The 2017 Chicago Surrogacy Conference & Expo will feature surrogacy parenting options in both the USA and Canada, in an extended two-day format! MHB is returning to Chicago, following the successful collaboration with the Center on Halsted and Howard Brown Health Center in 2014 and 2015. This time we will be offering an extended two day format — starting Saturday afternoon and continuing for the full day Sunday. It will bring together community activists, medical and legal experts, parents and surrogate mothers. Prospective parents will benefit from practical and personal peer advice and opportunities to meet a wide range of leading providers from the USA and Canada at the Gay Parenting Expo, breakout sessions and in private consultations. In-depth programs will offer insights from the latest studies about contemporary gestational surrogacy, and specialty panels on insurance, budgeting, medical and psychological aspects of surrogacy. Proceeds from sponsorship and exhibiting fees will benefit the Gay Parenting Assistance Program and Our Family Coalition.