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Monday April 27, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Join the AdoptUSKids team for a special Lunch & Learn featuring the premiere screening of the AdoptUSKids’ video: “When We Have Each Other: Teen Adoption Stories.” The video highlights the voices of youth and families who are living the experience of adoption from foster care.
This interactive session will introduce a new discussion guide designed for facilitators to support thoughtful, trauma-informed conversations with pre-adoptive families, foster families, child welfare professionals, and youth. Following the screening, participants will engage in a table discussion and share feedback that will help inform future dissemination and use of the guide and video resource across the country.
A boxed lunch will be provided. Pre-registration is required.
Speakers
avatar for Melinda Kline, MSW

Melinda Kline, MSW

Melinda Kline, LSCSW, National Project Director (NPD) – AdoptUSKids 
Melinda is a proud Citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.  
Melinda has 30+ years of child welfare and Social Work experience with an emphasis on permanency, foster care and adoption.  Prior to her current position as NPD at AdoptUSKids, she served as the Deputy Director of Permanency Programs for the State of Kansas. Melinda has national... Read More →
PR

Pamela Robbins

Raise the Future
KA

Katie Amelse

Raise the Future/National Center for Diligent Recruitment/AdoptUSKids
avatar for Margarita Hughes

Margarita Hughes

National Child Welfare Advisor, Raise the Future
Monday April 27, 2026 12:30pm - 1:30pm EDT
Ballroom AB

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