Connecting Change Makers Around the World Working for Justice and Fairness for Children, Youth and Families

Open Invitation to All Desiring Change to

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Child Welfare

The Kempe Center is excited to host the 2022 International Virtual Conference: A Call to Action to Change Child Welfare. We will reconvene and expand the international community of practice with an expected 3000 participants from 20 countries gathering to debate, innovate, and discuss ways to transform child welfare and to re-imagine healthy, restorative, and healing ways of working with children and families. This eco-friendly event will showcase 60 hours of concurrent learning opportunities over 4 days (running 6:00am-9:00pm Denver time daily) and include:

• 8 Keynote Presentations from internationally renowned experts and thought leaders
• 150+ Interactive Workshops
• 40+ Conversation Circles to tackle some challenging questions and topics
• 12+ International Exchanges
• 10+ Media Circles
• 12+ Book/Report Club Discussions with authors
• Reflective spaces for unique constituency groups
• Creative spaces
• Social spaces

Together, we commit to changing child welfare as we know it by connecting communities that are lifting up child and family well-being and social, racial, and family justice. The Kempe Center recognizes that the conference overlaps with Yom Kippur. Please click here to read our message.

About the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect

The Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect is part of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. As an academic institution, we are committed to academic freedom. As a publicly funded university, we are also committed to upholding free speech. This conference is intended to create spaces in which those with lived experience, academics, professionals, and other experts can engage with one another in the difficult topic of how best to support children and families affected by allegations of abuse or neglect. We expect dialogues to be bold, but respectful--grounded in both the rigors of academic study and the pain of lived experience that together can inform a better future. Any views and opinions expressed during the conference are solely of the individuals who express them regardless of whether the individual is affiliated with the Kempe Center.