The Soundtracks of Belonging

Date & Time
October 23, 2026 from 9AM to 3:30PM EDT
Location
Firefly Hall on the Shineforth campus
3900 W Broad St
Richmond, VA 23230

Three Powerful Conversations About Trauma, Trust, and the Relationships that Change Young Lives. 

Featuring Adrian McLemore-Lived Experience Expert & Urban Philanthropist. 

Adrian McLemore brings his lived experience as a foster child and kinship caregiver to life through music and storytelling. Engaging and research-based, sessions will help professionals, foster + adoptive parents, and kinship caregivers better understand trauma, development, and healing-centered care. Leave inspired and confident with new tools to support positive outcomes for youth. 

Registration opens at 9am. The event begins at 9:30am. 

Lunch will be served. 5.5 Contact Hours will be offered for attending this session. 

This event is free of charge for everyone. 

 


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Adrian McLemore

  • <p>About Adrian</p>

    About Adrian

    Adrian McLemore is a nationally recognized consultant, strategist, and keynote speaker with over 20 years of experience advancing equity, youth voice, and child welfare system transformation. A former foster youth turned public policy expert, Adrian combines lived experience with policy fluency and real-world impact to help organizations rethink how they engage, support, and partner with youth—especially teens. He currently serves as a program off icer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, leading mentoring and summer enrichment investments for older youth in Baltimore. As a senior consultant to states, counties, and national nonprofits, Adrian designs strategic frameworks that reduce reliance on congregate care, increase family-based placements, and improve permanency outcomes for older youth. Adrian McLemore is a nationally recognized consultant, strategist, and keynote speaker with over 20 years of experience advancing equity, youth voice, and child welfare system transformation. A former foster youth turned public policy expert, Adrian combines lived experience with policy fluency and real-world impact to help organizations rethink how they engage, support, and partner with youth—especially teens. He currently serves as a program officer at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, leading mentoring and summer enrichment investments for older youth in Baltimore. As a senior consultant to states, counties, and national nonprofits, Adrian designs strategic frameworks that reduce reliance on congregate care, increase family-based placements, and improve permanency outcomes for older youth.

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