Parish groups need 1 adult for every 7 teens. Parish groups also need gender specific leaders (if you have boys and girls attending, you need to have male and female adult leaders).
All adult leaders should be ready and capable of accompanying your youth at Steubenville. Please do not use this conference as an evangelizing experience for adults.
Due to space, we often have to limit parishes to the chaperones needed based on their group size. If space allows, extra chaperones may attend, but attional costs will apply.
Priests are more than welcome to accompany your group! Because they may have different duties during the conference, you should not count them as adult leaders. If your priest would like to attend, reach out to Andrew ASAP!
No, the archdiocese books a block of hotel rooms for our archdiocese group. We will also provide busing from/to the hotel daily.
We will place 4 students in a double queen bed room or two adults.
Parishes will assign students to their rooms, but some rooms may be shared between parishes.
If you need special accommodations, please contact your parish leader. [Parish leaders, contact Andrew]. We will do our best, but may not be able to accommodate requests based on the number of rooms in our block.
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee registration includes 6 meals. The hotel provides a breakfast each morning while the university covers all other meals. The provided meals at:
Friday Dinner: At Benedictine University
Saturday Breakfast: At hotel
Saturday Lunch & Dinner: At Benedictine University
Sunday Breakfast: At hotel
Sunday Lunch: Grab & Go from Benedictine University
For individual teens:, parishes determine refund policies and dates, since families pay parishes directly.
The parish refund policy for spots is as follows:
The initial deposit is non-refundable and non-transferable.
Groups that drop spots before May 1, 2026 will receive a full refund, less deposit, for any payments made and will not be required to pay the remaining balance for dropped tickets.
Spots dropped after May 1st
Unfortunately, we cannot offer a refund for any spots dropped after May 1st.
The archdiocese does not provide any scholarships or fundraising opportunities. Since we charge parishes directly, parishes can choose to fundraise and charge their participants less.
Partnership for Youth does provide scholarships. See their website for more information.
The Archdiocese plans a trip to the Steubenville conference as a service to our parishes. As a result, we become an intermediary between the conference and our parishes. As a result, we need to adjust a few things, such as initial deposit amount to cover other up-front costs (bus and hotel rooms) and have adjusted key dates about a week earlier to give our team time to receive your requests and submit them in time to the conference.