2026 Annual In-Person TCOM Conference
“Ever Forward: Growing Community, Cultivating Outcomes”
October 6–8, 2026
Arlington, Virginia
Hilton Arlington Rosslyn the Key
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Why Attend the TCOM Conference?
Twenty-two years ago, the Praed Foundation launched the first TCOM Conference, known then as the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) Conference. The TCOM framework and CANS assessment tool were built on a simple and powerful idea: effective outcomes management must recognize needs and strengths while ensuring the voices of youth and families are centered in the process.
Since then, the TCOM framework has expanded to include a range of person-centered tools and decision-support applications for adults and families such as the ANSA, FAST, CAT, and RISE. Today, TCOM is used across 10 countries, 50 states, and 10,210 organizations, with more than 150,000 learners on the TCOM training and certification platform. This growth reflects a growing, global commitment to person-centered, collaborative, and data-informed practice to move from service systems into transformational systems.
The TCOM Conference provides an opportunity to learn from one another, celebrate progress, and strengthen our commitment to improving outcomes. It reminds us that transformation is an ongoing process, requiring continuous learning, growth, and responsiveness to the people and communities we serve.
Letter of Support
Please see this letter of support from Dr. John Lyons highlighting the value of the conference as a professional development and educational opportunity.
Conference Theme
Ever Forward: Growing Community, Cultivating Outcomes
This year’s theme reminds us that meaningful change emerges from collective knowledge and shared learning. It does not belong to any one person, organization, or discipline. It is built through partnership, reflection, and continuous discovery in service of each other and in service with each other. The work is ongoing, and our learning never ends. It is “ever forward.”
Advancing Change Through Diverse Perspectives
TCOM brings together people from all aspects of system improvement, implementation and improvement. Meaningful outcomes emerge when knowledge, wisdom and expertise are aligned, including policy, leadership, data, practice, lived experience, community, and culture in service of shared goals.
Explore Ideas, Innovations, and Conversations
TCOM implementation across systems and organizations
Data-informed practice, outcomes measurement, and quality improvement
Person-centered assessment and decision-making
Applied research and evidence-informed practice
Cross-system collaboration among providers, agencies, and stakeholders
Conference Learning Opportunities
Choose from 40 breakout sessions across a variety of topics and learning pathways. This year, audience tracks—categories of breakout sessions grouped by roles, interests or backgrounds—make it easier to focus on areas of interest and explore new perspectives.
The 2026 audience tracks:
Systems/implementation
Youth, family voice and lived experience
Policy/administrative
Training and skill building
Practice
Research
Become a Sponsor or Exhibitor This Year!
Sponsors and exhibitors play an important role in strengthening collaboration, advancing innovation, and supporting meaningful learning experiences for attendees. The conference is made possible in large support from our sponsors.
If your company, organization or institution shares an aligned vision, purpose, or goals of TCOM, consider sponsorship to increase visibility and impact.
Sponsorship at the TCOM Conference reflects a shared investment in the field, helping expand access to knowledge, foster connections across systems, and support the continued growth of outcomes-driven practice.
Contact communications@praedfoundation.org for sponsorship inquiries.
Registration Rates
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General Three Days $630
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Student Three Day (Full-Time) $315
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Student Single Day (Full-Time) $150
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Single Day (October 6th) $320
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Single Day (October 7th) $250
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Single Day (October 8th) $125
Venue and Accommodations
The conference venue is the Hilton Arlington Rosslyn the Key, located in downtown Arlington, just a few miles from Washington, D.C.
You may reserve your hotel room at the special conference rate using the booking link HERE.
Register and Create Your Profile
This year, we are using the event platform Accelevents. It is designed to make it easier to register, browse and book sessions of interest, check-in, complete Continuing Education (CE) process requirements, and access networking tools in one place.
Register for the conference and Create Profile Here
For questions about the conference, please contact communications@praedfoundation.org
We look forward to welcoming you and your team this year!
In partnership,
The Praed Foundation and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago
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