EMI Course Catalog - Emergency Management Institute - Federal ...

FEMA/FEDERAL PARTNERS
COURSES—RESPONSE
& RECOVERY
EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs
Selection Criteria: FCO Cadre, FEMA Operations and
Logistics Section Chiefs, and Mission Assignment
Staff with disaster response experience involved in
response activities. Selection is on a space-available
basis. Contact the EMI Course Manager, and the DoD
Course Manager at http://usarnorth.org. DoD personnel
need to enroll through http://usarnorth.org.
Prerequisites:
Required: Completion of DSCA Phase I, an 8-hour
Independent Study course at http://usarnorth.org;
IS-700.a, National Incident Management System (NIMS),
An Introduction; IS-800.b, National Response Framework
(NRF), An Introduction; and IS-293, Mission Assignment
(MA) Overview.
Course Length: 4½ days
CEUs: 4.0
Response Operations II—ICS 420 (E/L422)
This course is intended to train and exercise
Command and General staff in leadership and
management skills and to effectively perform their
roles and responsibilities as members of a Type II
Team.
Selection Criteria: IMAT (Incident Management
Assistance Team) Command and General Staff who
have completed E/L423, Response Operations III—ICS
320.
Prerequisites:
Required: Completion of E/L423, Response Operations
III—ICS 320.
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 3.6
Response Operations III—ICS 320
(E/L423)
This course is intended to provide FEMA personnel
with the foundation of the Federal government’s
role in operational response concepts utilizing
the Incident Action Planning Process, the National
Incident Management System (NIMS), and Incident
Command System (ICS) concepts. Participants learn
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to develop incident objectives, how to conduct a
strategy meeting, and outline a response organization
based on various scenarios.
Selection Criteria: Joint Field Office (JFO) FEMA
personnel at the Branch Director/Unit Leader and
above and other Federal agency personnel.
Prerequisites:
Required: Must have supervisory approval.
Course Length: 3 days
CEUs: 2.1
Surge Capacity Force (SCF) Staging
Training (E/L/B469)
Surge Capacity Force (SCF) Staging Areas are activated
during periods of intense disaster activity
or multiple events during which FEMA’s response
capabilities, heavily dependent upon manpower, are
severely stressed. In order to ensure FEMA’s ability to
support disaster response and recovery efforts, the
Agency may activate pre-identified, non-emergency
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) component
agencies’ employees (Surge Capacity Force
Personnel). Pre-designated SCF Staging Areas are
established to register, train, and deploy the Surge
Capacity Force. The goal of this course is to successfully
transport, in-process, train, and out-process all
identified Tiered personnel.
Selection Criteria: Participants in this course will be
SCF Specialists.
Prerequisites:
Required: 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; IS-700.a, National Incident Management System
(NIMS), An Introduction; IS-800.b, National Response
Framework (NRF), An Introduction; and the 3-week
Surge Capacity Force Specialist Training.
Course Length: 5 days
CEUs: 4