Conference Schedule

We are so excited to welcome all of you to the NIU campus for the ILCFR 2025 Conference on Friday April 4th! We have a wonderful conference program, and we appreciate all who submitted proposals. Thanks to so many of you that have been supportive and helpful as we prepare for this conference. There is still time to register for the ILCFR 2025 Conference if you would like to attend.

Registration includes attendance to the all-day conference (8:30am – 4:15pm), as well as breakfast, lunch, and snacks. If you are presenting at the conference, make sure to register. See the attached flyers for registration information, conference schedule, and information about the keynote speaker. I have also attached a map of the Holmes Student Center and the three floors of the building applicable to the ILCFR 2025 Conference.

Please use the button below to view the ILCFR 2025 Conference Program:

ILCFR 2025 Conference Program

Pre-Conference Social

Conference Hotel

We know that many of you are traveling a distance to attend the upcoming conference on April 4th. We have reserved a block of rooms at the on campus Hotel at Holmes for the evening of Thursday April 3rd. The room rate of $79.00 plus tax includes many amenities for a comfortable stay and complimentary hotel parking. Complimentary parking is included in the room rate. Approximately five business days before arrival, the hotel will contact the guest to send them a parking invitation. When the guest completes the parking invitation, which will be sent by email, with the description of their car along with their license plate number, the invitation becomes their virtual parking pass. Please visit this link to book your hotel room and enter the Group #5169.

Wear Blue Day

On April 4th the same day as our conference, it is Wear Blue Day across the nation in recognition of National Child Abuse Prevention Month. ILCFR hopes to have festive pictures of our support for child abuse prevention. Please consider wearing blue at the conference and ask your colleagues and students to consider wearing blue to the conference. As explained by Prevent Child Abuse Illinois: “Wearing Blue connects you with millions of others across the country who support child abuse prevention efforts, strong families, and healthy children. Wearing Blue shows that you believe that ‘All children deserve a great childhood because our children are our future!’ Wearing Blue raises awareness and encourages others to support child abuse prevention as well.”