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Attendance Certificates:Available at no cost for attendees after each session *Must complete evaluations*
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Learn why "doing" is one of the most powerful tools for building resilience and lifelong wellbeing.
This Webinar explores how hands-on, meaningful activity strengthens communication, connection, and resilience across the lifespan. This session introduces key definitions and credentialing considerations, then “puzzles together” how experiential practices fit into residential and community-based care. Participants will walk away with fun, effective, skill-building tools that promote lifelong leisure engagement and enhance wellbeing for youth, families, and staff—showing that experiential work is never an either-or, but an approach that enriches every level of care.
Attendance Certificates Available
*Must watch webinar LIVE to receive Certificate
*Each individual requesting a Certificate, must be registered and logged in to zoom under their own name
If you have questions, please email Amanda.
An in-depth, multiple-case study of families' experiences with accessing residential care for their children with high level needs.
Individuals: $60/$80 | Organizational All-In: $210/$310
*This 3-hour training will include one break.
Very often people are not fully satisfied with their supervisory relationship. They may stay in a frustrated mode and not work on their own their half of the relationship. They lose many opportunities for professional growth, and end up being less effective. Other times people are happy with their supervisory relationship, but do not proactively strategize how to get even more out of supervision and enhance their own professional growth and upward mobility. This highly interactive workshop, delivered in the presenters’ unique conversational “coaching style” will present a series of strategies for highly motivated people to assess their role in the supervisory relationship and to develop pro-active strategies to better "own their own supervision". This workshop is open to individual supervisees or supervisors, and "brave" supervisors and supervisees who will attend together and strategize ways to grow together professionally.
Topics covered include:
-Answering the question "If I Could Supervise My Supervisor..."
-Examining the power that is in the supervisory relationship and developing healthy ways to balance it better
-Remember: Supervision is a professional relationship
-Assessing your supervisor's style and preference
-Is it ever ok "go over my supervisor's head"?
-How are you most valuable to your agency? How do you show people?
-Learning the art of constructively "managing your boss" as a way to grow in your career
ACRC SPONSORSHIP
$20,000 - Windy City Includes 8 in-person registrations and virtual ‘all in’ registration for the entire organization. Also includes a half page ad.
$15,000 - Chi-Town Includes 5 in-person registrations and virtual ‘all in’ registration for the entire organization. Also includes a quarter page ad.
$10,000 - Magnificent Mile Includes 4 in-person registrations and virtual 'all in' registration for the entire organization
$7,500 - Grant Park Includes 3 in-person registrations and virtual ‘all in’ registration for the entire organization
$5,000 - Navy Pier Includes 2 in-person registrations and virtual ‘all in’ registration for the entire organization
$3,000 - Millennium Park Includes 1 in-person registrations and virtual ‘all in’ registration for the entire organization
$1,800 - Riverwalk Includes 1 in-person registration or 3 virtual attendees
$500 VOICE Champion Sponsor the travel of our Youth Advocates
Early Bird In-Person Registration Rates
ACRC Members - $795
Non-Members - $995
+ $100 after February 2, 2026
please register early!
Any issues registering as a member, please contact: Amanda
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Virtual Registration Rates
ACRC Members
Individual Rate - $200
'All In Staff Rate' - $1,100
Non-Members
Individual Rate - $275
'All In Staff Rate' - $1,500
The ALL IN staff rate allows for anyone in your organization - staff, foster parents, board members, volunteers, etc. - to join at no additional cost. (Note: CEUs are purchased per person.)
Any Issues Registering as a member please contact: Amanda
All keynotes and select workshops held in-person will be recorded or live streamed (and recorded) and placed on the virtual platform. Preconference's, Issues Lunches, Awards Lunch, & Policy Meetings will not be recorded.
To view a list of the current workshops CLICK HERE
Preconference Opportunities
DIRECT CARE PRECONFERENCE - Knowing Better, Caring Better: Innovations in Transforming Youth Residential Practice
RESTORATIVE CIRCLES PRECONFERENCE - The Transformative Power of Restorative Circles
COMMUNICATIONS PRECONFERENCE - Messaging What Matters: Communication Strategies That Inspire Trust and Action
FAMILY PEER SUPPORT PRECONFERENCE - Commitment to Knowing Better: How Integrating Peer Support Helps Us Do Better
this registration is for a 1 day preconference ONLY
ACRC EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION
Includes 1 conference registration, 1 in-person table
& participation in exhibitor bingo
$1,100 for Exhibitors that are ACRC Agency Members
$1,350 for Exhibitors that are non-member, non-profit, 501c3
$1,600 for Exhibitors that are non-members
$400 Additional Exhibitor fee per person for individuals NOT attending sessions.
Rates increase $200 after February 2, 2026 (Early Bird Cutoff)
The session will highlight the best practices for completing an assessment on a youth who has engaged in sexually harmful behaviors. Topics will address when it is appropriate to complete an assessment and the necessary components within the assessment. Discussion will address the impact and danger of using risk labels for youth. Also, a review of the literature will be provided regarding protective factors versus youth’s risk factors. Lastly, appropriate treatment recommendations for the family and youth with sexually harmful behaviors will be explored.
Participants will have a:
In the demanding world of family and child services, organizational culture is often felt but rarely defined in actionable terms. How can leaders move from simply having a culture to intentionally shaping one that actively supports staff well-being and the consistent use of evidence-based practices?
This 90-minute, interactive workshop is designed for leaders and practitioners from residential treatment centers, foster care agencies, and other family-serving organizations. We will move beyond theory to provide practical tools for diagnosing your current cultural landscape and strategically aligning it with your mission.
Using a series of collaborative activities, participants will: •Diagnose their organization's culture using a simple, powerful framework to understand underlying values and tensions.
•Analyze systemic barriers that impact staff fulfillment and can hinder the faithful implementation of proven practices.
•Craft a compelling, data-driven narrative that connects daily tasks to resources and environmental factors, making the case for effective, evidence-based work.
•Leave with a starter kit of actionable strategies to foster a more resilient, effective, and intentional organizational culture.
