Generations United hosted their 2025 Intergenerational Conference in June 2025 in Louisville, Kentucky. This event brought together hundreds of kinship professionals and caregivers to learn, connect, and share innovative practices and programs on a range of intergenerational topics including kinship and grandfamilies.
The National Youth Employment Coalition hosted the 2025 Youth Days: Shared Voices, Stronger Futures in Washington D.C. in November 2025. This event brought together community leaders, practitioners, and young people to share the needs and solutions to support youth across the country.
The National Tribal TANF Institute brought together Tribal TANF staff from across the country for an in-person educational experience in July 2025 in Davis, California. The theme, “Twenty Years of Tradition: Celebrating Today and Tomorrow Together,” emphasized the importance of honoring tribal values, cultures and traditions while also embracing new ideas, practices and innovations to make native communities stronger for future generations. Participants explored programs, opportunities and resources for tribal youth and young adults to help them transition into thriving adulthood.
The 45th National Indian and Native American Employment and Training (NINAETC) for WIOA Section 166 and Public Law 102-477 took place in Providence, Rhode Island in May 2025. This conference was dedicated to promoting heritage and culture.
Dream the Impossible Native Youth Conference was started in 2007 by several Southern California tribes in partnership with organizations such as the California Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program and is held at a different university each year. This conference is designed to inspire Native American youth to believe that they can achieve anything they want, introduce them to Native professionals in different fields, and help them understand how higher education can transform their lives.
The 2025 conference took place in April 2025 at the California State University, San Bernardino campus.
The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) hosted their annual gathering to discuss American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) child advocacy issues. The conference took place in late March 2025, in Orlando, Florida with an option to join the general sessions virtually. NICWA developed and provided programming to attendees to create a space where participants could learn about the latest developments and best practices from experts in the field and from one another. Participants represented a cross-section of fields and interests including child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice service providers; legal professionals; students; advocates for children; and tribal, state, and federal leaders.
The National Indian Child Welfare Association hosted the January 2025 Training Institute in Arizona. The institute had multiple pathways, including Positive Indian Parenting, Understanding the Indian Child Welfare Act, Cross-Cultural Skills in Indian Country, and Tribal Customary Adoption on the land of the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community.
The Department of Labor, Indian and Native American Programs Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) 166/477 Western Regional Training was hosted in Washington in November 2024. Themed, “Indigenous: Values, Strength, Knowledge.,” this training was designed for both tribes and urban based programs focusing on workforce development for Indian Country.
2024 Regions IX and X State TANF Technical Assistance Meeting
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance hosted the Regions IX and X State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Technical Assistance Meeting from August 29 to August 30, 2024 in Portland, Oregon. This meeting was designed to amplify programs’ wisdom in the room by fostering peer-to-peer learning and collaborative planning that will help jurisdictions innovate solutions that improve outcomes for families.
The UC Davis’ Autumn Institute for Public Assistance Professionals brought together managers, supervisors, and workers from across the country for a virtual educational experience in November 2024. The theme, “Elevating Our Impact Through Resilience and Purpose,” elevated new strategies, expanded attendees’ thinking, and grew their capacity to serve adults and families in their communities.