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Where Learning, Wellness, and Community Come Together

July 21–23, 2027
Disneyland Conference Center

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Early bird registration opens February 8, 2027

Join leaders and professionals across education, health, safety, social services, and community organizations to explore how staff, student, family, and community wellness strengthens the whole child. Learn practical approaches and strategies to support wellbeing, build connections, and create thriving schools and communities through collaborative leadership, shared understanding, and shared goals. Leave with ideas you can bring back to your team, school, or community.

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About the conference

Supporting students, strengthening organizations, and connecting communities.

The Wellness Conference brings together educators, organizational and community leaders, and professionals across health, behavioral health, and safety to strengthen the whole child, whole school, and whole community.

Through keynote presentations and breakout sessions, explore practical, evidence-informed approaches across mental health, physical health, culture and climate, and integrated systems. Discover strategies for prevention, wellbeing, safe and inclusive environments, and coordinated services that strengthen schools, organizations, workplaces, and communities.

Who should attend?

There is a place for you here.

If your work supports the wellbeing of students, staff, families, or communities, there is a place for you at The Wellness Conference.

Organizational and community executives
District and system leaders
Educators and school staff
Community-based organizations
Health and behavioral health professionals
Safety professionals

Whether you support individuals, lead a team, shape organizational culture, or coordinate services across sectors, explore approaches that connect wellbeing, prevention, and collaborative support to your everyday work.

What you can gain

Bring new approaches back to your work.

Explore practical tools for mental and physical wellbeing, approaches that foster safe and inclusive environments, and opportunities to strengthen partnerships across sectors. Discover ideas you can adapt to support the people, organizations, and communities you serve.

Practical approaches

Explore tools and strategies you can adapt to your setting.

Leadership insight

Connect wellness priorities with organizational culture, psychological safety, leadership, and sustainable strategies that strengthen schools, workplaces, and communities.

Relevant connections

Build relationships with professionals across education, health, safety, social services, and community organizations to strengthen coordinated systems of support.

On the main stage

Meet the 2027 keynote speakers

Fresh perspectives on leadership, healing, education, and meaningful change.

RaQuel Hopkins

Licensed professional counselor · Executive leader · Coach

Creator of the Capacity Framework, RaQuel brings insights from mental health, organizational development, and executive leadership to help people and organizations build capacity for growth.

Dr. Chaunise “Chaun” Powell

Systems change leader · Founder · Educator

A clinical social worker and educational leader, Dr. Powell works to transform education, behavioral health, and social service systems through more equitable approaches to care and learning.

Dr. Kevin J. Fleming

Educator · Author · International keynote speaker

Dr. Fleming advances purpose-driven education and career readiness, helping students connect their strengths with pathways to meaningful futures.

2027

Call for Presenters

Your experience could move the conversation forward.

Submit your proposal

Have something to share?

Share your experience, tools, or approaches with others working to support wellbeing. Proposals should offer clear learning objectives and practical takeaways participants can adapt to their own settings.

Proposals open November 2, 2026 Submission deadline: January 29, 2027

Submit your proposal

Explore the issues that matter to your work.

The 2027 program is being developed around four themes that connect individual wellbeing, organizational culture, prevention, and coordinated systems of support across schools, workplaces, and communities.

Mental Health

Topics may include mental health literacy, social-emotional well-being, trauma-informed practices, mindfulness, resilience, prevention, early intervention, and sustainable strategies that support mental wellness across schools, organizations, workplaces, and communities.

Physical Health

Topics may include physical activity, nutrition, preventive health, substance use prevention, chronic disease prevention, occupational wellness, and innovative approaches that promote healthy individuals, organizations, and communities.

Culture and Climate

Topics may include restorative practices, safe and inclusive environments, psychological safety, belonging, staff wellness, burnout prevention, organizational culture, and leadership strategies that strengthen trust, relationships, and resilience.

Integrated Systems

Topics may include cross-sector partnerships, coordinated services, school and community safety, crisis prevention and response, family and community engagement, equitable access to resources, workforce development, and collaborative strategies that strengthen systems of support.

Conference participant sharing an idea with the room

Conference participants taking part in an interactive session

Exhibit & sponsor

Make connections that move wellness forward.

Bring your organization into the conversation at The Wellness Conference. Meet educators, wellness professionals, and community partners who are working to support students and families.

Exhibitor booths Sponsorship packages Exclusive opportunities

Explore partnership opportunities

People connecting at an exhibitor table during The Wellness Conference

With gratitude

Thank you to our 2026 partners

Our sponsors and exhibitors helped bring together the people, resources, and ideas that made The Wellness Conference possible. We are grateful for their support.