2026 Bridge Conference

Registration & Breakfast 7:45am - 9:45am

Opening Plenary with Keynote Speakers Sangita Kumar and the Belonging Resident C... 8:45am - 10:00am

Lunch & Exhibitor Showcase 11:45am - 12:45pm

Reimagining Resilience: Understanding Trauma & Creating Safer Environments 10:15am - 11:45am

Best Starts for Kids Expanded Learning Grantee Gathering (CLOSED SESSION) 12:30pm - 2:15pm

Refugee School Impact Program Grantee Gathering (CLOSED SESSION) 2:30pm - 4:00pm

LGBTQI+ Inclusive and Affirming Programs: Using an Intersectional Lens 10:15am - 11:45am

Inclusive Facilitation: Creating Spaces Where Everyone Can Participate and Thrive 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Supervision for Growth: Inclusive Leadership for Effective Employee Development 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Playworks Group Management 10:15am - 11:45am

KC CONNECT: Restorative Responses to Harm 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Designing Our Own Learning (DOOL): Building Belonging, Invigorating Student Voice and Practicing... 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Belonging: The Impact of Difference 10:15am - 11:45am

Youth Power in Practice: How Young People Are Leading Social Change Across Washington 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Flowing Together: Coalition Clinics for Building Collective Power 2:30pm - 4:00pm

From Compliance to Collaboration: Empowering Families, Students, and Staff Through Intentional P... 10:15am - 11:45am

OSPI 21st Century Community Learning Center Programs (21st CCLC) - CLOSED SESSION 12:45pm - 4:00pm

Exhibitor Showcase & Happy Hour 4:00pm - 6:00pm

All Bodies are Good Bodies: Building Weight-Inclusive Spaces to Protect Youth Development and We... 10:15am - 11:45am

The Wild Current: Moving with Purpose in Work That Asks So Much 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Riding Upstream: Showing Up When the Current Gets Strong 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Belonging Before Leadership: Creating Communities Where Every Young Person Can Lead 10:15am - 11:45am

Weaving Without Erasing: Equitable Enculturation for Diverse Communities. 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Engage IRL: Building Student Belonging Through Meaningful Engagement 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Building Knowledge Together: Data Equity from Early Learning to Early Adulthood 10:15am - 11:45am

On the Same Page: A Positive Coaching System with Ready-to-Use Tools for Staff & Volunteer Succe... 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Flow by Design: Creating the Conditions Where People and Teams Thrive 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Design Organizations Where Hope Thrives: Creating the Conditions for Belonging and Impact 10:15am - 11:45am

From Staff Learning to Youth Impact: Building a Community of Practice for Continuous Improvement 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Art With, Not About: Building Ethical Art-Making and Storytelling Practices 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Fixing our Fixed-Math Mindsets! 10:15am - 11:45am

Creating Ripples of Opportunity: Financial Aid Strategies that Advance Equity and Access 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Beyond Four Walls: Mapping Multidimensional Ecosystems and Black Girl-Led Geographies of Belongi... 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Serving Youth & Adolescents of Color Through Connection, Cultural Awareness, and Mental Health S... 10:15am - 11:45am

Mindsets Matter: exploring fixed, growth and benefit mindsets 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Advocacy 101: Creating Your Advocacy Toolkit 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Inspiring Action: Crafting Stories with Purpose 10:15am - 11:45am

Skills for Theatre, Skills for Life: incorporating social and emotional learning into the classr... 12:45pm - 2:15pm

Tuning In: Building Feedback Loops and Amplifying Youth Voice 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Breakfast & Registration 8:00am - 10:00am

Plenary Session 9:00am - 9:30am

Table Talks 9:30am - 10:15am

Lunch 12:30pm - 1:30pm

Closing Plenary 1:15pm - 2:15pm

Why Grief Matters and how we might respond 10:30am - 12:00pm

Soothing the Nervous System Sound Bath Meditation 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Meditation & Stretches 9:45am - 10:15am

Who Taught Us That? Unpacking the Messages That Shape Us 10:30am - 12:00pm

All Means All: Using Differentiation to Increase Access & Inclusion 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Walking Hart’s Ladder: Strengthe... 9:45am - 10:15am

De-escalation Strategies: Return to Baseline 10:30am - 12:00pm

Beyond the Circle: Expanding Your Multi-Modal Toolkit for Deeper Reflection and Debriefing 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Finding the Current: How Black Male Mentor-Educators Build Trust, Brotherhood & Belonging 10:30am - 12:00pm

Building a Dream Team 2:30pm - 4:00pm

A Kinder Inner Voice: Self-talk... 9:45am - 10:15am

Moving Beyond Labels 10:30am - 12:00pm

Flow Forward: Help Youth Build Identity, Belonging, and Career Pathways 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Make Belonging a Daily Practice:... 9:45am - 10:15am

Stronger Together: Building Strategic Partnerships to Support School Behavioral Health – The Kid... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Ask, Listen, Empower: Shifting from Control to Connection 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Developing Evaluation Frameworks... 9:45am - 10:15am

The Art of Facilitation: Leading through Emotions in Discourse about Race 10:30am - 12:00pm

School-Community Partnerships: A Blueprint to Improve Youth & Family Food Security 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Bingo, But Different 9:45am - 10:15am

Human-Centered Transitions: Rethinking Layoffs, Firings, and Organizational Change 10:30am - 12:00pm

The River of Liberation: Connecting Past, Present, and Future Through Healing and Action 2:30pm - 4:00pm

A Global Perspective on Aftersho... 9:45am - 10:15am

The Journey of Transcreation: SOWA Case Study - Adapting the School Age Basic Training into Span... 10:30am - 12:00pm

Build the Village: Circle Practices That Grow Belonging, Resilience, and Youth Leadership 2:30pm - 4:00pm

Being Water in Practice: Supporting Newcomer Students & Families Through Adaptability, Access, a... 10:30am - 12:00pm

The Power of Home, How Place-Based Programs Build Upon the Strengths of Youth, Family, and Commu... 2:30pm - 4:00pm

The Water We Don't See: Building Belonging Across Race, Culture, Ability, and Identity 10:30am - 12:00pm

Community Data in Practice: Who Owns Your Story? 2:30pm - 4:00pm