State/Federal Training Courses

Emergency Operations Center Training

ICS/EOC Interface (G-191)

Description: This course reviews ICS and EOC responsibilities and functions and depends heavily on exercises and group discussions to formulate the interface. The course provides an opportunity for participants to begin developing an interface between an Incident Management Team and EOC personnel and enable the students to develop an effective interface between the Incident Command/Unified Command and the Emergency Operations Center by applying National Incident Management System principles.

Course Length: 8 Hours (1 Day)

Target Audience: Federal, State, and local personnel responsible for developing, staffing, managing, and operating an EOC and coordinating EOC operations with a field command post.

Warning Coordination and Communication (G-272)

Description: This course is the latest in the hazardous weather series of courses produced in partnership with the National Weather Service (NWS). Every year, the United States experiences more severe weather than any other country in the world. In order to reduce deaths, injuries, and property losses, Emergency Managers must work closely with the NWS and the news media to provide effective warnings that can be received and understood by people at risk. This course is intended to help facilitate that process.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Local emergency managers and partners.

EOC Management and Operations (G-775)

Description: This course explores the role, design, and functions of Emergency Operations Centers (EOCs) and their relationships as components of a multiagency coordination system. The course contains disaster-related examples, activities, and case studies that relate to EOCs and multiagency coordination systems at the Federal, State, and local levels of government.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Federal, State, local, and tribal Emergency Managers; first responders to include Incident Commanders from all Emergency Management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster personnel.

Intermediate EOC Functions (G-2300)

Description: This course allows participants to examine the role, design, and function of the EOC and their supportive relationship as a NIMS Command and Coordination component of a Multi-Agency Coordination System, staffing, organization, information, systems, communications, and equipment needs at the EOC, such activating and deactivating, operations, as well as training and exercising and explore the role of an EOC as one of four NIMS Command and Coordination functional groups.

Course Length: 24 Hours (3 Days)

Target Audience: Federal, state, tribal, territorial, local level, business, and nongovernmental emergency management personnel who may be designated to support an EOC within their jurisdiction or organization.

Emergency Planning Training

Emergency Planning (G-235)

Description: This course offers training in the fundamentals of the emergency planning process, including the rationale behind planning. It will develop the capability for effective participation in the all-hazard emergency operations planning process to save lives, and protect property and the environment threatened by disaster.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Elected officials, emergency management coordinators and planners, department heads, risk managers, operations officers, and representatives of volunteer groups active in disasters.

Incident Command System (ICS) Training

Introduction to the ICS (G/L/K-100)

Description: This course introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher-level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Course Length: 8 Hours (1 Day)

Target Audience: Any individual from any local, state, federal, tribal, or NGO involved with emergency planning, and response or recovery efforts.

Basic ICS for Initial Response (G/L/K-200)

Description: This course reviews the Incident Command System (ICS), provides the context for ICS within an initial response and supports higher-level ICS training. This course provides training on, and resources for, personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within ICS.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Local, state, federal, tribal, or NGO response personnel at the supervisory level who are involved with emergency planning, response, or recovery efforts or who may fill a supervisory role.

Intermediate ICS for Expanding ICS (G/L/K-300)

Description: This course provides an in-depth focus on the NIMS Incident Command System (ICS) that includes the tools, practices, and procedures that are available in ICS to effectively manage emergency incidents or planned local events at a local Type 3 level.

Course Length: 24 Hours (3 Days)

Target Audience: Local, state, federal, tribal, or NGO response personnel who may assume a supervisory role in expanding or Type 3 incidents.

Advanced ICS (G/L/K-400)

Description: This course provides training and resources for responders who require advanced application of the ICS by providing overall incident management skills rather than tactical expertise by emphasizing large-scale organizational development, roles and relationships of the command and general staff, and planning, operational, logistical, and fiscal considerations related to large and complex incident and event management

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Local, state, federal, tribal, or NGO personnel who will serve as command or general staff in an ICS organization, department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers for expanding or Type 3 incidents.

NIMS Overview for Senior Officials (G-402)

Description: This course is designed to familiarize Senior Officials (executives, elected and appointed officials, city/county managers, agency administrators, etc.) with their role in supporting incident management within the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Local, state, federal, tribal, or NGO personnel who will serve as command or general staff in an ICS organization, department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers for expanding or Type 3 incidents.

Public Information Training

Basic Public Information Officer (G-290)

Description: Through this course, students will 1) learn and appreciate the value of communication before, during, and after an incident, 2) recognize the functional needs and challenges of different audiences, and 3) identify steps needed to prepare for and successfully complete, an interview with the media.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: Any personnel who may/will be exposed to the media, who may/will have public information responsibilities as a function of their position, or any individual interested in starting a career as a PIO.

All-Hazards Public Information Officer (E/G/L-952)

Description: Through this course, students will 1) learn and appreciate the value of communication before, during, and after an incident, 2) recognize the functional needs and challenges of different audiences, and 3) identify steps needed to prepare for and successfully complete, an interview with the media.

Course Length: 35 Hours (5 Days)

Target Audience: Any personnel who may/will be exposed to the media, who may/will have public information responsibilities as a function of their position, or any individual interested in starting a career as a PIO or who are seeking credentialing as a PIO.

Mass Care and Emergency Assistance Training

Community Mass Care (G-108)

Description: This course aims to develop foundational community Mass Care and Emergency Assistance services knowledge. It is not designed to offer a “how-to” for sheltering but is instead designed to help participants build community emergency action items and identify gaps in their community’s programs.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: This course is designed for government, community, NGO, and private sector agencies collaborating to provide mass care and emergency assistance.

Rapid Needs Assessment (G-557)

Description: This course provides information and resources that will enable participants to plan an effective Damage Assessment Program and conduct rapid and effective damage assessments in order to save lives, protect property and the environment, and begin the process of recovery and mitigation.

Course Length: 8 Hours (1 Days)

Target Audience: Local officials who are responsible for assessing, collecting, and reporting damages during and after any event that causes damage of private, public, and critical infrastructure.

Mass Care and Emergency Assistance Training

Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Role (G-205)

Description: This course introduces disaster recovery principles, includes current recovery practices and policies, increases knowledge of local government responsibilities/challenges associated with disaster recovery, and explains the need to develop, revise, and implement a pre-disaster recovery plan.

Course Length: 16 Hours (2 Days)

Target Audience: This course is designed for local elected officials, tribal leaders, and city/county management, finance, planning, economic development, emergency management, public works, floodplain management, public information, and associated staff.

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