EveryChild NOW

Your voice matters even after the conference ends. 💚
If you attended the EveryChild NOW 2026 Conference, we’d love to hear what inspired you, what impacted you most, and how we can make next year even stronger.

✨ Your feedback directly helps shape future sessions, speakers, resources, and community conversations.

📝 Take the Conference Feedback Survey here:
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Thank you for helping us continue to turn data into action and action into belonging. 🌱

Special thanks to our friend Dr. Youmna Mousattat and her colleagues at Thomas Hospitals and WVU Medicine Golisano Children's for presenting and sponsoring the 2nd Annual EveryChild NOW Grow the Good Conference at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. 🍃

Mental health matters

West Virginia is facing a shortage of Psychiatrists BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) – The Mountain State has only five percent of the amount of licensed psychiatrists needed to serve the state’s population. That is the lowest percentage of any state …

Thank you EveryChild NOW Board Member Cade Vogelsong and The Viking Group for your leadership and support!

We’re grateful to The Viking Group for their support of the 2026 EveryChild NOW Conference ✨

Through their commitment to revitalizing communities and creating spaces where people can thrive, they are helping lay the foundation for stronger futures for children and families across West Virginia. Partnerships like this are what turn vision into real, lasting impact.

Thank you for being part of this work and helping us Grow The Good 🌱

Dr. Michelle Mickle Foster kicked off the 2nd Annual EveryChild NOW Conference with a front porch chat about growing the good with Dr. Matthew Christiansen of the WV First Foundation, Marlo Long of Truist Bank, Margaret O'Neal of United Way of Central WV and Alecia Allen of Keep Your Faith Corporation. It was an outstanding exchange and we are grateful!!!! 💚

Love these pics of conference attendees posing with our “Grow the Good” tree by our favorite balloon artist Balloons by Byrdi! 🌳 🎈

Special thanks to EveryChild NOW board members Rob Adams, Cathy Bond Wallace and Jarrod Dean for leading and supporting our mission.

Say “Grow the Good” - our annual tradition of taking a group photo. Love these people and what they do to make love better for every child in West Virginia. 📸💚

Photo credit: John Sibold Sr.