2025 BREAKING BARRIERS INTEGRATED CARE SYMPOSIUM

Sunday, October 26 - Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Hyatt Regency Sacramento
1209 L Street, Sacramento, CA

Symposium Speakers Request for Proposals

We invite dynamic and inspiring teams to submit proposals to speak at the 2025 Breaking Barriers Integrated Care Symposium, centered around the theme “Stay the Course, Together.” We seek speakers who can provide insights, strategies, and real-world, practical solutions that align with this year’s theme. Whether through research, lived experience, or innovative practices, your voice can help inspire and empower those working to create stronger, more resilient systems.

Join us in shaping a future where collaboration ensures all our children, youth, and families are supported. Submit your proposal and help us stay the course, together.

Proposal Submission Information

Submission Deadline: Friday, May 16, 2025

SESSION OPTIONS

  • Main Stage Session

    • Audience: All Attendees (450-550 individuals)

    • Duration: 1 hour

      • Must include a 15-minute (at least) audience activity that promotes engagement, interaction, and community-building, while encouraging active participation. This can be small group brainstorms on a scenario, open-ended prompts to discuss with neighbors, action plan creation, collaborative drawing, creative building with toothpicks/straws, show of hands or interactive polling, debate/active listening discussion, visual mapping, choose-your-own-adventure, etc.

      • Must include time for Q&A

    • Content: These sessions provide examples of work/research already completed or currently in progress that was accomplished with an integrated team. It must contain an practical call to action for a more integrated ecosystem for California children and youth, or practical guidance/examples of a system build.

    • A/V Available: Microphone, projector, screen

    • Number of speakers: Limited to 4 speakers + 1 moderator, if needed

    • NOTE: Indicate in your submission if you are interested in presenting a Learning Session following your Main Stage session to dive deeper into the work you presented.

  • Learning Session

    • Audience: Self-selected audience who are interested in your topic

    • Duration: 45 minutes; to run concurrent to other Learning Sessions on the same Pillar

    • Content: Intended to be interactive and conversational with findings on studies or practical strategies/tactics

    • A/V Available: No A/V will be provided. You may bring your own projector and screen, if desired.

    • Number of speakers: Suggested limit of 4 speakers

    • Abstracts of past Learning Sessions can be found on our Highlights from the 2024 Symposium page

CONSIDERATIONS

  • Priority will be given to groups that have a youth, family member, person/organization impacted, or community organization partner

TIPS

  • The most positively received presentations always have a practical element. Our attendees appreciate specific steps they can take on the path to integrated care, whether that be who needs to be on the team, a spreadsheet on how to blend and braid financing, how they partnered with another entity, how county interagency leadership team meetings were conducted, or a draft MOU.

  • Make sure your session proposal aligns with one of our four Integrated Care Pillars: Shared Leadership, Shared Goals, Shared Information, and Shared Finance. Descriptions of each can be found here.

  • Highlights from past Symposia can be found elsewhere on the Breaking Barriers website. Go to the Main Menu and select the desired year.

  • Video recordings of past sessions and webinars can be found on our YouTube channel.

NOTES

  • Registration

    • All speakers are required to register for the conference.

    • Speakers attending for only their session can register free of charge and will be given additional information at time of selection.

    • Speakers attending for more than just their session can register at a reduced rate and will be given additional information at the time of selection.

  • Resources

    • Breaking Barriers will post any resources associated with your work on our Symposium website.

    • Any physical handouts will be printed at the presenters’ expense.

SELECTION NOTIFICATION

We will notify all proposal contacts about the status of their proposal by the week of June 2, 2025. We may contact you before that time if additional details or clarification is needed. If selected, you will be asked to agree to a set of Speaker Guidelines, including deadlines, permissions to record your session, and permissions to post your materials.

Symposium Sponsors and partners

Thank you to the sponsors and partners of this year’s Breaking Barriers Integrated Care Symposium.

Leader Sponsor

 
 

CO-CHAIR Sponsors

 
 

Additional Sponsors

 

BREAKING BARRIERS YOUTUBE CHANNEL

View our past sessions, including all programming from our past Symposiums and webinars on the Breaking Barriers YouTube channel.