2025 Rural ACEs Summit—Key Learnings Report

Held in December 2025, the 4th Annual Rural ACEs Summit convened rural leaders, youth, practitioners, and state partners to explore how systems can better support children, youth, and families in rural Northern California. Focusing on listening to the lived experience of youth, aligning state and local efforts, highlighting rural innovations, and inspiring insight to action, this event provided an opportunity to strengthen the connection between policy and practice. This brief captures what we learned, what shifted, and what participants committed to doing next.

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Written by Erin Brown