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EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs
Incident Command System/Emergency
Operations Center (ICS/EOC) Interface
(G191)
This course works best when delivered to Incident
Command System and Emergency Operations Center
personnel from the same community. The course
provides an opportunity for participants to begin
developing an ICS/EOC interface for their community.
The course reviews ICS and EOC responsibilities
and functions and depends heavily on exercises and
group discussions to formulate the interface.
Selection Criteria: Participants should be teams from a
community’s ICS and EOC personnel.
Prerequisites:
Recommended: IS-100.b, Introduction to the Incident
Command System (ICS), ICS-100; IS-200.b, Incident
Command System (ICS) for Single Resources and Initial
Action Incidents, ICS-200; and/or EOC Management
courses.
Course Length: 8 hours
Emergency Planning for Access and
Functional Needs Populations (G197)
This 2½-day course is intended to provide those
with responsibilities for providing emergency planning
or care of seniors, people with disabilities,
and/or functional needs groups with the skills and
knowledge they will need to prepare for, respond to,
and recover from emergency situations.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course
includes emergency managers, senior first-response
personnel, special needs coordinators, human
services organization personnel, facility planners,
community-based organizational personnel, advocacy
group personnel, elected officials, public health
personnel, and Voluntary Organizations Active in
Disaster (VOAD) personnel.
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Workshop: Amateur Radio Resources
(G251)
This 3- to 4-hour workshop is designed to provide State
and local elected officials, emergency managers, and
other public officials an understanding of how these
volunteer communication groups can help in supplementing
telecommunication and warning systems.
Selection Criteria: State and local elected officials,
emergency managers, and other public officials.
Recovery from Disaster: The Local
Government Role (G270 .4)
This workshop is a condensed version of the 4 day
EMI resident course.
The Workshop in Emergency Management (WEM)
is designed for ½- to 2-day delivery, depending on
local need, and covers the roles and responsibilities
of local recovery team members.
Selection Criteria: Local government emergency managers,
city and county administrators, community planners,
building inspectors, and public works directors.
NOTE: All course files are accessible to the State Training Officer
via the FEMA web site.
Hazardous Weather and Flood
Preparedness (G271)
The National Weather Service (NWS) and FEMA
developed this course with input from many States
and local emergency managers. It is intended to help
to promote a more proactive response to weather
and flooding hazards through close coordination
between emergency management and NWS. This
course covers:
• how the basic elements of weather can combine
to create potential hazards in an area;
• weather forecast products and how to interpret
them; and
• anticipating hazardous weather for planning,
warning, and response purposes.
FEdErAL EmErgENCy mANAgEmENT AgENCy
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COURSES—PREPAREDNESS