Prevention Through Education
We are making our annual trek south to the Tucson area for December. Tucson Fire will be hosting our meeting. (We were cutting it too close for Drexel Heights to welcome us. Next time!)
Remember, we always provide CEUs or at least certificates of attendance to put in your training files for your personnel reviews!
If you can’t see us in person, join us on the phone or on Zoom. Login info will be provided as we get closer.
Stay tuned for more details about our agenda!
Register now for our fall Community Risk Reduction Symposium. We have lined up some amazing speakers on topics that will help you enhance your programs and provide personal growth.
Yanick Hicks, The John Maxwell Team, will provide some Leadership Coaching that will fire up your passion to make a difference. Get ready to get motivated!
Dr. Sue Wolf and Tiffany Wilkinson, Empowerment Research, are expected to be back to complete our training in Traumatic Brain Injuries. Be prepared to dig into how the brain works and how the injuries can affect how we administer our programs.
Natalie Summit, LPC, is a retired Police Crisis Intervention Specialist from a Maricopa County Law Enforcement agency. It was not until her retirement ceremony in January 2019 that she elected to share her history with addiction, anxiety, family dysfunction, and both physical and emotional trauma both on and off the job. Nine years ago, Natalie made the decision to stop self-medicating the pain with alcohol and manage her life differently. Natalie will share her story and what she has learned Public Safety agencies can do to be more helpful for their valued employees.
Jeff Thomas, Psy.D., Ottawa University, will address issues related to human gender. Social norms are changing. This session will explore the application of gender in different cultures and worldviews. By expanding our definition gender, we can better serve our community and all audiences.
The location is secured for Ottawa University!
Lunch will be provided.
Take advantage of this awesome learning experience! Register today!
It’s time for Fire School! Join us before classes begin and get updated on the latest and greatest of AFBEA.
The explosion at the APS energy storage station sent shock waves throughout fire departments across the country. Keith Tanner, Surprise Fire, was one of the investigators into the incident. He is going to share what we should know about energy storage — including solar panels — to properly educate our communities.
Although you will not receive official CEUs this training, you will receive a certificate of attendance. We hope these will provide added value to you for your performance evaluations.
If you can’t join us, call in or Zoom!
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We are super excited to announce that the Hassayampa Inn will be our host for the Summer General Meeting, June 27.
Our training will include a discussion about the Yarnell fire with Wickenburg Chief Ed Temerowski, specifically fire behavior. Also, we welcome Megan Fitzgerald-McGowan from NFPA. She will discuss available programming from NFPA that will help us promote wildland fire safety throughout Arizona.
Remember, although you will not receive official CEUs this training, you will receive a certificate of attendance. We hope these will provide added value to you for your performance evaluations.
The February Minutes will need to be approved.
Check out our Summer Meeting Agenda.
If you can’t be here in person, join us on Zoom or call in. Here is the log-in information!
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If you’d like to stay overnight, call Hassayampa at 928-778-9434 or 800-322-1927. Request room reservations for the Arizona Fire and Burn Educators Association – AFBEA. Check in time is 4 pm, Check out is 11 am. Because we are closer to the meeting dates, room rates may have increased.
We are super excited to offer our 1-day symposium in the spring AND fall this year!
Register today for this great networking and learning event!
Our agenda is set! Here’s what we have in store!
We are learning more and more how traumatic brain injuries can change the trajectory of individual’s lives. Dr. Sue Wolf and Tiffany Wilkinson, Empowerment Research, will address the long-term effects of concussions and other head injuries, and in what ways this may affect how we serve these individuals with our programs.
As fire departments adjust to the changing landscape of community medicine, we are often positioned to provide resources to our customers so they may age safely. Julie Wentz, Realtime Senior Living, will demo a new application to help older adults and their families find resources and assisted living communities that have openings RIGHT NOW – in real time.
It can be difficult to cut through the clutter to get to the reality of the Opioid Epidemic. Stephanie Siete, Community Bridges, will join us to help separate fact from fiction and get down to how we can stem the tide with prevention.
Sometimes we forget that not everyone lives the same way we do. Sharon Cini, City of Scottsdale, will help us get a better understanding of our own biases and gain insight into how cultural competencies will enable us to aid our customers more effectively.
Lunch is provided! Sign up for this great networking and learning event!
A special thank you to our sponsor Realtime Senior Living and our location host Adelante Healthcare!
The agenda is set for the Fall CRR Symposium. Ottawa University is hosting our training. The variety of topics and speakers are sure to be a hit! Lunch will be provided/
Learn more and register here!
Join us for our first General Meeting of 2019. We’ll be at Superstition Fire and Medical Department. In December, we determined that wildfire prevention will be a “hot” topic for our group. We will be addressing this at our meeting with a special guest. Tiffany Davila from the Department of Forestry and Fire Management will be our trainer in wildland fire basics.
Although you will not receive official CEUs this training, you will receive a certificate of attendance. We hope these will provide added value to you for your performance evaluations.
Here’s the current agenda (as of 4:28, Feb. 27): regular quarterly mtg agenda 022819
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