enrollment for emi courses - Emergency Management Institute ...

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multi-Hazard Emergency planning for
schools (g364)
This 2-day course provides schools with the
knowledge, skills, and tools needed to review, enhance,
and sustain their all-hazard school Emergency
Operations Plan (EOP). This course explains how
to utilize the National Incident Management System
(NIMS) as the foundation for planning and building
partnerships with outside agencies such as police,
fire, and emergency management. In addition, this
course will provide participants with opportunities
to exercise their school EOP using Homeland
Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
guidelines as well as guidelines on how to sustain
their school EOP through action planning sessions.
Selection Criteria: Principals, vice principals, risk
managers, School Board members, school safety
coordinators, transportation coordinators, food service
coordinators, facility managers/building engineers,
nurses, counselors, and local first responders.
Course Length: 16 hours
planning for the needs of children in
Disasters (g366)
This course enables participants to improve their
community’s mitigation and Emergency Operations
Plan specifically regarding the needs of children.
The course will provide participants with the
information needed to address the unique needs of
children prior to, during, and following disasters.
It will also provide them guidance and direction
on how to form coalitions and how to become
advocates for the unique needs of children in all
aspects of emergency management.
After completing this course, participants will be
able to:
• Articulate the importance of providing for the
needs of children in disasters in their community’s
current emergency management plan.
• Explain what is required to keep children safe in
emergencies and why those needs are unique.
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• Explain the assumptions, concept of
operations, and organization and assignment of
responsibilities that address the unique needs of
children prior to, during, and following disasters.
• Explain the planning components necessary to
address the unique needs of children prior to,
during, and following disasters.
• Create an annex to a community’s Emergency
Operations Plan addressing the unique needs of
children in disasters.
• Identify stakeholders and organizations that can
assist in preparing for the needs of children in
disasters.
• Initiate steps to form coalitions and build teams
that have a stake in keeping children safe in
disasters.
Selection Criteria: The target audience for this course
is local and State emergency managers and planners,
child services agencies, NGOs, child care providers,
schools, and faith-based organizations.
mitigation for Emergency managers
(g393)
This course is designed to train emergency
managers and other interested individuals who
have no specialized technical background, but who
can support mitigation efforts as advocates. The
course provides activities and exercises that build
the participants’ abilities to: perform the tasks and
responsibilities of the emergency manager’s role;
create long-term strategies for disaster-resistant
communities; identify local mitigation opportunities;
select mitigation solutions to hazard risk problems;
and find resources to carry out mitigation activities
in a post-disaster environment.
Selection Criteria: Tribal and local government officials,
emergency managers, community leaders in such
efforts as voluntary organizations, businesses and
industries, and other emergency service personnel.
Prerequisites:
Required: Completion of IS 393.a, Introduction to
Hazard Mitigation.
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