Successes and Roadblocks within Affiliate Council Initiatives

Wyndsor II

Affiliate councils provide a platform for professional connectedness in ways that are often more difficult to achieve through national memberships. Through professional endeavors, affiliate councils provide opportunities for collaboration, networking, and engagement. Although the benefits of affiliate councils are clear, they can often be difficult to sustain when councils have a small infrastructure. Through roundtable discussions, the current project will share avenues by which the Southeastern Council on Family Relations, the southeastern affiliate of the National Council on Family Relations, has been successful in maintaining their mission to provide a network for collaboration among family professionals. This roundtable discussion will also explore areas of improvement within the affiliate council’s effort to fulfill their mission and will prompt attendees to engage in a meaningful exchange on the ways in which barriers to affiliate council success can be overcome.