Training & Events

The annual Age Positive: Ideas for an Age-Friendly Future conference provides a forum for innovative program ideas to enhance current older adult programming, develop new programs and offers workshops to help participants hone leadership skills. The conference brings national and regional presenters together to discuss best practices in their fields. This conference is best suited for professionals and volunteers working in senior centers, community centers, libraries, park districts and other venues that offer programming for older adults. 

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Kids in Christ Academy
3827 Troost Ave.
Kansas City, MO 64109

Training Description

This session builds teachers’ foundational understanding of how a research-informed early learning curriculum is structured—and why play is central to how children learn.

Two Missouri clock hours will be given. There is no cost to attend, but registration is required.

Regular meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee (TAC).

Hybrid option is available. Please contact us for meeting credentials.

Regular monthly meeting of the Kansas Programming Committee (KPC). 

Hybrid option available. Please contact MARC for virtual meeting credentials.

MARC and the Kansas City Chapter of the American Planning Association (KC-APA) invite you to Planners Roundtable, a quarterly gathering of the Kansas City area’s urban planners and those interested in urban planning topics.

Each meeting covers topics of interest to planners, and participants can share planning news and activities that are taking place in their localities.

ICS 300: Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents covers incident management strategies for emergency response to all-hazard incidents that involve ICS coordination. The three-day course utilizes scenarios and exercises within a team environment to facilitate participant discussion. The course delivery is a "less paper" delivery and course materials will be emailed to participants in advance of the course to download to your electronic device.

The Kansas City Regional Interoperability Committee is seeking qualified participants to support an upcoming Communications Exercise (COMMEX) designed to provide Communications Unit personnel with an opportunity to complete required task books toward credentialing. 

This full-scale, multi-day exercise will allow participants to demonstrate and validate competencies through hands-on scenarios, task completion, and evaluator sign-offs. Controller/Evaluators are also needed and are encouraged to register through this site.

The Kansas City Regional Interoperability Committee is seeking qualified participants to support an upcoming Communications Exercise (COMMEX) designed to provide Communications Unit personnel with an opportunity to complete required task books toward credentialing. 

This full-scale, multi-day exercise will allow participants to demonstrate and validate competencies through hands-on scenarios, task completion, and evaluator sign-offs. Controller/Evaluators are also needed and are encouraged to register through this site.

ICS 300: Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents covers incident management strategies for emergency response to all-hazard incidents that involve ICS coordination. The three-day course utilizes scenarios and exercises within a team environment to facilitate participant discussion. The course delivery is a "less paper" delivery and course materials will be emailed to participants in advance of the course to download to your electronic device.

This eight-hour course is designed to enhance HazMat responders’ ability to analyze, plan, and implement a decontamination plan based on a risk-based response model in alignment with NFPA 470. Multiple methods will be discussed, and key characteristics will be identified to aid in sThis eight-hour course is designed to enhance HazMat responders’ ability to analyze, plan, and implement a decontamination plan based on a risk-based response model in alignment with NFPA 470.