The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) will host their 2026 conference from April 20 to April 22, 2026 in Arlington, Virginia. This conference is a national gathering of policymakers, practitioners, researchers, and advocates focused on improving outcomes for children and families across systems. With sessions on prevention, family engagement, early intervention, and cross-system collaboration, the CWLA conference provides a platform to share evidence-informed practices and build partnerships. TANF program staff can connect with child welfare and community leaders to explore cross-system strategies that support both family stability and economic self-sufficiency and discover innovative tools and frameworks that can enhance services for families navigating work, caregiving, and wellbeing. There is a registration fee for participation.

Kinnect hosted the 2026 KinFirst convening on March 27, 2026 in Newark, Ohio to bring together child welfare leaders, kinship support advocates, and community partners to explore how systems could better center families and kin caregivers in decisions that affect children’s lives. The event focused on strategies for strengthening kinship placements, building caregiver capacity, and fostering supportive networks that help children thrive. The convening offered opportunities to learn about innovative kin-support models, deepen partnerships with kinship and child welfare providers, and identify ways TANF services could align with kin-centered approaches to enhance family stability and economic wellbeing. There was a registration fee for participation.

The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals will host their Youth Symposium from November 17 to 19, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana with an option to attend virtually. This event will promote networking amongst workforce professionals who serve youth across the country, sharing or learning from others’ best practices, creating partnerships with other organizations, and learning about innovative programs and potential solutions. There is a registration fee for participation.

The National Career Pathways Network will host their annual conference from February 18 to 20, 2026 in New Orleans, Louisiana to bring together educators, administrators, workforce professionals, and industry partners to strengthen the education-to-careers pipeline. These individuals will gather to share insights, explore strategies, and advance practices in Career Pathways, Adult Career Pathways, Career and Technical Education, and workforce development. There is a registration fee for participation.

The 2025 APHSA Economic Mobility & Well-Being (EMWB) Conference took place in August 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference brought together those committed to providing and improving human services programs. EMWB was designed to assist human services leaders, policymakers, and researchers in shaping the future of human services programs through collaboration, integration, and modernization. The conference also provided guidance on how best to monitor quality control and performance management.

Generations United hosted their 2025 Intergenerational Conference in June 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. This event brought together hundreds of kinship professionals and caregivers to learn, connect, and share innovative practices and programs on a range of intergenerational topics including kinship and grandfamilies.

The National Youth Employment Coalition hosted the 2025 Youth Days: Shared Voices, Stronger Futures in Washington D.C. in November 2025. This event brought together community leaders, practitioners, and young people to share the needs and solutions to support youth across the country.

The National Tribal TANF Institute brought together Tribal TANF staff from across the country for an in-person educational experience in July 2025 in Davis, California. The theme, “Twenty Years of Tradition: Celebrating Today and Tomorrow Together,” emphasized the importance of honoring tribal values, cultures and traditions while also embracing new ideas, practices and innovations to make native communities stronger for future generations. Participants explored programs, opportunities and resources for tribal youth and young adults to help them transition into thriving adulthood.

The 45th National Indian and Native American Employment and Training (NINAETC) for WIOA Section 166 and Public Law 102-477 took place in Providence, Rhode Island in May 2025. This conference was dedicated to promoting heritage and culture.

Dream the Impossible Native Youth Conference was started in 2007 by several Southern California tribes in partnership with organizations such as the California Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program and is held at a different university each year. This conference is designed to inspire Native American youth to believe that they can achieve anything they want, introduce them to Native professionals in different fields, and help them understand how higher education can transform their lives.

The 2025 conference took place in April 2025 at the California State University, San Bernardino campus.