Families Rising Adoption and Foster Care Conference

If you have been touched by adoption or foster care, you’ll want to attend this conference!

We’re meeting the diverse needs of adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, and people who were adopted or in foster care.

Save the date for the 2025 Conference!

When: October 6-8, 2025

Where: Orlando, Florida

Who

• All adoptive, foster, and kinship parents
• Child welfare professionals
• Individuals with lived experience with adoption, foster care, and kinship care

Whether you are a foster or adoptive parent seeking support and guidance, a child welfare professional looking to enhance your knowledge and skills, or someone with firsthand experience with the child welfare system, this conference is designed for you.

Keynotes and Workshops

View the 2024 Sessions

2025 Sessions will be announced in the spring.

All sessions are intentionally designed to inspire, inform, and encourage all members of the adoption and foster care community! Workshops from expert speakers will cover a range of topics, including:

• The impact of trauma and loss
• Core issues in adoption
• Effective therapeutic techniques in adoption
• Kinship care and birth family connections
• Parenting children with disabilities and challenges
• Older children and youth
• Race, culture, and diversity in adoption and foster care
• Supporting children and families in adoption and foster care
• Recruiting families for children

Registration

Registration will open spring of 2025.

Questions? Contact us at conference@wearefamiliesrising.org.

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Exhibit

Exhibit

Would you like to reach an audience of adoption professionals, adoptive, kinship, and foster parents, people who experienced foster care or adoption, and other child welfare professionals and advocates?

If so, you should exhibit virtually at the Families Rising conference!

Academic Accreditation

Attendees can earn social work continuing education credits (CEs) for sessions that are attended live (not by recording). The program will be submitted to the National Association of Social WorkersOpens in a new tab.

Learn More about CE Credits