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Training Institutes 2025

Building a World Where Young People Thrive

July 6-7, 2025
Pre-Institutes

July 8-10, 2025
Main Conference

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The Training Institutes returns in person in 2025!

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Exciting opportunities to ensure the most engaging in-person learning experience!
Hosted by the same great team, now at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work Innovations Institute

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The nation’s leading conference for those working to improve outcomes for children, youth, young adults, and their families brings together nearly 2,000 practitioners, policymakers, researchers, evaluators, and youth and family leaders.

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Join the Training Institutes to share ideas and advance knowledge on improving the quality and effectiveness of child welfare, children’s behavioral health, and other child- and family-serving systems.

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Learn from over 165 participatory workshops and sessions designed to ensure programs, services, and systems that are responsive to the unique needs of young people and their families from diverse communities, cultures, identities, and experiences.

Gaylord National Resort & Conference Center
National Harbor, Washington, D.C.

July 6 - 7, 2025  Pre-Institute Workshops

July 8 - 10, 2025  Main Conference

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Proposals

We welcome your proposals! If you are interested in speaking at the 2025 Training Institutes, speakers are chosen by juried panel. Proposal submissions begin in spring of 2024. Subscribe to Training Institutes Emails for announcements.

Training Institutes 2025

Building a World Where Young People Thrive

July 6-7, 2025
Pre-Institutes

July 8-10, 2025
Main Conference