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42nd Chadwick Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment
The Power of Connection: Building Stronger Families Together, reflects our shared commitment to collaboration, innovation, and creating stronger outcomes for children and families.
As a fully virtual conference, this year’s event will bring together professionals from across the country and around the world—expanding access, strengthening connections, and welcoming a wider range of perspectives into the conversation.
16
Distinct educational tracks offered, allowing attendees to tailor their experience across a wide range of specialized focus areas.
2
Keynote Speakers featured each year, reflecting the breadth and depth of expertise across the field.
100+
Sessions offered, along with forums, networking, and wellness activities—allowing attendees to customize their learning experience.
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Of the world’s countries represented by professionals who participate in the conference, spanning every major global region.
A word from the Chadwick Center
Executive Director
Golby Rahimi Saylor, LMFT
Executive Director
Chadwick Center for Children and Families, Rady Children’s Health
Welcome to the 42nd Chadwick Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment. In this fully virtual conference, your participation reflects a shared commitment to children, families, and a future shaped by safety, healing, and hope.
This year’s theme, The Power of Connection: Building Stronger Families Together, speaks to what becomes possible when we move forward together. Connection strengthens relationships, fosters resilience, and unites our efforts toward meaningful change. Across roles, disciplines, and communities, individual expertise becomes shared impact, fueling progress that endures.
Through interactive sessions, technology-enabled networking, and engaging dialogue, this conference demonstrates how connection can thrive across distance. Together, we will highlight what’s working, explore emerging strategies, and draw on our collective wisdom to strengthen families and systems of care, no matter where we are located.
Your work matters. Every conversation you engage in, every insight you gain, and every connection you build has the potential to ripple outward, shaping policies, programs, and lives.
Thank you for being part of this community and for the vital work you do every day. I hope this conference leaves you inspired, informed, and reconnected to the shared purpose that unites us all.
With appreciation,
Voices of Our Attendees:
Educational Quality
★★★★★
"Participation in this conference expanded my understanding of innovative therapeutic techniques, which I plan to integrate into my current practice. I intend to blend these strategies with established evidence-based models to enhance clinical flexibility, responsiveness, and client-centered treatment."
- Mental Health Therapist
Networking
★★★★★
"I really valued the opportunity to collaborate with other advocates from across the world. It was a great opportunity to learn from other people in my same role and hear that I'm not alone in my experiences."
- Family Advocate
Latest Research
★★★★★
"I am always able to bring back a few things from the conference to integrate into my daily work. One from this year is caring of a patient of human trafficking an being able to build a more solid report with them."
- Clinical Manager
- Days170
- Hours10
- Minutes25
See you at the
42nd Chadwick Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment!