Groundbreaking Gathering to Characteristic New Books by Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson and Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, alongside an Modern AI Certification Workshop for Social Employees.
Drs. Jeffery M. Johnson and Ronald Mincy
Nationwide — The Nationwide Partnership for Group Management (NPCL) is proud to announce the twenty eighth Annual Worldwide Father and Household Practitioners Convention, going down June 8-10, 2026, on the Bethesdan Hilton Resort within the Washington, DC metropolitan space (Bethesda, MD). Acknowledged because the premier, longest-running gathering for Black professionals devoted to strengthening households, this yr’s theme, “Empowering the Path Ahead: Analysis, Coverage, and Apply,” serves as an pressing, extremely mandatory name to motion to deal with systemic boundaries and foster group resilience.
Convention host Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson, President and CEO of NPCL and a historic architect of the nationwide fatherhood motion, will lead the three-day summit. A visionary advocate for grassroots capability constructing over top-down forms, Dr. Johnson will spotlight vital frameworks from his two extremely anticipated new books: From Endangered to Empowered: Options for Thriving in America—a definitive coverage roadmap for marginalized males in disaster—and Roots of Resilience: My Tooson Household Story, a profound exploration of intergenerational power, household historical past, and religious endurance.
The opening plenary session will characteristic a transformative keynote tackle by Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, famend scholar and just lately retired Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Coverage and Social Work Apply at Columbia College. Dr. Mincy will share important empirical insights from his groundbreaking new e book, How Fathers Assist Their Youngsters Develop: Cash and Love, co-authored with Dr. Natasha Cabrera. Their collaborative analysis basically challenges the “wallet-first” deadbeat delusion, demonstrating the highly effective, mandatory intersection of emotional engagement and monetary help in shaping youngsters’s cognitive growth, notably inside communities going through extreme socioeconomic adversity.
In a daring transfer to deal with the executive burnout plaguing group businesses and non-profits, the 2026 convention will characteristic a extremely specialised certification workshop: “AI as a Power Multiplier: Sensible Productiveness for the Trendy Fatherhood Practitioner.” This cutting-edge session will equip frontline practitioners, grant writers, and non-profit administrators with the bogus intelligence instruments essential to streamline advanced case administration and quickly scale their each day program administration, permitting them to focus totally on important, human-to-human mentorship.
“We’re shifting past the summary and dealing straight with the fact of household preservation,” stated Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson. “This convention gives the direct empirical proof, the coverage advocacy via our ‘Day on the Hill,’ and the trendy technological instruments required to empower practitioners and, in the end, the fathers and youngsters they serve.”
The great agenda additionally options the Spirit of Fatherhood Corridor of Fame Awards Luncheon, the Favourite Fathers Reception, and a significant keynote session by Dr. Stewart Perrilliat on trendy masculinity and inner therapeutic. Persevering with Training Models (CEUs) can be found for professionals collaborating in all licensed workshops.
Frontline practitioners, researchers, state policymakers, and group leaders are urgently requested to safe their attendance. For complete registration particulars, exhibitor and sponsorship alternatives, and to view the total three-day agenda, please go to the official web site at www.npclfathersandfamilies.org
For additional inquiries or help concerning the convention, please contact the NPCL workplace straight at 202-600-7817.
For press inquiries, contact Nationwide Partnership for Group Management (NPCL) at 202-600-7817
