FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for November.
The CDP conducted 32 non-resident courses for 1,009 responders and 52 indirect courses for 1,253 responders during the month, the release said.
Non-resident courses are delivered by contract CDP instructors at locations across the United States. Indirect courses …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.
Among the offerings is the Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Awareness Course, which introduces circumstances environmental health responders may face and tasks they may perform when preparing …
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has transitioned to paperless evaluations in its non-resident courses, which are delivered by contract CDP instructors at locations across the United States.
Evaluations for two courses, the Radiological Emergency Preparedness (REP) Core Concepts Course and REP Plan Review Course, went online last week. All other courses will be paperless …
A Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) contract employee has been recognized for administrative support she recently provided to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA’s) Office for Bombing Prevention (OBP).
Lofi Masaniai, who has been with the center a little more than three years, is the CDP’s external agency non-resident/indirect training coordinator. In that …
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ter for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) 2023 Tribal Nations Training Week will feature several of the center’s healthcare courses — Barrier Precautions and Controls for Highly Infectious Disease (HID), Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT), and Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents (HCL).
The three courses will culminate in an Integrated …
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of April 2023.
The CDP will offer its Field Force Operations Course three times during the month.
Hazardous materials offerings include the center’s Hazardous Materials Operations; Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection; Hazardous Materials Technician; and Hazardous Materials Awareness …
Classes from two NDPC partners are featured in the Winter 2022-23 issue of FEMA’s TPP Times. Texas A&M’s Engineering Extension Service’s National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center (TEEX/NERRTC)’s course, PER-353: Active Shooter Incident Management, provides a framework to manage active shooter event response. Additionally, many classes from LSU’s National Center for Biomedical Research and …
The Tactical Response to Suicide Bombing Incidents (TRSBI) course provides law enforcement tactical officers and staff with the knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to suicide bombing incidents. While the residential version of the course has been offered for more than a decade at Playas, a mobile course is currently being piloted.
Developing a …
EMRTC recently provided a customized training course for more than 30 first responders in American Samoa. The first responders work for Port Administration, Public Safety, Customs, Homeland Security, and LBJ Hospital and Department of Health. The 5-day training spanned multiple programs including Medical Preparedness and Response for Bombing Incidents (MPRBI) offered jointly with Texas A&M) …
Participants in EMRTC’s courses for first responders benefit from witnessing detonation events as part of field labs. Field experience allows participants to connect classroom content to an event they see, hear, and feel firsthand. Currently under development, field labs will be enhanced even more through the use of virtual reality.
EMRTC’s broad goal is to …
