Groundbreaking Gathering to Characteristic New Books by Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson and Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, alongside an Modern AI Certification Workshop for Social Staff.
Drs. Jeffery M. Johnson and Ronald Mincy
Nationwide — The Nationwide Partnership for Neighborhood Management (NPCL) is proud to announce the twenty eighth Annual Worldwide Father and Household Practitioners Convention, happening June 8-10, 2026, on the Bethesdan Hilton Lodge 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 handle systemic obstacles 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 crucial 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 deal with by Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, famend scholar and 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 guide, How Fathers Assist Their Kids Develop: Cash and Love, co-authored with Dr. Natasha Cabrera. Their collaborative analysis essentially challenges the “wallet-first” deadbeat delusion, demonstrating the highly effective, mandatory intersection of emotional engagement and monetary assist in shaping kids’s cognitive improvement, notably inside communities going through extreme socioeconomic adversity.
In a daring transfer to handle the executive burnout plaguing group businesses and non-profits, the 2026 convention will characteristic a extremely specialised certification workshop: “AI as a Drive Multiplier: Sensible Productiveness for the Trendy Fatherhood Practitioner.” This cutting-edge session will equip frontline practitioners, grant writers, and non-profit administrators with the substitute intelligence instruments essential to streamline advanced case administration and quickly scale their every day program administration, permitting them to focus completely on important, human-to-human mentorship.
“We’re transferring past the summary and dealing immediately with the truth of household preservation,” mentioned Dr. Jeffery M. Johnson. “This convention supplies the direct empirical proof, the coverage advocacy via our ‘Day on the Hill,’ and the trendy technological instruments required to empower practitioners and, finally, the fathers and kids 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 fashionable masculinity and inner therapeutic. Persevering with Schooling Items (CEUs) can be found for professionals taking part 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 complete 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 immediately at 202-600-7817.
For press inquiries, contact Nationwide Partnership for Neighborhood Management (NPCL) at 202-600-7817
