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CALCON 2026 Courageous Libraries Resilient Communities
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Friday, September 11
 

8:45am MDT

Designing Together: Strategies for Building Stronger Programs and Partnerships
Friday September 11, 2026 8:45am - 9:45am MDT
Unlock one of the library’s keys to success and innovation: collaboration. Programming partnerships create an impact on every level, and we’ll share the strategies for you to build fruitful, lasting connections. Drawing on a combined 10+ years of experience, we’ll explore collaboration types, ranging from small-scale programs to larger events, and the specific processes that made them successful. Attendees will leave with the confidence and guidance to strengthen community ties, involve new partners, and transform their programming process. We’ll use real-world examples from our library, including how we adapted and learned from setbacks, to demonstrate how successful our programming was with the collective community and library partnerships.
Speakers
avatar for Katie Harness-Hemmer

Katie Harness-Hemmer

Over four years of experience collaborating, fostering new partnerships, and leading 60+ programs while working at BPLD. I have focused mostly in my department Youth Services in which I have created programming for families, children and teens., Boulder Public Library District

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Sophia Surage

Sophia has over 6 years of experience fostering and maintaining community partnerships as the Volunteer Services Manager at BPLD, and before that at CU Boulder's Volunteer Resource Center. Her experience covers planning the JLF Colorado festival, cultivating partnerships within the Boulder community, and solidifying relationships with volunteers., Boulder Public Library District

Friday September 11, 2026 8:45am - 9:45am MDT
Archivist Prime Breakout Room 8

10:00am MDT

Seeing and Serving Our Unseen Caregiving Youth
Friday September 11, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Caregiving youth are people under the age of 18 who provide care for family/kin who require support due to chronic illness, age-related decline, disability, or other medically-related conditions. In this deep dive, we will introduce participants to the special needs of caregiving youth in the state of Colorado, and engage in a co-creation of meaningful opportunities to support this population. The session will begin with an overview of the topic and an introduction to research on caregiving by young people in Colorado, contextualized against national and international trends and awareness. We will then explore the various supports and interventions currently operating elsewhere in the U.S. and internationally, and together, begin to create the ways that Colorado librarians can support this hidden population of caregivers. 
Speakers
avatar for Kate Brunner

Kate Brunner

Kate Brunner is the Youth and Family Services Principal Consultant at the Colorado State Library. She works with youth services professionals across all Colorado public libraries to co-design innovative approaches to their work that help to more effectively provide library services for underserved adolescent populations like caregiving youth in their communities., Colorado State Library

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Nadine Roberts Cornish

Nadine Roberts Cornish is the Executive Director of the CO Alliance for Caregiving Youth, a Certified Senior Advisor, Gerontologist, Author, National Speaker, and Chief Care Strategist with over eighteen years of experience in care management and consultation. Nadine’s unwavering dedication to caregivers extends to her recent founding of the non-profit organization, (CACY) Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth focusing on supporting caregiving youth and their families. Her expertise and passion make her a leading voice in the field of caregiving and advocacy., Colorado Alliance for Caregiving Youth

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Dr. Elizabeth Olson

Dr. Elizabeth Olson is the Interim Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities and a Professor of Geography and the Environment in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is co-founder and co-director of the Caregiving Youth Research Collaborative, a national consortium of researchers and scholars in the U.S. Dr. Olson researches themes related to care, ethics, and young people, sometimes separately, sometimes in relation to each other. Her scholarship is produced in collaboration and through transformative partnerships with practitioners, artists, and other scholars, often co-developing methodological innovations to engage diverse communities., College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday September 11, 2026 10:00am - 11:00am MDT
Archivist Prime Breakout Room 8
 
CALCON 2026 Courageous Libraries Resilient Communities
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