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EmE r g E n c y ma n a g E m E n t In s t I t u t E • 2010-2011 • ca t a l o g of co u r s E s
Exercise program manager/management
(g137)
This 2½-day course provides knowledge, skills, and
job aids to assist local, State, and Federal personnel
in implementing their roles and responsibilities
as exercise program managers. Work products
developed during the course will be useful for
the participant to develop or upgrade his or her
comprehensive exercise program.
Selection Criteria: State, FEMA regional, other Federal
agency staff, and local emergency management/
emergency services staff who have the responsibility to
initiate and/or maintain their respective organization’s/
jurisdiction’s overall exercise program.
Prerequisites:
Required: The participant must have substantial
knowledge of emergency management operations
and exercises within his/her organization and the
assigned responsibility to initiate and/or upgrade
the overall comprehensive exercise program.
Exercise practicum for the master
Exercise practitioner (g138)
This activity consists of a series of self-directed
and negotiated proficiency demonstrations of the
knowledge, skills, and abilities acquired through
the completion of courses. The proficiency
demonstrations are structured in three major areas
of concentration: exercise design and control,
exercise evaluation, and exercise management/
program management. Practicum sponsors will
monitor the completion of 11 major proficiency
demonstrations. In this manner, capabilities gained
in classroom instruction can be applied to actual
emergency management exercises as conducted by
local, State, and Federal agencies.
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Selection Criteria: State, FEMA regional, other
Federal agency staff, and local/Tribal emergency
management/emergency services staff who have the
responsibilities related to the design, development,
performance, and evaluation of emergency
management exercises. Applicants must declare their
intention of completing the CEC offerings and earn
the Master Exercise Practitioner title.
public Information Officer (pIO)
awareness training (g289)
This awareness-level training is suitable for new
PIOs, taken alone or before Basic Public Information
Officer (PIO) (G290) training. A secondary audience
is elected or other officials who want an overview of
emergency public information.
Selection Criteria: The primary audience for this
training is individuals who have public information
responsibilities as their main job or as an auxiliary
function at State, local, or Tribal levels of government.
A secondary audience for the awareness component
of this training includes individuals who would
benefit from a general understanding of the
emergency public information function. This
audience would include elected and other officials
with responsibilities that would necessitate their
working with PIOs or the news media during an
emergency incident.
Course Length: 1-day classroom
basic public Information Officer (pIO)
(g290)
This course is an updated, shortened, and revised
version of the previous G290 course.The revised course
emphasizes skills development, addresses the impact
of technology on emergency public information, and
offers options that allow States to tailor the instructional
methodology to suit their needs while consistently
meeting the course learning objectives.
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