National Adoption Association (NAA) 2026 National Conference - Boston

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.

Learn from the Ujima Collective how to successfully work across silos and systems. This session will help adoption professionals reenvision their role beyond permanency to wellbeing. Professionals will discuss ways to lend their talent to the movement for economic mobility and the preservation of connections for communities most impacted by the foster care system.
Members of the Ujima Leadership Council and Ujima Collective leaders, allies and proteges will highlight initiatives that bring together business industry partners and child welfare leaders to create more economic opportunities for system-impacted youth and caregivers. Join us and build your skills in system navigation for the youth you serve with interactive case studies, polls, and thought-provoking dialogue with peers.
Each attendee will leave the session with preventive action steps to divert and deflect children and youth on their caseload from foster care towards thriving lives. The session will spark curiosity around what role adoption professionals can play in wellbeing.
A boxed lunch will be provided. Pre-registration is required.