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Training and Webinars

Upcoming Events - 2026

UPCOMING EVENTS:

  • SAVE THE DATE! 54th Annual State Planning Conference, 10.22.26 – 10.23.26
    • Water Street, Henderson, NV

WEBINARS & CM OPPORTUNITIES:

All at 10 AM Pacific (UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED):

  • May 29 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Building Performance Standards and Historic Buildings

Get up to speed on an emerging climate policy that is impacting older and historic buildings across the country. More than a dozen cities and states have enacted Building Performance Standards (BPS), which require building owners to meet increasingly rigorous energy efficiency and carbon emissions performance targets. Learn how preservationists can ensure that historic buildings are not left behind as these important policies are adopted in additional jurisdictions across the country.

APA Urban Design and Preservation Division

CM | 1.5

  • June 5 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Designing Hybrid Engagement: Moving Beyond Room and Zoom

Hybrid engagement has moved from a pandemic workaround to a defining part of planning practice. Yet for many teams, it still feels fragmented, hard to evaluate, and unclear in impact. This webinar introduces the Designing Hybrid Engagement guide and translates its core framework into practical application. The guide presents hybrid engagement as a design challenge that requires intentionally connecting participation across time, place, and format to reduce barriers and strengthen outcomes. Participants will explore how engagement choices shape whose voices are heard, how input is interpreted, and how decisions are ultimately made. Drawing on real-world examples, the session highlights both successful approaches and common pitfalls, including “parallel track” engagement that separates in-person and online participation rather than connecting them.

APA Community Engagement Interest Group

CM | 1.5

  • June 18 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM ((THURSDAY))

Digital Accessibility Requirements for Counties: Understanding WCAG 2.1 Level AA

Recent federal accessibility updates have elevated the importance of compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1, Level AA for counties and local governments. These standards apply to a wide range of public‑facing digital materials, including websites, online documents, multimedia content, mobile applications, and social media platforms used to deliver government services. This webinar will provide planners and local government professionals with an overview of WCAG 2.1 Level AA, clarify what types of digital content are covered, and examine how accessibility requirements intersect with planning, communications, and public‑facing service delivery. Drawing on coordination with the National Association of Counties (NACo), the session will also explore implementation considerations, emerging best practices, and the evolving legal and policy context shaping accessibility expectations for counties. The webinar is intended to support informed decision‑making and professional understanding of accessibility requirements relevant to planning practice.

APA County Planning Division

CM | 1.5

  • July 10 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Sustainable Resilient Streets and Trails

What does it mean for a street or trail to be sustainable and/or resilient? From design for drainage, material selection, to heat mitigation and maintenance regimes, many factors come into play. As climate impacts intensify and communities seek healthier, lower-carbon transportation options, practitioners are increasingly called to deliver infrastructure that performs under stress while supporting everyday mobility. The presentation will discuss sustainability and resilience in the context of multimodal transportation, with consideration for stormwater management, conversion of impervious to pervious surfaces, heat mitigation and trees, and user experience. It will highlight strategies and examples for applying guidance to real world infrastructure, including working across departments and developing consensus on treatments for constrained conditions.

APA Private Practice Division

CM | 1.5 + SUSTAINABILITY

  • July 17 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Does Leavittown Matter?

All three Levittowns in U.S. are the prototypical American post-WWII residential development. Do they have anything to teach us after 75 years of existence? This session will explore their impact on suburban development and mixed legacy over the last 8 decades. It will cover Levittown's history (including several riots), its positive and negative planning legacies, and its role as both a model for suburbia and a cautionary tale about car dependency, discrimination and racial intolerance. Levittown remains a living and evolving example of the American suburban landscape.

APA Pennsylvania Chapter

CM | 1.5

  • July 24 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

TBD

APA Urban Design and Preservation Division

CM | 1.5

  • July 31 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Living on the Edge: Managing for Coastal Resilience in the Built and Natural Environment

Our panel will discuss resiliency issues facing planners, tools available to planners, and how specific jurisdictions (Maryland, California, Maine, and Boston) are using those tools to tackle these issues.

APA Maryland Chapter

CM | 1.5 + SUSTAINABILITY

  • August 7 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

TBD

APA Smart Cities Interest Group + APA Water and Planning Network

CM | 1.5

  • August 14 | 10:00 AM – 11:30 PM

Local Public Finance for Planners

Local Public Finance for Planners: You may know a little about how local governments raise and spend money, but do you realize how closely aligned it is to planning work? We'll go over the basics of local public finance and talk about what it matters for planners. We'll talk about how budgets get created, how money is appropriated, and what happens at the end of the fiscal year. We'll also talk about state and federal grant and aid programs, and look at fiscal tools like Tax Increment Financing from a planning perspective.

APA Northern New England Chapter

CM | 1.5