Astin Brown, LCSW and Rebecca Ross, LCSW, members of the Gender and Family Project, presented the first lecture of this year’s Ackerman Alumni lecture series with Between Pink & Blue: A Multidimensional Approach to Supporting Families of Gender Expansive Youth. The October 7th lecture reviewed parental reactions to nonconforming gender developments of their children, posing that the […]

The Ackerman Institute for the Family welcomes new and returning students this week as we enter the 2016-2017 school year. Students joined Ackerman faculty and staff members to celebrate the occasion at our annual Welcome Party hosted in the Institute’s Carol Maslow Conference Room. Following a welcome address from President and CEO, Lois Braverman, Director

Over 80 members of the Ackerman Alumni and guests were in attendance on January 29th, 2016, when Monica McGoldrick, MSW, PhD (h.c.), was the guest speaker at the Alumni’s meeting. Her presentation was on, “Genograms, Time, Loss, Cutoff and Reconnection.” Dr. McGoldrick illustrated the use of a multicontextual family life cycle framework for considering human

The Ackerman Institute for the Family celebrated its 9th annual gala fundraiser, Moving Families Forward on October 26, 2015, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. Gala Co-Chairs, Martha Fling and Deborah Werner, welcomed more than 300 guests for an evening that raised $600,000, surpassing last year’s total significantly. The funds raised will