Community Presentation Request

PCOA is no longer accepting presentation requests for November and December 2024. At this time, requests are being accepted for January 2025 through December 2025.

PCOA’s expert staff offers a variety of informational and educational presentations to our community, at no cost. View our menu of offerings below and complete the form to request a presentation for your team, company, or group. We would appreciate a minimum of four weeks’ notice to schedule your presentation. We will do our best to fulfill your request, but we cannot guarantee availability.

PCOA Presentation Options

  • Visibility Matters: LGBTQI+ and Aging (2 Hour Presentation / 2 Participants Required) - The Visibility Matters training helps care providers gain the tools needed to create a safe place for LGBTQI+ people to be their authentic selves so that we can meet their unique needs. The training provides information about how to be more aware, sensitive, and responsive to LGBTQI+ older people and their families. Visibility Matters is an excellent training for long term care facilities, medical professionals, senior centers, in-home care providers, case managers, or anyone serving older people.
  • Visibility Matters: LGBTQI+ and Aging, Dementia Edition (2.5 Hour Presentation/ 2 Participants Required) - The Visibility Matters training helps care providers gain the tools needed to create a safe place for LGBTQI+ people to be their authentic selves so that we can meet their unique needs. The training provides information about how to be more aware, sensitive, and responsive to LGBTQI+ older people and their families. Visibility Matters is an excellent training for long term care facilities, medical professionals, senior centers, in-home care providers, case managers, or anyone serving older people. The dementia edition includes unique concerns of LGBTQI+ people living with dementia and how to best support them.
  • Visibility Matters: LGBTQI+ and Aging Overview (1 Hour Presentation/ 2 Participants Required) - The Visibility Matters Overview helps attendees gain perspective and build empathy toward LGBTQI+ older people and their experiences. This presentation provides information about how to be more aware, sensitive, and responsive to LGBTQI+ older people and their families. Visibility Matters Overview is an excellent presentation for residents at residential facilities, webinars or symposiums that only allow for shorter presentation times, or for staff who do not provide direct care, but would like to learn more about best serving this community.
  • Visibility Matters: Supporting Trans Affirming Housing (1 Hour Presentation/ 5 Participants Required) - This presentation is about how to provide advocacy to trans and nonbinary people experiencing housing discrimination. Recommended for case managers, ombudsmen, adult protective services and related fields. Attendees can expect to learn basics of trans and nonbinary identities, trans history, and potential challenges this community experiences, as well as how to support the trans person and address the institutional challenges present.

  • Dementia Friends Information Session (1 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants Required) - This training offers a general understanding of dementia with a focus on adopting a mindset of creating a dementia-friendly community. After participating in the session, you will be able to describe dementia and know the most common type of dementia, you will understand five key messages about dementia, and you will learn tips to effectively communicate with a person living with dementia.
  • Sesión Informativa de Dementia Friends (1 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants) - Obtenga una comprensión general de la demencia y aprenda consejos para crear una comunidad amigable para la gente viviendo con la demencia.
  • Dementia 101 (1.5 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants) - Learn more about what dementia is and how it impacts individuals, families, and communities.  Understand common signs of dementia, risk factors, and how to approach memory concerns.
  • Memory Loss: Progressions, Behaviors, and Interventions Part 1 (1 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants Required) - Caregivers can dive deeper into the progression of dementia, including a 3-stage model of progression, and learn more about brain changes that occur.
  • Memory Loss: Progressions, Behaviors, and Interventions Part 2 (1.5 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants) -Caregivers can learn caregiving strategies and take a look at common challenges and ideas for approaching them, including ideas for activities and daily routines.
  • Visibility Matters: Dementia Edition (2 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants) - Participants will gain perspective on the lives of LGBTQI+ older adults, the practices that will help ensure person-directed care to this community and strategies to support LGBTQI+ people living with dementia.

  • Let's Talk about Living...and Dying (1.5 Hour Presentation) - A conversational and educational program that helps participants consider their values as it relates to living, dying, being remembered, and leaving a legacy. Information about advance directives will be provided.
  • End of Life Care Planning: A Gift for Yourself and Your Beloveds (45 Minute Presentation / 3 Participants Required) - Beginning with what makes life worth living for you, this presentation explores living and dying values, discusses end of life options, examines important documents, and recommends strategies for talking about wishes, completing and reviewing your end of life care plan.
  • Bequests - Only for the Rich and Famous? (45 Minute Presentation / 3 Participants Required) - A bequest, or legacy, is simply the impact we leave on another/others. This presentation provides information about worldwide remembrance celebrations and ideas for creating your own legacy project—even if we have small bank accounts and unrecognized names!
  • You're Dead, Now What? Exploring Body Disposition Options (45 Minute Presentation / 3 Participants Required) - Body disposition is choosing what happens to your body after death. This presentation explores burial, cremation, “green” options, and organ and body donation—and a few unexpected possibilities!
  • Preparativos Hechos en Vida (90 Minute Presentation)  - En este taller se explora el tema de la planificación sobre el final de la vida. Se ofrece información acerca de algunas consideraciones y recomendaciones en el momento de llevar a cabo este tipo de planificación, así como las opciones, decisiones y deseos para el cuidado al final de la vida. Por último, se examinan a detalle los documentos de Voluntades Anticipadas los cuales, una vez completados, protegen la voz y los deseos de una persona en caso de que esta no pueda comunicarse por sí mismo.

  • Learning About Memory Loss:​ Brain Changes and Behaviors​ (1.5 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants Required) - Join a group of fellow caregivers as we discuss the complexities of memory loss associated with caring for someone and what to do about it.
  • Navigating Caregiving: Supports and Services (1.5 Hour Presentation / 6 Participants Required) - Join together as we discuss family caregiving and how to be supported while you do what you do for those important to you. You will learn you are not alone.
  • Navigating the Continuum of Care (1.5 Hour Presentation / 3 Participants Required) - Gain an understanding of what in-home services and living arrangements are available as you age. You will also gain an understanding about what end of life care planning is, along with useful information about palliative and hospice care.

  • The Importance of Fall Prevention (1 Hour Presentation / 20 Participants Required) - Discuss the importance of fall prevention for all ages, particularly older adults. Learn tips & techniques to minimize the risk of a fall. Home and environmental safety considerations for fall prevention.

  • PCOA 101 - An introduction to PCOA, our services, and how we help our community.

  • Understanding Medicare (3 Hour Presentation) - Explanation of Medicare, Medicare Advantage and other items within the realm of Medicare. Included are extra help and on going Senior Medicare Patrol Scam issues.

  • The NCA – Helping Pima County One Neighborhood at a Time (45 Minute Presentation) - The Neighbors Care Alliance (NCA) is a coalition of Neighbors Care Programs (NCPs) sharing best practices and assistance for neighborhoods and faith communities to create and sustain their own volunteer programs. Learn about the NCA and how you and your neighbors can create a valuable Neighbors Care Program to help older adults in your own community!

  • Non-Medical in Home Care Services (15 Minute Presentation / 3 Participants Required) - Knowing when non medical in home care services are needed.

  • Exploring Public Benefits and Community Resources (1 Hour Presentation / 5 Participants Required) - Introducing the community to public benefits and community resources possibly unknown to them.

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