March 2025, fully virtual
2 full days
25+ presentations
35+ speakers
250+ attendees/day
“As an adoptive mom and as a therapist, this raised my competency.”
— CAC Attendee
CONFERENCE UPDATE
Thank you for your interest in the California Adoption Conference.
CAC is returning to a biannual schedule; the next conference will take place in March 2025.
Please check back for details, or contact cac@pactadopt.org for more information.
WHO ATTENDS?
A GLOBAL AUDIENCE OF:
Adoption professionals, teachers and therapists
Adoptive, foster
and kinship care families
Prospective
adopters
Adult adoptees and
former foster youth
First/birth
parents
“I’m sharing what I've learned with the clinicians on my team…
and with the adoptive parents I work with directly.”
— CAC Attendee
WHO PRESENTS?
Presenters at the California Adoption Conference include academic researchers, activists and advocates, educators, and child welfare professionals.
50%
Adult adoptees and former foster youth
25%
Adoptive parents
10%
First/birth parents
65%
People of color
“I have worked in child welfare for over thirty years and so much of what I heard was important and new.”
— CAC Attendee
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
(Pacific Time)
Day 1
OPENING SESSION
8:45-10:30am
Keynote Speaker 1
MORNING SESSIONS
11:00am-12:30pm
Concurrent Workshop 1A
Concurrent Workshop 1B
Concurrent Workshop 1C
EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:30-3:00pm
Concurrent Workshop 1D
Concurrent Workshop 1E
Concurrent Workshop 1F
LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:30-3:00pm
Concurrent Workshop 1G
Concurrent Workshop 1H
Concurrent Workshop 1I
Day 2
OPENING SESSION
8:45-10:30am
Keynote Speaker 2
MORNING SESSIONS
11:00am-12:30pm
Concurrent Workshop 2A
Concurrent Workshop 2B
Concurrent Workshop 2C
EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:30-3:00pm
Concurrent Workshop 2D
Concurrent Workshop 2E
Concurrent Workshop 2F
LATE AFTERNOON SESSIONS
1:30-3:00pm
Concurrent Workshop 2G
Concurrent Workshop 2H
Concurrent Workshop 2I
PAST SPEAKERS
“I am going to view this keynote again
once the recording is available.
It was just so profound.”
— CAC Attendee