What we hope attendees will learn:

1. Understand diverse pathways to recovery and wellness, including traditional and innovative approaches.
2. Identify and apply evidence-based practices to support individuals in recovery.
3. Explore strategies for engaging families and communities in recovery support.
4. Gain insights into policy and advocacy efforts that promote systemic changes for recovery.
5. Integrate holistic wellness practices to address mental, physical, and emotional health.
6. Enhance knowledge of harm reduction strategies and their implementation.
7. Build collaborative networks with peers, practitioners, and advocates.
8. Develop frameworks for sustainable recovery-focused initiatives within advocacy, peer support, funding, workforce wellness, and community programs.

Tracks: 

1. Advocacy in Action
   Empowering voices to create change through policy, public awareness, and grassroots organizing.
2. Recovery Community Practices
   Exploring peer-led models, community-based programming, and best practices in recovery support.
3. Systemic Change & Innovation
   Addressing long-term, structural challenges to recovery—housing, justice involvement, funding, stigma—and building sustainable solutions.
4. Navigating Personal Wellness
   Centering mind, body, and spirit: Mental health, trauma recovery, physical wellness, self-care, and resilience.

Deadline: June 30, 2026
All proposals must be submitted by 11:59 PM (EST) on June 30, 2026. Late submissions may not be considered.