SAES-422 Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report
Sections
Status: Approved
Basic Information
- Project No. and Title: W167 : Family and Work Identities During Times of Transition
- Period Covered: 10/01/2001 to 09/01/2002
- Date of Report: 12/13/2002
- Annual Meeting Dates: 10/18/2002 to 10/19/2002
Participants
Sandy Bailey-Montana State University; Brenda Bryant-University of California-Davis; Bob DelCampo-New Mexico State University; Diane DelCampo-New Mexico State University; Gary Kiger-Utah State University; Pam Riley-Utah State University; Cindy Schmiege-University of Idaho; Sue Traver-University of Idaho; Anisa Zvonkovic-Oregon State University; Advisors: Anna-Mae Kobbe-CSREES Liaison; Linda Fox-Washington State University (Administrative Advisor); Graduate Research Assistants: Sailaja Chadaram-University of Idaho; Heather Davis-Utah State University; Krista Lynn Preheim-Utah State University.
Chair: Anisa Zvonkovic (OR)
Secretary: Pam Riley (UT)
Chair Elect: Cindy Schmiege (ID)
October 18, 2002
Meeting called to order at 9 am, introductions were made and the minutes of the last meeting approved as amended.
Station Reports
California. Developed literature review of childhood and adolescent developmental factors linked to development of vocational identity for W-167 monograph. Brenda recommends use of the Internet to locate follow-up participants for longitudinal study (Online Detective).
Idaho. Currently collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on women in rural poverty; about one-fourth finished. Sue Traver will e-mail the committee a model to of what it requires of a community to nurture a child.
Montana. Data collection (mail surveys) on post divorce parenting of people who participated in parenting classes completed. Now helping to evaluate Northwest Parenting program and sharing information with Extension agents. Sandy distributed Weaving Together Family and Work document she wrote for MSU Extension Service.
New Mexico. Collected questionnaire data from employees of NMSU physical plant.
Oregon. Analyzing personal interview data collected on women who travel frequently for work (flight attendants, high tech consultants and employees of nonprofit aid and adoption organizations). Primarily looking at occupational lives at this point- finding these women have very strong work identities, optimal levels of travel, and interesting gender differences. Rich text suggests book potential. Brenda will look into extension specialists at Davis participating once Anisa sends her the information. Sue and Cindy will invite Anisa to make a presentation at All College of Agriculture and Science Conference at Idaho.
Utah. Data collection presently in process (80 of 100 couples have been surveyed). Pam will forward article describing their drop-off/pick-up procedure she and Gary published in The Rural Sociologist. Pam is retiring in July 2003 and Gary has been named Dean. The plan is for USU to have new participants in place by the next meeting.
Administrative Advisor Report
Dissemination: Linda Fox stated that the Station reports reflect a lot of synergy attesting to the importance of working as a group to share expertise. She recommends our group consider attending the Galaxy II Conference 21-25 September 2003 in Salt Lake. This constitutes the meeting of 4 Cooperative Extension professional associations together and our work would fit well.
Progress report format: Reporting system is now all electronic and on the NIMSS web site. Linda shared the ?Format for Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report? she must submit. We should keep this in mind as we do our individual reports. We should focus on including impacts of our work. An example would be Anisa?s ?tip sheet? for use by employers. Anna-Mae pointed out it is useful to show how our findings are being used by others (e.g., for training, etc). Reports must be submitted 60 days after this meeting. If stations desire to revise Progress reports submitted at this meeting, send revised version to Linda electronically as soon as possible and no later than 1 November. Chair next year should send a reminder about formatting to folks before next meeting.
Third-year review of Multistate Research Projects: In March of 2003 the Regional Coordination and Implementation Committee (RCIC), a subcommittee of Western Regional Director?s group will conduct an 3rd year evaluation of our project. Linda distributed Appendix I, showing components of the review to prepare us.
CSREES Report
Anna-Mae Kobbe reported she has a new appointment as Director of Family Consumer Science & Nutrition in CSREES so our Liaison will likely change in a couple of months.
She had several suggestions for us:
1. She is currently working on partnering with Health and Human Services- perhaps there might be funding streams available associated with TANIF, or other sources, for some of us.
2. Multistate project: Psychology of Saving, may be doing some things of interest to us and vice-versa.
3. We might consider a symposium at the Family and Consumer Sciences 2004 meetings in Nashville.
4. Journal of Extension is a venue for people to consider publishing in.
Linda mentioned ESCOP Social Science Research Committee, meeting in DC in February, might be a group that could use folks more family oriented; she will be going joining this committee and will check on how interested stations might become involved.
Dissemination: Reports of on going projects
Monograph
Vital Engagement: Preparing Our children for Satisfying Employment Tomorrow, has been submitted for review to UC. Davis 4-H Center. This was a joint project with California, Idaho, Montana and Oregon participating. Linda will get mailing list of Western Regional Directors to Brenda for dissemination of the Monograph.
NCFR Symposium
Gary organized a symposium in the Work Family Focus Group section of the NCFR for W-167 members to participate in. The meeting will be held next month in Houston and papers will be presented by Utah, Idaho and Oregon Stations and Diana Del Campo (NM) will be one of the discussants.
Workforce Development Conference
Sandy, Cindy and Anisa submitted a proposal for a session in this conference titled: Both Sides of the Work Family Equation
Dissemination: New Ideas
Galaxy II
RFPs are on the web (www.cnr.usu.edu/galaxy2). Anna-Mae suggests our work might be good for a pre-conference. Since it is in September, we will consider piggy-backing our Multistate Project meeting with Galaxy.
Links with Extension
Agreed to include discussion of how we connect with extension in our work in next report.
Cyfernet
We should update our work on the web through the editor of the Parent/Family section of Cyfernet. The editor is June Mead and she is at Cornell Cooperative Extension (jm62@cornell.edu). We need to put links to our research on and/or add to descriptions of our work and findings. Anna-Mae will contact her and ask her to e-mail us for information (of course you could e-mail her directly).
Archival Format
Brenda distributed a bibliography of cumulative publications of the Multistate group for 2000-2005. To aid Brenda, when writing the annual report use the following categories: Refereed Publications, Chapters in Books, Presentations at Professional Meetings, Theses and Dissertations, General Audience Presentations, Electronic Publications, and Mass Media
.
2003 Meeting
Plan A: September 20, the day prior to the Galaxy meeting, Salt Lake City
Plan B: October 24-25, San Francisco (or Davis)
Officers for 2003 were elected: Chair: Cindy Schmiege; Chair Elect: Bob Del Campo (2004); Secretary: Sandy Bailey.
Bob suggested the group recognize out-going project participants, Pam and Gary, for their contributions.
Meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm.
Saturday, October 19
Participants met to discuss plans for the Galaxy II Conference in 2003. Sandy Bailey and Sue Traver are each going to submit a proposal which, together, will include 6 presenters. Part I will be on Children and Part II will be on Family. Also included in Part I will be a presentation describing the W-167 Regional Project and how one goes about joining. Each presenter is sending a 2 sentence description of their presentation to Sandy or Sue to help them write the 240 word description.
Secretary: Pam Riley (UT)
Chair Elect: Cindy Schmiege (ID)
October 18, 2002
Meeting called to order at 9 am, introductions were made and the minutes of the last meeting approved as amended.
Station Reports
California. Developed literature review of childhood and adolescent developmental factors linked to development of vocational identity for W-167 monograph. Brenda recommends use of the Internet to locate follow-up participants for longitudinal study (Online Detective).
Idaho. Currently collecting both quantitative and qualitative data on women in rural poverty; about one-fourth finished. Sue Traver will e-mail the committee a model to of what it requires of a community to nurture a child.
Montana. Data collection (mail surveys) on post divorce parenting of people who participated in parenting classes completed. Now helping to evaluate Northwest Parenting program and sharing information with Extension agents. Sandy distributed Weaving Together Family and Work document she wrote for MSU Extension Service.
New Mexico. Collected questionnaire data from employees of NMSU physical plant.
Oregon. Analyzing personal interview data collected on women who travel frequently for work (flight attendants, high tech consultants and employees of nonprofit aid and adoption organizations). Primarily looking at occupational lives at this point- finding these women have very strong work identities, optimal levels of travel, and interesting gender differences. Rich text suggests book potential. Brenda will look into extension specialists at Davis participating once Anisa sends her the information. Sue and Cindy will invite Anisa to make a presentation at All College of Agriculture and Science Conference at Idaho.
Utah. Data collection presently in process (80 of 100 couples have been surveyed). Pam will forward article describing their drop-off/pick-up procedure she and Gary published in The Rural Sociologist. Pam is retiring in July 2003 and Gary has been named Dean. The plan is for USU to have new participants in place by the next meeting.
Administrative Advisor Report
Dissemination: Linda Fox stated that the Station reports reflect a lot of synergy attesting to the importance of working as a group to share expertise. She recommends our group consider attending the Galaxy II Conference 21-25 September 2003 in Salt Lake. This constitutes the meeting of 4 Cooperative Extension professional associations together and our work would fit well.
Progress report format: Reporting system is now all electronic and on the NIMSS web site. Linda shared the ?Format for Multistate Research Activity Accomplishments Report? she must submit. We should keep this in mind as we do our individual reports. We should focus on including impacts of our work. An example would be Anisa?s ?tip sheet? for use by employers. Anna-Mae pointed out it is useful to show how our findings are being used by others (e.g., for training, etc). Reports must be submitted 60 days after this meeting. If stations desire to revise Progress reports submitted at this meeting, send revised version to Linda electronically as soon as possible and no later than 1 November. Chair next year should send a reminder about formatting to folks before next meeting.
Third-year review of Multistate Research Projects: In March of 2003 the Regional Coordination and Implementation Committee (RCIC), a subcommittee of Western Regional Director?s group will conduct an 3rd year evaluation of our project. Linda distributed Appendix I, showing components of the review to prepare us.
CSREES Report
Anna-Mae Kobbe reported she has a new appointment as Director of Family Consumer Science & Nutrition in CSREES so our Liaison will likely change in a couple of months.
She had several suggestions for us:
1. She is currently working on partnering with Health and Human Services- perhaps there might be funding streams available associated with TANIF, or other sources, for some of us.
2. Multistate project: Psychology of Saving, may be doing some things of interest to us and vice-versa.
3. We might consider a symposium at the Family and Consumer Sciences 2004 meetings in Nashville.
4. Journal of Extension is a venue for people to consider publishing in.
Linda mentioned ESCOP Social Science Research Committee, meeting in DC in February, might be a group that could use folks more family oriented; she will be going joining this committee and will check on how interested stations might become involved.
Dissemination: Reports of on going projects
Monograph
Vital Engagement: Preparing Our children for Satisfying Employment Tomorrow, has been submitted for review to UC. Davis 4-H Center. This was a joint project with California, Idaho, Montana and Oregon participating. Linda will get mailing list of Western Regional Directors to Brenda for dissemination of the Monograph.
NCFR Symposium
Gary organized a symposium in the Work Family Focus Group section of the NCFR for W-167 members to participate in. The meeting will be held next month in Houston and papers will be presented by Utah, Idaho and Oregon Stations and Diana Del Campo (NM) will be one of the discussants.
Workforce Development Conference
Sandy, Cindy and Anisa submitted a proposal for a session in this conference titled: Both Sides of the Work Family Equation
Dissemination: New Ideas
Galaxy II
RFPs are on the web (www.cnr.usu.edu/galaxy2). Anna-Mae suggests our work might be good for a pre-conference. Since it is in September, we will consider piggy-backing our Multistate Project meeting with Galaxy.
Links with Extension
Agreed to include discussion of how we connect with extension in our work in next report.
Cyfernet
We should update our work on the web through the editor of the Parent/Family section of Cyfernet. The editor is June Mead and she is at Cornell Cooperative Extension (jm62@cornell.edu). We need to put links to our research on and/or add to descriptions of our work and findings. Anna-Mae will contact her and ask her to e-mail us for information (of course you could e-mail her directly).
Archival Format
Brenda distributed a bibliography of cumulative publications of the Multistate group for 2000-2005. To aid Brenda, when writing the annual report use the following categories: Refereed Publications, Chapters in Books, Presentations at Professional Meetings, Theses and Dissertations, General Audience Presentations, Electronic Publications, and Mass Media
.
2003 Meeting
Plan A: September 20, the day prior to the Galaxy meeting, Salt Lake City
Plan B: October 24-25, San Francisco (or Davis)
Officers for 2003 were elected: Chair: Cindy Schmiege; Chair Elect: Bob Del Campo (2004); Secretary: Sandy Bailey.
Bob suggested the group recognize out-going project participants, Pam and Gary, for their contributions.
Meeting adjourned at 4:45 pm.
Saturday, October 19
Participants met to discuss plans for the Galaxy II Conference in 2003. Sandy Bailey and Sue Traver are each going to submit a proposal which, together, will include 6 presenters. Part I will be on Children and Part II will be on Family. Also included in Part I will be a presentation describing the W-167 Regional Project and how one goes about joining. Each presenter is sending a 2 sentence description of their presentation to Sandy or Sue to help them write the 240 word description.