The Center for Domestic Preparedness has been busy recently creating the first of what it hopes will be many video ‘Response Shorts.’
The initial video is focused on Fentanyl awareness and based on White House and other best practices for avoiding exposure to that and other synthetic opioids. The target audience for the 4.5-minute offering …
Curriculum developers and instructors at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness are busy creating a virtual version of the center’s Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration (RP) course.
The resident version of the course is three days long and includes a number of hands-on activities at the center’s Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological, or COBRA, training …
Curriculum developers at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness are currently ‘storyboarding’ a Hazardous Materials Operations Refresher course to add to the center’s growing inventory of online training offerings.
The developers say when it’s completed, the course will be between 4 and 8 hours in length and provide “a comprehensive review of all hazardous materials operations …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness continually enhances its training platforms to ensure responders are prepared for any situations they may encounter.
Among those platforms is the center’s Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological (COBRA) Training Facility.
Improvements to the facility’s training bays are currently being eyed for improvement by a group of training managers, curriculum developers …
A virtual version of the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Health Sector Emergency Preparedness course is now available.
The 8-hour course was developed to help health care providers and suppliers adhere to a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services rule issued in 2016. The rule requires the providers and suppliers to establish and maintain an emergency …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness will be highlighted in an upcoming issue of American Police Beat magazine.
APB has a circulation of approximately 31,000, including most police chiefs and sheriffs across the country.
The article will detail the various types of training provided by the CDP with a focus on resident, non-resident and distance learning …
Communities often need to distribute large quantities of items, such as personal protective equipment, water and other supplies, particularly following a catastrophic event or other disaster.
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is developing a Virtual Instructor-Led Training course to teach responders how to plan for and conduct such large-scale distribution operations.
The Community Mass Distribution …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, in coordination with FEMA’s Office of Law Enforcement and Integration, in early February unveiled three virtual instructor-led training offerings focused on public order policing.
The programs – ‘Survey of Community Policing,’ ‘Social Media Strategies for Law Enforcement,’ and ‘The Right to Protest and Law Enforcement Response’ – are aimed at …
2020 was an unprecedented year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was also an unprecedented year in the growth of both the number of Center of Domestic Preparedness virtual and online training materials and number of those taking advantage of the offerings.
In 2019, the CDP offered 86 virtual and online courses and recorded about …
When tragedy strikes, our nation’s law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel are typically the first on the scene. And many of them rely on training received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.
Such was the case on Christmas day when a bomb exploded in downtown Nashville, TN, turning what should have been a …
