The key to our success lies in a shared vision and joined forces.

The Annual Help Me Grow National Forum, hosted by the National Center, is an opportunity for affiliates and partners to network and create new partnerships. Each year, the event provides increasing national visibility of the Network’s collective efforts and accomplishments and solicits promising ideas and innovations from across the Network. Distinguished speakers facilitate and contribute to general sessions, panel discussions, and keynote addresses, offering insight into the direction and aspirations within the field of early childhood health and system building.

Help Me Grow Forum 2020 | Indianapolis, Indiana

11th Annual Help Me Grow Forum
Indianapolis, IN | May 11-13, 2020

Breakout sessions will be offered during several 75-minute periods throughout the Forum and will be organized according to four content areas:

1. Families’ Experience in Early Childhood Systems

2. Understanding and Mitigating the Impacts of Toxic Stress in Early Childhood

3. Implementing Developmental Promotion, Early Detection, Referral and Linkage

4. Ensuring Sustainability and Expansion

Poster & networking session will enable attendees to showcase progress, accomplishments, results, and more from their early childhood system. Posters will be displayed during a dedicated networking time to allow Forum attendees to ask questions and learn from each other. Each affiliate is encouraged to submit at least one poster, and are welcome to include and engage local partners in the content and presentation of the poster, including but not limited to, university students and community members. The poster submission process is open to all Forum attendees and multiple poster submissions are allowed. Contributing author(s) must submit a description of each poster to the HMG National Center for inclusion in the Forum program, as well as design, print and set up posters on site. All posters should be 24″ x 36″ in size.

Poster submissions for the poster and networking session will be available at the time of Forum registration. Attendees interested in submitting and presenting a poster must apply in their registration to the Forum. All presenters are responsible for printing and transporting their poster to the Forum. In addition, all presenters must be available to present their poster on Wednesday, May 13, 2020 from 9:30-10:30am during the poster & networking session.

All poster applicants will be notified of their poster acceptance by Friday, April 10, 2020.

Registration Information: Coming Soon!

Help Me Grow Forum 2019 | Buffalo, New York

10th Annual Help Me Grow Forum
Buffalo, NY | May 6 – 8, 2019

The 10^th Annual Help Me Grow National Forum was held in Buffalo, NY and sponsored by the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation in partnership with Help Me Grow Western New York.

2019 Forum Highlights

keynote speakers

Angela Santomero
Dr. Mona Hana-Attisha

BUFFALO Site visits

Jericho Road Community Health Center
Family Help Center Daycare
John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital
2-1-1 Western New York Call Center

Thank you to all who attended the 10^th Annual Help Me Grow National Forum in Buffalo, NY, with a special appreciation for the contributions of our host affiliate, Help Me Grow Western New York, the Forum Planning Committee, and all affiliates sharing expertise.

We were honored to be joined by two keynote speakers. Angela Santomero, the co-creator of Blue’s Clues and visionary for research-based children’s programming, and Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, the pediatrician whose research exposed the Flint water crisis, provided the audience with their compelling experiences and perspectives for supporting children’s optimal health and development.