As an educational resource, PFA hosts webinars presented by fraternal and associate members, as well as industry partners. Below you can find information on our upcoming webinars as well as our recording bank. If you're interested in proposing an educational webinar this year, fill out our Webinar Proposal Form!
Upcoming Webinars
Please stay tuned for more information about our next 2024 webinar!
PFA Webinar Recordings
February 2024 Transgender Cultural Fluency Training
Transgender people today are more visible and represented throughout our communities than ever. As such, organizations and individuals are finding the need to increase their knowledge and understanding of issues that affect their transgender colleagues, employees, friends, and family members.
Our Transgender Cultural Fluency Training lays the foundation for participants to gain a better understanding of what it means to be transgender, clarify common misconceptions about transgender people, become familiar with the challenges transgender communities face, and learn ways to be a strong and engaged advocate for transgender people.
These trainings cover the following:
Definitions of “the big four” concepts necessary to fully understand transness: sex, gender, expression, and orientation;
Definitions of “trans(gender)”, “cis(gender)”, and “nonbinary”;
A deconstruction of common gender norms, expectations, and stereotypes;
The prevalence of transness, historically and presently;
Models of gender that help conceptualize how nonbinary people fit in;
A wealth of information on pronouns;
How and why people transition, and the processes that may be involved;
Issues faced by trans and nonbinary people;
How to be a good advocate for the trans community; and
Services provided by the Transgender Resource Center.
Adrien co-founded TGRCNM in 2008 with Zane Stephens to be a clearinghouse of service provision, education, and advocacy for the transgender community in New Mexico. He has facilitated over 3,500 Transgender Cultural Fluency training sessions throughout New Mexico, including training every correctional facility in the state, numerous district attorney offices, police departments, public and private schools, healthcare and social service facilities, and countless businesses, nonprofits, and other entities. Adrien has led successful advocacy efforts for model transgender student policies, gender-neutral restrooms, trans inclusion in social service facilities, statewide bullying prevention, and updating the law that governs birth certificate gender marker change. On a national level, Adrien presents and consults on many issues impacting the trans community, including TGRCNM as a successful model for local service provision. He has been recognized with the Jose Sarria Into the Light Award for community service and the Vincent R. Johnson Model of Hope Award for LGBTQ role models. In 2019, Adrien won the Advocacy In Action (AIA) Professional Innovation in Victim Services Award presented by the New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission (CVRC).
April 2023 Getting to Facts: Questions & Practices for Hazing Investigations David Westol
Hazing continues to plague undergraduate-based associations including PFA fraternal member chapters. In this webinar, you'll be able to walk through methods, tactics, and practices for staff and volunteers to investigate in a way that gets you the facts. In hazing investigations, the frustration most investigators have is sifting through the orchestrated answers that members provide, in order to get to the facts. Throughout the webinar, Dave will discuss how those involved in hazing investigations can set themselves up to anticipate these orchestrated answers and uncover the facts.