Fire and Life Safety Educator of the Year

Desert Southwest CRR Conference

AFBEA and AFMA joined forces to present the
Desert Southwest CRR conference in Glendale

November 4-6, 2025 - All for one low price - $250

Designed for Fire and Life Safety Educators, and Fire Prevention Professionals at all experience levels—from seasoned pros to those just stepping into CRR. Get the tools, training, and insight you need to elevate your programs, enhance your enforcement strategies, and connect with a network of CRR trailblazers across the Southwest.

The growing agenda will highlight the following topics:

- - - Demonstrating your programs’ worth
    - Shifting the CRR mindset
    - Leadership Authenticity
    - Building Educational Programming K-12
    - Human behavior related to Youth Firesetting
    - Fall Prevention for Older Adults
    - Code changes and update discussions

CarFit PRE-CONFERENCE TRAINING

November 4

Become a CarFit Technician! Enhance your older adult safety programming!

CarFit was created in 2006 in collaboration by AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA). The program is designed to help older drivers find out how well they currently fit their personal vehicle, to highlight actions they can take to improve their fit, and to promote conversations about driver safety and community mobility. A proper fit in one's personal vehicle can greatly increase not only the driver's safety but also the safety of others.

Three quick examples underscore the importance of road safety to the CarFit program, which reviews twelve key areas of the driver's fit to the personal vehicle.

Example one: Knowing how to properly adjust one's mirrors can greatly minimize blind spots for drivers who may wish to change lanes.
Example two: Good foot positioning on the gas and brake pedals is important. If the driver is reaching with his or her toes to press on the pedals, it can cause fatigue in one's leg and slowed reaction times.
Example three: Drivers run a risk of serious injury if they are sitting closer than 10 inches to the steering wheel.

The class will provide you the training to be able to discuss road safety for our older adult drivers. We expect class schedule to be about 1:30-4 pm, but is subject to change slightly as we get closer.