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RESIDENT COURSES—
RESPONSE & RECOVERY
EmErgEncy managEmEnt InstItutE • 2011-2012 • catalog of coursEs
Response and Recovery
Curriculum
The Emergency Management Institute’s (EMI’s)
Response and Recovery curriculum provides
training and education for Federal, State, Tribal, and
local personnel involved in response and recovery
activities.
The curriculum emphasizes the functions involved
in response and recovery that can be applied to all
hazards. There are also courses which teach aspects
of the FEMA Individual Assistance and Public
Assistance recovery programs.
Recent disasters illustrate the need to have disaster
response and recovery plans and to provide training
for disaster workers on their roles, responsibilities,
functions, and procedures in disasters. The Response
and Recovery curriculum provides such training and
education for workers at the Federal, State, Tribal, and
local levels of government and allied organizations.
Debris Management Planning for State,
Tribal, and Local Officials (E202)
This course provides an overview of issues and
recommended actions necessary to plan for,
respond to, and recover from a major debris-generating
event with emphasis on State, Tribal, and local
responsibilities. Developed from a pre-disaster planning
perspective, the course includes debris staff
organizations, compliance with laws and regulations,
contracting procedures, debris management
site selection, volume reduction methods, recycling,
special debris situations, and supplementary
assistance.
Selection Criteria: Tribal, local, and State emergency
management personnel, including public works and
waste management staffs, who are responsible for
planning and/or implementing debris removal and
disposal actions.
Course Length: 4 days
CEUs: 2.8
FEdErAL EmErgENCy mANAgEmENT AgENCy 54
Voluntary Agency Liaison Specialist:
Functions and Methods (E/L287)
This course is designed to help participants learn
and share skills among a team of partners so they can
provide consistent delivery of service to communities
impacted by disasters.
Throughout the 5 full days of class, participants
are challenged to do more than simply memorize
and recall information. They will be expected to
apply information in many different ways. Through
the activities and information presented, they will
appraise, argue, choose, defend, estimate, judge,
predict, select, value, and evaluate. By the end of the
week, critical thinking will be the foundation for all
the work participants will do as a Voluntary Agency
Liaison (VAL)!
Selection Criteria: FEMA VALs, State VALs, and representatives
from voluntary organizations who have
an interest in learning more about the work of VALs
in disasters. The course is not recommended for
individuals with less than 6 months of experience
working with voluntary agencies in disaster, or for
those who have fewer than 3 months of deployment
experience.
Prerequisites:
Required: IS-7, A Citizen’s Guide to Disaster Assistance;
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-230.a, Fundamentals of Emergency Management; IS-244,
Developing and Managing Volunteers; IS-288, The Role of
Voluntary Agencies in Emergency Management; IS-403,
Introduction to Individual Assistance; IS-416, Web Applicant
Inquiry (formerly DF-116, Web Applicant Inquiry);
IS-700.a, National Incident Management System (NIMS),
An Introduction; IS-800.b, National Response Framework
(NRF), An Introduction; IS-806, ESF 6, and DF-115,
Applicant Services in the DRC.
Recommended: G108, Community Mass Care Management;
G197, Emergency Planning for Access and Functional Needs
Populations; and G288, Local Volunteer and Donations
Management Course.