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List of Courses
Animals in Disaster
Business and Industry Contingency Planning Course
Business and Industry Contingency Planning Workshop
Community Emergency Response Team
Crisis Public Information and Media Management
Expedient Flood Fighting
Hazardous Weather for Emergency Services
I-100 Introduction to Incident Command
I-200 ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
I-700 NIMS: An Introduction
I-800 National Response Plan: An Introduction
Individual and Family Preparedness
Overview of the Integrated Emergency Management System
Animals in Disaster
This course will bring together emergency management personnel and the animal care community for open and frank discussions about animals during disasters. This course will not provide details about the care of animals in disasters. Rather, it will promote personal responsibility of animal owners and will build relationships with the animal care community to help develop a local animal disaster plan. Guidance on possible components of an animal disaster plan will be provided.
Contact Hours: 4
Min/Max: 15/30
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Business and Industry Contingency Planning Course
This course is designed to teach the basic principles of business contingency planning. Students will identify a company’s vulnerabilities based on known natural and technological hazards. Each aspect of the company’s operation will be considered, and students will be given detailed guidance on how to write a plan to address a company’s potential disasters. Possible hazard-reduction strategies designed to reduce vulnerability also will be introduced.
Contact Hours: 16
Min/Max: 15/30
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Business and Industry Contingency Planning Workshop
This short course will introduce students to the principles of business contingency planning. In addition, participants will be provided with reference materials they can use to complete a contingency planning process within their own organizations.
Contact Hours: 4
Min/Max: 15/40
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Community Emergency Response Team
This course will provide citizens in a community the skills they need to perform essential lifesaving functions while waiting for professional responders to arrive at a disaster. Developed by the LA County Fire Department, this course is organized into modules for ease of delivery. CERT is a highly sought after course by citizen groups, corporations, and school systems to train regular citizenry how to handle emergencies and disasters. Topics covered will include disaster fire suppression, disaster medical operations, light search and rescue, disaster psychology, and team organization.
Contact Hours: 16
Requirements: A team of two instructors or more with skills in instruction, fire fighting and first aid.
Min/Max: 15/25
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Crisis Public Information and Media Management
This course is designed to assist governmental departments or private-sector businesses prepare to deliver crisis information to the public and to manage potential conflicts with the media. The course will cover how to write press releases, how to deliver emergency information to the public, media roles, media do’s and don’ts, and media management techniques. An extra, 4-hour “on camera” exercise can be added to the course for a more realistic experience.
Contact Hours: 8 for class only. 12 for class and practical exercise
Min/Max: 15/25
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Expedient Flood Fighting
This hands-on course will cover the basic principles of flood fighting. Topics addressed will include planning for a flood fight, sandbagging operations, sandbagging logistics, and safety issues. This course will require a local commitment to purchase materials for an actual demonstration of sandbagging operations and for a group practical exercise.
Contact Hours: 4
Min/Max: 15/40
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Hazardous Weather for Emergency Services
Hazardous weather is responsible for many emergencies and disasters. This course will provide emergency service personnel with basic knowledge about weather and about how to plan a response to a weather emergency. Topics will include seasonal hazardous conditions, what makes certain conditions hazardous, what to look for in forecasts, and National Weather Service’s products and their uses.
Contact Hours: 8
Min/Max: 15/30
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I-100 Introduction to Incident Command
This course will introduce students to the Incident Command System (ICS), providing a foundation for higher-level ICS training. The course will cover the history, features, principles, and organizational structure of ICS, as well as the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS). This course is NIMS compliant and meets the NIMS “Baseline Training” requirement for I-100.
Contact Hours: 2
Prerequisite: I-700
Min/Max: 15/50
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I-200 ICS for SIngle Resources adn Initial Action Incidents
This course will enable personnel to operate efficiently within the Incident Command System (ICS) during an incident or event. The course will focus on the management of single resources.
Contact Hours: 12
Prerequisite: I-100
Min/Max: 15/30
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I-700 NIMS: An Introduction
NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work together during domestic incidents. This course introduces NIMS and explains the purpose, principles, key components and benefits of NIMS. The course also contains “Planning Activity” exercises that provide participants with an opportunity to complete some planning tasks during this course. This course meets training requirements to become NIMS compliant.
Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 15/50
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I-800 National Response Plan: An Introduction
The National Response Plan, or NRP, specifies how the resources of the Federal Government will work in concert with State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector to respond to Incidents of National Significance. The NRP is predicated on the National Incident Management System, or NIMS. This course introduces you to the NRP, including the concept of operations upon which the plan is built, roles and responsibilities of the key players, and the organizational structures used to manage these resources. The NRP provides a framework to ensure that we can all work together when our Nation is threatened. This course meets training requirements to become NIMS compliant.
Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: I-700
Min/Max: 15/50
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Individual and Family Preparedness
The basis for all disaster responses is to respond to the emergency needs of the public. This short course will focus on the fundamental principles of individual and family preparedness in the event of a disaster. Topics will include family disaster planning, family disaster kits, school and office preparedness, and food and water supplies in an emergency.
Contact Hours: 4
Min/Max: 15/30
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Overview of the Integrated Emergency Management System
This short course provides an introduction to the emergency management system. Students will be introduced to the four phases of comprehensive emergency management, the disaster declaration process, and the roles of government, volunteer agencies, private businesses, and citizens in an emergency management system.
Contact Hours: 4
Min/Max: 15/30
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