Growing Resilient Communities: Nurturing Healthy Beginnings

May 20, 2025 | 9am -2:30pm

Join the 8ᵗʰ Annual Growing Resilient Communities Gathering of Collaboratives and Tribal Nations Addressing ACEs: This year, we will focus on supporting early childhood development. This is more than just a conference — it’s a movement to create nurturing and supportive environments for our children and families. This event is planned and organized by FamilyWise Services, specific to More Resilient Minnesota and the Tribal NEAR Science and Community Wisdom Project. The primary audience for this event includes Children’s Mental Health Collaboratives and Family Services Collaboratives, tribal community members and partners, and the Minnesota ACE Interface presenter network across Minnesota.

Attendees will have the opportunity to submit a request for Social Work CEUs and Develop Learning Record hours. CEU credits will be issued within a few weeks after the event once we have a chance to verify your attendance.

Develop: Attendees will be eligible for up to 4 hours of training in KCF VI: Professionalism for their Develop Learning Record.

Social work: Attendees will be eligible for up to 4 hours of Social Work CEUs

Youth Voice Group

About the group: The Youth Voices participants range in age from 13-26 years old, are diverse in culture (BIPOC, LGBTQ+/Two-Spirit) and their fostering experience (relative, non-relative, adopted, aged-out and parenting youth). This group has identified their goal as making changes so the foster care system becomes a safer, healthier, and a more loving experience for youth and families. Our goal is to equip Fosters or youth currently in the foster care system with the support, leadership skills and the access to the right practice and policy platforms to make their identified changes a reality.