Center for Family and Community Engagement
New On-Demand Training!
The NC Addictions Specialist Certificate Program for Paraprofessionals was developed to increase paraprofessionals in the field of addictions. Each month, new on-demand courses are released, which can be applied to North Carolina Addictions Specialist Professional Practice Board certification. The Center […]
Meet us Monday: Jenny King
Meet Jenny King! Jenny has been with CFACE since May 2006, and serves a trainer and training coordinator and sits on the Center’s leadership team. She is responsible for the delivery and completion of various training deliverables, and hosts both […]
Meet Us Mondays: Amber Holland
Meet Amber Holland! Amber is a PhD candidate in the Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media Graduate Program at NC State. In addition to her work at the Center, Amber also teaches interpersonal communication and public speaking courses at the university. […]
CFACE in One Word
Impactful, supportive, innovative: these are just a few words that our graduate student-staff use to describe CFACE and its work within the community. Our student-staff enjoy working for the Center for many reasons, whether it’s affecting people, policy, perceptions, or […]
NC State’s Center for Family and Community Engagement Welcomes New Leadership
Kwesi Craig C. Brookins has been named director of NC State’s Center for Family and Community Engagement, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
CFACE Supports Child Welfare Family Engagement
“It is absolutely critical to strengthen our efforts to listen to the families and youth served by the system and integrate their voices into all aspects of child welfare planning and improvement.” (Administration for Children and Families, 2019) The Center […]
Impactful Students: Favorite Memories
Working from various locations across North Carolina, it’s not always easy for CFACE staff and students to come together. This is made more difficult in light of current social distancing measures. While the pandemic presented its share of challenges, some […]
Spotlight: Family Agency Collaborative Training Team (FACTT)
CFACE is launching a series of spotlight articles to reintroduce the Center’s various programs and initiatives that continue to perpetuate family-community-academic partnerships serving North Carolina families and communities. Today, we are spotlighting the Family Agency Collaborative Training Team (FACTT), a […]
Meet Our Impactful Students
Here at the Center for Family and Community Engagement (CFACE), students play an essential role in many of our projects, service and research. CFACE relies on graduate students from a variety of disciplines such as Social Work, Psychology, and Communication […]
Center Spotlight: Dr. Emily (Lefebvre) Smith
This month we are excited to announce that Dr. Emily (Lefebvre) Smith has transitioned into a new role with the Center as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar! Dr. Smith is a recent graduate of the Lifespan Developmental Psychology program and began […]