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History demonstrates that disasters and emergencies often interrupt, degrade, or destroy local government’s ability to perform essential functions. This is especially true in rural communities where resources are typically limited under the best of circumstances. These jurisdictions must develop plans that address succession planning, redundant communications, and alternate site needs for their communities to face increasingly frequent threats.
In this course of four modules, participants will:
With the intent of building upon the foundation of the AWR 148 course and utilizing an all-hazards approach, this two-day course will provide content instruction, develop concept-specific skills, and provide opportunities for law enforcement, school personnel, and community stakeholders to collaboratively apply the course objectives in scenario-based applications.
The course material will familiarize participants with the wide range of unique vulnerability factors associated with senior citizens in relation to disaster events, and explain the dynamics behind how each of these vulnerabilities affects the ability of senior citizens to take more effective risk reduction and hazard preparedness actions (and to otherwise survive disaster events). Participants will be introduced to the full range of hazards that typically lead to major disasters.Participants will also learn how to identify potential hazards and discover different solutions that may be taken to address these risks.Caregivers will also learn about senior citizen social networks, vulnerabilities, and how to build disaster resilience. Finally, an emphasis on conveying basic risk communication with senior citizens will be discussed.
The usage of social media for disaster preparedness has two components:
1) As effective means for providing updated information about a crisis, proactive steps must be taken prior to disasters in order for effective communications to occur.
2) As a part of crisis observation, managers should be monitoring social media platforms and channels that may be relevant to their organization.
The course material developed will familiarize community leaders with the available resources for natural disaster preparedness and planning. Participants who complete this course will be better able to recognize and define the roles and responsibilities they may be expected to assume given their leadership positions, and understand the roles that first responders and other support personnel are likely to assume to ensure primary assistance in the response and recovery phase of an emergency event.
This course will also provide community leaders with an understanding of the necessary plans and tools needed in planning for natural disasters, and will help them to better understand and identify the personnel best equipped to address response and recovery requirements in the case of an actual disaster.
Formally PER-232-C
The course also supports the necessity for teamwork (Incident Command/Unified Command) among all responding agencies and actions that law enforcement personnel can take to support and facilitate the operations of fire and medical services and other responding agencies. In summary, the course will prepare representatives of State and local emergency response agencies to perform safely and effectively during an incident involving biological agents.
Of special interest is the course’s emphasis on collecting forensically valid samples, which is accomplished through maintaining a secure chain-of-custody for the sample from the time of collection through laboratory analysis. This process is consistent with operations of all public safety responding agencies.
As required by the National Incident Management System (NIMS), this course also addresses the necessity for teamwork (Incident Command and Unified Command) among all responding agencies and actions that public safety responders can take to support and facilitate the operations of fire and medical services and other responding agencies. In summary, the course will prepare representatives of local and state emergency response agencies to perform a critical technical sampling and survey function safely and effectively during an incident involving CBRNE.
In addition, the course addresses actions that emergency responders can take to prevent and/or deter terrorist attacks involving energetic materials. Participants who successfully complete this course and are certified as trainers by their agencies are also certified to deliver the Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings awareness level course to their agencies. Note that this course does not prepare emergency response personnel to perform as explosive ordnance or bomb technicians.
Formerly known as PER-231-1.
Formally PER-232-1.
The tragic events surrounding the bomb attack at the Boston Marathon (2013); the terrorist train bombings in Mumbai (2006), Madrid (2004), and Moscow (2004), and on the subway in London (2005); the terrorist aircraft attacks of September 11, 2001, in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; the ongoing suicide bomb attacks against buses in Israel; and the sarin attacks of the Tokyo subway system (1995) are all terrible reminders of how vulnerable free nations are to deadly attacks.
As these threats have increased and evolved, the US government has expanded its support for initiatives to prepare federal, state, and local first responders, including law enforcement and public safety personnel, to prevent and deter terrorist and crime-related incidents.This awareness-level course focuses on the recognition, prevention, and deterrence of terrorist activity and crime-related high consequence events for law enforcement and other public safety professionals.
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who are members of the NDRS Cadre at the Specialist level in all titles. Other members of the NDRS cadre may also be an appropriate audience if they have not yet had this course.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, and emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.
ACE: Level: Upper Division
ACE: Credit Hours: 6
CECs: 12
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management.
ACE: Level: Lower Division/Associate
ACE: Credit Hours: 2
ACE: Level: Lower Division / Associate
ACE: Credit Hours: 1
Selection Criteria: This course is for any FEMA Comptroller Disaster Workforce Cadre Member who has experienced serving multiple disasters as Finance and Administration Section Chief in FEMA JFO disaster operations or any FEMA national personnel who have experienced serving multiple disasters as Finance and Administration Section Chief in FEMA JFO disaster operations. The individual should have completed all or substantially all of the qualifying criteria to be certified as a Qualified F&A Section Chief prior to attending this course. Approval to attend this course is given by the FEMA Office of Chief Financial Operations (OCFO) Field-Based Operations Cadre Manager, or a member of the OCFO/FEMA Headquarters who can sign on behalf of the OCFO Field-Based Operations Cadre Manager. The signature of the aforementioned is required. If the person is also a FEMA Regional employee, the signature of the FEMA Regional Training Manager is required.
All topics areas in the Basic Academy courses are covered in the Train-the-Trainer to support a training experience that combines knowledge of all fundamental systems, concepts, and practices of cutting-edge emergency management. The Academy provides shared classrooms of adult learners and skillful instructors resulting in a solid foundation upon which to build further studies and sound decisions.
Selection Criteria:This course is intended for those emergency managers and trainers from Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management agencies who have extensive background in emergency management and experience in training adults.
Selection Criteria: Must be a public sector employee.
Selection Criteria: Individuals with substantial involvement in the exercise evaluation and improvement planning function within their jurisdiction or organization. Specifically, this course is recommended for individuals with responsibilities in exercise programs, including emergency program managers, exercise training officers, security managers, and emergency services personnel in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Selection Criteria: Ideal candidates will have 3-5 years’ experience designing and conducting emergency management exercises consistent with the HSEEP Doctrine. This experience should include the development of discussion-based and operations-based exercises and experience in a Simulation Cell (SIMCELL). Candidates are expected to have overall experience with exercise program management as well as individual experience in the following roles:
Selection Criteria: Participation in this course is limited to EMI Resident MEPP Candidates who have successfully completed E0132, Exercise Foundations, Program Management, Design and Development. Courses must be taken in a series.
CECs:12
Participants have several opportunities to practice presentation and instructional skills, first as spokespersons for small groups, then during short duo presentations, 3-minute individual presentations, and, finally, 20-minute individual presentations, using material related to their own programs or functions. Detailed feedback is provided.
A large number of job aids is provided to help in the application of training skills. To prepare for the 20-minute presentation, participants should come to class with materials from a pre-existing course that is related to their work.
Selection Criteria: Federal, State, tribal and local staff designated to train in various EM subject areas. Also, subject matter experts who have the responsibility to deliver FQS Training.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management professionals who deal directly with SA and COP activities.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience is FEMA HM Community Planner Specialist trainees, and the secondary audience is FEMA HM Community Planner Specialist Experts and HM Community Planner Crew Leaders.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM Insurance Specialists. HM Insurance Team Leaders who have not previously participated in this training may find it to be a valuable review. HM Floodplain Management Specialists will benefit from this workshop as there is overlap and collaboration between the two specialties.
Selection Criteria: FEMA Staff
Selection Criteria: FEMA as required by their PTB
Selection Criteria: FEMA staff as required by their PTB.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support Hurricane mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.
ACE: Level: Vocational Certificate
ACE: Credit Hours: 4
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support flood mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers and GIS specialists; planners; and others who support earthquake mitigation and response activities and who wish to expand their Hazus skills beyond those developed in E0313, Basic Hazus.
Selection Criteria: FEMA Mitigation staff, Mitigation Disaster Reservists, and state Building Science and GIS professionals; additionally, Federal, state, local, and tribal officials who have a role and responsibility in the Joint Field Office (JFO), with priority given to Mitigation, Individual Assistance (IA), and Public Assistance (PA). The course also targets select decision-makers on the National Response Coordination Center (NRCC), in the Regional Operations Center, and the state Emergency Operations Center.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for FEMA Disaster Workforce employees who will serve as HM Insurance Specialists during a disaster. Floodplain Management leaders will also benefit from this course.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers as well as specialists responsible for risk assessment, response, recovery, and other emergency management-related activities that have an interest in using ArcGIS to support their needs.
Each topic is designed to be discussed and reviewed in greater detail than the basic course. Developed and real-life scenarios will be examined and activities will be conducted in each section to make sure participants not only understand the rules and regulations but also why they are in place and how to apply them in the particular topic areas. This course is activity-rich and participants can expect to be engaged throughout the course.
Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal,State, local, Territorialand Tribal officials will take precedence.
Selection Criteria: FEMA PA Group Supervisors, PA Task Force Leader, Public Assistance Coordinator Crew Leader, PA Project Specialist
Selection Criteria: State, local, tribal, and territorial emergency management personnel, including public works and waste management staffs, who are responsible for planning and/or implementing debris removal and disposal actions.
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees with open Position Task Book (PTB) for the HM Group Supervisor title, or invited by the HM Program Office.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course includes HM Task Force Leader candidates in the following positions:
The secondary audience includes qualified HM Task Force Leaders who have not had the opportunity to complete this course.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for FEMA HM Specialist Trainees who have recently been hired or assigned to the HM Cadre in an incident management or incident support role, and for those who have been working in such positions without this training.
Selection Criteria: State and FEMA staff who have disaster management responsibilities such as an SCO, Deputy SCO, Tribal Coordinating Officer, Governor’s Authorized Representative, Federal Coordinating Officer (FCO), and Deputy FCO.
Selection Criteria: Personnel of local jurisdictions, tribal governments, and private non-profit organizations that are eligible applicants for Unified HMA grants; state mitigation staffs responsible for assisting Unified HMA sub-applicants; FEMA employees who assist state mitigation staff and/or who are responsible for reviewing Unified HMA applications and/or monitoring Unified HMA grant awards; and staffs of public or private sector organizations that offer consulting services to Unified HMA grant applicants.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course are personnel of state and tribal mitigation staffs responsible for assisting Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) sub-applicants; FEMA employees who assist state mitigation staff and/or who are responsible for reviewing Unified HMA applications and/or monitoring Unified HMA grant awards; and staffs of public or private sector organizations that offer consulting services to Unified HMA grant applicants. The secondary audience for this course includes tribal liaisons, mission support personnel, Grants Program Directorate staff, and fiscal managers.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course includes personnel of local jurisdictions, tribal governments, and private non-profit organizations that are eligible applicants for Unified Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) grants; state mitigation staffs responsible for assisting Unified HMA sub-applicants; FEMA employees who assist state mitigation staff and/or who are responsible for monitoring Unified HMA grant awards; and staffs of public or private sector organizations that offer consulting services to Unified HMA grant applicants. The secondary audience for this course includes state and tribal liaisons, environmental planning and historical preservation staff, Federal Coordinating Officers, and Grants Program Directorate staff.
Selection Criteria: Current Equal Rights Officers
Selection Criteria: Participation is limited to state emergency management and administrative agency training and exercise officers and tribal and territorial officials. Federal participation by FEMA’s Federal preparedness coordinators, Regional Training Managers, Regional Exercise Officers, Regional National Incident Management System points of contact, and FEMA headquarters training and exercise program staff is encouraged. Others may be admitted as space is available.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, and local staff responsible for implementing and overseeing the CTP initiative. The course is intended for current CTP members who are active mapping partners, and who are responsible for administering the CTP Program for a state or regional agency, or local community partner, and/or managing the technical aspects of mapping activities.
Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP and Non-EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.
Selection Criteria: This course is only open to EHP Cadre members who have approval from the Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Headquarters and/or FEMA Regional Environmental Officers.
Selection Criteria: State Emergency Management Directors and Deputy Directors who have not previously taken this course. A limited number of FEMA Federal Coordinating Officers are also eligible to attend.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for HM Floodplain Management Specialists, HM Floodplain Management Team Leaders, and HM Floodplain Management and Insurance Group Supervisors in FEMA’s Disaster Workforce. A secondary audience is HM Insurance Specialists, HM Insurance Team Leaders, and other specialists from the Hazards and Performance Analysis Group who will support floodplain management initiatives.
Selection Criteria: Local officials responsible for administering local floodplain management ordinances, including but not limited to floodplain management administrators, building inspectors, code enforcement/zoning officers, planners, city/county managers, attorneys, engineers, and public works officials. Federal/state/regional floodplain managers also are encouraged to attend. The course is designed for those officials with limited floodplain management experience.Attendance will be limited to two participants from any state for each offering. Participants should have less than 3 years of full-time experience in the field of floodplain management.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course is limited to professional staff of dam safety programs at the Federal, state, and tribal levels, professional staff of dam safety programs at the local level who are nominated to represent their state by their state Dam Safety Officer, and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms. Student Travel Stipend funding is only available for one State Dam Safety Officer designated public employee per state.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Federal, state, local, and tribal hazard mitigation staff; applicants/grantees; subapplicants/subgrantees; and personnel who are involved in the grant application development process and provide technical assistance.
ACE:Credit Hours: 2
CECs: 12 (CORE)
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and also those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.
Selection Criteria: Certified floodplain managers or community officials with 2 years of full-time floodplain management experience. Federal, state, local, and tribal officials will take precedence.
ACE: Level: Vocational Certficate
Substantial damage regulations are important mechanisms of the National Flood Insurance Program designed to reduce flood risks. FEMA has taken substantial steps to improve the capability of communities to comply with substantial damage regulations, including the development of FEMA 758, Substantial Improvement/Substantial Damage Desk Reference; FEMA 784, Substantial Damage Estimator (SDE 2.0); the FEMA 784 CD, which includes the SDE 2.0 tool; training for how to use the SDE 2.0 tool; and the SDE 2.0 User’s Manual and Field Workbook.
Selection Criteria: FEMA HM floodplain management specialist trainees, and qualified HM floodplain management specialists who have not already completed the course. HM floodplain management specialist experts and HM floodplain management substantial damage crew leaders who have not completed the course will also benefit from the training, but are not the primary audience.
CECs: 4 (CORE)
Selection Criteria: Local emergency managers and representatives of voluntary organizations
CECs: 10
Selection Criteria: Priority will be given to states that send a team of participants: the state Volunteer/Donations Coordinator and leading stakeholders of statewide voluntary organizations. Each FEMA region is invited to send a human services staff member. Other invitees include Federal, state, tribal, and territorial emergency managers.
This course will teach dam owners; emergency service providers; emergency planners and managers; land use and transportation planners; community leaders; and other members of the community to work together through upfront planning to reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences resulting from a dam failure, and to recover more effectively in the event of a failure.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for stakeholders in communities that could be affected by a dam breach or failure. Applicants should have experience in one or more of the following areas: dam ownership, dam operations, emergency action planning, emergency response, land use planning, or transportation planning.
Selection Criteria: Individuals who may assume a supervisory role in incidents. Note: During a Type 3 incident, some or all of the Command and General Staff positions may be activated, as well as Division/Group Supervisor and/or Unit Leader level positions. These incidents may extend into multiple operational periods.
Topics addressed in this course include overviews of building and population inventory components; options for describing the magnitude and extent of modeled hazards; loss estimation methodologies; and options for creating maps, tables, and reports that describe hazard impacts.
Particular emphasis is given to exploring and interpreting the outputs that Hazus can generate as well as discussing how that information can be applied to support emergency management needs and goals. All activities are based on Hazus provided inputs.
After completing this course, participants can optionally take additional Hazus courses to learn to refine loss estimations by adjusting model parameters or by integrating their own inventory and hazard data.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal specialists, researchers, insurance companies, utilities, and others who are involved with or interested in understanding the social and economic impacts associated with floods, hurricanes, or earthquakes.
Participants will work extensively with a variety of data management tools including ArcGIS. It is expected that they will have experience with ArcGIS prior to attending the course. Those without this experience will be challenged to successfully engage in course activities.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers, planners, and GIS specialists who want to learn how to integrate user-developed building and other non-hazard inventory data into the Hazus modeling process. A working knowledge of ArcGIS, including the ability to create and manipulate data, is required.
Selection Criteria: Participants should have served in one disaster operations field position as Group Supervisor or Team Lead or Task Force Lead and Crew Lead.
Selection Criteria: Required for any FEMA financial staff member who needs to record transactions to the accounting system as part of his or her duties. Reservists who have the course on their FEMA Qualification Sheet have first priority.
Selection Criteria: Target audience are for state personnel who will perform the role of State Individual Assistance Officer (or back-up) during disaster operations.
The goal of this course is to ensure that IABDs are fully able to successfully perform in a high-profile or catastrophic event.
Selection Criteria: IABDs Type 2 and Type 3; other operations management personnel assigned to complete the course.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is FEMA IA ONA specialists and trainees, Human services managers, and state ONA (joint option states only).
Selection Criteria: School district/county/state teams. Teams consist of the following: First Responders: Police/SRO; Fire; Emergency Management; Emergency Medical Services/Public Health. School Administrators: Superintendent/Assistant Superintendent/Risk Manager; School Board member; Principal/Assistant Principal; Public Information Officer; Security Official/School Safety Coordinator/School Safety Team member; IT; Facility Manager/Building Engineer; Transportation Coordinator; Food Service Coordinator; and School Nurse/School Counselor/Psychologist.
Selection Criteria: Participants must demonstrate a working knowledge of school planning through experience and training, and must be experienced in adult education.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for school and emergency management personnel who are interested in comprehensive planning for grades K–12. Examples of potential participants include:
School teams consisting of 3–5 individuals are encouraged to apply.
Selection Criteria: State, local, and tribal government personnel responsible for administering PA grants
Selection Criteria: FCO Cadre and FEMA Operations Section Chiefs with disaster field experience involved in response activities. Selection is on a space-available basis. Contact the EMI Course Manager and the DoD Course Manager at http://www.dsca.army.mil/. DoD personnel need to enroll through http://www.dsca.army.mil/.
The course contains in-depth descriptions of design, construction, and maintenance practices that, when followed, will increase the durability of residential buildings in the harsh coastal environment and reduce economic losses associated with coastal natural disasters.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is engineers and architects. Floodplain managers and building code officials are also encouraged to attend. Hazard mitigation, planning, zoning, public works, and other building officials with building science knowledge and those from the private sector, such as engineering firms, may also apply.
Selection Criteria: Department Chairs and faculty of emergency management-related disciplines (such as Sociology, Geography, Public Administration, Psychology, or Science and Technology, etc.) from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Asian American Pacific Islander Institutions.
Selection Criteria: Faculty and administrators with colleges and universities which:
In addition, a small number of participants are FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Program materials developers and representatives of stakeholder organizations.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is senior personnel who are expected to perform in a management capacity in an Area Command or Multi-Agency Coordination Entity.
Selection Criteria: FEMA Mass Care Task Force Leaders
Selection Criteria: FEMA Mass Care Specialists
Selection Criteria: FEMA MCGSs
Selection Criteria: Housing Group Supervisor Candidates
Selection Criteria: Mass Care professionals
The CERT Program Manager course is delivered at EMI sequentially during the same week with E0428, Community Emergency Response Team Train-the-Trainer. Participants who wish to take both courses must submit a separate application for each course. Although either course may be taken separately, EMI encourages participants to take both courses the same week.
Selection Criteria: Professionals and volunteers who are designated to be or are interested in being appointed a local CERT Program Manager and those who are already in the CERT Program Manager position.
The CERT Train-the-Trainer course is delivered at EMI sequentially during the same week with E0427, Community Emergency Response Team Program Manager. Participants who wish to take both courses must submit a separate application for each course. Although either course may be taken separately, EMI encourages participants to take both courses the same week.
Selection Criteria: Individuals who will serve as the Course Manager for the CERT Basic Training course and be CERT Basic Training course instructors.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions who can be legally deployed through the EMAC system; persons officially responsible for requesting and providing EMAC assistance; and those individuals desiring a more comprehensive working knowledge of the EMAC system.
The emphasis is placed on classroom based deliveries, including compliance with the National Incident Management Training Program, adult education methodologies, deployment of course activities, pre- and post-testing, and ICS training program management.
Students will perform a teach back of an assigned unit from the ICS core curriculum as part of the course. Teach backs are conducted as part of the assessment of instructor competence.
Selection Criteria:
Participants must have successfully:
-Completed the prerequisite courses-Completed recognized training to achieve qualifications in techniques of instruction and adult education methodologies-Qualify as either a “Lead or Unit” instructor as noted in the NIMS Training Program, September 2011
The student must demonstrate a working knowledge of ICS principles. They must have worked as an Incident Commander, in a Command or General Staff position(s) on incidents, planned events, or exercises that went longer than one operational period or involved a written incident action plan and involved multipleagency and/or jurisdictionalcoordination.
Selection Criteria: Participants are only admitted to the four course Academy series through the annual Advanced Academy selection process conducted in June each year. For more details, visit the EMPP Advanced Academy web page at http://training.fema.gov/empp/advanced.aspx.
Advanced II will enable participants to gain knowledge necessary for understanding and developing themselves as mid-level managers, develop critical thinking and decision-making skills, develop personal influence and communication skills, work through resiliency, and motivate and manage others.
In addition, Advanced II will provide an opportunity to explore the importance of ethics, values, and accountability. Sharing best practices, lessons learned, tools, and documentation to have a firm understanding of Federal, state, and local EM programs, as well as how those programs can be effectively leveraged to support state and local needs and requirements.
Participants will be varied in their skills. For example, an individual may be highly skilled at community outreach, but poor at building organizational support. A goal of this course is to approach these capabilities as skills that can be developed, and these skills will be honed in the exercises.
The EM “organization” is redefined in Advanced III as including not just the members of one’s own agency, but also “anyone with whom one works during emergency planning and emergency response,” i.e., “one’s network of colleagues and the people served.” While every jurisdiction’s definition of its organization is going to be different, the core competencies of EM professionals are ways to explore the issues that are common to organizations. Public advocacy and cultural competence are also addressed.
ACE: Credit Hours: 3
Selection Criteria: Member of DHS Surge Capacity Force or FEMA Corps.
Selection Criteria: Personnel (FEMA and non-FEMA) assigned to a surge event in a Mass Care/Emergency Assistance capacity.
Selection Criteria: Non-emergency FEMA staff who have been pre-identified to serve as Surge Capacity Force Surge Specialists during periods of extreme disaster activity.
Selection Criteria: Emergency managers and voluntary organizations responsible for the management of spontaneous volunteers
CECs: 7
Selection Criteria: Direct Housing Management Personnel
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel performing DH Specialist tasks
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel performing DH Support Specialist tasks
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees, either managerial or staff, who must apply strategic problem-solving skills in various workplace situations that require analysis and/or planning as well as solving workplace disputes at the lowest level and at the earliest opportunity
The teaching methodology will include interactive exercises, demonstrations, lectures, supervised role-plays, and group debriefings. Conflict resolution processes, principles, and theories will be presented.
The five different conflict coping styles will be discussed, and participants will identify their own style. All participants will understand how to reduce and transform conflict in the workplace.
Selection Criteria: FEMA permanent full-time employees and cadre of on-call response/recovery employees
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations Programs, planning, and planning continuity exercises. This also includes information technology (IT) managers, training and exercise managers and planners, security managers, and emergency managers.
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations.
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a COOP Program.
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for qualified Applicant Services Program Specialists with an open Task Book in one of the following positions: IA Reports Specialist, IA Planning Specialist or IA Liaison Specialist (inclusion of the IA Liaison Specialist is dependent on anticipated revisions to the FEMA Qualification System). IA Information Management Group Supervisors, Managers, Task Force Leaders, and Crew Leaders are encouraged to attend if space is available.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes, but may not be limited to:
The course will be limited to federally or state-recognized tribal government representatives. Exceptions are authorized by the Course Manager only.
Selection Criteria: Tribal representatives involved in emergency management, planning, economic development, and tribal leaders/elected officials. The course will be limited to federally or state-recognized tribal government representatives. Exceptions are authorized by the Course Manager only.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is composed of individuals assigned to curriculum design and development duties or positions.
Selection Criteria: Formal acceptance into the Executive Academy is required.
Selection Criteria: Participants will be FEMA DIAs.
Selection Criteria: Participants must be FEMA grantees or sub-grantees ONLY. Invitations and course announcements are sent to grantees directly from the Grants Programs Directorate.
NOTE: NO STIPEND OR TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT WILL BE PROVIDED FOR THIS COURSE. Students must be grant recipients, and are allowed to use Management and Administrative (M&A) grant funds for training with approval from Program Analyst (Headquarters or Region).
Selection Criteria: The course is available to personnel with the Incident Management FEMA Qualification System (FQS) titles of Contracting Specialist, Purchasing Specialist, Procurement Specialist, or Quality Assurance Specialist or any other FQS position maintained within a cadre other than the Acquisitions Cadre that requires the course as part of that position’s FQS Qualification Sheet training requirements. FEMA personnel who wish to attend that do not meet said requirements may be considered for attendance on an individual, program justified basis. Approval to attend this course is given by the Acquisitions Cadre Coordinator or by a designated member the Acquisitions Cadre Management team. The approval signature of one of the aforementioned is required.
Selection Criteria: Newly hired FEMA ADR Reservists, Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees, and Permanent Full-Time members, and incumbent ADR members with limited field experience
CEC's: 12
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is all entry-level planners new to FEMA and/or hired into the PLSP position as Reservists. This includes personnel who may have some on-the-job experience but have not taken this introductory course.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA personnel, identified by their cadre managers, who will serve as FQS Coach-Evaluators
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course includes professionals in the field of emergency management at the state, local, tribal, volunteer agency, private sector, FEMA and other Federal agency partner levels who are assigned responsibilities to participate inresponse and recovery. In order to maximize the benefit of participant discovery learning in the course activities, it is recommended that individual offerings of the course include a mix of these audience professional groups rather than just all participants from one group. For recruitment purposes, the recommended balance of target audience professional group representation in any given delivery of the course is no more than 50% of the participants from any one professional group (state, local, tribal, private sector, FEMA, etc.).
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel assigned to learn the basics of Individual Assistance
Selection Criteria: This course is open to mitigation cadre members and state/tribal personnel who are involved with the development and/or management of the HMGP.
Selection Criteria: Priority to Reservist employees of the FEMA Disaster Emergency Communications Division, Incident Management and Incident Support Unit Leaders and above. Also, FTE DEC staff, Federal interagency Emergency Support Function #2 partners, and state and tribal emergency communications officials may attend.
The IEMC supports the development of Core Capabilities and achievement of the National Preparedness Goal. Exercises are built to test the jurisdiction’s planned approach to specific hazards and to surface issues for which the IEMC participants may need to re-evaluate and develop corrective action plans.
Using current information on evolving terrorist tactics and procedures, an attack scenario is developed for the city and its surrounding jurisdictions’ plans and response capabilities. The scenario is designed to overwhelm the city’s resources and forms the basis for discussions throughout the course.
Participants will review existing preparedness, response, and interdiction plans, policies, and procedures related to a complex coordinated attack and identify gaps in plans, operational capabilities, response resources, and authorities; best practices and lessons learned will be shared from a variety of current events around the world.
Selection Criteria: By Invitation
Selection Criteria: Emergency management professionals who deal with SA and COP
Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s First Responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.
The audience for the course includes people functioning within the environment of an Incident Management Team (IMT) as fully qualified and have a significant instructional delivery background.
The use of qualified, knowledgeable, and experienced instructors is an important aspect in the successful delivery of AHPS training. The learning experience is heightened when the instructors have real-world experience and have served in the capacity for which they are providing instruction. This experience should include service on a variety of incidents during major operations, planned events, and/or full scale Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation (HSEEP) compliant exercises as determined by the local authority having jurisdiction (AHJ).
Selection Criteria: All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:
Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 AHIMTs, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.
Personnel selected to serve as instructors for this course will teach in the field to personnel representing the Nation’s first responders and allied professions from various Federal, state, and local organizations.
Exercises, simulations, discussions, and a final exam enable participants to process and apply their new knowledge.
ACE: Level: Lower Divsion/Associate
ACE:Level: Lower Division/Associate
Selection Criteria: NIMS ICS All-Hazards training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to Functional, Support, or Unit Leader positions on Type 3 or 4 All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.
Complex experiential exercises and discussions will afford participants the opportunity to act as each unit leader while connecting all information learned back to real-world application.
ACE: Level: Lower Division/Assoicate
Selection Criteria: Newly hired FEMA Security Specialists. All nominations will be submitted through the National Security Cadre Manager.
Selection Criteria: Security Managers who belong to the FEMA Security Cadre. All nominations will be submitted through the National Security Cadre Manager.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for personnel who are members of All-Hazards Incident Management Teams, or those who are seeking credentials/certification in those positions.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for MC coordinators, management staff, non-governmental organization leaders, private sector, and other emergency management staff that are a part of the team and have a responsibility for effective MC/EA preparedness and response.
There are several options for the composition of a class. One is the State MC Coordinator and his/her team; a local MC Coordinator and his/her team; or a State MC Coordinator and local MC Coordinators from the state.
Selection Criteria: Participants should be teams made up of a community’s ICS and EOC personnel.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.
Topics include: Identifying partners and resources; creating post-disaster standard operating procedures (SOPs); introduction to post-disaster SOPs; introduction to post-disaster operations; initial sweeps and public information; detailed substantial damage inspections; substantial damage declarations and posting; permitting documentation; and compliance and funding sources.
Selection Criteria: This course has in-depth discussion of the topics and exercises to help floodplain managers prepare for post-disaster activities and is designed for floodplain managers with at least 2 years of floodplain management experience or who have the Certified Floodplain Manager credential.
Selection Criteria: State and local elected officials, emergency managers, and other public officials; amateur radio operators.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for the course will include volunteers, emergency management personnel, and emergency responder personnel who are preparing to participate in a flood response effort.
Selection Criteria: The audience for the course will encompass primarily the following professional groups:
Selection Criteria: Intended for local emergency managers
Compliance and rating of enclosures will be discussed and issues with A zones without base flood elevations will be identified. The benefits and implications of dry floodproofing and other compliance factors affecting insurance rates will be described. Resources for flood insurance outreach and updates will be discussed and reviewed. Interactive exercises and in-depth discussions will aid participants in learning this information.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for local-level staffs to include:
Selection Criteria: Local government officials, state officials, and others who are involved in the development of a local mitigation plan.
Selection Criteria: The persons responsible for planning, implementing, and carrying out evacuations within a jurisdiction. This includes, but is not limited to, state and local government emergency program managers, emergency planners, and response personnel.
While this training emphasizes how to conduct a flood fight, it provides information to help communities decide if a flood fight is possible and worth the effort and cost. Diagrams with materials lists and equipment and labor requirements to construct various types of temporary flood protection can be used to help determine if there is enough time and resources to protect the community. If the whole community cannot be protected, then officials must decide where to concentrate their efforts to protect some areas and/or evacuate and relocate what they can. If a flood fight is undertaken, it should be done the right way or the effort will be wasted. Instructors should be experienced in flood fighting.
It is recommended that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers be part of the instructional team to discuss the methods and techniques it will use in your region and to explain what assistance it may be able to provide.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal officials responsible for planning, preparing, and managing response to floods.
In an optional exercise day, this course provides participants with an opportunity to conduct and design a tabletop exercise using Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) guidelines.
Selection Criteria: Principals, assistant principals, risk managers, school board members, school safety coordinators, transportation and food service coordinators, facility managers/building engineers, nurses, counselors, public information officers, teachers, and local first responders
Selection Criteria: State, local, and tribal government emergency program managers, other emergency management staff, and other local government employees responsible for mitigation. The secondary audience includes Federal emergency management personnel and employees of federal, state, and local governments who work in the emergency management field.
Selection Criteria: Executives and senior officials, including elected officials, city/county managers, agency administrators, etc.
Selection Criteria: Those who are already in or are selected to be in the CERT Program Manager position.
Selection Criteria: People who will serve as the Course Manager for the CERT Basic Training course and people who will be CERT Basic Training course instructors in any capacity.
Note: Individuals who conduct only one or two of the units may do so without taking the CERT TTT course. However, the CERT TTT course would give them a necessary overview of the CERT Basic Training course as well as improve their instructional skills.
Selection Criteria: School board members, district executives, district risk managers, principals, administrators, teachers, parents, Parent Teacher Association members, community first responders, school support staff, and transportation coordinators.
Selection Criteria: This course has been developed for emergency managers and voluntary organizations responsible for the management of spontaneous volunteers.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for public sector staff with responsibility for managing their COOP effort. Others who are integral to the COOP planning process may also take the course.
Selection Criteria: State and local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure.
Selection Criteria: Local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure.
Selection Criteria: The goal of this course is to acquaint new personnel with the position of the emergency manager, including history and underlying principles of emergency management, key areas of emphasis, the emergency manager’s roles and responsibilities, and tips for getting started.
Selection Criteria: General population
The course is a non-technical discussion of earthquakes, building design, and the requirements of the EO. It is for local officials including mayors, city managers and commissioners, local council persons, building inspectors, zoning officials, building designers, and others concerned with this topic. The materials for this course can NOT be downloaded.
Selection Criteria: Building officials, planners, and local government leaders
Selection Criteria: Animal owners and care providers
CEC's: 4
Selection Criteria: Emergency management officials, andanimal owners, care providers, and industries
This course is a discussion-based course, focused on the development of an Emergency/Incident Action Plan. Participants are encouraged to bring a scenario they are real-world planning in their community and complete most of the required documents during the course.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management planners and other emergency management officials who deal with special or planned events
Selection Criteria: Primarily logistics personnel, state National Guard, and other emergency management staff
Selection Criteria: All new Logistics hires and Logistics staff that work in the field offices. Also, all FEMA cadres, governmental (state, local, tribal), and private sector partners who interface with FEMA Logistics during disaster response and recovery.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new or less experienced state, local, tribal and territorial PIOs or those who have this role as a secondary function.
CECs: 2.5
The topics addressed in this course include: knowing your hazards, developing a plan, and testing and updating your plan.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for childcare providers of all sizes and for all age children, including, but not limited to, home childcare sites, childcare facilities, nursery schools, camps, scouts, sports programs, faith-based programs, and after-school programs. However, anyone with a personal or professional interest in childcare site preparedness is welcome to participate. Teachers, camp counselors, parents, volunteers, scout leaders, and coaches alike will find useful information in this course.
CECs: 2
Selection Criteria: Any FEMA personnel placed in the role of supervising or managing other FEMA personnel
This course provides participants with best practices including tools, techniques, and a basic roadmap to build capabilities in the use of social media technologies in their own emergency management organizations (state, local, tribal) in order to further their emergency response missions.
Selection Criteria: Staff working in a Joint Field Office
CECs: 3
The goal is to provide emergency managers at every jurisdictional level an overview of military resources; their capabilities and limitations; and how to access and integrate them in their respective jurisdiction’s disaster response and recovery operations in order to save lives, mitigate human suffering, and mitigate significant property and/or environmental damage.
Selection Criteria: This course is developed in a flexible delivery format. A facilitator’s guide and visuals are available for delivery in a classroom setting.
Selection Criteria: The intended audience(s) are personnel involved with emergency planning, response, or recovery efforts. This includes fire, law enforcement, and emergency medical personnel as well as a large variety of disciplines including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), federal workers, health care workers, higher education, law enforcement, public works, and schools.
Selection Criteria: College administrators, risk managers, public information officers, security officers, environmental safety officers, law enforcement, fire, and emergency management officials
Selection Criteria: Teachers, substitute teachers, counselors, parent volunteers, coaches, facility managers, bus drivers, and participants.
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees who deploy to domestic incidents
Selection Criteria: FEMA’s response partners
CECs: 1
Selection Criteria: This course is designed primarily for GIS Specialists newly employed with FEMA or other emergency response organizations. Students should already have a basic working knowledge of standard GIS software applications.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management officials and livestock owners
IS0120.a, An Introduction to Exercises, replaces IS0120, An Orientation to Community Disaster Exercises.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management and homeland security professionals who require an introduction to exercises
CECs: 5
Selection Criteria: Emergency management communications personnel
Selection Criteria: Federal/state department or agencies’ COOP Program Office, Facility Management, and Security Management sections
Selection Criteria: The primary target audience is response personnel at the supervisory level.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management and response personnel who may be called upon to function in a Command, General Staff, or Unit Leader position during a significant incident or event, and who may be called upon to help prepare some portion of the Incident Action Plan.
Selection Criteria: Open to all
CECs: 6
Selection Criteria: This course is available to anyone.
CECs: 8
This course consists of the following lessons:
Selection Criteria: General public
Selection Criteria: Alerting Authorities
CECs: 1.5
Selection Criteria: New FEMA EHP personnel
CECs: 4
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers who respond to hazardous weather events
CECs: 9
CEC's: 1.5
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for Federal, state, and local staff that will use the SDE 2.0 tool to comply with floodplain management regulations and/or to identify opportunities for flood hazard mitigation.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, tribal, and local emergency managers, members of voluntary organizations, and the general public who are involved in emergency management activities and require an understanding of the roles of voluntary organizations throughout the disaster cycle.
Selection Criteria: The course is open to all FEMA/DHS, state, local, tribal, and other Federal agency program and financial staff who have a role or interest in the MA process.
Selection Criteria: CERT Members
This course is an Independent Study course that serves as an introduction to CERT for those interested in completing the basic CERT training or as a refresher for current team members. The course includes six modules: CERT Basics, Fire Safety, Hazardous Material and Terrorist Incidents, Disaster Medical Operations, and Search and Rescue, and Course Summary.
While the course is useful as a primer or refresher for CERT training, it is not equivalent to, and cannot be used in place of, the classroom delivery of the CERT Basic Training. To become a CERT volunteer, one must complete the classroom training offered by a local government agency such as the emergency management agency, fire or police department. Contact your local emergency manager to learn about the local education and training opportunities available to you. Let this person know about your interest in taking CERT training.
Selection Criteria: Prospective CERT members
Selection Criteria: This course meets the needs of diverse audiences, including: local or tribal government officials; community managers; community staff, including planners; state, local, or tribal government emergency management agencies; Councils of Government or Regional Planning Commissions; first responders; state hazard mitigation officers; or other state mitigation staff. Representatives from private or non-profit organizations may want to participate in the training if they have a role in developing mitigation plans or participating in mitigation planning processes. These organizations may include: special utility districts or rural utility cooperatives; special districts, such as watershed management districts; hospital campuses; and universities or school districts.
Topics covered in this module include:
Selection Criteria: FEMA Hazard Mitigation Disaster Workforce Staff
Note: This course is on a non-Federal government web site operated by the Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training.
Selection Criteria: Emergency managers in communities threatened by tropical cyclones
Selection Criteria: This course is targeted to a wide range of audiences, including homeowners; business owners; the private sector; Federal, state, tribal, and local government workforce at all levels; first responders; non-profit organizations; volunteers; and community-based organizations.
CEC's: 1
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new and experienced state and FEMA plan reviewers. Plan reviewers may be full or part-time, FEMA Disaster Assistance Reservists, FEMA contract plan reviewers, or state contract plan reviewers.
Selection Criteria: Whole community partners
Selection Criteria: Open to all enrollees
The training will enable members of the disaster workforce to recognize and advance opportunities for individuals, businesses, tribes, and communities to reduce the risk of future damages from hazard events. It also is intended to provide information about the HM Branch, to raise awareness of its programs and technical capabilities that may facilitate collaboration with Joint Field Office partners in the disaster recovery process.
This course is an overview and is not intended to enable specialist trainees to successfully demonstrate ability to perform behaviors/activities in their Position Task Books. Additional training is provided on the job and through other courses identified in the Position Qualification Sheet.
Selection Criteria: This entry-level course is designed for all new HM support staff as well as non-Mitigation staff who need to understand the concepts, functions, and organization of HM in disaster operations. It will present a broad overview applicable to every function.
Selection Criteria: State, local, and tribal government emergency program managers, other emergency management staff, and other local government employees responsible for mitigation. The secondary audience includes Federal emergency management personnel and employees of Federal, state, and local governments who work in the emergency management field.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is the building sciences and design professional community (architects, engineers, security personnel, and facility planners) working for private institutions, and building owners, managers, and Continuity of Operations communities working for public (Federal, state, local, and tribal) and private institutions.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience is state IA Officers and FEMA IA staff.
Selection Criteria: FEMA, state, tribal, local, and voluntary agency personnel assigned to MC/EA functions during disaster operations
Selection Criteria: Federal employees living and working outside the National Capital Region
Selection Criteria: Federal employees living and working in the National Capital Region
Selection Criteria: Federal employees; specifically DHS/FEMA employees.
Selection Criteria: Federal employees only, specifically DHS and FEMA employees
Selection Criteria: All DHS employees
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for COOP.
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal government employees responsible for Continuity of Operations (COOP).
Selection Criteria: This course is available to anyone involved in Continuity of Operations.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, territorial, local, and tribal government employees responsible for managing a Continuity of Operations Program
Selection Criteria: Participation is open to Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government employees responsible for COOP and reconstitution planning.
Selection Criteria: Public works professionals, urban planners, local government officials, and elected officials
Selection Criteria: Local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure
Selection Criteria: All audiences
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees. This course is available to anyone.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management professionals involved in public-private partnerships
Selection Criteria: Emergency management planners and others interested in public-private partnerships
Selection Criteria: The course is intended for a wide audience of personnel which includes government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners, senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, and city or county officials and other individuals with emergency management responsibilities including prevention, protection, response, recovery and mitigation.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for local and state public information officers.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for Federal, state, tribal, and local emergency managers; first responders, including incident commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and voluntary agency personnel.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers; first responders to include incident commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster personnel
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who are new to the function of EA Program Liaison. A secondary audience is individuals who have field experience, but require component-specific instruction to fully prepare them to perform their function.
This course is intended for government executives, private-sector and nongovernmental organization (NGO) leaders, and emergency management practitioners. This includes senior elected and appointed leaders, such as Federal department or agency heads, State Governors, mayors, tribal leaders, city or county officials, and FEMA and other federal agency emergency managers and staff – those who have a responsibility to provide for effective response.
All levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and individuals that play a role in response are also welcome to take this course.
Selection Criteria: All FEMA employees who are assigned to a FEMA Qualification System position in incident management or incident support
This course addresses crisis management activities as an important component of an overall risk management program and provides dam and levee stakeholders with recommendations to assist in the development of various plans focused on enhancing preparedness, protection, recovery, and resilience capabilities. The training course describes the purpose and basic elements of emergency action plans, recovery plans, and continuity plans; and addresses the basic elements of an effective exercise program.
Selection Criteria: All Dams Sector facility owners and operators, with emphasis on owners and operators seeking the fundamentals of the crisis management elements of a risk management program
This course explains how security awareness is an important component of an overall risk management program. In addition, it provides owners and operators with information that assists in identifying security concerns, coordinating proper response, and establishing effective partnerships with local law enforcement and first responders.
Selection Criteria: All Dams Sector facility owners and operators, with emphasis on owners and operators seeking the fundamentals of the crisis management elements of a risk management Program
Selection Criteria: Staff at Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) locations
This course provides guidance to individuals, including managers and employees, so that they can prepare to respond to an active shooter situation. This course is not written for law enforcement officers but for non-law enforcement employees. The material may provide law enforcement officers information on recommended actions for non-law enforcement employees to take should they be confronted with an active shooter situation.
Selection Criteria: Senior officials, including mayors, city managers, and county managers
This course presents a model program for community preparedness. In addition, it includes 16 Preparedness Modules ranging from 20 to 90 minutes that can be delivered to community groups. The modules (available in English and Spanish) provide information and activities on:
Selection Criteria: The course is available to anyone.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for critical infrastructure personnel who: are responsible for the storage, sale, or transfer of materials or technologies of value; work at sites where products or raw materials are susceptible to theft or diversion, such as facilities covered under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards regulations; and desire to heighten their awareness regarding theft or diversion vulnerabilities and countermeasures.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for all individuals with critical infrastructure protection responsibilities.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers; state, local, and tribal GIS specialists responsible for risk assessment activities; regional personnel responsible for mitigation and response activities; other Federal agencies with a need to conduct risk assessment; and state, local, and tribal planners.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this training are those involved in planning, program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this training are those involved in planning,program management, design anddevelopment, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.
This seminar provides a foundation for effective security and protection programs and is designed to be practical and provide adequate support for implementation of learned objectives outside the classroom.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course is limited to dam owners, professional staff of dam safety and security programs, and emergency managers at the Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels, as well as dam safety, dam security, and incident management personnel from the private sector.
Selection Criteria: Federal, state, local, or tribal floodplain managers
Participants receive comprehensive instruction from National Hurricane Center (NHC) Specialists on how to use hurricane forecasts and other NHC products to determine who and when they must evacuate from various types of approaching hurricanes. This includes how to interpret and use the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes numerical storm surge model to perform the hurricane hazard analysis of their coastal jurisdiction. The course then provides instruction from FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Specialists on using data from their state and local Hurricane Evacuation Studies (HES) to formulate local evacuation plans. In addition, the course provides hands-on instruction on the use of the HURREVAC computer software decision-support tool for determining the optimum timing of their evacuation decisions and evacuation orders.
The course includes a demonstration of how the NHC Specialists track and forecast hurricanes and their potential impacts. The final course activity is a hurricane exercise to practice the tools and techniques presented in the course.
Selection Criteria: The state sponsoring the training selects the attendees that represent the target audience.
Participants receive comprehensive instruction from NHC Specialists on how to use hurricane forecasts and other NHC products to determine who and when they must evacuate from various types of approaching hurricanes. This includes how to interpret and use the Sea, Lake, and Overland Surge from Hurricanes (SLOSH) numerical storm surge model to perform the hurricane Hazard Analysis of their coastal jurisdiction.
The course then provides instruction from FEMA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Specialists on using data from their state and local Hurricane Evacuation Studies (HES) to formulate local evacuation plans. In addition, the course provides hands-on instruction on the use of the HURREVAC computer software decision-support tool for determining the optimum timing of their evacuation decisions and evacuation orders.
The course includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the NHC and a demonstration of how the NHC Specialists track and forecast hurricanes and their potential impacts. The final course activity is a hurricane exercise to practice the tools and techniques presented in the course.
Selection Criteria: The course is designed for:
Participants will be selected based on their jurisdiction and responsibilities. To participate, all applicants must serve coastal communities. Applications from inland communities will not be accepted.
Selection Criteria: Individuals that are part of an emergency management team at institutions of higher education and their disaster partners. Positions may include community first responders, law enforcement/SRO, fire/emergency medical services (EMS)/public health, office of emergency management college/university officials, college administrator (president, vice president, provost, dean, etc.), office of emergency management/planning official, risk manager, public information officer, security officer, environmental safety officer, or public safety chief, office of facilities management official, food/dining services director, health services or counseling services representative or psychologist, faculty representative, student affairs representative
Selection Criteria: The primary audience is tribal leaders, tribal emergency managers, and tribal community response personnel. This course is only offered as an offsite delivery. Delivery must be requested through the EMI Preparedness Branch.
Selection Criteria: Tribal elected officials; tribal council members; tribal chairs, presidents, governors, principal chiefs, and appointed officials
Selection Criteria: Participants should be mid-to-senior-level logistics/emergency managers from organizations such as DHS, or other Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial agencies and the Military Services (Active, Guard, Reserve) to include Military Officers (O-4 through O-6), Warrant Officers (W-3 through W-5), Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (E-7 through E-9), or Federal Civilians (GS-13 through GS-15 or equivalent). Civilians from non-governmental and volunteer agencies are also invited to attend. Those not falling into one of the above categories, but may benefit from, or contribute, to this seminar-style forum may attend, with Governor’s Office of Emergency Services approval.
After completion of this course, participants will have a basic understanding of FEMA’s statutory and regulatory framework, fiscal and grant management law, the interface between FEMA Headquarters Office of Chief Counsel (OCC) and field operations, and the roles and responsibilities of the field legal staff. They will have a basic knowledge of substantive topics including disaster declarations and response operations focusing on Federal agency authorities; coordination of Federal, state, local, tribal, and voluntary agency support; mission assignments; grant assistance for emergency protective measures; records requests (Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act); and recovery operations focusing on public assistance, individual assistance, and hazard mitigation. In addition, they will receive instruction on providing legal advice under disaster conditions (Advice in Crisis).
Selection Criteria: FEMA OCC staff
Selection Criteria: All IS (Incident Support) employees and other agency representatives who will serve as Chief and Advisory Staff personnel or are preparing for such a role with the NRCC/RRCC.
Selection Criteria: The target audience includes all FEMA IS employees serving as SAS personnel or preparing for an SAS role within the NRCC or RRCC.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management jurisdiction, organization, or agency
The course will assist local emergency responders and stakeholders in identifying critical infrastructure sectors that may be at risk in their jurisdiction and aid them in the development of mitigation strategies that can lessen the jurisdictional impacts.
This course brings together representatives from public service agencies such as utilities and public works, transportation, fire, public safety, city planning/urban development, public health, and local, state, and federal emergency management officials who are expected to identify and mitigate hazards and plan and manage disaster response and recovery efforts within their jurisdictions.
Through tabletop scenarios, course participants will observe a developing incident and respond in a manner consistent with currently established campus and jurisdictional emergency operations procedures.
Successfully preventing, deterring, responding to, and recovering from incidents in the campus community depend upon campus and community leaders recognizing the importance of an integrated approach beforehand. This holistic approach must recognize that successful nationally accepted emergency management principles used during responses to high-consequence events also can and will work when dealing with campus emergencies. Recent national events have demonstrated that campuses are not exempt from dealing with crises.As these threats and hazards have increased and evolved, the US government has expanded its support of initiatives to prepare federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement personnel, in conjunction with the collegiate community, to use an all-hazards approach when dealing with campus emergencies.
This class is designed to address campus emergencies associated with a spontaneous event requiring the attention of college and campus officials, emergency responders, elected officials, and other community stakeholders. The class consists of nine modules. These modules include classroom instruction, facilitated discussions, and practical activities involving scenario-driven problems intended to facilitate discussion and decision making.
This course enables participants to recognize and plan ade¬quate strategies and security measures to prevent or mitigate incidents. Further, this course uses the all-hazards Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) approach to: 1) identify threats and hazards; 2) assess risks; and 3) establish planning measures to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from threats and hazards that pose the greatest risk.
This course is designed to foster a Whole Community approach to event security planning and encourages participa-tion among law enforcement, emergency management, EMS, fire service, and public health personnel, as well as other stakeholders who have a responsibility for security during planned event (e.g., event organizers). The Whole Community approach reinforces the benefits of cross-discipline collabora¬tion in advance planning for event security.
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This co-sponsored course, developed and delivered by the TEEX/NERRTC and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology’s Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center (NMT/EMRTC), provides a strong emphasis in developing a multi-discipline approach to respond for bombing incidents.
Essential first responder/first receiver personnel who would be involved in the medical response to an explosive incident will be introduced to real world event case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and response to blast effects. This dual audience/dual level course includes a Management and Planning level section focused on pre-incident indications of bombing incidents, bombing incident scene safety and security, and resource management for bombing incidents and a Performance level section focused on bombing incident injury patterns and treatment, managing the medical response for bombing incidents, and the planning, training, and exercise cycle for bombing incidents.
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Participants will manage a fictional food emergency using the guidelines and strategies of the Incident and Unified Command systems. The scenario will advance with every module, beginning with Module 2, from the point that a foodborne outbreak is detected. The scenario will progress throughout the modules from surveillance and into the transition to recovery. In Module 7, participants will engage in an after-action discussion to assess their current preparedness for a food emergency and the value of using ICS principles and practices, and adding Emergency Management as a food emergency response partner.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for personnel from various states and tribes who are involved, or could be involved, with recovery planning and coordination.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for a wide range of participants including FEMA regional office staff, NFIP state coordinators, regional planning officials, local and tribal government officials, those who perform floodplain services for local governments, and others interested in learning about the CRS in order to provide technical assistance to communities seeking to apply for CRS credit. Attendance will be limited to two participants from any one community in any fiscal year.
Selection Criteria: FEMA Division Supervisor Trainee or Candidate; other positions may attend with permission from the Operations Cadre Management.
Selection Criteria: Those who have the course on their FEMA Qualification Sheet.
Selection Criteria: This course is intended for certified and non-certified staff to include teachers, substitute teachers, teacher’s aides, teachers representing their school safety committees, school secretaries, guidance counselors, food service workers, coaches, and nurses in kindergarten through grade 12. This course is not intended for school administrators.
Selection Criteria: Full-time public information personnel who have completed the prerequisites.
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who will serve as PLSLs.
Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the EA Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Position Task Book for an EAO.
Selection Criteria: Must be a candidate in this position (SITL) and have been issued the Position Task Book by a certifying official, as outlined in the FEMA Qualification System
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is state and local emergency managers and planners, child services agencies, non-governmental organizations, childcare providers, schools, and faith-based organizations.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA Logistics Personnel with ordering responsibilities at a disaster. Positions include Logistics Section Chiefs; Support, Service, and External Branch Directors; Ordering Unit Lead; Ordering Manager; Ordering Specialist; Logistics Systems Manager; and Logistics Systems Specialist.
Selection Criteria: Must be a trainee in this position (RESL) and have been issued the Position Task Book by a certifying official, as outlined in the FEMA Qualification System.
Selection Criteria: This course is open to the Finance Management Cadre’s Cost Unit Leaders; the Finance and Administration Cadre’s Finance/Administration Section Chief Type II; Regional Financial Management Specialists and Grants Management Specialists; the Finance/Administration Section Chief Type II; Cost Unit Leader; and the Finance/Administration Section Chief Type II (FSC2).
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes experienced Type III Logistics Section Chiefs. However, the course will be open to Federal Coordinating Officers (FCOs) and Regional or National Response Coordination Center (RRCC/NRCC) support staff.
Formerly known as AWR-131-C.
Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.
Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) Training Plan and Audience Matrix.Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.
Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the Logistics Supply Chain Management System (LSCMS) Training Plan and Audience Matrix.
Note: Admission into this training requires prior approval by the Program Office.
Selection Criteria: FEMA mission-critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.
Selection Criteria: FEMA mission critical employees identified by the Program Office who will be trained according to the responsibilities and roles as noted in the LSCMS Training Plan and Audience Matrix.
Selection Criteria: FEMA partners (agencies, NGOs)
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for those who have an emergency management function in any Mission Area (Protection, Prevention, Response, Recovery, and Mitigation). The audience may include, but is not limited to: emergency managers, planners, first responders and supervisors, and representatives from the private sector and volunteer organizations. This training course is a requirement for the completion of EMI’s National Emergency Management Basic Academy.
Selection Criteria: FEMA employees approved by the Hazard Mitigation Cadre Coordinator.
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who will serve as a Documentation Unit Leader
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who are candidates for the IA Group Supervisor or IA Branch Director Type 2 position within the FEMA Qualification System.
MPIOP is a three-course series that prepares public information officers for an expanded role in delivering public information and warning using a strategic whole community approach.
The program reinforces the qualities needed to lead whole community public information/external affairs programs, provides relevant management theories and concepts, and uses case studies to enhance public information/external affairs skill sets.
MPIOP participants work within a collaborative environment on projects and establish a network of peers and contribute to the body of knowledge for emergency management related public information. This includes evaluation of leadership, group dynamics and functional best practices of joint information centers by monitoring student activity during advanced public information officer course offerings.
The goals of the MPIOP are to:
Selection Criteria: A formal application process will be published on the EMI website in the spring of 2018.
MPIOP is a three-course series (E0389/E0393/E0394) that prepares public information officers for an expanded role in delivering public information and warning using a strategic whole community approach.
The goals of the MPIOP are:
During this second part of the MPIOP series, participants will attend an on-campus offering of the E0388, Advanced Public Information Officer course to evaluate an active joint information center (JIC).
Using an objective driven evaluation plan, participants will review the organization, personnel management and interpersonal relationships of the JICs created during a functional exercise.
At the begining of the third part of the MPIOP (E0394), participants will compare after-action reports and develop a best practices report for inclusion in the public information officer body of knowlege project.
Selection Criteria: See criteria for E0389, Master Public Information Officer.
At the begining of this third part of the MPIOP, participants will compare after-action reports from observations conducted during MPIO part two (E0393) and develop a best practices report for inclusion in the public information officer body of knowlege project.Also during this final segment of the MPIOP, participants will continue reviewing various factors to be considered when developing whole community strategic communications plans.
Selection Criteria: See E0389, Master Public Information Officer
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course includes community stakeholders interested in disaster resilience, as well as junior emergency management professionals who support or implement inclusive emergency management, community disaster planning, preparedness activities, and community outreach at the state and local levels. For the purposes of this course, junior emergency management professionals are considered those with less than three years of experience.
Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be SCF members and specialists.
Selection Criteria: Must have completed Automated Deployment Database Surge Capacity Force Training, E0463, Surge Capacity Force Surge Specialist Training, and be at the invitation of the Readiness Unit Branch Chief.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is EA staff—disaster reservists, cadre of on-call response/recovery employees, and permanent full-time employees with open Position Task Books at the Specialist level, designated as trainees. The ideal class size for this course is 30 to 40 participants.
Participants will be determined by the Workforce Development Division and the EA Cadre.
Selection Criteria: The course is limited to FEMA HR cadre employees with the FQS title of HR Manager Trainee.
Selection Criteria: The course is limited to FEMA HR cadre employees with the FQS title of HR Unit Leader Trainee.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is FEMA FQS Positions: Tier 3 Staff Positions:
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is FQS Positions: Tier 2 Staff Positions:
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is FQS Positions: Tier 1 Staff Positions:
Selection Criteria: The course is limited to FEMA HR cadre employees with the FQS title of HR Specialist Trainee and to Finance and Admin Chief Candidates.
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA Logistics personnel with financial responsibilities at a disaster. Positions include
Note: Students with credentials in multiple disciplines are prime student candidates.
Selection Criteria: Must be a trainee in the PSC position and have been issued the Position Task Book by a certifying official, as outlined in the FEMA Qualification System.
Selection Criteria: ADR program staff—Reservists, COREs, and PFTs with deployment experience
This course builds on the technical foundation established in E0475, External Affairs Specialist Training. This course will prepare participants to serve as a manager within the EA structure at the Joint Field Office.
Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the External Affairs Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Task Book for a Manager or Assistant Manager position.
To be successful, the AEAO must be skillful in managing programs, leading people, and working collaboratively. While several FEMA courses touch on these subject areas and, in fact, may be required training for AEAOs, this course relates these competencies to the EA environment.
This course builds on the technical foundation established in E0475, External Affairs Specialist Training, as well as E0739, Intermediate External Affairs, and other FEMA management training. This course will prepare participants to serve as an AEAO at the Joint Field Office.
Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be members of the EA Cadre. They will be designated by FEMA Headquarters EA Training and Cadre Management and must possess an open FEMA Qualification System Position Task Book for an Assistant External Affairs Officer position.
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel who requirethis courseas part of their FQS required training candidates/trainees from the OPS, LOG and PA Cadres.
Selection Criteria: The target audience is for any Planning Section Unit Leader or above and is strongly recommended for all other Command and General Staff members. In addition, the following Incident Command System positions are encouraged to attend:
Selection Criteria: Recommended for GIMG or GIUL trainees that have been issued a PTB by a certifying official, as outlined in the FEMA Qualification System. Or, state and local GIS employees that have equivalent experience.
Selection Criteria: FEMA personnel that are candidates for the following positions: IA Applicant Services Crew Lead, IA Disaster Recovery Center Manager, Other Needs Assistance Specialist Expert, IA Housing Specialist Expert, and IA Voluntary Agency Liaison Crew Lead
Selection Criteria: FEMA IT Specialist trainees and candidates. All nominations will be submitted through the National IT Cadre Manager.
Selection Criteria: FEMA IT Manager trainees and candidates. All nominations will be submitted through the National IT Cadre Manager.
Selection Criteria: Selection is based on the need for the IT Leadership to fulfill all tasks as required in their Position Task Book.
Selection Criteria: Member of Disaster Survivor Assistance Cadre, FEMA Corps, or Surge Capacity Force. Priority goes to those with an open Disaster Survivor Assistance (DSA) Task Force Leader or Crew Leader task book.
Selection Criteria: Personnel assigned to the Security Cadre.
All applicants for admission into the All-Hazards Position-Specific (AHPS) Train-the-Trainer (TtT) program must:
Selection Criteria: The audience for this course consists of FEMA Logistics Personnel such as Accountable Property Officer, Accountable Property Specialist, Property Management Officer, Ordering Unit Lead, Logistics Chief (in case they came through a different route than APO).
Selection Criteria: Local emergency staff from coastal state/communities that are involved in the hurricane decision-making process
Selection Criteria: FEMA Regional staff, Other Federal Agency staff, and state emergency management staff.
The objectives of the course are accomplished through the use of dynamic lectures provided by experts in the field of disaster operations and logistics with threaded discussions that are interspersed with mini and culminating case study activities. Current policy, doctrine, theory, and processes are addressed.
The IL Seminar provides participants with the opportunity to develop and define the authorities, attributes, needs, and perspectives of a National Logistics Coordinator as described in Emergency Support Function (ESF) #7, Logistics Management and Resource Support, of the National Response Framework (NRF). Additionally, this course provides insights and explores potential solutions necessary to manage logistics at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels during a national disaster/incident.
The course includes a number of guest lecturers from DHS/FEMA, Department of Defense (DOD), General Services Administration, states, non-governmental organizations, private sector, and other Federal departments and agencies. All material is non-testable. Participants will be granted access to the Interagency Logistics Portal for presentations and other relevant course material.
Selection Criteria: Participants should be mid-to-senior-level logistics managers from organizations such as DHS, FEMA, and the Military services (Active, Guard, Reserve). Military officers (O-4 through O-6), warrant officers (W-3 through W-5), senior non-commissioned officers (E-8 through E-9), or DOD civilians (GS-12 through GS-15 or equivalent) assigned to, or en route to, a position requiring Interagency logistics knowledge. Civilians from non-governmental and volunteer agencies are invited to attend. International Logistics Exchange Officers assigned to a U.S. joint level or multi-national staff billet are eligible to attend. All others not falling into one of the above categories by either rank or duties, but feel they may benefit from this course, may attend pending approval.
Selection Criteria: The audience consists of anyone in any FEMA facility charged with the responsibility and accountability for acquisition, utilization, maintenance, and disposal of any Government Personal Property.
Selection Criteria: The target population for this training program is broad and includes FEMA personnel at all levels that have been assigned Accountable Receiving Officer duties. These personnel include: FEMA Headquarters Management, Administrative, Procurement, and Reporting; Warehouse Supervisors and Managers; and FEMA Field Personnel at sites including Incident Support Bases.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this training includes:
New FEMA employees are required to successfully complete this course within 90 days of their FEMA appointment. In addition, if the FEMA employee is a reservist, he/she must successfully complete the training one time every calendar year. Full-time employees will complete this course as their required training.
Selection Criteria: All FEMA employees
Selection Criteria: This workshop is designed for new HM Management support staff, including:
HM Property Damage Assessment (PDA) Specialist is also an HM Management support position; however, that position title is only assigned as a secondary title to staff who are qualified in another HM Specialist title. HM PDA Specialists will have completed the HM Functional Workshop associated with their primary title, and they could benefit from attending this one. A secondary audience is HM Program Support Managers who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM Community Planner staff. A secondary audience is HM Planning Specialist Experts and HM Planning supervisors who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM Grants Specialists will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM HPA staff. A secondary audience is the Specialist Expert and Crew Leader positions in HM HPA who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM CEO staff. A secondary audience is HM CEO Specialist Experts and Crew Leaders who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review.
Selection Criteria: The course is intended for personnel of state and local governments, tribal governments, and private non-profit organizations that are eligible applicants or sub-applicants under HMA grants; and FEMA employees assigned to HMA grant activities.
Selection Criteria: EHP Practitioners
Selection Criteria: Emergency managers
As part of this effort, in partnership with the University of Southern California Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events (CREATE), this course and its companion tip sheet resources have been developed with the University of Southern California Center for Religion and Civic Culture (CRCC) and the National Disaster Interfaiths Network. In addition, FEMA personnel assisted the development of the course by providing their relevant expertise responding to disasters.
The course provides emergency management professionals and faith and community leaders active in disaster with the religious literacy and competency tools needed to learn how to effectively engage religious and cultural groups and their leaders throughout the disaster lifecycle.
Selection Criteria: Open to anyone
Selection Criteria: Insurance agents, adjustors, floodplain managers, building code officials, local government officials and property owners.
Selection Criteria:The primary audience for this course is property and casualty insurance agents who are rating buildings and selling flood insurance.
CEC's: 2
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this course is Land Surveyors and other licensed professionals who may be retained to produce an FEMA NFIP elevation certificate. The secondary audience for this course is floodplain management professionals.
Selection Criteria: Independent claims adjusters who want to become "NFIP Certified Adjusters" or maintain their "NFIP Certified Adjuster" status.
Selection Criteria: Property and casualty insurance agents, professional engineers and surveyors, financial institutions, floodplain management professionals, flood determination companies, flood claims adjusters, community officials and property owners
Selection Criteria: Claims adjusters (new and certified)
Selection Criteria: NFIP insurance agents
Selection Criteria: Property and casualty agents
Selection Criteria: Insurance agents, adjusters, floodplain managers, building code officials, local government officials and property owners.
Selection Criteria: Insurance adjusters (new and certified)
Selection Criteria: Insurance agents, engineers, surveyors, planners, floodplain managers, building code officials and local officials who desire more information about Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) and Otherwise Protected Areas (OPAs) on the Flood Insurance Rate Map
Selection Criteria: The class is open to Operations, Logistics, and Planning personnel in FEMA and OFAs who have or who will operate in a FEMA Staging Area.
Selection Criteria: Identified Disability Integration Advisor Leads who require this course under the FEMA Qualification System
A large number of job aids are provided to help in the application of training skills. To prepare for the 20 minute presentation, participants should come to class with a laptop.
Selection Criteria: Subject Matter Experts who have the responsibility to deliver training
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for local elected officials (mayor, city/county council member), tribal leaders, city/county manager/staff, city/county planners/staff, regional planning commissions, economic development districts, finance director/assessor, emergency manager/staff, public works director/staff, building inspector/staff, floodplain manager/staff, health care administrator or planner, public information officer, housing director or planner/staff, voluntary agency coordinator or unmet needs committee coordinator, business organization representative, administrative director/manager, state recovery staff and partners (so they can be tuned into recovery at the local level)
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for emergency management personnel who are involved in developing an effective emergency planning system.
The one-day Public Information Officer Awareness Course (G0289) is designed to familiarize participants with the concepts underlying the PIO role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position. Additionally, it can provide those in executive level roles the necessary knowledge of PIO roles and responsibilities during an emergency.
This is the first course in the Public Information Training Series.
This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other, enhancing participants’ skills further at each level. This course uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.
This course is equivalent to the IS0029 course found on the EMI Independent Study Web site.
This course will introduce the participants to the public information function and the role of the PIO in the public safety/emergency management environment.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who have public information responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary function at the federal, state, local, tribal, or territorial level of government, and in the private and nongovernmental sectors.
A secondary audience for this training includes individuals who would benefit from a general understanding of the emergency public information function. This audience would include elected and other officials (e.g., dispatchers, receptionists) who may work with PIOs or with the news media during an incident or have initial media contact outside an incident through the course of their job.
This online course may be found at http://campus.emrtc.nmt.edu/campus/
The Basic Public Information Officer Course (G0290) is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to start applying basic concepts underlying the Public Information Officer (PIO) role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position.
This is the second course in the Public Information Training Series. This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other enhancing students’ skills further at each level. This course uses Bloom’s Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.
This course will consider the value of communication before, during and after an incident. It will help PIOs identify critical audiences, both internal and external.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this training is individuals who have public information responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary function at the federal, state, local, tribal or territorial level of government, and in the private and nongovernmental sectors.
This courseis designed for PIOs with experience in the field who will be working in a JIS/JIC. This is the third course in the Public Information Training Series. This course is delivered at the state, local, tribal, and territorial governments. Other courses are conducted as resident courses at the Emergency Management Institute (EMI). The courses build on each other enhancing students’ skills further at each level. This course uses Blooms Taxonomy as a guide to focus the course material to augment the knowledge and comprehension for new PIOs.
(This course is equivalent to E/L0387)
This course will outline the communications needed for different incidents and define the roles of the PIO within ICS.
This course covers incident management; mass fatalities; planning before and operations during an incident; establishing the morgue; family assistance support operations; and assistance from the Federal government. The course concludes with a tabletop exercise.Participants will learn to identify the characteristics of a mass fatality incident and identify the roles and responsibilities of key personnel in the incident. In addition, the instructor will describe the steps required to respond to a mass fatalities incident, including catastrophic numbers of fatalities and contaminated remains, and help participants determine their jurisdiction’s preparedness for a mass fatalities event.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course is local responders who may have responsibility for the recovery, handling, identification, and return of remains following a mass fatalities incident.
Selection Criteria: This course is open to all Federal, state, local, and tribal emergency managers; first responders to include Incident Commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster personnel.
The awareness-level 0.5 day course will focus specifically and be limited to the REP planning methodology that already exists. This methodology goes beyond the planning guidance provided in CPG- 101 and incorporates the unique planning aspects of FEMA’s REP Program.
This two-day course will teach dam owners; emergency service providers; emergency planners and managers; land use and transportation planners; community leaders; and other members of the community to work together through upfront planning to reduce the risks and mitigate the consequences resulting from a dam failure, and to recover more effectively in the event of a failure.
Selection Criteria: This two-day course is designed for stakeholders in communities that could be affected by a dam breach or failure. Applicants should have experience in one or more of the following areas: dam ownership, dam operations, emergency action planning, emergency response, land use planning, or transportation planning.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM insurance specialists. A secondary audience is the HM insurance specialist experts and HM insurance crew leaders who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM floodplain management staff will benefit from this course because there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for new HM floodplain management staff. A secondary audience is HM floodplain management specialist experts and supervisors who have not previously participated in this training; they may find it to be a valuable review. HM Insurance staff will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.
HM insurance staff will benefit from this course as there is overlap and collaboration between the two functions.
Selection Criteria: Insurance agents, property owners, floodplain managers, planners and other local officials who are assisting property owners with flood map changes or determinations.
Selection Criteria: First line supervisor of emergency management communications personnel.
Selection Criteria: Flood claims adjusters employed by a claims adjusting company, insurance companies that write NFIP flood insurance (WYO), or contracted to work through other adjusting companies, salvors, engineers, architects, building code officials, floodplain managers, local officials and the general public
These perspectives include technical, policy and doctrine and professional. The module “GeoCONOPS In-Depth” focuses on the GeoCONOPS relevance and importance to federal policy and doctrine for emergency management with a focus on the National Preparedness Directive – PPD-8 and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). At the conclusion of this module, students will be familiarized with the importance of thefour key values of the GeoCONOPS to the National Preparedness System, NIMS and the Incident Command System (ICS).
These perspectives include professional, technical and policy, and doctrine. The module “GeoCONOPS In Practice” focuses on the importance of the GeoCONOPS to the professional roles of emergency manager, incident commander and geospatial practitioner. This module presents the content of the GeoCONOPS using one of two scenarios that are incorporated into the GeoCONOPS. At the conclusion of this module, students will be familiarized with thefour key values of the GeoCONOPS in support of the different roles that are critical to emergency management.
Flexible Delivery materials will take approximately 8-10 hours to deliver. Instructors should leave 2 hours for personnel to take the online version of the test to receive credit.
Selection Criteria: This course is designed for anyone who may be involved in damage assessment as a team member, team lead, or coordinator. The target audience includes Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial representatives from a wide range of job positions and responsibilities.
Selection Criteria: Course Manager approval
Selection Criteria: FEMA Public Assistance Site Inspectors
Customer service, program/project management, and operational planning serve as the organizational structure for this course. This course also includes instruction on effective communications and customer service techniques and introduces the participant to the principles of lean management.
Selection Criteria: Staff deployed in the position of a FEMA PA Program Delivery Manager.
Selection Criteria: Successful completion ofthe IS0505 or Flexible Delivery IS0505 course, and preferably should have a background in both emergency management and religious and cultural literacy.
Selection Criteria: DHS operational component members who utilize a radio as part of their first-line or collateral duty.
Selection Criteria: This course is open to anyone.
Selection Criteria: Surge Capacity Training
Selection Criteria: The participant must have status as a current MEPP Candidate by completing E0132 and E0133.
ACE: Curriculum: Emergency Management
This course provides FEMA Grants Management subject matter experts with the skills they need to effectively present units in the E/L0705 Fundamentals of Grants Management course.
The target audience for this course are subject matter experts who are responsible for delivering the E/L0705 Fundamentals of Grants Management course.
Selection Criteria: Emergency management and homeland security professionals who require knowledge in exercise design.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for the course is state, tribal and local HMGP applicants with access to the NEMIS HMPG system. Additional audiences include FEMA personnel with access to the NEMIS HMGP system.