Welcome to HOPE 2027
Hilton Los Angeles Airport Hotel • 5711 W. Century Blvd., Los Angeles, California 90045
HOPE 2027 is more than a conference schedule. It is a dynamic community ecosystem connecting professional development, leadership, behavioral health, family strengthening, father engagement, wellness, publishing, authorship, organizational sustainability and meaningful relationships. Whether you come to learn, teach, connect, exhibit, publish, restore, lead or discover what comes next, HOPE 2027 is designed to help turn a few days in Los Angeles into value that continues long after the conference ends.
There Is Still a Seat at the Table.
HOPE is not reserved for one profession, one title, one generation or one place in life. There is room here for the parent and young adult, the frontline worker and assistant teacher, the adult learner finding the courage to return to the classroom, the practitioner, clinician and advocate, the manager and director, the president and CEO, the researcher and professor—and the experienced professional who may be approaching retirement but knows their purpose, wisdom and contribution are far from finished.
There is also a seat for the organization ready to exhibit, the community partner ready to collaborate, the author ready to share a book or develop an idea, and the wellness practitioner or professional massage therapist who may become part of our growing Wellness Oasis. HOPE 2027 is being built so people can enter the experience through different doors and still become part of one connected community.
Your passion has value. Your experience has value. Your purpose has value. When you walk through the door of HOPE 2027, you enter a room intentionally designed with space to learn, contribute, connect and grow. There is still a seat at the table—and one of those seats may be yours.
Build Your HOPE 2027 Experience Early.
Super Early Bird registration is available through December 1, 2026. Choose the conference pathway that fits your goals and begin building your experience around HOPE Talks, workshops, Partner Pavilions, specialty training, HOPE FIL, wellness, exhibitors, networking and community.
Current Super Early Bird pricing ends December 1, 2026. Review the registration pathways, inclusions and available add-on experiences before selecting the option that works best for you.
A Living Program. A Sustainable Conference Ecosystem.
The HOPE 2027 program continues to grow. HOPE Talks, HOPE Workshops, eight Specialty Training experiences, Partner Pavilions, a special three-part leadership workshop series, HOPE FIL, the HOPE Expo, Wellness Oasis, Men2Men and Women2Women Cafés, authors, networking and evening experiences are being connected into one intentional conference journey.
Sustainability matters. FFCA is building a model in which training can produce credentials, CEUs, manuals and implementation tools; authors can gain visibility beyond a single book table; exhibitors can build relationships beyond a booth; partners can lead immersive learning; and attendees can return home with resources they can continue using in agencies, organizations, classrooms, teams, families and communities.
More Ways to Enter the HOPE 2027 Experience
Register & Build Your Conference Pathway
Choose the registration pathway that fits your schedule and goals, then build your experience around HOPE Talks, workshops, Partner Pavilions, specialty training, authors, wellness, networking and community.
Register for HOPE 2027 →HOPE Expo: Visibility + Relationship + Reach
The HOPE Expo creates a high-visibility environment for exhibitors, sponsors, authors, resource partners and organizations to connect throughout the conference flow rather than operating as an isolated trade-show experience.
Explore the Exhibitor Prospectus →HOPE FIL 2027: Authors, Ideas & Impact
Bring an idea, a manuscript or a published book. HOPE FIL and Authors of Impact create pathways for publishing conversations, professional visibility, reader engagement and relationships that can extend beyond the conference.
Explore HOPE FIL & Authors of Impact →Wellness Oasis: Restore + Connect
The Wellness Oasis expands the conference beyond traditional learning by creating space for restoration, wellness resources and qualified practitioners who can support the physical and emotional well-being of our conference community.
Partner Pavilions & Special Workshop Series
HOPE 2027 brings together immersive Partner Pavilion experiences and a special three-part workshop series. Each provides a different pathway for deeper learning, applied practice, and meaningful professional relationships.
UCLA Mindful
UCLA Mindful brings mindfulness and intentional awareness into the conference experience, creating space for participants to explore practices that support personal well-being, emotional regulation, professional resilience and healthier organizational cultures.
Through experiential learning and practical reflection, participants can consider how mindfulness supports their capacity to respond thoughtfully to stress, strengthen relationships and bring greater presence into work with children, parents, fathers, families and communities.
Separation Intelligence Foundations
Separation Intelligence Foundations focuses on the challenges and opportunities that arise when families and relationships experience separation, transition and change. The experience connects family-system understanding with practical approaches for professionals who support parents, children and caregivers navigating complex circumstances.
Participants can explore more thoughtful responses to family transitions, strengthen communication and consider how informed, relationship-centered practices may help protect family connections and promote stability.
The Jed Foundation / BRAVE TALK
The Jed Foundation and BRAVE TALK bring a focused mental-health and suicide-prevention experience to HOPE 2027. The emphasis is on helping people recognize when someone may be struggling, approach difficult conversations with care and strengthen their confidence in making a meaningful human connection.
Participants can engage with practical communication approaches relevant to educators, youth-serving professionals, family advocates, organizational leaders and others who want to respond with greater awareness, empathy and appropriate support.
Parent Educator Partnerships Training Institute
Thriving Together: Building Life Skills, Family Engagement, and Well-Being
Led by Dr. Rosina McAlpine, founder of Win Win Parenting and Parent Educator Partnerships, with Rhonda Stewart Jones, LCSW, founder of About Face Counseling and Consulting, and the core instructional faculty.
Strengthen Partnerships. Elevate Family Voice. Transform Outcomes. Grounded in culturally responsive family engagement and mutual empowerment, this immersive learning experience honors parents as children's first and most influential teachers and equips the adults who support children with practical, research-informed approaches.
Designed for early childhood educators, teachers, home visitors, family advocates, frontline parent educators, parents and caregivers, the institute connects child development, positive behavior guidance, family engagement, reflective practice, trauma-informed support and adult well-being.
Building Life Skills Through Everyday Interactions
Explore self-regulation, confidence, resilience, problem-solving, positive behavior guidance, strengths-based practice and growth mindset strategies.
Turning Theory into Action Through Reflective Practice
Use a practical three-step reflection process to recognize what works, identify opportunities for improvement, and strengthen relationships with children and families.
Supporting the Adults Who Support Children
Address stress, burnout, sustainable well-being and trauma-informed relationships while strengthening self-acceptance, self-esteem and self-efficacy.
Participants take away: Guided reflective exercises, practical strategies, an individual action plan and institute training materials. A follow-up online session will reinforce learning and application.
International collaboration: Win Win Parenting (Australia), About Face Counseling and Consulting, and Fathers & Families Coalition of America.
From Workforce Readiness to Fatherhood Readiness
Building the Man, Strengthening the Father, and Creating Pathways to Economic Mobility
The Father Center of New Jersey
Bryan Adé Evans, Chief Executive Officer
Marc Warren, Chief Operations Officer
Discover how workforce development can become a gateway to personal growth, economic mobility, and stronger father-child relationships. Drawing on The Father Center's Bridges2Success™ program and B.U.I.L.D. principles, this Partner Pavilion explores how employment preparation, emotional well-being, and parenting education work together to support fathers and families.
Participants will examine practical approaches to connecting career opportunities with life skills, responsible fatherhood, and family engagement—and consider how these strategies can be adapted within their own communities.
Explore Bridges2Success™ →The Whole Leadership Framework: Engaging Fathers and Families
A Special Three-Part HOPE Workshop Series. Three consecutive learning experiences examining how educators, practitioners and family-serving professionals can strengthen father engagement, understand the effects of trauma and build healing-centered relationships with fathers, boys and families.
The series follows a purposeful progression: moving fathers from invitation to meaningful influence, understanding how trauma and family functioning shape young men's well-being, and recognizing pathways toward healing when father absence or relational wounds affect boys' lives. Participants may attend the sessions that best fit their learning goals or follow the full afternoon progression.
Fathers at the Table — From Invitation to Influence
Dr. Chacko Abraham with Dr. Deborah Higdon
A featured workshop examining how father engagement can move beyond invitations and attendance toward meaningful participation, shared decision-making and influence in education and family partnerships.
The Interplay of Trauma, Family Functioning, and Mental Health in Young Men
Dr. Victor Wilburn
Explores the connections between trauma, family functioning, paternal relationships, masculine norms and mental health in young men, considering responsive approaches to support.
From Hurt to Healing: Seeing the Father Wound Beneath Boys’ Behavior
Dr. Jarmel Bell
Helps practitioners look beneath boys' presenting behaviors to recognize how father absence, abandonment and relational wounds may affect identity, trust and emotional well-being.
Eight Specialty Training Experiences. Learning That Travels Home With You.
HOPE 2027 Specialty Training is intentionally designed around practical return. Participants can build deeper professional capacity through credentialing, continuing education where approved, certification, implementation resources, applied tools, manuals and specialized learning experiences that continue creating value after the conference.
Advanced Practitioner Credential™
A deeper professional-development pathway integrating human development, emotional awareness, behavior, relationships, resilience, purpose, family systems, leadership, wellness and applied growth. The HOPE 2027 experience incorporates Unlocking Unlimited Potential as an applied learning resource.
Explore the Advanced Practitioner Credential →FFCA DiSC Training of Trainers
Move behavioral insight into practical communication, leadership, relationship development, engagement and team application while building skills that can be carried back into organizations and professional practice.
Explore FFCA DiSC Training →Nurturing Fathers Program
Building on FFCA's longstanding relationship with the Nurturing Fathers Program, this training strengthens fatherhood education, nurturing relationships, communication, positive parenting and family well-being.
Learn More About Nurturing Fathers →QPR Suicide Prevention Training
A focused suicide-prevention pathway strengthening awareness, early recognition, communication, response, referral and support skills. Continuing education for this HOPE 2027 training will be issued through Florida A&M University.
Explore QPR Certificate Training →NLBHA | Wellness, Behavioral Health & Community Resilience
A culturally grounded institute for frontline practitioners connecting crisis intervention, trauma-informed care, community resilience, suicide prevention, stigma reduction and practical bilingual behavioral-health resources for Hispanic and Latino communities.
NLBHA | Vamos Por Más Executive Leadership & Systems Transformation Academy
An executive and emerging-leader experience focused on organizational transformation, workforce development, culturally responsive systems, leadership infrastructure, health equity and sustainable institutional change.
Fundable by Design: From Mission to Sustainable Funding
Sammi Trujillo of Blank Page Possibility Grants and Patrick Patterson of Global Partners for Fathers and Families move participants beyond grant chasing toward organizational readiness, funder relationships, measurable outcomes, funding strategy and a practical 90-day fundability action plan.
The Thelese Standard: The Stories We Lead By — Leadership Development Series
Dr. Wendy Thelese Talley, DSW, LCSW brings together DiSC self-awareness, cognitive reframing, positive psychology and guided reflection to help participants examine the personal narratives that influence leadership, relationships and decision-making. Through interactive exercises and practical application, participants explore how to replace limiting stories with greater accountability, resilience and purpose.
Dr. Talley also presents The Stories We Lead By as a HOPE Workshop on Tuesday, April 13, from 2:30–3:45 PM in Newport B.
Explore the Daily Schedule →Move the Needle: Sustainability by Design
A conference can inspire people for a week. A sustainable learning system gives them something they can continue using when the week is over. That is why HOPE 2027 connects conference participation with professional resources, publishing pathways, implementation tools, certification, CEUs, assessments, relationships and year-round visibility.
Unlocking Unlimited Potential: An Evidence-Informed Reference Manual and Activity Guide for Personal Growth, Family Systems, and Professional Development is part of that strategy. It helps extend learning beyond a presentation through structured models, guided activities, reflection tools and practical applications participants can revisit and use with others.
Unlocking Unlimited Potential
An Evidence-Informed Reference Manual and Activity Guide for Personal Growth, Family Systems, and Professional Development
Integrated into selected FFCA training pathways so learning can continue beyond the conference room.
Explore Unlocking Unlimited PotentialWhat Makes This Schedule Different?
This schedule is not built around one type of attendee or one type of session. It is a connected experience where inspiration, professional development, fatherhood, family strengthening, mental health, child development, parenting, leadership, wellness, authorship, organizational sustainability, coalition building, resource discovery and meaningful relationships all have a place.
Morning HOPE Talks bring the community together. HOPE Workshops create practical choice. Partner Pavilions go deeper. Specialty Training builds transferable capacity. HOPE FIL gives stories and ideas somewhere to grow. The HOPE Expo creates visibility and relationship. Wellness gives participants room to restore. Community cafés and evening experiences create space for conversations that can become relationships lasting long after everyone leaves Los Angeles.
There Is Still a Seat at the Table.
You do not have to fit one title to belong at HOPE 2027. Come ready to learn, contribute, connect, restore, publish, discover, collaborate and take something meaningful home. Whether your next step is attending, exhibiting, becoming part of HOPE FIL, connecting through wellness, strengthening your professional practice or simply discovering a new community, there is room for you.
HOPE 2027 Conference Schedule — At a Glance
Five days of learning, leadership, wellness, family strengthening, father engagement, HOPE Talks, specialty training, workshops, Partner Pavilions, HOPE FIL, Authors of Impact, and meaningful community connections.
Explore the schedule by day, time, and room. Discover the sessions that align with your professional interests, personal purpose, and organizational goals. All schedule times are Pacific Time (PT).
Register for HOPE 2027There Is Still a Seat at the Table.
HOPE 2027 brings together practitioners, parents, fathers, educators, behavioral health professionals, community leaders, authors, researchers, students, organizational executives, and people committed to strengthening families and creating lasting impact.
This is a conference designed to connect professional learning with practical application. From specialized institutes and professional-development workshops to literary engagement, wellness, leadership, and community partnerships, HOPE 2027 offers multiple pathways for participation.
Our commitment extends beyond five days in Los Angeles. We are building relationships, strengthening professional capacity, supporting implementation, and creating opportunities for participants to carry useful knowledge and resources back into their organizations and communities.
Beyond the Conference: Learning That Creates Lasting Impact
Sustainability is central to the HOPE 2027 experience. Conference participation should produce more than temporary inspiration. Our approach connects professional learning with practical resources, leadership development, implementation strategies, continuing education where applicable, and opportunities for long-term collaboration.
Unlocking Unlimited Potential provides an evidence-informed reference manual and activity guide supporting personal growth, family systems, and professional development. Participants can explore how structured learning, reflection, and practical activities help extend conference experiences into everyday practice.
How to Explore Your HOPE 2027 Schedule
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Select the sessions that fit your interests and registration pathway. Use the navigation links to return to the top of the schedule.
Helpful reminder: Several workshops and learning experiences take place simultaneously. Specialty training and certain optional experiences may require separate registration.
Sunday, April 11, 2027
Arrival, Preparation & Wellness
HOPE 2027 Registration & Networking Area
Begin your HOPE 2027 experience with attendee check-in, conference information, presenter assistance, and an opportunity to connect with members of the conference community. The registration area serves as an initial resource point for navigating the days ahead.
FFCA Team Gathering
A conference-readiness gathering focused on team coordination, volunteer responsibilities, presenter support, operational preparation, and the shared commitment to delivering a welcoming and well-organized HOPE 2027 experience.
HOPE Wellness Oasis Opens
The HOPE Wellness Oasis opens as a dedicated environment for personal restoration, wellness awareness, reflection, and meaningful connection. This space recognizes that caring for others is strengthened when professionals and community members also make room for their own physical and emotional well-being.
Monday, April 12, 2027
Opening HOPE Talks, Pre-Conference Institutes & Meet the Authors
HOPE 2027 Registration & Networking Area
Registration, attendee check-in, presenter assistance, conference guidance, and networking support as participants arrive for the opening program and specialized pre-conference learning experiences.
Coming Together
The official opening of HOPE 2027 establishes a shared commitment to strengthening families, engaging fathers, advancing professional practice, and building meaningful relationships. Participants are welcomed into a conference environment that values purpose, learning, inclusion, and collaboration.
Opening HOPE Talk Series
The opening HOPE Talks bring together concise, purpose-driven presentations highlighting professional insight, lived experience, innovative ideas, and practical inspiration. These presentations help establish common themes for the deeper learning experiences that follow.
Morning Transition & Networking
A brief opportunity to connect with colleagues, explore professional resources, and transition from the opening HOPE Talks into the pre-conference institutes and specialty training.
The Thelese Standard: The Stories We Lead By — Leadership Development Series
This immersive leadership development experience examines the personal narratives that influence identity, professional relationships, decision-making, and leadership effectiveness. Participants consider how deeply held assumptions and interpretations can either strengthen or limit their ability to lead with confidence, purpose, and accountability.
Drawing on self-awareness, cognitive reframing, positive psychology, guided reflection, and solution-focused approaches, the institute encourages participants to challenge limiting narratives and develop more intentional approaches to leadership and personal growth.
Advanced Practitioner Credential™ Course
An interdisciplinary, evidence-informed professional development experience integrating the affective and cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and noological dimensions of human development. Participants explore practical frameworks for understanding individual growth, relationships, family systems, leadership, resilience, and purposeful change.
The course connects theoretical foundations with applied exercises and professional reflection, including resources from Unlocking Unlimited Potential to help participants carry learning into their work and communities.
Nurturing Fathers Program Training of Trainers
A facilitator-development experience centered on nurturing fatherhood, positive parenting, healthy communication, emotional connection, and meaningful father involvement. Participants examine how structured fatherhood education can strengthen parenting practices and support healthier family relationships.
The training emphasizes practical implementation, group facilitation, and the application of father-responsive approaches within agencies, schools, community organizations, and family-support programs.
QPR Suicide Prevention Training
Question, Persuade, and Refer training introduces practical suicide-prevention skills that support the recognition of warning signs, compassionate conversations, timely intervention, and appropriate referral to additional support.
The training emphasizes the importance of awareness, empathy, and preparedness among professionals and community members who may encounter individuals experiencing distress.
Wellness, Behavioral Health & Community Resilience Track
A culturally responsive professional development institute exploring behavioral health, trauma-informed care, crisis response, suicide prevention, stigma reduction, and community resilience.
The experience emphasizes the importance of culturally and linguistically responsive practices, particularly in work with Hispanic and Latino individuals, families, and communities. Participants examine approaches that can strengthen access, trust, and meaningful support.
Executive Leadership & Systems Transformation Academy — Empowerment and Leadership Academy: Vamos Por Más
An executive and emerging-leader learning experience examining organizational transformation, workforce development, leadership capacity, cultural responsiveness, and sustainable systems improvement.
Participants consider how organizational strategy, health equity, linguistic accessibility, and leadership development can work together to strengthen institutional effectiveness and community outcomes.
Fundable by Design: From Mission to Sustainable Funding
This institute moves organizations beyond reactive grant seeking toward intentional funding readiness and long-term sustainability. Participants examine how clear program design, measurable outcomes, funder relationships, partnership development, and organizational infrastructure influence funding success.
The learning experience connects mission alignment with practical planning and encourages participants to identify actions that strengthen their organization's capacity to demonstrate value and pursue sustainable financial support.
Pre-Conference Institute Lunch
A scheduled lunch and transition period for participants attending pre-conference institutes and specialty training. Participants may reconnect with colleagues and prepare for the afternoon learning sessions.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027 Literary & Publishing Center
Explore literature as a pathway for personal expression, professional knowledge, community education, and lasting impact. The Literary & Publishing Center brings together authors, readers, aspiring writers, and individuals interested in manuscript development and publishing opportunities.
Participants can discover books, connect with authors, and learn about pathways for bringing meaningful stories and professional resources to wider audiences.
HOPE Wellness Oasis
A welcoming environment for personal restoration, wellness awareness, reflection, and connection. The Oasis supports the broader conference commitment to recognizing well-being as an important part of sustainable professional and personal growth.
Welcome Reception + Meet the Authors / Authors of Impact
Join authors, readers, presenters, community leaders, and conference participants for an engaging opening reception celebrating literature, professional relationships, and meaningful introductions.
La Jolla A and La Jolla B will be combined by opening the air walls, creating a larger connected reception environment. Discover books, meet the people behind their stories, exchange ideas, and explore the connection between voice, purpose, and legacy.
Tuesday, April 13, 2027
HOPE Talks, Partner Pavilions, Workshops & Community Cafés
HOPE 2027 Registration & Networking Area
Attendee check-in, conference information, presenter assistance, and general support for participants beginning their Tuesday conference experience.
Morning Coffee + Open HOPE Expo
Begin the day with coffee, networking, and opportunities to engage with exhibitors, authors, sponsors, resource organizations, and professional colleagues.
HOPE Talk Morning Segment
General-session presentations highlighting ideas, lived experiences, research-informed perspectives, and professional insights that support families, fathers, children, and communities.
Networking Morning Stretch Break
A short transition for movement, professional conversations, and engagement with conference resources.
HOPE Talks Continue
The morning HOPE Talks continue with concise presentations designed to inspire reflection, strengthen professional understanding, and encourage practical action.
Lunch Break & Resource Engagement
A midday opportunity for lunch, professional networking, author engagement, and exploration of conference exhibitors and resources.
UCLA Mindful Partner Pavilion
An immersive professional learning experience exploring mindfulness, present-moment awareness, stress management, emotional regulation, resilience, and well-being.
Participants consider how intentional awareness and reflective practices can support personal balance, healthier professional relationships, and more thoughtful responses to the demands of family-serving and community-based work.
Separation Intelligence Foundations Program
Explore practical approaches to family separation, emotional regulation, communication, co-parenting, and the complex transitions that can affect children, parents, and extended family systems.
This learning experience encourages participants to examine how greater awareness, constructive communication, and relationship-centered responses can support families navigating separation and change.
Caring for Ourselves, Caring for Children
Examine the relationship between caregiver well-being and children's emotional and developmental needs. The workshop explores how stress, fatigue, and burnout can influence caregiving and professional effectiveness, while considering practical strategies for sustainable self-care.
Better Together: Co-Parenting Evolved
Explore how effective co-parenting depends on communication, cooperation, shared responsibility, and a consistent commitment to children's well-being. Participants consider approaches for reducing conflict, strengthening parental partnerships, and supporting healthier family relationships.
From One Morning to a Movement
Explore how an initial father-engagement activity can become the foundation for sustained participation, stronger community relationships, and broader involvement. The workshop considers how intentional planning and consistent engagement can help move an isolated event toward a continuing movement.
To Judge A Book: Stereotypes and Bias of Fatherhood
Challenge stereotypes and assumptions that influence how fathers are perceived and engaged within families, institutions, and communities. Participants examine the impact of implicit bias and consider more inclusive, strengths-based approaches to father engagement.
Breaking Barriers Together: Father Engagement Through the San Diego Department of Child Support Services and Dads Corp
Examine opportunities to strengthen father engagement within child-support systems through collaborative partnerships, responsive service delivery, and meaningful relationships with fathers. The workshop highlights the importance of moving beyond transactional interactions toward approaches that recognize fathers as essential partners in family well-being.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Connect with authors and readers, discover meaningful books, and explore how writing and publishing can support professional learning, personal expression, and community impact.
Afternoon Transition Break
A brief opportunity for movement, informal conversation, resource engagement, and transition to the next workshop period.
Using Motivational Interviewing to Engage Fathers in Child Development and Encourage Partners to Include Fathers
Explore motivational interviewing as a collaborative communication approach for engaging fathers and strengthening partnerships around child development. Participants consider how empathy, reflective listening, and motivation-focused conversations can help reduce resistance and support meaningful participation.
Men in Supervision: Crafting Safe Spaces to Deepen Clinical Work with Boys, Fathers, and Men
Examine how clinical supervision can strengthen practitioner self-awareness, professional reflection, and the ability to work effectively with boys, fathers, and men. The workshop considers the importance of psychologically safer spaces and supportive supervisory relationships in deepening clinical practice.
Lead With Love
Explore the relationship between personal values, compassion, accountability, and effective leadership. Participants reflect on how leading with love can influence fatherhood, professional relationships, communication, and meaningful human connection.
Teaching Adolescents Relationship Skills Through Music
Explore music as an engaging pathway for helping adolescents understand emotions, communication, boundaries, and healthy relationships. The workshop considers how creative expression can support meaningful conversations and social-emotional learning.
The Stories We Lead By
Explore the personal narratives that shape leadership, identity, relationships, and professional decision-making. Participants examine how limiting beliefs and inherited stories can influence behavior and opportunities for growth.
Drawing on cognitive reframing, positive psychology, reflection, and solution-focused approaches, the workshop encourages participants to develop more intentional and empowering leadership narratives.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Explore manuscript development, publishing pathways, literary resources, and the process of transforming meaningful ideas and experiences into books that reach readers.
Afternoon Transition Break
Networking, movement, and transition into the final afternoon workshop period.
HOPE in Practice / HOPE in the House
Explore strengths-based HOPE practices and the importance of positive experiences in supporting children and families. The workshop considers how practitioners can strengthen relationships, supportive environments, and opportunities for connection in everyday family-serving work.
The Father Within
A reflective exploration of fatherhood identity, personal responsibility, relationships, and the legacy fathers create through everyday choices. Participants consider how self-awareness and intentional growth can strengthen their relationships with children and families.
Incredible Years Parenting Program
Explore parenting approaches that strengthen positive relationships, supportive communication, and children's social-emotional development. Participants consider how structured parenting strategies can help caregivers respond to challenges and reinforce healthy family interactions.
Beyond Compliance: The Four C's of Father Engagement
Examine how organizations can move beyond procedural compliance and develop more meaningful approaches to father engagement. The workshop encourages reflection on relationships, communication, and organizational practices that support authentic father participation.
Beyond "Father Friendly": Building Systems That Truly Engage Fathers
Explore the difference between organizations that describe themselves as father-friendly and systems that meaningfully engage fathers. Participants consider how policies, staff practices, communication, and organizational culture can create more authentic opportunities for participation and partnership.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Continue exploring author visibility, book discovery, publishing relationships, and opportunities to connect meaningful writing with readers and professional communities.
HOPE Wellness Oasis
Wellness and restorative programming supporting personal reflection, stress awareness, emotional well-being, and opportunities for renewal throughout the conference day.
Men2Men Café
A dedicated space for authentic conversation among men around fatherhood, relationships, identity, leadership, wellness, and community. The café encourages meaningful dialogue, shared experience, and supportive relationships.
Women2Women Café
A welcoming environment for women to connect through authentic conversation, mutual support, leadership reflection, relationships, wellness, and community. Participants can exchange perspectives and strengthen professional and personal connections.
Wednesday, April 14, 2027
HOPE Talks, Partner Pavilions, Workshops & Family Affair Gala
HOPE 2027 Registration & Networking Area
Registration, attendee assistance, presenter support, and conference information as Wednesday's professional learning begins.
Morning Coffee + Open HOPE Expo
Morning coffee and opportunities to connect with exhibitors, authors, sponsors, professional resource organizations, and fellow conference participants.
HOPE Talk Morning Segment
General-session presentations connecting professional knowledge, lived experience, innovation, and practical ideas for strengthening families and communities.
Networking Morning Stretch Break
A short opportunity for movement, networking, and resource engagement between HOPE Talk segments.
HOPE Talks Continue
The morning presentations continue with purpose-driven ideas, professional perspectives, and opportunities for reflection on meaningful change.
Lunch Break & Resource Engagement
Lunch, professional conversations, exhibitor engagement, author discovery, and networking before the afternoon learning sessions begin.
The Jed Foundation — BRAVE TALK Partner Pavilion
An immersive learning experience emphasizing mental health awareness, supportive communication, peer engagement, and practical approaches to helping young people who may be experiencing emotional distress.
Participants consider how meaningful conversations, empathy, early recognition, and appropriate support can help strengthen connection and mental health awareness among young people, including boys and young men.
Parent Educator Partnerships Training Institute
Thriving Together: Building Life Skills, Family Engagement, and Well-Being. An immersive training experience for early childhood educators, teachers, home visitors, family advocates, parent educators, and parents.
Grounded in culturally responsive family engagement and mutual empowerment, the institute connects children's life skills, reflective practice, positive behavior guidance, and adult well-being with practical strategies for stronger parent–educator partnerships.
Communication Tools During Conflict
Explore practical communication approaches for navigating difficult conversations, family transitions, and conflict within relationships. Participants consider how emotional awareness, respectful dialogue, and intentional responses can reduce escalation and strengthen constructive communication.
Demonstrating Agency Return on Investment (ROI)
Examine how organizations can demonstrate the value of their services through meaningful outcomes, performance indicators, and clear communication of impact. The workshop considers the importance of connecting program activities with measurable benefits for families and communities.
Men in Transition
Explore the emotional and relational challenges men may experience during major life transitions. The workshop considers shame, accountability, identity, and the opportunities for healthier relationships and meaningful personal change.
Involving Fathers in Children's Lives
Explore approaches for strengthening father involvement and supporting meaningful relationships between fathers and children. Participants consider how family-serving organizations can recognize fathers' contributions and create more inclusive opportunities for engagement.
The Most Dangerous Word in Education Isn't Failure. It's Potential.
Challenge conventional assumptions about student potential and the expectations that influence educational opportunities. Participants consider how labels, beliefs, relationships, and learning environments can affect the development and success of young people.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Discover authors, meaningful books, literary conversations, and opportunities to explore professional publishing pathways.
Afternoon Transition Break
Connection, movement, and resource engagement between afternoon workshops.
Erasing Self-Doubt: Promotes Hope
Explore the relationship between self-doubt, personal identity, confidence, and hope. Participants consider how reframing limiting beliefs and strengthening self-awareness can support resilience and meaningful growth.
Camp Grace
Explore approaches to healing and relationship-building for children and fathers affected by incarceration. The workshop considers how supportive environments, meaningful connections, and intentional engagement can strengthen family relationships.
From Conversation to Community
Examine how meaningful conversations and shared experiences can become the foundation for sustained fatherhood engagement and supportive communities. Participants consider how trust, consistency, and relationships can move individuals from initial connection toward collective participation.
Creating a Faith-Filled Environment
Explore how faith, identity, belonging, emotional safety, and supportive relationships can contribute to nurturing family and community environments. Participants reflect on approaches that strengthen connection and shared purpose.
Tragedy to Triumph: Turning Your Broken Pieces into a Masterpiece 2.0
Explore resilience, healing, personal identity, and the process of transforming difficult experiences into opportunities for growth. Participants consider how reflection, meaning-making, and supportive relationships can contribute to personal transformation.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Literary and publishing engagement continues while Mona Lisa Stallworth presents her scheduled HOPE Workshop. Participants may continue exploring books, publishing resources, and professional connections.
Afternoon Transition Break
A brief transition into the final afternoon workshops with opportunities for networking and resource engagement.
The Invitation Gap
Explore the difference between inviting fathers into early-childhood settings and creating authentic opportunities for participation. The workshop considers how organizational practices, communication, and relationships can close the gap between outreach and meaningful partnership.
Compliant and Absent
Examine how formal participation requirements can be satisfied without creating meaningful father engagement. Participants consider the distinction between procedural compliance, authentic relationships, and sustained involvement.
In the Words of a Young Dad
Center the lived experiences and perspectives of young fathers to strengthen professional understanding and responsive family-support practices. The workshop encourages participants to listen more intentionally to young dads and recognize their strengths, challenges, and aspirations.
Fathers of Hope: Rebuilding Legacies, Restoring Families
Explore fatherhood, accountability, generational change, and opportunities to rebuild meaningful family relationships. Participants consider how intentional engagement and personal responsibility can support healing and the creation of healthier family legacies.
From Connection to Partnership: A Tiered Approach to Family & Father Engagement
Examine a tiered framework for strengthening family and father engagement, beginning with initial connection and progressing toward sustained collaboration and meaningful partnership.
Participants consider how organizations can build consistent engagement practices that support trust, shared responsibility, and long-term relationships with fathers and families.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Continue discovering authors, literary resources, publishing opportunities, and meaningful books that connect knowledge, experience, and community impact.
HOPE Wellness Oasis
A restorative environment supporting reflection, wellness, stress awareness, personal renewal, and meaningful connection throughout the conference day.
Dr. Ramón & Yolanda Nieves Family Affair Gala
A special evening celebrating the HOPE community through dinner, fellowship, networking, recognition, entertainment, and meaningful connections. The gala creates an opportunity to honor relationships and shared commitments that strengthen families and communities.
Thursday, April 15, 2027
Whole Leadership Framework, Final Workshops & Closing Reception
HOPE 2027 Registration & Networking Area
Registration, attendee assistance, presenter support, and conference information as participants begin the final day of HOPE 2027.
Morning Coffee + Open HOPE Expo
Coffee, exhibitors, authors, sponsors, professional resources, and networking opportunities before the closing-day HOPE Talks begin.
Closing Day HOPE Talks
General-session presentations bringing together meaningful ideas, lived experience, professional perspectives, and inspiration for continued action beyond the conference.
Networking Morning Stretch Break
Movement, professional connection, and resource engagement between morning presentations.
Closing HOPE Talks Continue
The final morning HOPE Talks continue with ideas and perspectives intended to inspire reflection, professional growth, and meaningful action after participants return home.
Lunch Break & Resource Engagement
Lunch, final exhibitor conversations, author engagement, and professional networking before the afternoon workshop sessions.
From Workforce Readiness to Fatherhood Readiness
Building the Man, Strengthening the Father, and Creating Pathways to Economic Mobility. Discover how workforce development can become a gateway to personal growth, economic stability, and stronger father-child relationships. Drawing on The Father Center's Bridges2Success™ program and B.U.I.L.D. principles, this Partner Pavilion connects employment preparation, emotional well-being, and parenting education to support fathers and families.
Participants will explore practical strategies for integrating career opportunities, life skills, responsible fatherhood, and family engagement into programs that strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
FFCA DiSC Training of Trainers
Experiential professional development connecting behavioral styles, self-awareness, communication, emotional intelligence, leadership, and effective facilitation.
Participants explore how DiSC-informed understanding can strengthen teamwork, professional relationships, communication practices, and the facilitation of learning experiences within organizations.
Fathers at the Table — From Invitation to Influence
This workshop examines how educators, family-serving professionals, and organizational leaders can move father engagement beyond invitations, attendance, and symbolic participation toward meaningful influence.
Participants consider how shared decision-making, authentic communication, relationship-building, and institutional practices can strengthen fathers' participation in educational and family-support systems.
Things I Thought Were Normal: Recognizing Harm Hidden in Family Systems
Examine how harmful behaviors and experiences can become normalized within family systems. Participants consider the importance of recognizing patterns that may otherwise be overlooked and how greater awareness can support healthier relationships and opportunities for healing.
Four Words That Scale Healing: Purpose, Place, Identity, Support
Explore the importance of purpose, belonging, identity, and supportive relationships in healing-centered leadership and mentorship. Participants consider how these foundational elements can strengthen individual resilience, meaningful connection, and community support.
From Being Heard to Being Heard: How Student Voice Can Strengthen Families, Schools, and Communities
Examine how student voice, youth advocacy, and meaningful participation can strengthen educational relationships and community engagement. The workshop encourages participants to consider how listening to young people can influence decision-making, belonging, and more responsive learning environments.
The Path to Empowerment: Clarity, Confidence & Forward Momentum
Explore how personal clarity, confidence, purpose, and intentional decision-making can support forward momentum. Participants reflect on opportunities to identify goals, challenge limiting assumptions, and strengthen their capacity for personal and professional growth.
Mind-Body Cognitive Therapy: Education, Training and Practice
Explore mind-body cognitive therapy through education, training, and practical approaches to physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and movement-based well-being.
Afternoon Transition Break
A brief transition for movement, networking, and resource engagement between workshop sessions.
The Interplay of Trauma, Family Functioning, and Mental Health in Young Men
Explore how trauma, family functioning, paternal relationships, masculine norms, and social expectations may influence emotional development, mental health, and resilience among young men.
The workshop invites practitioners to examine the interconnected influences that shape behavior and well-being while considering more responsive, trauma-informed, and relationship-centered approaches to support.
What We Inherit. What We Question. What We Imagine.
Reflect on inherited narratives, personal assumptions, identity, and the opportunities that emerge when individuals begin questioning familiar beliefs. Participants consider how intentional reflection can support new possibilities for personal and professional growth.
The Missing Piece: Putting Fatherhood Back Into the Family-Strengthening Equation
Explore a father-responsive approach to family strengthening that recognizes fathers as essential contributors to healthy family relationships. Participants consider how healing, accountability, meaningful involvement, and supportive systems can strengthen families and influence future generations.
The Provider–Protector Trap: Expanding Fatherhood Through Emotional Presence
Examine how traditional expectations surrounding provision and protection can limit broader expressions of fatherhood. The workshop explores emotional presence, communication, vulnerability, and relational connection as important dimensions of father engagement and family well-being.
Debunking the Myth: Black Fathers at the Intersection
Examine the lived experiences of Black fathers and the intersection of identity, family relationships, stereotypes, and systemic barriers that may shape their experiences.
Drawing on research involving 20 Black fathers, the workshop challenges deficit-based narratives and considers implications for trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and father-centered engagement.
Bridging the Fatherless Gap
Explore the impact of fatherlessness and father wounds, with pathways from disappointment to hope and from pain to purpose. Participants will consider how father engagement can strengthen individuals, families, and communities.
Afternoon Transition Break
Connection and transition into the final workshop period.
From Hurt to Healing: Seeing the Father Wound Beneath Boys' Behavior
Explore how father absence, abandonment, and relational wounds may influence boys' emotional development, identity, trust, and behavior.
The workshop encourages practitioners to look beneath presenting behaviors and recognize opportunities for healing-centered responses, supportive relationships, and meaningful connection that strengthen boys' development and well-being.
Bringing Out the Best Father in You! (Becoming the Father You Never Had)
Reflect on intentional fatherhood, personal identity, healing, and the possibility of creating healthier parenting relationships regardless of past experiences. Participants consider how self-awareness, responsibility, and meaningful choices can shape the father they aspire to become.
How Do We Know We're Doing What Works? Confirming the Impact of Our Efforts.
Examine practical approaches to evaluating program effectiveness, identifying meaningful outcomes, and communicating organizational impact. Participants consider how evidence, measurement, and continuous improvement can strengthen accountability and demonstrate value to funders, policymakers, and communities.
From Learning to Action: Practical Strategies for Strengthening Father & Family Engagement
Explore practical, relationship-centered strategies for strengthening father and family engagement. Drawing on community-based experience, this workshop considers how professionals can turn learning into action through meaningful outreach, authentic partnerships, responsive support, and sustainable approaches to family participation.
Copy-Paste Parenting: Changing Generational Patterns, One Room at a Time
Discover how childhood experiences shape the way we parent, communicate, and build relationships. Through her Copy-Paste Parenting framework, Jamie Given guides participants through the seven rooms of their childhood homes to identify generational patterns worth preserving and those ready for change. This interactive workshop offers practical reflection tools for parents, caregivers, educators, and family-serving professionals seeking to strengthen self-awareness and create healthier family relationships.
Authors of Impact | HOPE FIL 2027
Author visibility, publishing pathways, media conversations, literary engagement, and professional connections supporting meaningful books and ideas.
HOPE Wellness Oasis
Wellness and restorative programming offering space for reflection, personal renewal, and connection during the final conference day.
HOPE 2027 Closing Reception
Gather with the HOPE community for final conversations, photographs, reflection, professional networking, and meaningful farewells.
The reception offers an opportunity to celebrate new relationships and consider how conference learning and partnerships can continue beyond Los Angeles.
Hollywood Bus Tour Departs
An optional closing experience for registered participants wishing to continue the evening together while exploring Hollywood. Participants should follow the event's departure instructions and registration requirements.
HOPE FIL 2027 — Where Voice Becomes Legacy
HOPE FIL connects authors, readers, aspiring writers, professionals, and publishing partners through literature, knowledge-sharing, and meaningful relationships.
Visit Newport C to explore books, manuscript development, author conversations, publishing pathways, and opportunities to connect meaningful stories with audiences and communities.
Authors of Impact — Stories That Inform, Inspire & Transform
Authors of Impact recognizes writers whose books and experiences contribute to conversations about fatherhood, family strengthening, leadership, healing, education, personal development, and community change.
Whether you are an established author, emerging writer, or reader seeking meaningful resources, HOPE 2027 offers opportunities to discover authors and connect with the ideas behind their books.
Have a Book Within You?
Every meaningful book begins with a voice, an idea, or an experience worth sharing. HOPE FIL provides an opportunity to begin conversations about writing, manuscript development, publishing, and the impact of sharing knowledge through books.
Borinquen Within Press offers a separate professional publishing pathway for individuals interested in developing manuscripts and exploring publishing services. Publishing inquiries are distinct from conference registration and presenter selection.
Continue Learning Beyond HOPE 2027
Sustainability is not an afterthought. It is an important part of the HOPE 2027 professional development strategy. Our goal is to connect conference learning with practical resources, ongoing professional growth, implementation strategies, and relationships that create lasting value.
Unlocking Unlimited Potential: An Evidence-Informed Reference Manual and Activity Guide for Personal Growth, Family Systems, and Professional Development provides structured frameworks, reflection activities, and applied learning resources that can help participants extend their conference experience into everyday practice.
Participants are also encouraged to explore additional FFCA professional development opportunities, including the Advanced Practitioner Credential™, QPR Suicide Prevention Training, and DiSC Training.
Discover Unlocking Unlimited Potential
Advanced Practitioner Credential™ | QPR Training | DiSC Training
Your Seat at HOPE 2027 Starts With Registration
Five days. Multiple learning pathways. One community committed to strengthening families, engaging fathers, building professional relationships, and creating meaningful change.
Join us April 11–15, 2027, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport.
Register for HOPE 2027 Book Your Hotel Room Review the Daily Schedule ↑Program details, times, and presenters may be updated as conference planning continues. All times are Pacific Time. Please consult the registration page for current participation options.
The HOPE 2027 Experience
HOPE 2027 is being shaped around four major experience pillars so attendees can do more than sit in sessions. The goal is to create a conference that moves people, restores people, connects people, and equips people for the work ahead.
HOPE Talks
HOPE Talks are concise, high-impact presentations designed to inspire, challenge, and move people toward action. They bring energy to the day and create a distinct conference identity that feels modern, meaningful, and memorable.
Deep Learning & Educational Workshops
The conference remains deeply rooted in substance. Educational sessions will continue to highlight fatherhood, men’s issues, child development, maternal and family mental health, child support, child welfare, leadership, coalition work, and models of success.
Community, Authors, Vendors & Connection
HOPE 2027 creates room for relationship-building through the Pacific Ballroom Expo Hall, Best Practice Share Sessions, Meet the Authors opportunities, Coalition Café gatherings, vendor engagement, and meaningful networking throughout the week.
Oasis Wellness & Renewal
Wellness is not an afterthought. The Oasis Wellness experience in Newport A supports the whole person with restorative programming, mindfulness, massage, mental health wellness support, and intentional opportunities to pause and reset.
Who Should Attend HOPE 2027
HOPE 2027 is intentionally designed for a broad and diverse community of professionals, leaders, parents, advocates, educators, and partners who care deeply about children, families, fathers, wellness, and stronger communities.
Fatherhood & Men’s Engagement Professionals
Programs, practitioners, advocates, coaches, and leaders committed to strengthening fathers, men, and healthy family relationships.
Child Welfare, Child Support & Family Systems Professionals
Those working across systems to improve service coordination, engagement, equity, and long-term family outcomes.
Mental Health, Wellness & Healing-Centered Practitioners
Professionals and organizations focused on emotional health, restoration, trauma-informed work, and strengthening the well-being of families and communities.
Educators, Child Development & Early Childhood Leaders
Those committed to helping children thrive through stronger developmental practice, family partnership, and community support.
Community Coalitions, Nonprofits & Public Leaders
Coalition builders, organizers, executive leaders, and agencies looking to build stronger cross-sector partnerships and sustainable models of success.
Emerging Leaders, Authors & New Voices
Those ready to bring fresh insight, lived experience, bold ideas, and a purpose-driven presence into a welcoming national platform.
Flexible Ways to Participate
HOPE 2027 is being designed with flexibility in mind so individuals, teams, and organizations can choose the conference experience that best fits their goals, schedules, and budgets.
Conference Access Options
Flexible registration pathways will help participants choose between core conference access and expanded experience levels that may include lunch sessions, special gatherings, and signature opportunities.
Learning + Networking + Wellness
Attendees will be able to build an experience that includes HOPE Talks, educational workshops, Best Practice sessions, Meet the Authors programming, Expo Hall engagement, and Oasis Wellness.
Value for Individuals and Teams
Whether attending as an individual, a small team, a government agency, a nonprofit organization, or a coalition partner, HOPE 2027 is being structured to make participation more practical and more worthwhile.
Join Us for HOPE 2027
HOPE 2027 is being created as a place where people can gather with intention, reconnect with purpose, discover new ideas, strengthen partnerships, and return home with practical value for the work ahead.
Whether you come for fatherhood and men’s engagement, health and mental wellness, child development, child support, child welfare, family strengthening, educational leadership, coalition work, or community models of success, this conference is being designed to help you feel both equipped and restored.
We invite you to come not only to attend, but to belong, to learn, to share, and to build what comes next.