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 …
The number of responders taking and completing free online courses on the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ website continues to grow.
The CDP added four online courses to its training catalog in November 2018, to provide responders with awareness-level knowledge about bomb threats and other hazardous materials. In the first six months, about 500 responders a …
In late October FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness entered its third year of offering expeditionary training to responders, particularly those immediately facing or recovering from disasters.
On October 30, 2018, the center announced that it had taken material from a number of CDP courses and packaged it into just-in-time, one- to four-hour training offerings for …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ website has a new look.
The enhanced platform, which was launched earlier this week, has a more functional design which makes it easier for prospective students to navigate the site and find and apply for the CDP’s vast inventory of training offerings. Those offerings include in-person training, including resident, non-resident …
A new Biological Operations Response course is in development at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.
According to CDP curriculum developers, the course is geared at responders in multiple disciplines and will provide them the skills to safely and effectively respond to incidents involving biological materials, including substances such as ricin and anthrax. A tentative outline …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness will release the online version of its Emergency Medical Response Awareness course sometime this month.
Originally designed for nursing students and conducted in-person, an online version of the course was created earlier this year and offered to more than 1,300 students at five colleges and universities.
By making the 8-hour …
More than 6,000 people have attended the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Health Sector Emergency Preparedness I course since it was first offered in 2017.
Those numbers are expected to grow significantly in the coming months as the CDP unveils a virtual version of the course.
The 8-hour course teaches healthcare providers and suppliers to establish …
