College and University Faculty:
Choose FIS for Your Students!
An important question for College and University faculty...
What one resource can help you prepare students to:
create a meaningful activity
develop cultural competency
teach & support effective parenting
build marriage & family relationship skills
develop parent & family education materials
find the perfect handout to illustrate a point
combine educational & therapeutic techniques
adapt family education curricula for post-crisis needs
work with a wide variety of resource materials in the field? Expand Your Repertoire of Ideas and Techniques!
Family Information Services provides hundreds of tools for teaching about the methods & materials of parenting and family life education. If your students plan to serve families — in agencies, schools, churches, or the community — they will benefit from adding family life education to their repertoire of skills.
They may be expected to provide educational support:
- as part of their organization's continuum of care.
- by suggesting
helpful resources to their clients, in agency, school or private practice settings.
- by leading workshops & classes requested by community groups.
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as a part of parent education or marriage education programs.
- during home visits.
- in teaching or counseling with youth about their relationships or future marriage & family goals.
- as follow-up or after-care with clients who have been through chemical dependency or other treatment and are now looking for support in rebuilding their family life.
- during home visits.
By combining practical professional development with ready-to-use resources, Family Information Services will support you with valuable tools as you prepare students to be effective “prevention educators.”
Family Information Services will keep you...
Informed...
Inspired...
In
Touch!
Choose This
Library As a Resource for Your Students and
Start Them on a Professional Path!
Family Information Services offers the new Parent & Family Educator's Resource Library (FIS Library) at a special reduced rate. If you make this resource one of your required resources in your syllabus, students will be able to order at less than a third of the professional price!
Faculty who email a copy of their syllabus indicating that they have required the FIS Library as a resource receive FREE access to the Library. Click on "Order Now" to download the ordering information. You may place the PDF order form on your course website.
Instructors may purchase the FIS Library at the regular Professional Rate and print out selected handouts for students as part of your "face-to-face" teaching, but the copyright does not allow the entire library (in print or electronic format) to be provided to students in lieu of requiring them to purchase their own copy.
Or contact Dr. Joan Comeau for more details.
Feedback from Past Evaluations:
"The Family Information Services program is a valuable tool for anyone working with couples or parents. It is a source of practical, helpful material that can be utilized in educational or therapeutic settings. The materials are based on sound research about parenting and family relationships." -- David Olson, Ph.D., Author and Founder, PREPARE/ENRICH, St. Paul, MN
"I wanted my students at the University of Helsinki to be exposed to other resources beyond their text, especially on-line resources. The FIS materials were user friendly, meaningful, and quite helpful to them. I have renewed my subscription and would use FIS materials again for teaching Family Life Education courses." -- Carol A. Darling, Ph.D., CFLE, CFCS , Margaret Sandels Professor of Human Sciences, Florida State University Distinguished Teaching Professor, FSU Department of Family & Child Sciences, College of Human Sciences FSU and Fulbright Professor, Fall 2004, University of Helsinki
"College and university faculty involved in preparing practitioners to work with families will find many ways to use the Family Information Services program with their students. This program will help us prepare our students to communicate practical 'street level' information about healthy parenting and family relationships." -- M. Janice Hogan, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
"Family Information Services' practitioner-oriented materials help students learn to "walk the talk." They discover how theories and approaches to working with families become applied! I use FIS to bring the wisdom from experienced practitioners into my courses!" -- Carole Gesme, M.A., CFLE, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN and St. Mary's University, Winona, MN
"I find that when I assign readings with a URL, students are more likely to read or listen because they are so comfortable with accessing resources on the web. Online access to Family Information Services is very convenient and supports our efforts to prepare students to work with families." -- Sue Murray, M.A., CFCS, CFLE, Associate Professor, Friends University, Berrien Springs, MI
"I use FIS Online for my Family Life Education Methodology course. As the capstone assignment for that class, the students have to design a Family Life Education Curriculum, and I encourage them to browse the FIS wealth of material for aspects that they might incorporate into their presentations. FIS Online is an excellent resource for students who plan to work in family-related fields" -- Phyllis Michael, CFLE, Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Warner Pacific College
"As a therapist and educator, I have found the Family Information Services program to be a valuable resource. There are ideas and materials I can use immediately in my work with individuals, parents, and couples." -- Linda McConahey, Ph.D., Therapist in Private Practice, South Boston, VA
"One of the most important jobs of the church today is to nurture, encourage and support the lives of families in the church and the community. Access to practical resources such as Family Information Services can help those in the church be better equipped to fulfill that role." -- Dennis Lowe, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Family Ministry, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
"With our limited travel resources, Family Information Services expands the inservice opportunities available to our counseling and education staff. It is a very cost-effective resource!" -- Corinne Bokitch, MSW, Director, Family Service Bureau of Regina, Canada
"Family Information Services is keeping me on the cutting edge. It's a very efficient way for us to provide important services to our families." -- Laurie Kanyer, CFLE, Yakima, WA
