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Family and Consumer Sciences Department
New Mexico State University
Esther
Devall is an associate professor in Family and Child Science
at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in parenting,
human development, family dynamics, and family therapy.
She is recognized as a Certified Family Life Educator by
the National Council on Family Relations. Esther is the
director of the Strengthening Families Initiative, a $2.4
million statewide parenting program funded by the New Mexico
Human Services Department. Nurturing Parenting classes are
provided for expectant, teen, single, divorced, abusive,
and incarcerated parents and their children in English and
Spanish. As part of this initiative, she helped produce
a bilingual parenting newsletter based on the Nurturing
Parenting philosophy. The newsletter is distributed quarterly
to 400,000 households throughout New Mexico through local
newspapers. She also helped produce single lesson parenting
kits from key lessons in the Nurturing Parenting Program.
These kits include marketing tools, PowerPoint presentations,
parent handouts, and evaluation tools. Previously, Esther
directed a $500,000 grant from the USDA to train WIC staff
in parenting and provide Nurturing Parenting classes to
families receiving WIC. She has published numerous articles
on her work with families.
Esther received her master’s degree and doctoral degree
from the University of Georgia in Family Studies. She received
a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University in
Child Development and Elementary Education. Prior to becoming
a university professor, she taught elementary school and
directed a preschool program in the summers. Esther taught
at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana for two years
before coming to New Mexico State. She has been at New Mexico
State since 1991.
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#9 Esther Devall, Ph.D.
Las Cruces, New Mexico
(505) 646-1185
edevall@nmsu.edu
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