{"id":5275,"date":"2014-12-02T14:08:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=5275"},"modified":"2014-12-02T14:08:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T20:08:50","slug":"nfcr-national-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2014\/12\/02\/nfcr-national-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"NFCR National Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UW-Stevens Point students attending the NFCR Conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cYou may come from somewhere, but you can go anywhere.\u201d These are the words I heard while attending\u00a0National Council on Family Relations (NFCR) Conference<\/a>, a national conference in Baltimore Nov. 25-30, with other colleagues of mine. After hearing these words I felt like they were fitting to my own life.<\/p>\n

I grew up in a small town on a dairy farm and was the first child to leave home and attend a university. Today, I am a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point preparing to graduate next December in just 3.5 years, but when I started college I didn\u2019t know exactly what was ahead of me. I came into college as a social work<\/a> major, then switched my major to business administration<\/a>, and then for the third time changed to a family and consumer sciences-family life education <\/a>major with a minor in business administration. I slowly started to meet people in my major, knew their names, but never really had much conversation with them. Last spring I decided to join my student organization, University Council on Family Relations (UCFR)<\/a>. I started participating in events and got to know more people.<\/p>\n

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Service Project Team<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the beginning of this year a friend of mine invited me to be a part of a group of students who were working on a National Service Project to present at this national conference in Baltimore. I was ecstatic to have been asked to be a part of this group; this was the turning point for me. I finally felt like I belonged, I was no longer that random girl sitting alone, barely talking at a meeting. I had friends and I was now going places with this organization.<\/p>\n

While at the conference we presented our service project titled Living Positive Kenya<\/i>, together with other student affiliates we are raising money to help those living in the slums of Kenya. While at the conference I attended numerous different sessions. The sessions varied from people talking about their research, round table discussions with professionals in this field, speed mentoring, and speakers telling their story.<\/p>\n

My favorite sessions included ones where I had the chance to talk one-on-one with professionals and hear about what they do each day and how they got there. Every person had different advice to give me and a different story to share with me about their own personal experiences. After attending numerous sessions in three days I learned so much about my field of study and created an even deeper passion for what I want to do some day. Thinking back I never would have thought I would have had the opportunity to travel out of state with a student organization while in college, but I did and it was one of my best college experiences thus far. It goes to show that I may have come from somewhere, but I can go anywhere.<\/p>\n

~Kelsey~<\/p>\n

Kelsey Haelfrisch<\/a> is junior majoring in family and consumer sciences – family life education at UW-Stevens Point.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou may come from somewhere, but you can go anywhere.\u201d These are the words I heard while attending\u00a0National Council on Family Relations (NFCR) Conference, a national conference in Baltimore Nov. 25-30, with other colleagues of mine. After hearing these words I felt like they were fitting to my own life. I grew up in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":5279,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,43,23],"tags":[144,145,233,305,341,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}