Registration | CABWC 2026

Advocate to Attend: Guide & Toolkit

Your Path to The Homecoming: CABWC is Clear

We understand that taking time away from your daily role and securing funding requires a clear conversation with your supervisor, leadership, or board.

The Courageous Access Black Women’s Conference is an investment in your leadership sustainability, health, and professional capacity. Use the tools below to demonstrate to your organization exactly why your presence at The Homecoming in Chicago on October 9–10, 2026, is essential.

Institutional Impact Kit

1. The Business Case: Professional Capacity & Longevity

When proposing attendance to your manager, focus on how this investment stabilizes and strengthens your role within the organization. The #CABWC2026 experience directly translates into organizational value through:

Sustainable Leadership: Gain evidence-based tools for physical, mental, and identity reclamation to effectively combat professional burnout

Advanced Frameworks: Deepen your professional expertise in trauma-informed, healing-centered systems of community care

Funding Alignment: This conference qualifies as a dedicated professional development expense and aligns with preventative health initiatives

2. Expense Breakdown Worksheet

Provide your leadership with an exact breakdown of costs for straightforward approval:

Conference Registration Fee: $625

Travel / Airfare: [Insert Amount]

Lodging: $0! Included in Conference Registration Fee!

Meal Per Diem once Checked-In: $0 Included in Conference Registration Fee!

Total Investment: [Insert Total]

Use These Customizable Approval Email Templates Below:

Option A: For Non-Profit, Advocacy, & Community Leaders (incl CEUs): Click here!

Option B: For Corporate & Institutional Specialists (incl T& TA): Click here!

Flexible Ways to Pay On Your Own

1. Affirm

If you already have Affirm, you can use your virtual card to pay!

That means the same flexibility you have for payment plan options for the conference your Affirm account will take care for you!

Simply do the checkout at the button below as usual and use your Affirm virtual card numbers for the payment at checkout!

2. HSA (Health Savings Account)

Because the healers are certified, master, and doctorate-level experts and are delivering complementary alternative medicinal modalities, these sessions are qualifiable expenses through your health insurance! That means you can use your HSA funds to pay as long as you have an HSA debit card to pay!

Simply do the checkout at the button below as usual and use your HSA card numbers for the payment at checkout!