2017 Summer Leadership & Policy Conference (17SLPC)

The Leadership and Policy Conference is an annual four daylong conference during the summer, where CYC youth facilitators train CYC members in leadership and advocacy skills.

At the summer conference, members identify which are the most pressing issues facing foster youth in California. Members then spend the remainder of the conference brainstorming solutions and developing policy recommendations to address the problems they have identified. On the final day of the conference, members present their recommendations to policy makers, social workers, judges, attorneys, community partners, as well as other allies. These recommendations are published and distributed to child welfare professionals across California. The recommendations also set CYC’s policy agenda for the following year and one or two of these recommendations become sponsored bills that are brought to the annual CYC Day at the Capitol Conference.