Conferences, Events, & Training Opportunities

The report is the latest in a series of reports tracking the nation’s deaths of despair crisis. Deaths associated with alcohol, drugs, and suicide took the lives of 186,763 Americans in 2020, a 20 percent one year increase in the combined death rate and the highest number of substance misuse deaths ever recorded for a single year. While alcohol, drug, and suicide deaths have been increasing for decades, the 2020 increase was unprecedented and driven by a 30 percent increase in the rate of drug-induced deaths and a 27 percent increase in the rate of alcohol-induced deaths. Please join us as we discuss steps policymakers should take to begin to reverse these crises. The briefing will include time for Q&A from the audience.

BMHC22 is targeted to care providers, researchers, advocates, public health professionals, and Black Mamas who are working to advance maternal, birth, and reproductive justice, and those who are interested in learning more about how to work towards health equity using the reproductive justice and birth justice frameworks. BMHC22 is open to anyone who is invested in the health and longevity of Black Mamas, and Black innovators in health who serve our communities! This year’s conference will be hybrid (virtual and in-person) and will offer a national space for learning, rich discussions, and mobilization to transform Black Maternal Health, rights, and justice. We need a place to be in community together, to vision and dream, and to celebrate each other.

Mom Congress is both a movement and a moment, advocating for supportive motherhood in the U.S.

Join us for the Mom Congress “Moment” this September in DC. This convening brings mothers and other advocates together to learn, receive issue and advocacy training, be inspired by influential leaders, connect with others, and advocate for change on Capitol Hill. Since its inaugural event in DC in 2017, the Mom Congress “moment” has grown to a robust three-day training, networking, and advocacy event, uniting mothers and those who support them, from around the country to raise awareness and advocate for policies that will lift all moms. This membership organization is addressing the most pressing policy issues of motherhood including what we call the “motherload” (the stress that U.S. mothers carry, at higher rates than other developed countries).

With this year’s 31st Annual CACFP Conference, we are reconnecting and recharging. It’s a safe and fun space for our CACFP community to come together, after such a long time apart. We will focus on our work, our passion, our commitment to serving others, and our own growth and wellbeing. We hope you will join us to reconnect and recharge. Back in person for the first time in nearly three years, the Annual CACFP Conference will provide content that meets the needs of the moment, creates space for necessary dialogue, and offers relevant training that supports the CACFP community.