in Bevier. Read more...
Applications are now being accepted for the position of Multi-Media Assistant for the Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center is pleased to host Dr. Monika Stodolska for the upcoming Food for Thought lecture on December 2, from Noon - 1 in the Studio (Room 1009) at Doris Kelley Christopher Hall. Read more...
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently released a policy brief focusing on the efforts and findings of Abriendo Caminos, a project supported by the Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
Applications are now being accepted for the position of Visiting Project Coordinator for the Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center, United Way of Champaign County, Birth to Six Council, ACCESS Initiative and Voices for Illinois Children invite you to participate in a Champaign County community dialogue on the needs of young children, birth to age eight on Monday, November 14, 2011 from 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at the Champaign Public Library. Read more...
UPDATE: Video of Tuesday night's event hast been posted! The Family Resiliency Center is a proud sponsor of the upcoming \"Growing Hope Against Hunger: An Illinois Response\" event hosted by Illinois Public Media on Tuesday, November 15. This special night of television will highlight public and private efforts happening around hunger needs in Illinois. Read more...
Dr. Marlene Schwartz recently published an article for the Huffington Post regarding McDonald's launch of its own TV Channel. Co-authored by the Family Resiliency Center's Director Dr. Barbara Fiese, the article touches upon key issues of why this should be concerning to families. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center's STRONG Kids Research Project is currently featured on Scientific American's Website! Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center received an NIH funded grant to host an innovative workshop series to advance the field of physical activity research. Read more...
Dipti Dev, a doctoral student in DNS who has worked with the STRONG Kids Program for over two years, has received the Head Start Graduate Student Research grant from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Administration for Children and Families (ACF) for her research project titled “Role of Head Start and Child Care Settings in Early Childhood Obesity: A Cumulative Risk Model”. more
The College of Medicine's Observations on Obesity Community Medical School is a free, three-part educational course taking an in-depth look at the clinical and scientific approaches to obesity. Read more...
This coming Thursday Dr. Barbara Fiese, Director of the Family Resiliency Center, will be a presenter in Washington, D.C. in a briefing on \"Raising Healthy Children: Recent Evidence from Developmental Science\". Read more...
Registration for the I-TOPP Inaugural Biennial Symposium is now open. The event will take place Oct 6-7 at the Alice Campbell Alumi Center and features keynote speaker Dr. Cynthia Ogden from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Family Resiliency Center and Sprouts at the Market present \"The ABC's of Healthy Eating\" this Saturday, September 17 from 9-11 am at Urbana's Market at the Square. more
Only 45% of the 79,000 people in Eastern Illinois that are food insecure are eligible for food stamps. What can you do? Come to the 2011 Hunger Symposium, presented by the Eastern Illinois Food Bank and the University of Illinois Family Resiliency Center. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center is pleased to host Robert Stawski for the upcoming Food for Thought Brown Bag Series on September 9 from 12-1pm. Read more...
The Family Resiliency Center is pleased to announce the release of its Annual Report. Read more...
Dr. Craig Gundersen's research indicates that programs such as SNAP can play a vital role in the social safety net as well as in efforts to end childhood obesity. Read More
The Autism Program at the Family Resiliency Center is offering a Social Skills Camp this summer for children ages 8-12 years old. This group follows a curriculum designed to enhance children’s communication, cooperation and confidence. Read more
FRC's Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Amber Hammons Meta-Analysis of Family Mealtimes is being published in the Journal of Pediatrics eFirst pages. The paper is a meta-analysis which examines if the frequency of shared family meals are related to the nutritional health of children and adolescents. Read more
The Family Resiliency Center is pleased to be a part of the announced award of a $4.5M dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) to create the Illinois Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention Program (I-TOPP). The focus of the program is to create a new innovative research-based PhD/MPH degree program focused on childhood obesity prevention. Read more
As part of the Distinguished Family Scholar Series, Dr. Hiro Yoshikawa, Professor of Education at Harvard University, will be giving a distinguished colloquium talk at the Family Resiliency Center on Friday, April 22, 2011 from Noon-1:00 p.m. The talk will be held in Classroom 007 in Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, 904 W. Nevada Ave., Urbana, IL and is free and open to the public. He will be sharing an in-depth look at the challenges undocumented immigrants face as they raise chidlren in the U.S. Read more here.
Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, released their new Map the Meal Gap project yesterday at an event in Washington, D.C. that was attended by Howard G. Buffett and John Lewis of The Neilson Company, who both helped fund the project. Dr. Craig Gundersen, an Affiliate of the Family Resiliency Center, served as the lead researcher for the project also attended. The goal of the project is to provide communities with information and data that can help them better understand the need in their local area. More
We are looking for parents of young children to help us evaluate public service announcements (PSAs) designed to “help families enjoy less stressful meals together as a family at home.” These PSAs were created with the help of the Family Resiliency Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The study is being conducted by Professor Michelle Nelson and her ADV585 (Advertising Management Planning) class in the Department of Advertising at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. More
Four FRC posters were featured at the 2011 Public Engagement Symposium: Impacting our Community which was held March 9, 2011 at the I-Hotel in Champaign. More
Congratulations to CU Fit Families for being selected to receive the Robin A. Orr Community Partnership Award from the Illinois Interagency Council on Nutrition (INC). Julie Pryde from Champaign-Urbana Public Health District nominated CU Fit Families for the award. More
Dr. Adam Becker, Executive Director of the Consortium to Lower Obesity in Chicago Children (CLOCC) is the featured keynote speaker at the Transdisciplinary Approach to Childhood Obesity Innovation Summit Workshop being held at the Family Resiliency Center on Friday, Feb 4, 2011. The purpose of the workshop is to advance transdisciplinary education, research and community programming in the Central Illinois region to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity and promote healthy eating and active living for all families. More
Dr. Barbara H. Fiese, Director of the Family Resiliency Center will be the keynote speaker for the Illinois Action for Children's \"Spring Into Action\" policy conference. Dr. Fiese will be speaking on the role that early care and education plays in children's health. More
Dr. Pamela Campbell, M.D., from the SIU School of Medicine is the TAP Brown Bag Seminary Series speaker on Monday, Nov 8 at Noon. More
The Autism Program (TAP) is now accepting applications for their Graduate and Undergraduate HDFS 294/HCD 598 Practicum/Internship. More
Study finds immigrant Latinos in rural Illinois have unique child care needs. More
Check out the photos from our Eat a Rainbow event here.
FRC Staff and students are taking the \"SNAP Hunger Challenge\". Read more about it in our blog or in the 9-21-2010 News-Gazette article.
Teens and college students who would like to work on improving their social interaction skills are invited to attend fall groups [read more]
Dr. Barbara Fiese will be presenting her talk entitled Inside Family Life: Multiple layers of influence on childrens health and wellbeing [read more]
The Autism Program is hosting a free Wonderful Wednesdays Social Skills Playgroup every Wednesday in July from 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. for families with children ages 3-5 years [read more]
The Parenting 2.0 research project, sponsored by the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota, is seeking parents who use the Internet [read more]
The Family Resiliency Center is offering two Supervised Undergraduate Research Courses next year, one for the STRONG Kids Program and one for our Food and Family Program. [read more]
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences recently announced that Professor Sharon Donovan is a winner of a Paul A. Funk Recognition Award [read more]
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