NACAC is seeking presenters to help parents, professionals, and advocates gain skills and knowledge in adoption- and foster care-related topics at its 2020 conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. NACAC encourages adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, adoptees, birth parents, young people who experienced foster care, researchers, therapists, and other child advocates to submit workshop… Read more
Each year, the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) hosts a conference for individuals who have been touched by adoption and foster care. From social workers to adoptees, the conference gives the child welfare community an opportunity to learn more about the complex issues surrounding adoption, foster, and kinship care. While the information… Read more
On Thursday or Friday evening or over the lunch period on Thursday through Saturday, groups can hold meetings at the NACAC conference that are open to all conference attendees or for a specified group. All meetings will be held at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino. If you would like to hold a special meeting… Read more
Please note that the information below is for the 2019 NACAC conference, which was held in July. If will give you a sense of the type of sessions we will offer at the 2020 conference in Toronto, Ontario. General Sessions July 18, 2019 — Allison Maxon, LMFT, and Sharon Kaplan Roszia, MS, “The Seven Core… Read more
Save the date! If you have been touched by adoption or foster care, this is the conference you will want to attend! Join us August 27–29, 2020 (pre-conference session August 26) in Toronto, Ontario for this four-day educational event that covers a wide variety of foster care and adoption topics—to meet the diverse needs and… Read more