The goal of the Lost Person Behavior course is to provide participants with the tools and knowledge necessary to successfully look in the right place, understand lost person behavior, apply statistical tables, identify needed special investigation, and deploy resources into the field. Participants should also be able to brief other searchers on key components of lost person behavior.

Upon successfully completing this course, the participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate the ability to determine correct subject category given an actual incident scenario.

• Judge different methods to combine different subject categories.

• Explain different causes of becoming lost and different strategies lost persons attempt.

• Demonstrate ability to identify decision points given a map and a lost person scenario.

• Describe key components and common misconceptions of lost person behavior.

• Use the correct statistical summary data from the ISRID database to best model a subject’s possible location and survivability.

• Demonstrate the use of reflex tasking to generate initial tasks given a map and a scenario.

• Describe key points for each subject category profile.

• Demonstrate the ability to deploy resources appropriate for each subject category given a map and scenario information.