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4.0 transitional!The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Independent Study Program is delivered through the Emergency Management Institute (EMI), and consists of the following free courses. Most of the independent study course materials are available on the Internet. Individual and group enrollments, college credit and military retirement points are available - contact the Sarpy County Emergency Management Agency at 593-5785 for applications, additional information, or to schedule a group presentation. Each set of course materials includes practice exercises and a final examination. Those who score 75% or better are issued a certificate of completion by EMI.
IS-1 Emergency Program Manager describes tasks and responsibilities of the Emergency Program Manager, Emergency Management functions, and the role of the Emergency Manager in mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
IS-2 Emergency Preparedness, USA presents a natural and technological Risk Analysis, applies the four phases of Comprehensive Emergency Management, and stresses development of personal and community emergency plans.
IS-3 Radiological Emergency Management presents fundamental principles of radiation, radiological transportation incidents, nuclear power plants, and nuclear threat and protective measures.
IS-5 Hazardous Materials: A Citizen's Orientation describes hazardous materials and their effects on human health, hazardous materials regulations, how to prepare for hazardous materials incidents, and points out common hazardous materials in the home.
IS-7 A Citizen's Guide to Disaster Assistance presents an overview of disaster assistance, local and state response and recovery activities, federal disaster assistance, and the citizen's role in preparedness.
IS-10 Animals in Disaster - Module A - Awareness and Preparedness intends to increase awareness among animal owners and care providers.
IS-11 Animals in Disaster - Module B - Community Planning intends to guide emergency management officials, animal owners, care providers, and industry in preparing disaster plans.
IS-15 Special Events Contingency Planning for Public Safety Agenciesintends to guide anyone with a role in developing a special event plan.
IS-120 An Orientation to Community Disaster Exercises is a prerequisite to EMI Field Course G120, Exercise Design. Describes types of Emergency Management exercises, the exercise development process, and the basic steps in exercise design.
IS-195 Basic Incident Command System introduces the The Incident Command System (ICS), a recognized effective system for managing emergencies. Several States have adopted ICS as their standard for emergency management, and others are considering adopting ICS. As ICS gains wider use, there is a need to provide training for those who are not first responders (i.e., law enforcement, fire, or emergency medical services personnel) who may be called upon to function in an ICS environment.
IS-271 Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk is a prerequisite to EMI Field Course G271, Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk. Trains the emergency manager to more effectively recognize potentially hazardous weather and flooding situations, use and interpret NWS products, and develop a partnership with NWS well in advance of a threat.
IS-275 The Role of the EOC in Community Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Activities Exercises is a prerequisite to EMI Field Course G275, EOC Management and Operations. Discusses the role of the EOC in preparing for, responding to and recovering from actual or potential incidents. Describes the role and responsibilities of the EOC Operations Officer.
IS-279 Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures is a prerequisite to EMI Field Course G279, Engineering Principles and Practices for Retrofitting Flood-Prone Residential Structures. Provides essential, nontechnical background knowledge about retrofitting.
IS-288 The Role of Voluntary Agencies in Emergency Management provides a basic understanding of the history, roles, and services of disaster relief voluntary agencies in providing disaster assistance.
IS-301 Radiological Emergency Response is a prerequisite of the resident course S301, Radiological Emergency Response Operations.
IS-393 Introduction to Mitigation familiarizes citizens and government officials with ways to reduce the cost and impact of disaster.
Please refer to the Nebraska training schedule for course availability.
G120 Exercise Design Course provides knowledge and develops skills to enable attending students to train a staff and conduct an effective exercise that will test a communities' plan and its operational response capability. This course will provide an excellent initiation into the importance of plans, development of a community based exercise program and the recovery phase of disasters. Pre-requisite: IS-120 An Orientation to Community Disaster Exercises
G130 Exercise Evaluation Course provides knowledge and skills
that will enable attendees to manage exercise evaluation activities before, during, and
after conduct of disaster exercises.
Pre-requisite: G120 Exercise Design Course
G191 Incident Command/Emergency Operations Center (ICS/EOC) Interface Course assists in understanding the ICS and EOC responsibilities and functions and the importance of developing the interface plan for these two systems. This course emphasizes the importance of teamwork between ICS and EOC and helps formulate methods for the interface to occur and be successful.
G230 Introduction to Emergency Management Course examines the need for an emergency management system and the importance of an integrated approach to managing emergencies. Students will formulate the elements of an integrated teamwork system and devise specific actions for improving their contributions to local emergency management teams.
G235 Emergency Planning Course will improve planning skills and promote preparation of integrated Civil Defense/Emergency Management plans. Students will examine the planning process, action planning techniques, and team building for emergency planning.
G240 Basic Skills: Leadership and Influence Course will improve skills in leadership, conflict management, and the use of influence and power. The course will evaluate the impact of personality styles on leadership, review successful styles of leadership, assess the role of conflict in emergency management, and identify the roles of interpersonal relations and group dynamics.
G241 Basic Skills: Decision Making and Problem Solving Course is designed to identify the process of problem solving, develop attributes to make good decisions quickly, facilitate group problem solving, and to improve both individual and group decision making.
G242 Basic Skills: Effective Communication Course is designed to enhance and improve individual skills in oral presentation and communication. This course will cover public speaking, crisis communication, one-to-one and small group communication, emergency public information, and personal application of effective communication skills.
G244 Developing Volunteer Resources Course is designed to improve students' ability to deal with a broad range of issues in the management of volunteers. Topics include identification of tasks requiring volunteer resources, skill definition and qualifications, publicity and recruitment, skill development and maintenance, and motivational strategies for quality performance.
G250.1 Workshop: State and Local Continuity of Government (COG) is designed to increase awareness of the concept of COG and the seven preparedness elements that are necessary to ensure that State and local governments can carry out their executive, legislative and judicial functions under the threat or occurrence of any emergency that could disrupt such functions and services.
G250.3 Workshop: Disaster Related Needs of the Disabled and Elderly is intended to increase awareness of the potential special needs of the elderly before, during and after a disaster. Awareness is then linked to the unique emergency preparedness and planning required to address those needs.
G250.4 Workshop: Emergency Alerting System provides basic information about the Emergency Alerting System (formerly the Emergency Broadcasting System) and its importance to the integrated emergency management process. It is designed to heighten awareness of the need for swift, accurate public warning and information systems.
G250.6 Workshop: RACES/ARES is designed to provide state and local elected officials, emergency managers and other public officials with an understanding of how these communication volunteer groups can supplement telecommunications and warning systems.
G261 Instructional Presentation Skills Course provides techniques and methods for presentation of State training courses. This course will cover the preparation, presentation and evaluation skills phases. In addition, techniques for organizing and presenting course materials will be addressed to include effective use of training aids.
G271 Hazardous Weather & Flooding Preparedness examines the need for a cross-discipline emergency management system and the importance of an integrated approach to managing emergencies caused by hazardous weather events. It will enable participants to utilize hydrometeorological information to make better preparedness and response decisions. Participants formulate the elements of an integrated teamwork system and devise specific action for improving their own contributions to local emergency emergency management systems.
G275 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Management and Operations
Course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage, and
operate an EOC during crisis situations. The course covers many aspects of properly
locating and designing an EOC, how to staff, train, and brief EOC personnel, and how to
operate an EOC during various situations.
Pre-requisite: IS-275 The Role of the EOC in Community Preparedness, Response and
Recovery Activities
G276 Resource Management Course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively identify, develop, and manage a resource management system. The course covers aspects of how to tap into little used resources, how to develop and manage a system to better manage scarce public and private sector resources in a crisis situation, and how to ask for help.
G280 Public Policy in Emergency Management is designed to heighten awareness of public policy inherent in emergency management. Discussions and exercises cover public policy analysis, executive roles, hazard evaluation, establishing public policy and media relations.
G290 Public Information Officers' Course provides participants with interactive training and experience related to duties of the Public Information Officer. This course includes workshops in writing, media interviews, press conferences, public speaking, awareness campaigns, and emergency public information techniques.
G300 Hazardous Materials: An Introduction for Public Officials is designed for key public officials, department heads, and private executives with a need to understand basic policy issues regarding hazardous materials threats to the community. Focusing on "standard of care," hazard assessment, risk management, planning, and response considerations, it provides officials with a basic overview of hazardous materials issues. It is an interagency course designed and delivered in cooperation with the US Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency.
G317 Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) provides training for local emergency management personnel, private citizens, businesses and schools on disaster-related subjects to include disaster preparedness, localized fire hazards/suppression, light search and rescue to include debris removal and victim extrication, medical and disaster psychology. This twenty hour course can be taught on nights and weekends, to meet the needs of the audience.
G320 Fundamentals Course for Radiological Monitors (FCRM) is designed for personnel selected for duties as radiological monitors. Topics include radiation fundamentals, radiation detection equipment, monitoring techniques, radiological defense actions, basic nuclear weapons effects, protection measures, and peacetime first responder actions.
G323 Fundamentals Course for Radiological Response Officers (FCRO) is designed to teach the management functions of a Radiological Defense System at the state and local levels. The course provides the skills and knowledge needed by an RO to plan for, operate in, and assist in recovering from a nuclear attack.
G326 Fundamentals Course for Radiological Response Team (FCRRT) covers the concept of radiation protection, radiation detection instruments, radiological monitoring techniques, nuclear weapon effects and protective actions, peacetime radiological protective actions for first response functions, shelter monitoring, and basic procedures to support planning for emergency and recovery activities in the event of a radiological incident.
G340 Radiological Monitor Instructor Response Course is a 3-day course designed to qualify emergency service personnel as Radiological Instructors to teach the Fundamentals Course for Radiological Monitors. The course includes instructional methodology used in Fundamentals Course for Radiological Monitors and an expedient radiological training module. Prerequisite: Radiological Monitor Course and Radiological Response Team within the past two years.
G361 Flood Fighting Operations provides specific information on riverine flooding. Other types of floods, such as flash floods, flooding related to ice jams or packs, and floods on alluvial fans present unique problems, which are beyond the scope of this program. However, there are similarities among all of these floods and persons dealing with these and other unique flood hazards can still benefit from the information presented in this program. The course is designed for emergency preparedness officials, flood or water control managers, and others who have an active role in flood preparedness or response.
G378 Local Hazard Mitigation Planning is designed for officials who have been - or will be - assigned responsibility for local hazard mitigation. Representatives from state and local agencies whose programs and activities influence the socio-economic, land-use and developmental decisions made by government will benefit. The course covers concepts, programs and regulations designed to reduce vulnerability to natural hazards. Issues that affect emergency management, natural resources utilization, environmental regulations, planning and zoning, community development, building regulations, infrastructure regulation or construction, public information, and insurance regulations are included.
G385 Disaster Recovery Operations covers the basic concepts and operational procedures and authorities involved in responding to major disasters. It addresses Federal, State and local roles and responsibilities in major disaster recovery work, with an emphasis on government coordination and the solution of problems that frequently arise in recovery operations. An overview of preliminary damage assessment, disaster application centers, and special needs of victims and disaster workers also is included.
G386 Mass Fatalities Incident Response Course prepares local and State personnel and other responsible agencies and professionals to handle mass fatalities effectively and to work with the survivors in an emergency or disaster.
G387 Donations Management covers useful methods of controlling the flow of donations into a disaster to effectively meet the needs of disaster victims while reducing the associated risks & liabilities that accompany large-scale donations of goods and volunteer service. The participant will learn how to establish, operate and demobilize a call center for coordination of donations and a reception center to receive, process and distribute donations. Local, state and federal responsibilities are discussed.
G600 Damage Assessment provides emergency managers and other personnel involved in disaster recovery operations with an overview of the damage assessment process to support requests for State and Federal disaster assistance. It provides basic skills in evaluating and assessing damage, and in establishing and maintaining records necessary to support disaster assistance requests.
G950.1 COUNTER TERRORISM: Emergency Response to a Criminal/Terrorist Act is designed to provide senior elected officials, staff members and supervisors who need to know the special considerations brought on by a terrorist incident, but who will not be responding to the crime scene to save lives. This course was developed to promote safe and effective joint operations at a criminal or terrorist site. It describes the local and state needs, roles and responsibilities for handling a serious crime/terrorist incident. It also explains when and why Federal agencies become involved in these types of operations.
G950.2 COUNTER TERRORISM: Hazardous Materials Training, Public Safety Response to Terrorism addresses the needs and responsibilities of those who will be responding, on short notice, into the potentially deadly terrorist environment. This course focuses on identifying and helping First Responders understand the special requirements placed upon them when responding to a terrorist incident. It assists these individuals by helping them recognize that a terrorist incident may have occurred, how to protect themselves from the effects of terrorist attack, how to summon the appropriate assets necessary to deal effectively with the incident, and how to render aid in a safe manner. It includes discussion on how to respond to nerve, blood and biological agents as well as radiological contamination.
S806 Incident Management System Course focuses on the need for an integrated cross-discipline approach to managing emergencies, disasters, and other large-scale events and the application of the Incident Management System to these events. Upon completion, participants will be able to identify needed resources for successful incident stabilization. The Incident Management System is a management tool that has been adopted and endorsed by many responder organizations. It is based upon the principles for incident management that have been adopted by such organizations as the International Association of Police Chief, the American Public Works Association and the National Fire Academy. SARA Title III requires that hazardous materials incidents are managed using an Incident Management System.
U101 HAZMAT Awareness
The objectives of this course are: an understanding of what hazardous materials are, and
the risks associated with them in an incident; an understanding of the potential outcomes
associated with an emergency created when hazardous materials are present; the ability to
recognize the presence of hazardous materials in an emergency; an understanding of the
role of the first responder awareness level individual in their employer's emergency
response plan; and the ability to use the US DOT Emergency Response Guidebook. Meals
and lodging are not provided with this course.
U202 HAZMAT Operations
The objectives of this course are: knowledge of basic hazard and risk assessment
techniques; how to select and use proper protective equipment; an understanding of basic
hazardous materials terminology; know how to perform basic decontamination techniques; an
understanding of relevant standard operating procedures; and an understanding of relevant
termination procedures. Meals and lodging are not provided with this course.
U503 Computer Aided Management of Emergency Operations (CAMEO) facilitates the ability to quickly access key information about chemicals present in your community or jurisdiction - and quickly plot the potential danger areas - that could mean the difference between life and death for responders and citizens in your community. This information includes the location of chemical storage, appropriate site plans, thee types of chemical and hazards present, contact points for each location and the threat each chemical poses to citizens and emergency responders. The CAMEO software package (CAMEO, MARPLOT, and ALOHA) contains features that can be used to analyze the potential consequences of chemical releases, determine the levels of toxicity and track incidents (to include downwind safety hazard diagrams using a computerized map of local jurisdictions) that may occur in your community.
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