While at the 2025 conference, use our cool new backdrop to snap some pics of your group!
We hope you enjoyed the 2024 conference. Stay tuned to emails about the 2025 conference in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex!
(You don't have to be a member to attend, but membership has it's benefits.)
The schedule and photos below are from the 2024 conference.
Information about some of our Amazing Presenters
Keynote Speaker who started and ended our training day
Justin Black
Justin and Alexis Black are bestselling authors, speakers, business owners, and Forbes' Next 1000 Entrepreneurs for 2021. As former foster youth from Detroit and Flint, Michigan, they know a thing or two about overcoming adversity. Using the power of love and community, they've published the award-winning, bestselling book, Redefining Normal: How Two Foster Kids Beat the Odds and Discovered Healing, Happiness, and Love--impacting over 25,000 individuals and families.
Their ultimate goal is to encourage healthy relationships, mental health, and healing through speaking engagements, realistic solutions, life-changing trainings, and enlightening workshops. Break the cycles with Justin and Alexis and learn how to use what you've gone through to overcome any obstacle and redefine your own version of normal!
https://www.re-definingnormal.com/
National Foster Parent Association President Karen Poteet addressed the crowd during lunch.
Two Minutes to Make a Lifetime Impact
BY Larry Thompson
PAX Tools Community Workshop
By Marie Zapata
Evelyn Cooksey helped us teach our children how to Prepare for Emancipation.
