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The Family Café
Collaboration * Advocacy * Friendship * Empowerment
The 27th Annual Family Café
June 13-15, 2025 * Orlando, FL
Registration for The 27th Annual
Family Cafe Now Open!
Registration for The 27th Annual Family Cafe is now open!
To register, click the “Register Here” button or use this link to the registration form.
For additional details about this year’s event, visit the event site here.
Two Pre-Cons at The 27th Annual Family Cafe
We’re excited to let you know that registration is now open for two different pre-conference events happening on Thursday, June 12th, the day before The 27th Annual Family Cafe begins!
The 2025 Women’s Summit: Celebrate Your Heart
This popular event exclusively for women caregivers of people with disabilities returns for 2025! This year’s Women’s Summit offers attendees a chance to reconnect with their hearts, refresh their spirits, and empower their future. Hear from inspiring speakers, explore artistic expression, and connect with others in a supportive space. This transformative event is designed to inspire you to care for your body, nurture your emotional needs, and lighten your heart!
Learn more and register for The 2025 Women’s Summit here!
The 2025 FROM Pre-Con: Measuring Your Impact So Funders Take Notice
The Family-Run Organization Movement pre-con returns with additional training to help you increase the impact of your local grassroots organization! This time, nationally recognized consultant, organizational coach, and family member John Ferrone leads a conversation on how you can gather data related to your programs in a way that helps tell the story of your impact. There’s more to connecting your mission with what you accomplish than counting!
Learn more and register for The 2025 FROM Pre-Con here!
Please note, registration is required and space is limited! There is a mandatory $25 registration fee for both pre-conference events. All pre-con attendees must also register for The 27th Annual Family Cafe, and Financial Assistance requests must be made through The 27th Annual Family Cafe registration process.
Join us at The 27th Annual Family Cafe!
Online registration for The 27th Annual Cafe is now open! That means you can sign up to attend the largest statewide cross-disability event in the nation, The Annual Family Cafe!
As always, there’s no cost to attend the event for people with disabilities and their families. We’re also once again offering Financial Assistance to cover the cost of hotel accommodation for a limited number of applicants selected by lottery. Make sure to check the box to request Financial Assistance when you register!
If you’ve been to The Annual Family Cafe, you know how transformative the three days of information, training, resources, and connection we offer can be. If you haven’t, it’s time to find out!
Join us for a healthy dose of Collaboration, Advocacy, Friendship, and Empowerment this June 13-15 in Orlando! The first step is to get registered, so make sure to visit us online to sign up!
In the meantime, we’re still looking for Exhibitors and Sponsors!
Visit our brand new event site to reserve an Exhibit Booth, or apply to be a Micro-Enterprise exhibitor or Book Fair participant. You can also find ways to expand your presence and get more out of The Annual Family Cafe through a new menu of Sponsorship opportunities.
Just click over to the event site, and get ready to connect with thousands of Floridians with disabilities at The 27th Annual Family Cafe!
See you there!
The 2024 Questions & Answers Book
The latest edition of The Family Cafe Questions & Answers Book is here!
Every year at The Annual Family Cafe, we collect questions and comments about Florida’s disability service system from attendees. We then share those questions and comments with disability-serving state agencies, and publish their responses in our annual Q&A Book.
If you’re looking for solid answers to common questions about how things work in Florida, The Family Cafe Questions & Answers Book is a great place to start! If you attended The 26th Annual Family Cafe this past June, you’ll get a copy in the mail soon. You can also find the whole thing online here on our website!
Check Out the Pictures from The 26th Annual Family Cafe
The pictures from The 26th Annual Family Cafe are now available!
From our two pre-cons and Bag Stuffing on Thursday through Door Prizes on Sunday afternoon, there are snapshots of everything that happened at this year’s event. Why not take a minute to relive the fun? You might find a pic of yourself in there!
To view the album with this year’s pics, click here!
You can see all of our photo albums from past events here.
Donate to The Family Café
Since 1998, The Family Café has been connecting Floridians with disabilities and their families with information, training, resources, and networking opportunities. The families that came together to create The Family Café, and our signature event, The Annual Family Café, believed that by coming together, Florida families could support each other, connect each other with critical resources, and build inclusive, disability-friendly communities.
To realize our vision of a future where people with disabilities are truly valued, we rely on the investment of those that share our beliefs. If you want to help us build a future where people with disabilities can thrive in their communities, we invite you to support our work my making a donation today.
The Family Café is a 501c3 nonprofit organization, and your contribution will be fully tax deductible.
Offline donations can be made by mailing a check to:
The Family Cafe
713 E Park Ave.
Tallahassee, FL, 32301
Contact The Family Café
713 East Park Ave., Tallahassee, FL 32301
Phone: (850) 224-4670
Toll Free: (888) 309-CAFE
Fax: (850) 224-4674
Email: info@familycafe.net
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