To improve outcomes for children with ADHD, diagnosis and treatment must be viewed through a wider lens - one that includes parents, educators, and treatment providers. The field has the knowledge. What's needed is a coordinated commitment to act on it - and the people in this room are positioned to lead. This session is the starting point.

Outcomes have not kept pace with what we know. More strategies, better diagnostic tools, richer evidence base than ever - and yet families report the same struggles. Schools remain underprepared. Parents burn out - and many are navigating their own ADHD diagnosis at the same time. Kids fall further behind.

Pediatricians, psychiatrists, and neuropsychologists do what they were trained to do. Teachers try their best. Despite all of it, the system around the child never coheres. What's missing isn't effort or expertise - it's a shared framework that treats the adult system as part of the intervention.

The dominant narrative centers on fixing the child. Manage their behavior. Improve their focus. The child remains the identified patient. That model is incomplete. Parent training is among the most evidence-supported interventions in the field - and remains dramatically underutilized. Teacher preparation rarely addresses ADHD, executive function, or what parents are navigating at home. When home and school pull in different directions, kids get inconsistent messages and everyone loses ground.

Attendees - researchers, clinicians, advocates, educators, and parents - will leave having identified concrete actions in their own practice and in the broader public conversation, positioned to help drive the change.