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RESIDENT COURSES—<br />

PREPAREDNESS<br />

EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs<br />

Preparedness Curriculum<br />

Most of the Preparedness courses are conducted at<br />

the local and State levels (see the Preparedness State/<br />

Local/Tribal Field <strong>Course</strong> section).<br />

The current Preparedness menu of resident courses<br />

focuses on Tribal training, radiological hazards,<br />

Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program,<br />

hazardous materials, and Community <strong>Emergency</strong><br />

Response Team (CERT) training. Resident courses<br />

include those specific to the Radiological <strong>Emergency</strong><br />

Preparedness (REP) program and those generic<br />

to any hazard. The Preparedness resident courses<br />

include emergency planning for incidents, as well<br />

as skill and exercise-based courses for gathering and<br />

analyzing data.<br />

<strong>Emergency</strong> management training for schools can be<br />

found under the Mitigation curriculum.<br />

<strong>Emergency</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Accreditation<br />

Program (EMAP) Accreditation/Assessment<br />

Manager Orientation (E123)<br />

EMAP’s Accreditation/Assessment Manager<br />

Orientation is an opportunity for emergency<br />

management personnel from State, Tribal, territorial,<br />

county, and city emergency management programs<br />

to learn about EMAP, EMAP standards, and preparing<br />

their programs for assessment and accreditation.<br />

The orientation session provides information about<br />

EMAP standards and procedures and compiling<br />

compliance documentation for an EMAP assessment.<br />

Selection Criteria: <strong>Emergency</strong> management personnel<br />

from State, Tribal, territorial, county, and city emergency<br />

management programs.<br />

<strong>Course</strong> Length: 1½ days<br />

CEUs: 1.0<br />

FEdErAL EmErgENCy mANAgEmENT AgENCy 38<br />

<strong>Emergency</strong> <strong>Management</strong> Accreditation<br />

Program (EMAP) Assessor Training (E124)<br />

The training will prepare experienced emergency<br />

managers to serve as on-site assessors as part of the<br />

accreditation process. Training is open to experienced<br />

emergency managers who meet the assessor<br />

qualifications below. The training will cover EMAP<br />

standards, assessment procedures, and assessor<br />

responsibilities, and will conclude with an assessor<br />

examination. For more information, please refer to<br />

http://www.emaponline.org/.<br />

Selection Criteria: Assessors must have the following<br />

qualifications, at a minimum:<br />

• Five years of experience in an emergency<br />

management position in State or local<br />

government emergency management;<br />

• Experience in at least one actual emergency in<br />

which the emergency plan was implemented<br />

and participation in an activated <strong>Emergency</strong><br />

Operations Center requiring implementation of<br />

operations response procedures;<br />

• Participated in at least one emergency operation,<br />

training, or exercise event in the last calendar<br />

year;<br />

• Be knowledgeable and up-to-date about the<br />

principles of comprehensive emergency<br />

management;<br />

• Must abide by the EMAP’s Code of Conduct;<br />

• Must be available for at least one assessment each<br />

year; and<br />

• Have no conflict of interest as regards to any<br />

aspect of EMAP that might prevent objective<br />

review and assessment of a candidate program.<br />

Must be able and willing to serve as a neutral<br />

observer.<br />

<strong>Course</strong> Length: 2 days<br />

CEUs: 1.2

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