2026 Call for Proposals: A View from All Sides
A View from All Sides: Call for Proposals
This year’s conference will be a hybrid event. Day 1 will be hosted in person on Wednesday, October 21, and Day 2 will be hosted virtually on Thursday, October 22.
Who Should Apply?
We are excited to announce that our Day 1 in-person event will have a special focus on local presenters from in and around Massachusetts, and our Day 2 virtual event will host a wider range of presenters from across New England and beyond.
We are seeking presenters with expertise rooted in lived experience and/or professional education across a variety of topics, including but not limited to:
- Building Resilience & Strengthening Protective Factors
- Cultural Humility & DEIB Best Practices
- Community Collaboration & Cross-System Partnerships
- Family Support & Family Engagement
- Fatherhood, Co-Parenting & Engaging Male Caregivers
- Mental Health & Wellness for Children, Youth, and Caregivers
- Nurturing Early Relational Health in Children & Youth
- Parenting Education & Caregiver Support Strategies
- Program Development, Implementation & Evaluation
- Strategies for Working with Neurodivergent Children & Families
- Trauma-Informed & Healing-Centered Practices
- Child Development & Social and Emotional Learning
- Child Sexual Abuse Prevention
- Digital Safety & Supporting Families in Online Spaces
- Family Economic Stability & Resource Navigation
- Immigration, Mixed-Status Families & Community Advocacy
- Navigating Child-Serving/Family-Serving Systems
- Policy, Systems Change & Community-Level Advocacy
- Relationship-Centered Practices: Building Trust/Communication with Children & Families
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth & Affirming Family Practices
- Youth/Family Voices, Leadership & Lived Experience Integration
By lived experience, we mean individuals who bring personal, direct experience navigating complex family challenges, family support and child-serving systems, or community-based services, either as as parents, caregivers, youth, or community members, and whose insights are shaped by firsthand involvement.
By professional education, we mean individuals whose expertise is grounded in formal training, academic study, research, clinical practice, policy development, or program leadership within the family support and child wellbeing fields.
How to Apply?
Fill out the application below to submit your proposal to present at A View from All Sides. All applications are due by Friday, May 8.
Questions?
Please contact view@childrenstrustma.org