Every Child Has the Right to a Childhood. This simple truth is our guiding light – yet, far too many children are being denied that right.
The 2025 Children’s Mental Health Advocacy Conference was held October 21, 2025. It is a free, virtual event about changing the way we care for vulnerable children – and ensuring the systems around them don’t cause unnecessary harm. Far too many kids are being restrained, secluded, hit, punished, and removed from classrooms when what they really need is understanding and help. Children’s rights are human rights.
What You’ll Experience
- Moving first-person stories from people who have been harmed by dangerous practices in schools and institutions.
- Inspiring presentations from front line mental health providers who are rethinking the system of care.
- Policy insights from advocates and lawmakers advancing dignity, inclusion, and healing in schools and mental health systems.
- Global perspectives, including movements in the UK and Ireland to improve the treatment of children with disabilities.
- Timely discussions on how schools and communities can support immigrant families facing the reality of family separation caused by immigration raids.
Why We’re Here
We must stop blaming individual children for the challenges they face, and look closely at the systems and environments that fail to meet their needs. There is a better path forward, and we know you believe that too.
