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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. The activities of FRC IV are focused specifically on the implications and consequences for family mental health of four types of transitions:

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

The FRC IV aims to:

• 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.

Directors:

• M. Belinda Tucker, UCLA
• Andrew J. Fuligni, UCLA
• David T. Takeuchi, University of Washington
• Cheryl A. Boyce, NIMH

UCLA Center for Culture & Health, 760 Westwood Plaza, Box 62, Los Angeles, CA 90024   FRC4@ucla.edu