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FROM THE
THE FAMILY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (Click title to read the full article)
In 1998, faculty from the Brigham Young University School of Social Work began work on a family enrichment program manual. The effort was in response to a general call from the university president, that faculty focus on preparing students to make a positive impact on families throughout the world. Dr. Shirley Cox and Prof. Wendy Sheffield wanted to develop an instrument that would be usable by students with families in a wide variety of cultures and family systems.
As they examined the positive influence weekly family meetings had in strengthening their own families, they realized a program could be developed for their students to use with the wide variety of families encountered in the field internship program. On that basis, Dr. Cox and Prof. Sheffield began to write the initial ten family enrichment lessons.
Dr. Shirley Cox received her Doctorate of Social Work
from the
Limited copies of the Family Enrichment Program Manual may be obtained by sending request to wfpc@byu.edu
IN THE NEWS
FAMILY IN THE SPOTLIGHT (Click title to read the full article)
by Balint Vazsonyi
Nando Times
"I grew up the member of a large family, in a small
house that stood in the middle of a field. At one end of the field stood the
house of my grandmother; at the other, the home of my great-grandfather. Little
did I know then that, as I turn 50, I would commit my life to a fight for the
very survival of the family."
These were the words of Richard Wilkins, managing director of the
THE U.N. LEFTIST ELITES, NGO's AND WHERE WE ARE HEADED (Click title to read the full article)
by John Fonte
Nearly a year before the September 11 attacks, news stories
provided a preview of the transnational politics of the future. In October
2000, in preparation for the UN Conference Against
Racism, about fifty American nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) called on the
UN "to hold the
The NGOs included Amnesty International-
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR SIGNS EMBRYONIC STEM CELL BILL
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California Governor Gray Davis on
Sunday signed a Bill backing controversial human embryonic stem cell research.
"We are going to be the only
state in the nation to say it is appropriate for the state to embark on stem
cell research and not limit it to adult stem cells," the Bill's author,
state Senator Deborah Ortiz told a news conference on Sunday.
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FROM THE UN
NEW REFORM PUSH AIMS TO ENABLE UN TO KEEP PACE WITH THE
TIMES, ANNAN SAYS
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23 September -- The new push for United Nations reform aims to enable the
Organization to keep pace with the constantly evolving demands of today's
world, Secretary-General Kofi Annan
said today as he launched a new report detailing an agenda for changing the UN.
Related Article:
U.N. REFORM: Annan Unveils Second Stage Of Plan To Improve World Body - UN Wire
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