Several team members from ICHAD and SMART Africa attended the 23rd “Society for Social Work and Research” (SSWR) conference in January 2019 in San Francisco, California. This year’s conference was themed ‘’Ending Gender Based, Family and Community Violence.” During the conference, Dr. Fred Ssewamala was inducted as a fellow of the Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare and recognized as an outstanding leader in social work. Two doctoral students, Thabani Nyoni and William Byansi presented posters highlighting results from the Suubi-Maka and ongoing SMART Africa studies respectively, and ICHAD Co-Director Dr. Proscovia Nabunya gave an oral presentation titled: “Examining the Effect of Child Development Accounts (CDAs) on Self-Efficacy Among Children and Adolescents Orphaned By HIV/AIDS in Southwestern Uganda.” These findings, from the Bridges to the Future study, were presented as part of the “Inclusive Child Development Accounts in the Global Contest Symposium.”