FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has a library of self-paced, web-based training offerings responders can access anywhere, using a computer or compatible mobile device.
One of the offerings – Homemade Explosives and Precursor Awareness for Public Safety – teaches responders about the types of materials typically used in homemade explosives as well as the reasons …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is working with the Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office to create web-based Post-BioWatch Actionable Result Sampling Refresher Training.
The DHS BioWatch Program monitors for biological agents intentionally released into the air. It acts as an early warning system, enabling rapid response to reduce …
In March, when the Center for Domestic Preparedness hosted representatives from Stillman College, it continued a long-standing organizational practice to explore mutual educational and training opportunities with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).
For years, the center has trained students enrolled in nursing programs at 12 different colleges and universities in the Southeast. These include …
This week, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness concludes its annual Tribal Nations Training Week.
Training during this year’s event spanned more than a month and was held both in residence at the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama, and virtually.
Resident training was conducted in early March with 75 responders participating in healthcare, law enforcement and …
Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.
The incident involved more than 20 inmates from the Southern Nevada Correctional Center, who set several fires in a building.
According to reports, to safely restore order, the corrections officers used a …
When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.
Chances are good a number of those responders were graduates of one or more Center for Domestic Preparedness courses.
During …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has released a web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.
The resident course is a five-day operations-level offering which teaches responders how to analyze, plan and implement response actions for hazardous materials incidents. The course meets OSHA hazmat operations certification standards and is a pre-requisite for …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness is developing a 1.5- to 2-hour Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) program for healthcare facility patient evacuation in the event of a disaster or emergency.
The VILT is currently anticipated to be available in early calendar year 2022.
Given lessons learned from hospitals and healthcare facilities which have had to conduct …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness is in the process of expanding the number of video shorts on its YouTube training channel.
The video shorts, which are less than 10 minutes in length, allow responders to gain knowledge on a variety of law enforcement, healthcare and hazardous material topics without enrolling or traveling.
Up next for …
Students learn to use radiation detection equipment this week during the inaugural delivery of the CDP’s Basic Emergency Response Training (BERT) Course. The three-day resident offering teaches responders how to identify basic hazardous materials, survey and assess scenes with hazardous materials, triage and decontaminate casualties, and choose and operate a number of hazardous materials detection …
