Subject: Tomorrow is the big day! Join us!

Our 12th Annual Conference starts tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the Big Day! Don't Miss Out!

Our conference has two action-packed days of virtual professional development workshops, keynote speakers, networking opportunities, awards, games, and even prizes with the goal of cultivating joy for the youth development communities in Virginia.

What You Get With your Conference Ticket


  • Admission to our 2-day Conference (9:00 a.m-3:00 p.m. EST)

  • 16 live workshop presentations

  • Additional pre-recorded on-demand sessions

  • Post-event access to presentation recordings

  • Member account, including profile pic and bio

  • Direct message, group message, and forum posts 

  • Virtual Expo Hall with vendor pages

  • 3-D Virtual Lounge

  • Virtual Scavenger Hunt with scoreboard and $4,500 worth of prizes

Meet our Conference Facilitator and Keynote Speakers

Dwayne Bennett is a frequently requested speaker and author and President of Yes to Success, LLC, a corporate training and leadership development company. Read his full bio here.


Micah “Bam-Bamm” White has spent over 20 years in the entertainment industry as a stand-up comedian, host, and philanthropist. White’s mission is simple: to use comedy and entertainment to find common ground by bridging racial, religious, socioeconomic, and generational gaps. Read his full bio here.


Dr. Peggy DeLong is a psychologist, known as The Gratitude Psychologist. She teaches people how to harness the power of gratitude and joy to live their best lives, especially through difficult times. Read her full bio here.

Our Virtual Lounge

What does a personality quiz, chair yoga, and a scavenger hunt have in common? Well, you'll find all of them in our virtual lounge! It's just one of the many features that makes our conference more than just another online webinar.

Play and Win!

The hot air ballon is part of our conference logo and meant to signify joy. We're taking that joy and making it real by challenging conference attendees to hunt for them all across our conference platform in order to win prizes. Players will get to see where they rank in real time on our player scoreboard and at the end of conference, winners will be announced!

Prizes include

  • From our friends at Leading to Change

  • From our friends at PowerUp Fitness, a 1 year program access bundle to our virtual PowerUp Fitness classes, a ($299 value). Included in this bundle:

    • Eight hours of on-demand physical activity programming

    • Reach your participants virtually or stream together on site

    • 30-minute, instructor-led videos include warmups, games, exercises, and activities that boost bodies and brains from our signature PowerUp Your School program. 

    • Bundle includes access to all 15 videos, a site-specific landing page, and shareable login for easy, program-wide access.

  • From our friends at kid-grit, FIVE chances to win a copy of kid-grit the BOOKTM ($15 value each copy) The book is a collection of 25 authentic, soul-searching stories from youth ages 17- 27 on topics dealing with everything from depression, bullying, substance abuse in the home, physical violence, digital addiction, anxiety disorder, isolation, abuse of social media, transgender challenges, poverty, and more.

  • From our keynote speaker, Dr. Peggy DeLong, the Gratitude Psychologist

  • 4-H Prize Bag


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