Welcome to the ATTACh 2026 Conference!
Here you’ll find all the essential details for registration, conference program, hotel info, resources, and information for sponsors and presenters.
Thank you to our Sponsors!
Earn CEs at our conference!
ATTACH (Association for Training on Attachment and Trauma in Children) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7481. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ATTACH (Association for Training on Attachment and Trauma in Children) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
NBCC ACEP No. 7481.
This program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886914008-9192) for 18 continuing education contact hours.
The following states do not accept National CE Approval Programs and require individual program/provider application processes:
New York
West Virginia
ATTACh has partnered with CIAO Seminars to provide occupational therapy licensing board approved continuing education credit for OTs and COTAs who attend this conference and follow eligibility criteria below.
OT/COTAs, to be eligible for CE Credit: Full instructions will be available to all conference participants.
- Participants MUST complete and submit an evaluation for each session attended (Live).
- Evaluations MUST be submitted BEFORE May 30, 2026.
- Certificates may be printed once all evaluations are submitted.
MAXIMUM CE Hours Available = 18.0
- This conference meets PDU requirements for NBCOT (18 PDUs)
- CIAO is an Approved Provider for the Florida Board of Occupational Therapy
Approved for:
- 18 Hrs. Registered with CEBroker for OT/COTAs in AZ, GA, LA, TN
- 21.50 Hrs. OT/COTAs in FL (CE Broker # 20-1340250)
Applied for:
OT/COTAs in NM
Meets Requirements for:
OT/COTAs in AL, AK, AZ, AR, CA, CO, CT, DE, DC, GA, HI, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MS, MO, MT, NE, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, ND, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VT, VA, WA, WV, WI, WY
*Meets Requirements means either this course follows the state rules/regulations for a CE course, or the course is approved by an entity that the state recognizes as an approver.
Accreditation of this course does not necessarily imply that the entities approving this continuing education support the views of the presenter or the sponsors.
2026 Keynotes Announced!
Thursday Keynote
Dr. Jonathan Baylin, Researcher, Author
Triple Trouble: A Brain-based Model of Developmental Trauma and Attachment-focused Treatment
Dr. Baylin will present his current model of the impact of early life trauma on a child’s neurobiological development. He will discuss three core ways in which exposure to extreme stress can cause children to devote their brain development to deep mistrust of other people, Blocked Trust. He will describe the mid brain alarm system, the SELF system or default mode network, and the anti-reward system and explain how the interplay of these systems leads to chronic defensiveness, fragmentation of the sense of self, and chronic dysphoria or hopelessness about the future. With this integrative model as a guide, Dr. Baylin will then discuss implications for treatment, focusing on ways to target Triple Trouble for change and healing, including ways to prevent chronic Blocked Care in adults dedicated to reawakening a child’s potential to trust.
Read Dr. Baylin’s Bio in our program linked HERE.
Friday Keynote
Angela Tucker, Keynote Speaker
Crossing Boundaries: Attachment Challenges and Truths in Transracial Adoption
Many transracial adoptions occur without a deep examination of classism and racism, which can lead to adoptees being deracinated from their biological family and roots. Through storytelling, Angela shares her experience as a transracial adoptee and the insights she has gained over the last 15 years of experience as a mentor to adoptees, consultant to adoptive families and a cultural commentator. You’ll learn about the Ghost Kingdom, the Sondersphere and you’ll hear how her earliest attachments with her foster family saved her life.
Read Angela’s Bio in our program linked HERE.
Saturday Keynote
Dr. Jaiya John, Motivational Speaker
Our Sweet Song of Being Woven Together: How Relationships Heal Us
Dr. Jaiya John’s keynote is a poetic incantation to stir our souls to remember themselves. Weaving his lived and professional journey as a poet, healer, teacher, and sacred witness through the sweetgrass strands of our collective history of harm and healing, Dr. John delivers a rhapsodic soul revival. His loving testimony of our human experience with relationships reroots us in the vital soil of our profoundly vital social nature. Dr. John’s life, work, and keynote message are a rehumanizing balm and ballad for our tenderness as practitioners, caregivers, healers, leaders, kin, community, and human souls. This keynote is not just informational. It is a piercing massage, soul water rising, hope dealing, breath birthing, prayer call for us to gather in our majesty and ancestral memory, reckon with truth as a practice in gardening trust, and liberate our sacred healing gifts.
Read Dr. John’s Bio in our program linked HERE.
TESTIMONIAL
Your powerful presentations, genuine kindness, and compassion to our students and staff resonated throughout. Personally, it lifted my spirits and energy to continue the quest. I have listened to many presentations in the 20+ years of my educational experience and believe the presentation you gave to our students during the Hunger Banquet exceeded all of them in power, inspiration, and wisdom. I felt I was in the presence of some of the great figures of our global history, and as I reflected on the evening I imagined it must have been similar to hearing Martin Luther King, Jr. or Nelson Mandela. I genuinely mean every word.
— Trent Derrick, Administrator, Lakeland High School, Rathdrum, Idaho
