FEMA Advanced Professional Series
FEMA has developed a series of courses that enhance applied skills used in disaster operations. The skills emergency management personnel need to perform essential work in a disaster can be developed through this series of courses. O'Gara can provide these courses at any location. Our instructors have backgrounds in emergency management with hands on experience in emergency response and incident management.
Certificate of Completion
Students who complete the 5 required courses and any 5 elective courses are eligible to receive the EMI Advanced Professional Series Certificate of Completion.
Required Courses
G775 - Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Management and Operations:
This 3-day course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to effectively manage and operate an EOC during crisis situations. The course covers locating and designing an EOC, how to staff, train, and brief EOC personnel, and how to operate an EOC during various situations. It is modular so that it is flexible to meet various jurisdictions' needs.
G191 - Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface:
This course provides an opportunity for participants to begin developing an ICS/EOC interface for their community. The course reviews ICS and EOC responsibilities and functions and depends heavily on exercises and group discussions to formulate the interface. Selection Criteria: Participants should be teams from a community's ICS and EOC personnel.
G250.7 - WEM: Local Situation (RAPID) Assessment:
Communities can use the Resource Guide and Facilitator's Guide when developing the plan and procedures for rapidly and efficiently collecting disaster intelligence immediately following a disaster. This intelligence is used to prioritize response activities, allocate available resources, and specifically request resources from other sources to save and sustain lives.
G270.4 - WEM (R&R): Recovery from Disaster: Local Government Role
This workshop is designed for local government disaster recovery professionals (elected officials, city/county administrators, emergency management coordinators, public works directors, building inspectors, community planners, and unmet needs committee coordinators). The WEM is designed for 1/2-day delivery, depending on local need, and covers the roles, responsibilities, and major tasks of each team member during short- and long-term recovery. Course materials include checklists, sample forms, brochures, public notices, sample news releases, sample ordinances, and other resources to assist local recovery teams in their jobs.
G318 - Mitigation Planning Workshop for Local Governments:
This 2-day workshop discusses the Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 which amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act by, among other things, adding a new section, 322—Mitigation Planning. Section 322 requires local governments to prepare and adopt jurisdiction-wide hazard mitigation plans as a condition of receiving Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds to “brick and mortar” mitigation projects. This workshop assists representatives of local communities or multi-jurisdictional planning areas to develop a mitigation plan that meets community needs as well as the Section 322 local government planning requirements as described in 44 CFR Section 201.6.
Electives (Choose any 5)
G288 - Donations Management Workshop:
This 8-12 hour workshop addresses the planning considerations and operational requirements for an effective donations management system at the state and/or local level. A special emphasis is put between state/local government and voluntary agencies as the key to success in donations management.
G137 - Exercise Program Manager/Management Course:
This 2 1/2-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.
G408 - Homeland Security Planning Course:
This course teaches participants to evaluate, revise, or develop a homeland security appendix to their jurisdiction's existing Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). The course addresses such key issues as vulnerability analysis and command and control for homeland security events. In keeping with recommendations of the Gilmore Commission, this course builds on existing emergency response systems as articulated by the local EOP.
G358 - Evacuation Planning Course:
This 12-hour course is designed to provide participants with knowledge and skills needed to design and implement an evacuation and re-entry plan for their jurisdictions. It uses a community's vulnerability analysis and evacuation plan. It also addresses evacuation behavior and recommends methods to make evacuation and re-entry more efficient.
G290 - Basic Public Information Officers Course:
This 2 1/2-day course is intended for the new or less experienced PIO. Its emphasis is on the basic skills and knowledge needed for emergency management public information activities. Topics include the role of the PIO in emergency management, conducting awareness campaigns, news release writing, and television interviews.
G110 - Emergency Management Operations Course (EMOC):
The EMOC is designed for local communities or tribal governments that may not be able to participate in FEMA's resident Integrated Emergency Management Courses. The EMOC is an exercise-based program with planning sessions that begin weeks prior to the actual course, and it includes classroom sessions and exercises. The flexible format of the EMOC allows it to be conducted in a 2 1/2-day or 3-day format. The purpose of the EMOC is to improve operational capabilities as they relate to managing emergencies in the local community.
G400-Incident Command System, ICS, Advanced ICS-400:
This course expands upon the material covered in ICS-100 through ICS-300. ICS-400 focuses on large single-agency and complex multi-agency/ multi-jurisdictional incident response. The course addresses area command and staff issues, as well as the planning, logistical, and fiscal considerations associated with complex incident management and interagency coordination.
G-250.11-Continuity of Operations: Elements of Viability
This training is designed to increase awareness and understanding of the necessity for the development and implementation of Continuity of Operations (COOP) planning for State and local government organizations. COOP planning is good business practice, whether it's a Category 5 hurricane, heavy tropical rainfall event, or some other natural or technological event, government facilities may be closed for an extended period of time. A viable COOP plan establishes policy and guidance to ensure the execution of an organization's mission essential functions in any event which requires the relocation of selected personnel and functions to an alternate facility. This session will focus on the background of COOP planning at the Federal level, provide the critical elements of a viable COOP plan, and present plan development techniques and best practices at the State and local levels. The session will provide the attendee with an understanding of the basics of successful COOP planning and the elements necessary to establish a viable program capability. The attendees are asked to bring copies of their agency's organizational chart with staffing levels and a list of their daily program responsibilities and/or functions.
HSEEP Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program Training Course
Students will learn how to: Design and conduct evaluations that assess performance as demonstrated through exercises; Observe exercises and analyze data; Develop recommendations and reports, and; Implement an improvement process. All Emergency Management, Fire, Law Enforcement or Health offices that have received the State Homeland Security Grant Program (SHSGP) funding for exercises, including tabletops, functional and full scale, must use the HSEEP and will benefit from the training. In addition, this training should be attended by personnel from each of the Regional Domestic Security Task Force disciplines that will be involved in the coordination and evaluation of future ODP-funded exercises |
