Activist Hub Trainings

Follow the Money: Understanding School Funding

Learn how school funding really works, where the money goes, and how educators and communities can advocate for the resources students deserve.

Student Debt Relief: What You Need to Know

AFT members in student debt don't have to navigate this alone. Learn about Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) pathways, income-driven repayment, and how union membership can amplify your voice for debt justice. Walk out knowing your options and your next step.

Medical Debt: Know Your Options

Medical debt affects millions of working families. Get a preview of the AFT’s medical debt clinic and learn about your rights, available resources and steps you can take to reduce the burden of medical debt.

Take Charge of Your Credit

Your credit report and score matter—but you have power to shape them. Learn how to read your credit report, dispute errors, understand new CFPB rules, and build credit strategically. Leave with a concrete action to take this week.

Retirement Security: Protecting Your Future

Your pension is more than a benefit—it's power. Understand how your union pension works, what threats it faces, and how collective bargaining strengthens retirement security. Walk out knowing how to protect your future and advocate for your peers.

Climate, Rising Costs and Building Resilient Communities

From soaring energy bills to rising insurance costs, the climate crisis is hitting working families' wallets. Learn how energy efficiency, climate solutions, and collective action reduce costs and strengthen the places where we live and work.

Building Respect for School Support Professionals

School and college support staff are essential to student success. Learn how PSRPs are organizing and advocating for the respect, voice and resources they deserve.

Go Public! Fund Education: How Global Union Power Delivers

Across the world, educators and their unions are winning higher pay, stronger schools and greater investment in public education. Learn how the global Go Public! Fund Education campaign is building union power, delivering results and creating opportunities for AFT members to connect with and support this growing movement.

Listening from the Heart: Bridging Differences Through Personal Narratives

Meaningful conversations across differences are essential to strong classrooms and communities. Using the AFT-endorsed Listening from the Heart curriculum, this session draws on the experiences of bereaved Palestinians and Israelis—people who have paid the highest price—who engage with one another through personal narratives and dialogue. Participants will explore practical tools and activities for fostering empathy and facilitating productive conversations about difficult topics in classrooms and communities.

AI Without the Hype: How AFT Members Are Leading the Way

AFT members aren’t waiting for someone else to figure out artificial intelligence—they’re learning about it, testing it and shaping how it’s used in schools and workplaces. In this session, see the tools and training coming out of the AI Educator Brain series and the AFT National Academy for AI Instruction, try an AI prompt yourself, and find out how to get involved. No experience necessary.

Teaching and Reaching English Learners with Colorín Colorado

You don’t have to be an English as a second language specialist to support English learners—you just need the right tools. Colorín Colorado gives educators resources for bilingual families, classroom strategies and professional guidance all in one place. This session walks you through the most actionable pieces of the collection.

Vital Lessons: Filling the Public Health Gap with Facts You Can Trust

When federal public health leadership goes quiet, someone has to step up. That’s what Vital Lessons is—a free monthly webinar series where AFT President Randi Weingarten and Dr. Vin Gupta cut through the noise on the health topics affecting your family, your students and your community. From vaccine misinformation to medical debt to childhood wellness, every session delivers current, evidence-based information with fact sheets and follow-up resources. The series is open to everyone, and it’s already winning awards. Come see why.

Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education

Learn how higher education affiliates are turning the AAUP and AFT’s “A Blueprint for Strengthening and Transforming Higher Education” into real wins. Explore strategies, model language and organizing tools that are helping improve faculty and staff working conditions, protect academic freedom, expand affordability and access for students, and increase public investment in higher education. Leave with practical ideas you can take back to your campus and state.

Creating Safer Healthcare Workplaces

Violence against healthcare workers is preventable. Learn about proven strategies that reduce workplace violence, strengthen worksite safety plans and hold employers accountable. Explore how healthcare workers and unions are fighting for safer workplaces and the federal protections healthcare professionals deserve.

Responding to an Opioid Overdose: What Everyone Should Know

Opioid overdoses can happen anywhere—and quick action saves lives. Learn how to recognize the signs of an overdose and safely administer naloxone, a lifesaving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. Participants will leave with practical skills, greater confidence in responding to an emergency, and a free naloxone kit to carry with them.

Beat the Heat: Protect Workers, Save Lives

Heat illness can become life-threatening if the warning signs are missed. Learn how to recognize heat-related illnesses, identify workplace risks and use proven prevention strategies like water, rest and shade. Leave with practical tools to protect yourself and your co-workers during extreme heat.

AVIRT: Lifesaving Bleeding Control

Severe bleeding can become fatal within minutes. Learn how to recognize life-threatening injuries and use lifesaving techniques—including direct pressure, tourniquets and wound packing—to help someone in an emergency. Participants will gain practical skills and learn more about the broader Active Violence Immediate Response Training (AVIRT) program.

Preparing Together: Responding When Red Lines Are Crossed

Communities are strongest when they prepare before crises occur. Learn how “red lines” help define unacceptable attacks on democratic norms and how organized, nonviolent collective action can provide a coordinated response when those lines are crossed. Explore how preparation, solidarity and strategic action help communities avoid chaos and act together.

Know Your Rights: Constitutional Protections During ICE Encounters

As immigration enforcement activities affect communities across the country, knowing your rights matters. Learn the constitutional protections that apply during encounters with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies, and gain practical guidance for helping ensure that our schools, healthcare facilities and workplaces remain places of safety, care and dignity.

People Power: Defending Democracy Together

Democracy depends on people acting together. Learn how authoritarian movements consolidate power, what helps sustain democratic institutions, and how unions and mass movements have successfully pushed back against democratic backsliding. Explore the vital role working people play in protecting democracy and building a more just future.

Preparing for ICE: Supporting Our Communities

As immigration enforcement activities continue to affect communities across the country, preparation matters. This 15-minute session provides practical guidance for AFT leaders and staff on how to support members, students, patients, families and communities when Immigration and Customs Enforcement is present. Learn how to help ensure that our schools, campuses, healthcare facilities and workplaces remain places of safety, care and dignity.

Preparing Our Communities: Lessons from Minnesota

When immigration enforcement actions affected Minnesota schools, educators and families organized in real time. Those lessons helped shape CARE—Community Awareness, Readiness, and Education—a new Share My Lesson community with tools, examples and resources to help educators, union leaders, families and community partners prepare for and respond to immigration enforcement in their schools and neighborhoods.

Having Impactful Conversations

Strong conversations move people to action. Learn how to have persuasive, respectful conversations that connect with voters’ real concerns and build support. We’ll also cover how to use the miniVAN app to find your turf, record responses and make every conversation count.

Building Power Through Advocacy

Elected officials are most responsive when members show up with a clear message and a compelling story. Learn how to prepare for meetings with elected leaders, make a strong ask and follow up in ways that build relationships, accountability and power.

Tripling Your Vote!

The most powerful conversations happen with people we already know and trust. Learn how to use the Empower app to connect with friends, family and co-workers; track outreach; and share trusted information. Discover how relational organizing can strengthen communities and help more people participate in our democracy.

Tools That Help Locals Win

Winning campaigns leverage data and analysis to build power and support members. AFT staff from across multiple departments will walk through the data and analytic tools available to AFT affiliates to help build smarter campaigns. Learn how to identify leverage, uncover strategic opportunities, target resources, and turn information into action. Whether you're planning an organizing, bargaining, legislative, or community campaign, you'll leave with practical tools and ideas you can put to work in your local.

How We Won: Campaign Spotlights and Office Hours

Talk directly with leaders who have won major campaigns and hear what worked, what didn’t and what they would do differently. Drop in for informal conversations and practical advice from affiliates that have used organizing, bargaining, strikes, legislation and member engagement to build power and deliver results.

Featured stories include:

• Utah: Defeating Attacks on Union Rights Through a Constitutional Amendment Campaign
• Oregon Healthcare: Strikes at Providence and Kaiser
• New Hampshire: Winning in the State Legislature
• Miami University (Ohio): Turning a First Contract into Deeper Member Engagement
• San Francisco: Building an Organizing Culture and Winning Through Strikes
• Fairfax County: Organizing After Collective Bargaining and Building One of the Nation's Largest Locals
• New Jersey: Using Collective Bargaining to Win Safe Staffing

Tame Your Messy Spreadsheet in 15 Minutes

Stop fighting your data. Learn simple ways to clean, filter and organize spreadsheets so you can find what you need fast. Walk away with practical skills you can use immediately to manage member lists, organize information and support your work.

Stop Texting the Wrong People: Clean Up Your Hustle Lists

Outdated lists waste time and hurt engagement. Learn simple ways to update your Hustle campaigns with accurate member data so you can reach the right people, avoid texting former members and improve response rates right away.

Building Engagement: Use the Data to Meet Members Where They Are

Learn how to use lists to engage members based on their level of involvement and move people to action. This session will focus on practical data strategies for identifying prospects, activating a volunteer to become a robust activist and building stronger member engagement over time.

How One Local Turned Data into Growth

More conversations build stronger unions. Learn how one public employee local used the Action Builder platform to strengthen steward structures, develop leaders and grow membership. Discover practical lessons you can use right away to support organizing and build power in your local.

How We Win: Building Successful Contract Campaigns

Strong contract campaigns aren't built on negotiations alone. Learn how successful campaigns combine member engagement, community support, research, legal strategies, and relationship-building to win better contracts and improve members' lives. This session walks through campaign strategy essentials and funnels interested attendees into the longer Tools That Help Locals Win session.

Professional Development Builds Power

High-quality professional development does more than build skills—it builds stronger unions. Learn how locals are using the AFT’s research-backed professional learning programs to recruit members, strengthen engagement and demonstrate the value of belonging. Leave with practical ideas you can bring back to your own community.