The 2025 National Foster & Kinship Care Conference: Empowering Carers to Transform Lives features an inspiring lineup of speakers, including leading child welfare experts, researchers and lived experience advocates.

Speaker announcements coming soon!


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hosts

Renée Leigh Carter
CEO, Adopt Change
Ellia Green OAM
Olympic Gold Medallist, Public Speaker, Advocate for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Emily Hikaiti
Ambassador & Lived Experience Advocate, Adopt Change
Michelle Stacpoole
Head of Communications & Engagement, Adopt Change
Loren Dumbrell
Carer Services Manager, My Forever Family NSW / Adopt Change
Zufi Emerson
Adoptee & Actor
Joel de Carteret
Adoptee and Filmmaker