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The Family Institute of Westchester [FIW] is a postgraduate family therapy training institute for mental health professionals. It was organized in 1977.

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The Family Research Consortium [FRC] is designed to promote intellectual exchange and collaboration among scholars across the nation and beyond on issues related to families and mental health, including the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders. FRC was established with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health in 1985 to improve the quality of investigation and to stimulate broader collaboration in the field of family research. Four successive generations of the Consortium have been funded, with each focusing on a distinct theme and comprising a different interdisciplinary team of senior researchers.

The current phase, FRC IV focuses on 4 types of transition:

1. Geographical, including immigration and migration
2. Life course, which includes biologically-rooted and stage-related change
3. Economic, including poverty and job change or loss
4. Traumas, which include loss and unusually stressful events

Objectives:

• Promote scholarly exchange and training in the study of transitions among diverse families
• Advance substantive, theoretical and methodological knowledge on transitions among diverse families, as they influence and are influenced by family processes and the mental health of family members

FRC IV activities include:

• Generating and engaging in collaborative research
• Convening annual Summer Institutes that promote interchange among scholars in the field and disseminate information on advances in conceptual development, research design, measurement and statistical methodology appropriate for research on diverse families and mental health
• Conducting a multi-site postdoctoral training program that prepares a new generation of scholars to address mental health and family issues in diverse populations
• Facilitating the development of scholar study groups that independently pursue advancement and discovery on specialized subtopics related to the FRC IV themes

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Founded in 1982, Family Service Canada is a not-for-profit, national voluntary organization representing the concerns of families and family-serving agencies across Canada. Membership includes family service agencies, corporations, government agencies at all three levels, and interested individuals.

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Family Services of King County is a non-profit organization that provides supplies, mental health counseling and other support for families, including supportive housing, domestic violence intervention, eviction prevention and childcare for homeless families.

Family Support America (formerly The Family Resource Coalition) aims to improve the content and expand the number of programs available nationally to parents for strengthening families. Family Support America serves programs, parents, researchers, and policymakers with information and technical assistance related to prevention program models, strategies, and research.

The Family Support Center is a clearinghouse of up-to-date information on national, state and local family support programs, services, and disabilities.

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Founded in 1976, the Family Therapy Network is a non-profit professional organization devoted to furthering the exchange of information and ideas among psychotherapists. The organization publishes a magazine, The Family Therapy Networker.

At the Annual Symposia, 2,500 professionals gather. There is also a nationwie system of Forums, small local discussion groups. International Training Scholarships bring in professional clinicians from countries that lack training programs. The Minority Scholarship Program gives grants to training institutions to increase the racial, ethnic and cultural diversity of the family therapy profession. The Public Education Project sponsors programs for the general public. The Network also provides books, periodicals and training materials to professionals worldwide who otherwise would have no access to such resources.

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Members of the Family Therapy Practice Academy are clinical social workers.

Goals:

• Ensure parity for clinical social workers as family practitioners and educators
• Ensure our national identity by setting our own family therapy standards
• Ensure inclusion in managed care and future national health care programs
• Promote broader acceptance of relational diagnosis for insurance reimbursement
• Keep clinical social workers, family therapists informed on issues affecting their practice
• Advocate for Clinical Social Workers/family therapists both within and outside the mental health field

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The Family Violence Prevention Fund [FVPF] is a national non-profit organization that focuses on domestic violence education, prevention and public policy reform.

The FVPF trains judges and police officers to respond appropriately when they are confronted with battering, and to treat it as a serious crime. It works with healthcare providers across the country to educate them about how to identify and help victims of abuse and their children. The FVPF has developed a multi-faceted public education campaign to raise awareness about the problem and let people know what they can do to get involved in their communities.

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The non-profit Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute [FVSAI] was founded in 1984. FVSAI due to the need for a national resource center that focused directly and specifically on family violence issues. With the increase in awareness of spousal and partner abuse, the FVSAI created a center to assist professionals in obtaining the latest information on the treatment of batterers, therapy for children who had been exposed to violence or maltreatment, education on the need for research and evaluation in these areas, and to conduct training, consultation, and professional networking among the researchers and treatment providers in the field of family violence and sexual assault. The organization provides information, networking, training, education, and program evaluation for other agencies, practitioners, and organizations. The mission of the FVSAI is to improve the quality of life for individuals on an international level by sharing and disseminating vital information, improving networking among professionals, and assisting with program evaluation, consultation, and training that promotes violence-free living.

The official publications of FVSAI are:

• The Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
• The Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma
• The Journal of Emotional Abuse
• The Journal of Child Custody

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