ACT State Self-Advocacy Conference
The ACT State Self-Advocacy Conference, hosted in collaboration with our SAM Network, is Minnesota's largest Self-Advocacy conference, bringing over 400 self-advocates and allies together every other year.
Mark your calendars! The 2025 ACT Minnesota Self-Advocacy Conference will be held on November 17th-18th 2025 at the Delta Marriott Hotel in Northeast Minneapolis.
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Are you interested in attending the conference?
Register before November 9th!
Award Nominations
Submissions for award nominations are now CLOSED. Thank you to everyone for submitting!
There are so many ways to be a self-advocate and advocacy can appear in many different forms to everyone. With that in mind, we will be awarding THREE awards for advocates this year. Each will specialize in a different area of advocacy. There are descriptions below - if you would like more details on the awards click here.
The Irving Martin Self-Advocacy Award
The Irving Martin Self-Advocacy Award is presented to an individual self-advocate or a self-advocacy group who have shown outstanding commitment to advancing self-advocacy.
The Rick Cardenas Justice Award
The Rick Cardenas Justice Award recognizes a self-advocate who works fearlessly to advance disability rights and challenge injustice.
The Gloria Steinbring Leadership Award
The Gloria Steinbring Leadership Award honors a self-advocate or ally who leads with compassion, strength, and a commitment to building others up.
Workshops
We are pleased to announce we had an amazing array of workshop proposals!
We are working on selecting and notifying everyone that was accepted. At this time, submissions are now closed.
Thank you so much for all of the support, we can’t wait to share these experiences with you!
Partners
Partnership Levels:
Intersectionality- $5,000
Logo on website, print and signage + 4 Registrations + Verbal recognition + Social Media Features
Collective Liberation - $2,500
Logo on Website and Program + 2 Registrations + Social media thank you post
Cross-Movement Organizing - $1,000
Name listed on program and website + 2 Registrations + Social Media Shoutout
Leadership Of Those Most Impacted - $500
Name recognition on website + Group thank-you post + 2 Registrations
Interdependence - $300
Name listed in digital program and recognition in community email + 2 Registrations
Interested in Partnering with ACT? Send an email to act@selfadvocacy.org
We will be accepting partnerships until the day before the conference, November 16th!
