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"The AAFCS conference has a valuable mix of sessions for a variety of audiences (5-12, higher education, generalists, and specialists, etc.) and it provided me several options for professional development."

Anapama Pasricha
Co-Chair, Department of Family, Consumer and Nutritional Sciences
and Assistant Professor
St. Catherine University

Educational Objectives

Participants in the AAFCS 103rd Annual Conference will be able to:

1. Cultivate leadership skills applicable to professional practice in family and consumer sciences, the workplace, and the community.
2. Examine principles of transformative leadership for family and consumer sciences programs, public policy, curriculum, and multigenerational platforms. 
3. Strengthen linkages between AAFCS communities and professionals with a shared vision for empowering individuals, families, and communities.
4. Create methods to establish goals for, strengthen partnerships with, and support the expansion of ongoing and emerging family and consumer sciences programs.
5. Effectively share the positive outcomes of family and consumer sciences programs with community leaders, stakeholders, and the media.
6. Apply FCS research findings that result in improvements to individual and family well-being.
7. Develop leadership competencies to organize, launch, inspire, and manage groups effectively.
8. Identify leadership skills for moving AAFCS members, communities, and affiliates from resolutions to reality. 
9. Evaluate leadership skills utilized by family and consumer sciences professionals.