This eight-hour performance-level course is designed to provide participants with knowledge and skills using social media tools to engage individuals and volunteer organizations for assistance during an emergency. Participants will learn about social media engagement techniques, individual and organizational roles in crisis communication, and Virtual Operations Support Teams (VOST).

The course will supplement and build upon NDPTC's existing FEMA-certified performance-level course entitled "Social Media for Natural Disaster Response and Recovery" (PER-304) by providing social media strategies for engaging the public during disaster events.

Course Modules

• Social Media Content Types and Considerations
• Strategies for Audience Engagement
• Measuring Outcomes
• Designing a Social Media Strategy for Your Agency

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The NIPP identified water and wastewater (WWW) systems as CI. These systems are vital to the communities’ public health and economic development. The interdependencies between WWW, other CI sectors, and emergency management necessitate a common understanding by stakeholders of water sector impacts. 

We will guide you through issues concerning preparing for, responding to, mitigating, and recovering from incidents affecting WWW facilities.

This is a two-night course.

Thursday, March 30th, 2023 - 1800-2200
Friday, March 31st, 2023 - 1800-2200

Course Description

This course will provide livestock producers, emergency managers, veterinarians, extension agents, veterinary technicians, rural community leaders, public and human health personnel, fire and law enforcement with tools to protect, respond to, and recover from the consequences of disasters (e.g. fire, flood, heat, earthquake, tornadoes, hurricanes, hazardous materials, and catastrophic disease exposure) involving animals in rural communities. The course will introduce participants to the unique issues that must be considered and addressed when animals are involved in an emergency such as safe animal handling, animal evacuation, animal sheltering, humane euthanasia, carcass disposal, the inclusion of animal management into existing ICS structures, and federal support available during recovery. 

Course Prerequisites

*Participants must be a U. S. citizen

This 16 hour course provides instruction on the proper method to be appointed a fire police officer, the laws pertaining to fire police, power and authority of fire police, and the expected duties of of the new fire police officer. To prepare persons selected to be fire police officers to understand how to operate and perform the basic duties of the position.

Course Description

This course will provide the background information needed to lead a multi-agency team of emergency planners in the development of an ESF annex for food and/or animal-related disasters to supplement their community’s existing EOP. The course will address topics such as agroterrorism; detection and diagnosis; the unique challenges that rural communities face in planning for and responding to food and/or animal-related disasters; utilization of Emergency Support Functions (ESF); recovery and the importance of sustainable operations during a disaster event; and mapping a community to identify areas of vulnerability and resources. All content will be presented at an all-day instructor-led training that will include presentations and problem-solving activities that will be worked on in small groups. 

Course Prerequisites

* Participant must be a U.S. citizen AWR 328: All Hazards Preparedness for Animals in Disasters

MGT 417 is a tuition free, management-level, DHS/FEMA-certified course that 
provides operational-level details to support many of the topics covered in 
AWR148: Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents – Partnering Rural 
Law Enforcement, First Responders, and Local School Systems. Rural 
schools, law enforcement, other emergency responders, and community 
stakeholders are often limited in their access to resources, so it is imperative 
that all potentially affected parties collaborate in planning, preparation, 
communication, response, and recovery in the event of a school-based 
incident. Moreover, these affected parties must come together to practice their 
interoperable skills through drills and exercises to ensure the strategies in 
place provide for effective crisis response and collaborative recovery. With 
the intent of building upon the foundation of AWR148 and utilizing an all-hazards approach, this two-day course will provide content instruction, develop 
concept-specific skills, and provide opportunities for law enforcement, school 
personnel, and community stakeholders to collaboratively apply the course 
objectives in scenario-based applications.

Topics include (but not limited to):
• All-Hazards Planning and Preparedness
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Threat Assessment Management
• All-Hazards Response
• All-Hazards Recovery
• Scenario-Based Activities

Who Should Attend:
• All First Responders—especially Law Enforcement
• School Administrators
• School Safety and Security Personnel
• Community Emergency Management Personnel
• Community Mental Health Personnel
• Community Stakeholders

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Please join us for a presentation from Douglas Pipeline Company. 

Douglas Pipeline operates the EDL Honey Brook, Landfill Pipeline.  It starts at the Lanchester Landfill and terminates at Dart Container in Leola. This awareness training is targeting the first response agencies along that route.  The landfill gas is flammable, but it also has hydrogen sulfide in it, which is a health hazard. 

Douglas Pipeline staff will go over some recent changes to their operations and answer any questions first response agencies may have in regards to dealing with this gas. 

This course introduces the six-step THIRA/SPR process which includes identifying threats and hazards that stress a community’s capabilities, giving context to those threats and hazards and identifying associated impacts consistent with specific factors, identifying community-specific capability targets, assessing current levels of capability in comparison to those targets, identifying capability gaps and subsequent strategies to close those gaps.

Successful completion of the course will assist local emergency responders and stakeholders in generating actionable preparedness data that communities can use to support a variety of emergency management efforts, including planning, training, exercises, and incident response and recovery. THIRA/SPR-informed planning is consistent with and expands on nationally accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

Individuals completing this course in combination with MGT315, MGT414, and AWR213, are awarded the TEEX Infrastructure Protection Certificate.

All Federal/State/Local/Tribal/Private Sector & Nongovernmental personnel should take ICS-400, including:

Persons who will serve as command or general staff in an ICS organization, select department heads with multi-agency coordination system responsibilities, area commanders, emergency managers, and multi-agency coordination system/emergency operations center managers.*

Approved ICS-400 level training may be developed and conducted by Federal, State, Local and Tribal agencies as well as private training vendors. However, it must include the content and objectives stated in the NIMS National Standard Curriculum Training Development Guidance dated March, 2007.

Training developed and conducted by State and Tribal entities as well as private training vendors at the ICS-400 level must include at a minimum, the following topical areas (Specific objectives for ICS-300 training are listed in the National Standard Curriculum Training Development Guidance, March 2007):

Pre-requistes: ICS 300

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With this training, public service stakeholders including those from the City Staff, Public Works, Utilities, and Emergency Management can extend their knowledge and skills for protecting their communities and critical infrastructure (CI) from potential or actual threats.

During this course, participants work together in multidisciplinary teams to apply the course information with their professional experience in a variety of hands-on, small-group activities, and disaster scenarios.