Spaces for All: Creating a Future Where Everyone Thrives

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2025 REGISTRATION RATES (please register using the links below)

Registration Fees: If registering for both conferences, please register for each separately. When registering, select your top 3 workshops for each session. Conference registration includes workshop sessions (workshops of your choice) keynote speaker(s), breakfast & lunch and workshop certificates.

• Childhood Conversations Conference only: $150, click here to register.
• Parenting Conversations Conference only: $100, click here to register.
• Childhood Conversations & Parenting Conversations Conference (2-Days): $225.00

Download the full conference brochure here.

Registration deadline: April 25, 2024
Pre-registration is required. Speakers and workshops subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

Please note:  You will have the choice of creating an account or login in as a guest.   All contact information will be automatically filled in for you when you sign in the next time. Guest login allows visitors to continue without registering or signing in.

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE (subject to change)

FRIDAY, MAY 2

• 8:30 – 9:00 am:  Registration & Breakfast
• 9:00 – 10:00 am: Welcome & Keynote 
• 10:15 – 11:45 am: Session 1
• 11:45 -12:30 pm:  Lunch
• 12:45 – 2:15 pm: Session 2
• 2:30 – 4:00pm:  Session 3

SATURDAY, MAY 3

• 8:30 – 9:00 am:  Registration & Breakfast
• 9:00 – 10:00 am: Welcome & Keynote
• 10:15 – 11:45 am:  Session 1
• 11:45 – 12:30:  Lunch
• 12:45 – 2:15pm:  Session 2
• 2:30 – 3:00pm:  Closing

If you have any questions, reach out to Monica Whalen, Conference Coordinator for general conference information.  For registration or payment contact Marla Berrios.

KEYNOTES

FRIDAY KEYNOTE – DR. INGRID M. CANADY

Inclusion not Exclusion: Developing a TRUE Space for All to Thrive: The collective call for a TRUE space for all to thrive must include our commitment to Transformational leadership, the amplification of Resilience, a conscious effort to an Unbiased mindset, and a deliberate effort to encourage Empowerment.  Drawing from her personal and professional experiences, Dr. Canady will use this opportunity to encourage us to reflect on our role as transformational change agents with the strength and power to make a difference in our children’s lives. As the pages of history continue to turn, now more than ever, our children need our advocacy, commitment, and courageous mindset to help them thrive. Inclusion, not exclusion, must be the norm.

SATURDAY KEYNOTE

If You Are Not at the Table, You Are on the Menu!

Moderator: Althea Marshall Brooks, Executive Director, Waterbury Bridge To Success
Panelists:

• Chelsey Harris, Director, Children & Family Innovation, BTS
• Ary French, Parent Ambassador, BTS
• Maria Sanchez, Parent Ambassador/Transforming Communities Initiative, BTS
• LaToya Ireland, Parent Ambassador, BTS/Waterbury Board of Ed Commissioner
• Yonique Hendricks, Parent Ambassador/Transforming Communities Initiative, BTS

REQUEST FOR PRESENTERS

Application closed.

TERMS OF REGISTRATION

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