#1 Debris Management Course (40 participants)

This 2-1/2 day workshop provides an overview of issues and recommended actions to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a major debris-generating event (with emphasis on state and local responsibilities). Who Should Attend - local, state and federal personnel responsible for planning and/or implementing debris removal and disposal.

#2 Recovery From Disaster: The Local Government Role (30 participants)
This 2-1/2 day workshop is designed to prepare local recovery teams to coordinate local recovery efforts following a disaster. This workshop emphasizes 4 critical areas of recovery: emergency management, public works, building inspection, and community planning. Who Should Attend - Elected officials, city/county managers and administrators, emergency managers, public works directors, building inspectors, and community planners.

This is a 2 ½ day workshop. The goals for this course are to: Open a dialogue with the Special Needs network that will lead to cooperative planning and appropriate response. Raise awareness of and commitment to planning for special needs populations. Provide personnel who are responsible for emergency planning with an understanding of the special needs populations and with knowledge required to develop and implement sound plans. At the end of this course, the participants should be able to: Define special needs populations at the local level.

Identify appropriate resources to assist in planning for special needs populations. Identify capabilities and limitations of the special needs network. Define key terms related to special needs planning.

Describe the special needs considerations in all phases of comprehensive emergency management. Identify the relationship between special needs planning and the community Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). Identify basic components of a special needs plan.

This 2 day course assists representatives of local communities or multi-jurisdictional planning areas to develop a mitigation plan that meets community needs as well as the standards for FEMA approval. FEMA approved local mitigation plans are required in order to receive Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant funds, beginning with the Fiscal 2004 funding cycle. After November 1, 2004, FEMA approved local mitigation plans will be required in order to receive post-disaster mitigation grant funds. This workshop explains each of the requirements, demonstrates how FEMA's new Mitigation Planning How-to Guides can be used to address each requirement, and provides opportunities to begin the planning process in group activities.

This 2 day course covers proven methods and techniques for planning response operations before and after a hurricane. Topics include hurricane hazards forecasting and decision aids, evacuation, shelter, refuges of last resort and initial post-storm response. Who should attend - planners responsible for developing or revising hurricane operations plans and procedures.

#6 Community Mass Care Management (35 participants)

This 2-day course is aimed to equip emergency management staff and voluntary agency personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform as effective mass care coordinators in a broad range of disaster situations. The course covers how to assess and size up mass care needs; how to plan for mass care; recruitment, training and exercises for mass care personnel; and actions to take in short term and long term mass care operations (response and recovery).

This course describes the role, design, and functions of Emergency Operations Centers and their relationships as components of a multi-agency coordination system. The course contains disaster-related examples, activities and case studies that relate to EOC’s and multi-agency coordination systems at the local, state and federal levels of government.

The target audience will include: Federal, state, local and tribal emergency managers; first responders to include incident commanders from all emergency management disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination activities during a disaster; and Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) personnel.

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

•  Relate EOC operations to National Incident Management System (NIMS) requirements.

•  Describe the role that EOCs play in overall multiagency coordination.

•  Describe the relationship between the EOC and the on-scene Incident Command System (ICS) structure.

•  Identify staffing, information, systems, and equipment needs at the EOC.

•  Determine whether participants' EOC organizations are conducive to effective coordination.

•  Identify potential alternate locations suitable for EOC operations should the primary EOC facility become damaged or inoperable.

•  Create a test, training and exercise plan for critical EOC operations.

•  Develop a strategy and schedule for reviewing EOC resource requirements and technology needs.

#8 Rapid Needs Assessment (40 participants )

This 2 day course provides the foundation for primarily state and federal RNA team members on how to operate in a highly stressful environment where the team gathers and assesses information about the critical resources needs for the state and local jurisdictions following a major emergency or disaster. Various information gathering techniques are discussed and demonstrated.

This is a 1 day course and is a new FEMA developed standardized course of the FEMA-US Army Corps of Engineers hurricane decision-making software program known as HURREVAC. The training provides instruction with hands-on (interactive) experience and includes an exercise. Participants are required to bring a laptop installed with HURREVAC (3.0.1 Version) and loaded with all storms including Hurricane Opal (1985), Hurricane Floyd (1999), Hurricane Lili (2002) and Hurricane Kyle (2002). The course will briefly cover all aspects of HURREVAC and is designed for beginners as well as users who would like a refresher. Students MUST bring laptops!

Important Note:
HURREVAC is only available to public sector individuals; therefore we can only accept participants in that are employees of government entities i.e., fire, police, emergency management; local, state or federal.          

#10 Hurricane Readiness for Inland Communities
(30 participants)

The Hurricane Readiness for Inland Communities course is a one day course based on the recently developed field course G-363 Hurricane Readiness for Coastal Communities. This course differs from the latter by specifically discussing the inland hazards from tropical systems, highlighting the inland flood threat. This course also covers the tools that help analyze these threats, the planning decisions pre-season, pre-landfall, and post storm, with the concept of using a Hurricane Readiness Checklist. Instructors involved in this course would be from the National Weather Service and experienced emergency managers. The course is aimed at the local inland emergency manager to build their capacity to prepare and respond to tropical systems.