Affiliate Leadership Training Summit (ALTS)

ALTS is the IAFF’s foremost educational event, providing affiliate leaders with the skills needed to build their local union. ALTS helps current and prospective affiliate leaders gain important skills and provides opportunities to network with other members from across North America.


Ernest A. "Buddy" Mass Human Relations Conference

The Human Relations Conference provides attendees with new approaches and ideas to expand the diversity within their locals, firehouses and communities. This conference is ideal for affiliate leaders, human relations committee members and other fire service/EMS representatives who are interested in the advancement of human relations initiatives.


Alfred K. Whitehead Legislative Conference

The Alfred K. Whitehead Legislative Conference, held annually in Washington, D.C., highlights the legislative issues important to the fire service. During the conference, attendees meet with their elected representatives to educate them on fire fighter issues and lobby for their support.


Canadian Legislative Conference

Canadian fire fighters meet to discuss key legislative issues at this conference held annually in Ottawa, which draws IAFF members from across Canada to conduct lobby meetings with their members of Parliament (MPs) and senators.


IAFF Political Training Academies

Developed through their respective FIREPACs, the U.S. and Canadian IAFF Political Training Academies educate and assist campaign veterans and political newcomers alike on how to run for elected office and manage a political campaign. IAFF members and their families are eligible to apply.


Crossroads: Health, Safety and EMS Conference

IAFF John P. Redmond Symposium on the Occupational Health & Hazards of the Fire Service in conjunction with the Dominick F. Barbera Emergency Medical Services Conference.

The IAFF and the John P. Redmond Foundation have been on the frontline of every major health and safety initiative in the fire service. The IAFF Redmond Symposium reflects our commitment to explore the cause of every IAFF member’s death, injury or illness and address solutions to further protect our membership.

The Dominick F. Barbera EMS Conference explores all aspects of fire based emergency medical services. From the tenets of emergency response system design and operations, to medical direction and privatization and from quality assessment and data collection to billing for transport, this Conference covers the most relevant topics affecting fire service-based EMS systems.

Visit IAFF conferences/upcoming events for more and updated event information.

HazMat/WMD Training Events

MAR 12, 2012
ERT:Ops
New York, NY

APR 2, 2012
FRO
Dallas, TX

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Partnership Education Program (PEP)
Recent/Upcoming Training Events

May 15-16, 2012
Atlantic Provinces Professional Fire Fighters Association
Truro, Nova Scotia

May 31, 2012
New England Regional PEP
Mashantucket, CT

June 1, 2012
Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

June 1, 2012
Nebraska Professional Firefighters Association
LaVista, NE

June 20, 2012
Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont
Burlington, VT

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Peer Fitness Trainer Certification Events

Click here to see a listing of Peer Fitness Trainer (PFT) classes and contact information for registration.

2012 ALTS Post-Conference

The IAFF Affiliate Leadership Training Summit (ALTS) was held January 24-26, 2012 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The 2012 ALTS drew more than 1,000 affiliate leaders learning the skills needed to build their local unions.

Visit the 2012 ALTS Post-Conference web site for materials from the Pre-Conference Events, Workshops and Information Sessions. Click to download the 2012 ALTS Brochure for more information.


2012 Human Relations Post-Conference

The two-day Ernest A. “Buddy” Mass Human Relations Conference explored the differences that divide us and the similarities that build solidarity among brother and sister fire fighters. Members from throughout the United States and Canada attended the Conference, held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, in January.

Visit the 2012 IAFF Human Relations Post-Conference web site for workshop materials. Click to download the Brochure of 2012 Human Relations Conference for more information.

Previous ALTS and Human Relations Post-Conference Web Sites

Visit the 2011 ALTS Post-Conference.
Visit the 2010 ALTS Post-Conference.
Visit the 2010 Human Relations Post-Conference.

2011 Crossroads: Health, Safety and EMS Conference

Visit the 2011 Crossroads: Health, Safety and EMS Conference web site for more information.


2009 IAFF John P. Redmond Symposium

Visit the 2009 Redmond Symposium web site for more information.