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Providing a Powerful National Voice for Residential Treatment through Leadership, Advocacy, and the Promotion of Innovation and Best Practices.

01/06/2026

🟣✨ 💛 Happy New Year from ACRC! 💛✨ 🟣 We are starting 2026 by celebrating 70 YEARS of impact — and you are invited!

📅 March 16–19, 2026 | Chicago, IL, USA
📍 ACRC’s 70th Annual Conference, 🏨 Hilton Chicago Hotel
✔️ - 🏨 Hotel rooms are now available. Secure your spot early!
✔️- 📣 Registration is officially open

🎉 Register here: https://togetherthevoice.org/engage/annual-conference

🟣 If you work in youth & family services, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education, or community-based care, this conference is for you.
✔️ Keynotes, plenaries & workshops
✔️ Pre-conference sessions + social events
✔️ In-person & virtual options
✔️ Exhibiting & sponsorship opportunities
⏰ Early bird rates available through Feb. 2, 2026!

🟣 Join us in Chicago, March 16–19, 2026, for the 70th Annual ACRC Conference as we honor our shared history and continue building the future—together!

Thank you for being part of the journey!

11/24/2025

🟣 ACRC's 70th Annual Conference 🟣 🎉 Registration Now Open for ACRC’s 70th Annual Conference! 🎉

📍 Location: Chicago, IL (where ACRC was founded)
📅 Dates: March 16–19, 2026
Theme: “Quality is the Tie that Binds: Our Enduring Commitment to Excellence”

🟣 If you work in youth & family services, behavioral health, child welfare, juvenile justice, education or community-based care — this conference is for you. ACRC convenes practitioners, clinicians, administrators, lived‐experts, researchers, innovators and policymakers to advance high-quality residential & community-based interventions for children, youth and families.

🟣 What to expect:
• Full week of keynotes, plenaries, workshops & social events.
• Pre-conference sessions on topics like frontline innovations in youth residential practice, restorative circles, communications strategies, and peer support integration.
• Both in-person and virtual attendance options so you don’t miss out — keynotes and select sessions will be live streamed and recorded.
• Exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities for organizations ready to connect and showcase.

🟣 Early bird registration rates apply until February 2, 2026:
• ACRC Member (in-person): $795 → $895 after cutoff.
• Non-Member (in-person): $995 → $1,095 after cutoff.
• Virtual individual: Member: $200; Non-Member: $275.

➡️ Ready to join us in Chicago or online? Register today and be part of this milestone 70th gathering of ACRC! https://togetherthevoice.org/engage/annual-conference/

09/13/2025

🟣 🌍 This week, ACRC joined colleagues from around the globe at the EUSARF Conference in Zagreb, Croatia — an important gathering focused on advancing research, practice, and policy in alternative care for children.

Our Executive Director Kari Sisson, Board Member Dr. Lisa Holmes, former Board Presidents Christopher Bellonci and Bob Lieberman represented ACRC alongside international partners, working together to address the global crisis in children’s mental health.

🟣 ACRC was grateful to see a presentation from Nancy Pierce (ACRC/BBI Senior Family Consultant & ACRC Board Member), Charley Downing, Bob Lieberman, Margaret McGladrey, Ph.D., and Vera Stoulil on:
“Using a Theory of Change for Co-Design and Evaluation of Residential Innovation and Transformation” — highlighting family and youth co-design in residential quality improvement, grounded in systems of care principles.

The conference covered critical topics shaping the future of care, including:
✔️ Processes and policies in alternative care
✔️ Research evidence use & knowledge transfer
✔️ Quality of alternative care and therapeutic services
✔️ Prevention of institutionalization & support for families at risk
✔️ Mental health, wellbeing, and trauma-informed practices
✔️ Cultural sensitivity, diversity, and social inclusion
✔️ Child participation, identities, and lived experiences
✔️ Transitions and leaving care

ACRC is proud to be part of these conversations, ensuring the voices and needs of children and families are at the center of global solutions. Together, we are building stronger systems of care that prioritize wellbeing, dignity, and opportunity for every child.

09/04/2025

🌟 🟣 ACRC Speaker Highlight 🟣 🌟

We are proud to celebrate Lisette A. Burton, J.D., ACRC’s Chief Policy & Practice Advisor, ACRC, who will serve as the Closing Keynote Speaker at the Ohio Children's Alliance 2025 Symposium: Enhancing Our System of Care: Addressing Key Issues in Children’s Services, on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

This symposium brings together leaders across foster care, community behavioral health, and children’s healthcare for a day of purposeful collaboration and actionable dialogue.

Lisette’s keynote will wrap up the event with policy-forward, practice-grounded insights designed to enhance outcomes for children, families, and the systems that serve them. Her voice and vision continue to help drive the transformation imperative in children’s services nationwide.

🟣 At ACRC, we’re honored to have leaders like Lisette advancing this work. If your organization is seeking expertise, training, or thought leadership in transforming children’s services, we invite you to connect with us.

09/02/2025

📣 ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT! Submit your proposal now before the deadline closes!

🟣 Call for Presenters
We invite you to share your expertise through a 90-minute workshop or a research poster—available both in person and virtually.
Presenters with lived experience and those who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve are especially encouraged to apply.

🟣Submission link: https://lnkd.in/g797ZRgw

08/22/2025

📣 ONLY 14 DAYS LEFT! Submit your proposal now before the deadline closes!

🟣 Call for Presenters
We invite you to share your expertise through a 90-minute workshop or a research poster—available both in person and virtually.
Presenters with lived experience and those who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve are especially encouraged to apply.

🟣Submission link: https://lnkd.in/g797ZRgw

08/19/2025

🟣 💡 🎬 Shining a Light Through Storytelling

ACRC’s Mark Nickell, Director of Strategic Initiatives, and Kyle Reece, Change Agent & Board Director, had the honor of attending the premiere of “Hurt” — a powerful short film created by New Hope Treatment Centers in partnership with Round 7 Productions.

“Hurt” sheds light on the lived experiences of youth in care and the critical importance of compassion, resilience, and trauma-informed approaches. By bringing these stories to the screen, New Hope and Round 7 are helping to spark conversations that drive understanding, healing, and change.

We are proud to see leaders from our network engaging in spaces where art and advocacy intersect — reminding us that storytelling is one of the most impactful tools we have to advance the mission of supporting children, families, and communities! 👏 🟣

07/15/2025

ACRC’s 70th Annual Conference – Quality is the Tie that Binds: Our Enduring Commitment to Excellence – is happening March 16–19, 2026, in Chicago, Illinois, where it all began! 🎉

For 70 years, we have evolved together—honoring lived experience as expertise. This milestone event will spotlight the importance of community, outcomes, impact, innovation, and advocacy—the core of our progress in caring for young people and families.

🟣Call for Presenters:
We invite you to share your expertise through a 90-minute workshop or a research poster (in person or virtual). Presenters with lived experience and those who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve are especially encouraged to submit.

🟣Submission link: https://togetherthevoice.org/engage/annual-conference/call-for-papers

10/10/2024

ACRC is proud to elevate the importance of World Mental Health Day as our vast network continues to put the 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩 in mental health.

12/08/2023

📢Registration is OPEN! We are excited to welcome you to Phoenix, AZ May 6-9, 2024, for our 68th Annual Conference. Over 150 presenters will be focused on revolutionizing the children's continuum of care. Register now: https://togetherthevoice.org/engage/annual-conference/

11/20/2023

ACRC is dedicated to ensuring that every child has the opportunity to reach their full potential and thrive. Today, we stand together with children, families, and communities everywhere to reaffirm our commitment to protecting children’s rights & promoting their well-being.

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