Participants will learn how to create effective training plans for their agencies and jurisdictions using a whole community approach. Participants will learn a jurisdiction training assessment process in which an integrated assessment team creates a jurisdictional profile and evaluates the jurisdiction’s ability to fully implement their Emergency Operations Plans (EOP). Participants will then be able to identify and catalog training goals and identify ways to meet them by prioritizing training efforts, developing improvement plans, and implementing a course of action.

Recommended 

Participants for this course should have significant expertise in their functional areas and in training management. They should have regular interaction with other response agencies and disciplines, some level of decision-making authority within their agencies, and general regional knowledge of the community.

Participants should have knowledge of the jurisdictional emergency response plan and mutual aid agreements as well as discipline-specific internal training processes. Experience with data collection and interpreting reporting tools is important, as is the ability to create an operational calendar at the conclusion of the assessment.

Although knowledge of the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Incident Command System (ICS), and the whole community approach is beneficial, it is not required for this course. The target audience is broadened by the whole community approach, though not all members of the private sector may have been exposed to ICS and NIMS. This course will identify the training needs of the whole community and use ICS and NIMS as the main training vehicle for integration and interoperability. 

It is recommended that participants take the FEMA independent study course:

• IS-120.C: An Introduction to Exercises, due to the focus on exercises in Module 6: Assess Capabilities.

If additional knowledge of ICS and NIMS is needed, it is recommended that participants take the FEMA independent study courses:

• IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100

• IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, ICS-200

Upon successful completion, you will be able to: 

• Explain how the RTIPP process will support their communities.
• Choose appropriate preparedness tools for analyzing capability gaps in their agencies.
• Form an assessment team to conduct a jurisdictional training assessment using the whole community approach and based on an understanding of jurisdictional characteristics.
• Write capabilities-based training goals for their agencies using Steps 3 and 4 of the RTIPP process.
• Complete prioritized multiyear training plans to address training goals in their agencies by using Steps 5 and 6 of the RTIPP process.

Suggested Audience 

• Emergency Management
• Law Enforcement 
• Emergency Medical Services
• Fire Service 
• Hazardous Material Personnel 
• Public Works 
• Governmental Administration 
• Communications Personnel
• Health Care 
• Public Health 
• Private Sector 
• Non-Governmental Organizations