Join Alliance for Girls* (AFG) on Monday, May 18th, for our Annual Members Meeting, one of Alliance for Girls' hallmark events where AFG's community (including service providers, community leaders, parents/caregivers, advocates, and girls and gender-expansive youth) come together to connect, celebrate each other, strategize, and learn from one another. We're thrilled to be hosting this year's gathering in person!

This year in particular will be truly special and unlike typical professional convenings. We're centering not only building solidarity and collective strategy but also promoting wellness and restoration, community care, and future dreaming. Specifically, the Members Meeting will be a place for:

• Showing up as you are and participating in whatever will fill your cup, first and foremost.
• Celebrating one another and our collective impact on girls, gender-expansive youth, and their communities​.
• Participating in honest discussions on political and funding impacts on organizations, youth mental health and safety, and current advocacy efforts.
• Informing AFG’s key projects aimed at strengthening support for girls and gender-expansive youth and the organizations that serve them, including the Youth Mental Health and Safety Study, Political Impact Project, and Reclaiming Safety in Schools.
• Building intergenerational solidarity and connection
• Centering wellness and restoration, with a dedicated wellness space for folks to participate in throughout the day.
• Boldly imagining the future we're fighting for—for and with girls and gender-expansive youth—through a creative, future dreaming booth.

Youth are welcome and encouraged to attend! ​We'll also have a confidential group storytelling circle for young people to talk about mental health and safety, facilitated by AFG's trained youth researchers. Youth who participate will receive incentives and mental health resources. Learn more about AFG's YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research) Mental Health and Safety Study here.

A light breakfast and a delicious lunch will be provided.

We want to uplift your work. There will be resource tables in the lobby for members to distribute their program flyers and resources. If you’d like to bring materials/swag, please contact Kailin Chou at kailin@alliance4girls.org to ensure we have enough table space.

More details on speakers and agenda coming soon.

Event Details 

When: Monday, May 18th | Doors open 9:30am, program begins promptly at 10am 

Where: The California Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities, downtown Oakland 

Catering: Light breakfast and lunch provided 

Accommodation Requests: kailin@alliance4girls.org (48 hours notice appreciated)

Doors open at 9:30am. The event will start promptly at 10am. We encourage people to arrive early to ease into the day and enjoy some light breakfast. Lunch will be provided as well. The registration process includes an area for noting dietary restrictions and/or accommodation requests.

Accessibility

The event will be hosted in-person at the Cal Endowment's Center for Healthy Communities in downtown Oakland, which features the following:

• The venue is fully accessible for people with physical disabilities.
• Meeting rooms and restrooms are wheelchair accessible.
• Guide dogs and assistance animals for people with disabilities are permitted in The Center for Healthy Communities but must be on leash at all times and muzzled, if necessary.
• More on the layout of the venue here: https://www.calendow.org/conference-center/oakland/ 

Getting to/from the Conference Center

The Conference Center is located near 19th Street BART Station. For bus options, multiple AC Transit lines stop near the Center. Additional information on how to get to/from the Conference Center, as well as recommended lodging, is available on the Center's website here.

Other Conference Center features include:

• A private lactation room 
• Gender neutral bathroom

For questions or accommodation requests, please contact kailin@alliance4girls.org. With at least 48 hours (2 business days) prior to the event, we’ll make every effort to provide accommodations. 

*“Girls and gender-expansive youth” refers to cis girls, trans girls, non-binary youth, gender non-conforming youth, gender queer youth, and any girl-identified youth.