On October 16, 2025, from 10 AM – 4 PM, we excitedly convened our Ecosystem Advisory Team in person in Sacramento, CA. We had a wonderful time together after an evening Networking Reception the night before, on October 15, 2025. 

Meeting Goals

• Map the Ecosystem: Build a shared understanding of the youth-serving ecosystem, identifying where Expanded Learning connects with other sectors and opportunities to strengthen alignment for whole-child, family, and workforce wellness.
• Listen Deeply Across Sectors: Create space for authentic dialogue to surface experiences, tensions, and wisdom that reveal both the barriers to partnership and the seeds of collective possibility.
• Grounded in Equity and Collective Imagination: Practice designing from the margins, using healing-centered engagement and compassionate systems thinking to imagine new pathways for collaboration and systemic transformation.
• Shape Strategic Priorities Together: Begin identifying and refining strategic priorities, focus areas, strategies, and initial initiatives that will inform the Ecosystem Plan, while forming “Cross Sector Pods” to carry forward intersession learning and prototyping.
• Foster Connection and Shared Purpose: Cultivate a climate of trust, care, and curiosity that grounds the Ecosystem Advisory Team in shared values, ensuring every voice—youth, families, and practitioners—is meaningfully engaged in the design process.

Meeting Highlights: 

• Ecosystem Connections
• Ripple Talks: Designing For Healing: Addressing ACE’s and Systemic Harm in Youth Serving Ecosystems
• Ripples in Motion: Mini Cross-Sector Ideation Spaces
• From Vision to Strategic Priorities Activity
• Closing Reflections & Commitments
• Sound Bath Meditation

Meeting Resources

• Convening Presentation Slides PDF
• Summary of Strategic Plans 1.0 & 2.0
• The Ripple of Trauma-Informed Systems PDF

Gallery of Our Welcome Reception on October 15, 2026

Gallery of Our Ecosystem Convening on October 16, 2026