Training Calendar
Please note: upcoming events are listed chronologically underneath our calendar.
Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Leadership
This webinar will provide insight on the role of the nurse leader in emergency management.
Disaster Response and Disaster Mental Health in NYS
Following last year's webcast describing the experiences of two survivors of mass shootings, this year's event will feature a multi-agency panel representing the key organizations involved in disaster response in New York State. Leaders from New York State Department of Health Office of Health Equity and Human Rights, New York State Office of Mental Health Bureau of Emergency Preparedness and Response, and the American Red Cross will explain how they prepare, deploy, and manage personnel throughout an operation, with focus on disaster mental health. They'll discuss specific examples of responses that went well, lessons learned, and operational improvements planned for the future.
Planning: Emergency Operations (L-103)
The goals of this course are to promote effective emergency management planning practices and enhance planning skills through application exercises.
Cybersecurity Webinar
Cybersecurity Webinar Learning Objectives:
Review the current Cyber threat landscape
Review common Emergency Management terms and concepts
Identify the regulatory framework for cyber incident planning
Describe the Emergency Manager’s role in cyber incident planning and response
Describe how Information Technology’s Cyber Incident Response team can be integrated into your hospitals Incident Command structure during an incident
Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
This is an intermediate-level course designed to describe the core principles and processes of HSEEP, its standardized methodology, available resources, and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistent exercise program. The objectives of the course are to understand the role of HSEEP in National Preparedness, and how HSEEP exercise principles and methodology support efforts across the whole community to improve our national capacity to build, sustain, and deliver core capabilities.
ICS 800 Webinar
ICS800: This course provides guidance for the whole community. Within this broad audience, the National Response Framework focuses especially on those who are involved in delivering and applying the response core capabilities.
Public Information Basics (L-105)
This National Emergency Management Basic Academy course introduces the participants to what the Public Information Officer (PIO) does in emergency management along with the basic information about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The PIO topics covered include the role of the PIO; communication tools and resources encompassing social media; effective communication; preparing the community through outreach and other means; and communication in an incident. The IPAWS topics covered include what the system is and does, preparing alert and warning messages, and writing common alerting protocol messages. This is a 2-day classroom course which gives participants time to perform activities and exercises to reinforce the knowledge and build basic skills.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
3 Day HERT
The Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) course addresses healthcare response at the operations level for the facility and its personnel. This three-day course prepares healthcare responders to utilize the Hospital Incident Command System — integrating into the community emergency response network while operating an Emergency Treatment Area as hospital first responders during a mass casualty incident involving patient contamination. The healthcare responders will determine and use appropriate personal protective equipment and conduct triage followed by decontamination of ambulatory and nonambulatory patients as members of a Hospital Emergency Response Team.
Science of Disaster (L-102)
This course in the National Emergency Management Basic Academy is designed to provide the participants with an overview of scientific principles and concepts that shape our increasingly dangerous world.
Planning: Emergency Operations (L-103)
This course in the National Emergency Management Basic Academy is designed to give basic concepts and planning steps to those new to the field of emergency management so that they may apply planning discipline and skills to challenges in their jobs. The course content includes emergency management planning doctrine and steps to take to accomplish writing plans and using them to deal with special events, which are common challenges for all jurisdictions.
Public Information Basics (L-105)
This National Emergency Management Basic Academy course introduces the participants to what the Public Information Officer (PIO) does in emergency management along with the basic information about the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS). The PIO topics covered include the role of the PIO; communication tools and resources encompassing social media; effective communication; preparing the community through outreach and other means; and communication in an incident.
G-2300:Intermediate EOC Functions
The goal of this course is to assist individuals and jurisdictions that desire to develop or improve their Emergency Operation Centers. This three-day course is designed to examine the role, design, and functions of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the relationships as components of a multi-agency coordination system. By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate, through activities and a Final Exam, the managerial and operational roles of the modern-day EOC as a NIMS Command and Coordination functional group operating within a Multiagency Coordination System (MACS).
ICS 700 Webinar
ICS 700: This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
MGT-317: Disaster Management for Public Services
The Disaster Management for Public Services provides a unique opportunity for public service professionals to extend their knowledge and skills necessary for protecting their communities and infrastructure 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.
PER-355: Radiation Instruments Employment
This course uses a series of drills designed to reinforce the skills of emergency responders, who have received training in the use of radiation detection instruments. This course is applicable to both the prevent and response mission areas.
PER-345: Radiation Instruments Operations
This course trains emergency responders in the individual skills needed to use radiation detection equipment and dosimetry while operating in the prevent or response radiological/nuclear mission fields. Responders will be trained to select the appropriate instrument for a specific mission and use the instrument in performance of that mission.
Science of Disaster (L-102)
This course serves as an Introduction to Science of Disaster and provides a definition and benefits of science.
ICS 700 Webinar
ICS 100: This course introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System.
MGT-318: Public Information in an All-Hazards Incident
This course examines the role of public information in Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), terrorist, and all-hazards incident management and provides practical training in crisis communication techniques. In a major incident, it is of critical importance that community leaders, incident managers, and public information officers are prepared to communicate with the public through traditional and social media. This course focuses on the role of public information in WMD, terrorism, or all-hazards incident management; the information needs of the press and public in a crisis; and strategies for planning, conducting, and managing the crisis public information effort. The intended audience is the individuals within a jurisdiction whose duties may require them to interface with news media during their community’s response to a WMD, terrorism, or all-hazards incident. Course participants who would benefit from this training include a jurisdiction’s key elected officials, public information officers, key department heads, key public health and medical personnel, first responders, and emergency management officials from both the public and private sectors.
Cybersecurity Webinar
Cybersecurity Webinar Learning Objectives:
Review the current Cyber threat landscape
Review common Emergency Management terms and concepts
Identify the regulatory framework for cyber incident planning
Describe the Emergency Manager’s role in cyber incident planning and response
Describe how Information Technology’s Cyber Incident Response team can be integrated into your hospitals Incident Command structure during an incident
HICS Webinar
The HICS webinar session will provide an overview of the Hospital Incident Command System (HICS) and the operation of the Hospital Command Center (HCC) during emergency and non-emergency situations.
MGT-343: Disaster Management for Water & Wastewater Utilities
The Disaster Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities course provides students with information about the Environmental Protection Agencies (EPA) Response Protocol Toolbox covering necessary steps to be taking during the response and recovery Water and Wastewater Utilities facilities. Participants will be guided through the various issues concerning preparing for, responding to, and recovering from incidents affecting water and/or wastewater facilities. The course introduces the various natural and man-made (accidental or intentional) hazards to which water and wastewater systems may be vulnerable and the potential effects the hazards may induce. Planning for and managing incidents are discussed, as well as disaster mitigation, response and recovery specific to drinking water and wastewater systems.
Foundations of Emergency Management (L-101)
FEMA recognizes the need to tie training programs to an established set of emergency management competencies and to a Career Development Program. This is done through a progressive training and education system that includes the entry-level National Emergency Management Basic Academy.
The Emergency Management Institute, in conjunction with the National Emergency Management Association; the International Association of Emergency Managers; and state, local, territorial, and tribal emergency management professionals have established training objectives to meet the professional development needs of emergency managers.
L-311: Hurricane Readiness for Coastal Communities
This 1-day course is an introduction to the National Hurricane Center's (NHC's) forecast procedures and products and the National Hurricane Program's tools for how to incorporate them into planning and response. Topics include hurricane hazards, how forecasters use model guidance, readiness checklists, decision aids, and evacuation planning.
MGT-345: Disaster Management for Electric Power Systems
The Disaster Management for Electric Power Systems course is designed to provide training to electric systems managers and employees to prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, or mitigate against natural disasters, technological disasters, and human-caused incidents that affect or threaten electric power facilities and systems. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to implement techniques to prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents that threaten electric power systems.
ICS 800 Webinar
ICS800: This course provides guidance for the whole community. Within this broad audience, the National Response Framework focuses especially on those who are involved in delivering and applying the response core capabilities.
ICS 700
ICS 700: This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Emergency Preparedness for Nursing Leadership
This webinar will provide insight on the role of the nurse leader in emergency management.
PER-370: Detecting Radioactive Contamination
The course provides Hospital First Receivers/Healthcare workers with essential knowledge and skills that will assist them when responding to a radiological/nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) incident in the safest manner possible for themselves and victims. The course will provide the Participants with information on how to use radiological tools and contamination management processes to limit the spread and exposure to radioactive contaminants. The best practices presented in this course can be applied to any incident that involves radiological contamination.
AWR-313: Homemade Explosives- Awareness, Recognition, and Response
The Homemade Explosives Awareness, Recognition, and Response, Mobile course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to recognize and respond to incident involving Homemade Explosives (HME) through lectures and exercises. Emergency first responders are presented with information necessary to recognize HME precursors, HME manufacturing indicators, and HME exposure indicators, and determine pre-detonation and post-detonation response strategies. Throughout this course, emergency first responders discuss how to implement safe response strategies with recognizing the presence of HME indicators; understanding these response actions is critical to mitigating the hazards associated with HME.
ICS 200 Webinar
ICS 200: This course provides the context for ICS within initial response, and supports higher level ICS training. This course provides training on, and resources for, personnel who are likely to assume a supervisory position within ICS.
ICS 100 Webinar
ICS100: This course provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System.
MGT-341: Disaster Preparedness for Hospital and Healthcare Organizations
The Disaster Preparedness for Healthcare Organizations Within The Community Infrastructure course provides information specific to healthcare organizations vulnerability to a disaster. During this FEMA sponsored course, participants will be introduced to the various natural, technological, and civil hazards to which healthcare organizations may be vulnerable and the potential impacts of those hazards.
PER-243: Primary Screener/Personal Radiation Detector
This course trains participants to perform basic Preventive Radiological/ Nuclear Detection (PRND) operations as Primary Screeners employing a personal radiation detector (PRD). Participants learn how the job of the primary screener is integrated into the nation’s Global Nuclear Detection Architecture’s (GNDA) objective to address the threat of terrorist attacks using radiological/nuclear material. Through scenario-based drills, participants are trained to detect, locate, and adjudicate potential threats involving people, vehicles, packages, and facilities. The course evaluates participants on knowledge, skills, and abilities in the Primary Screener role.
MGT-348: Medical Preparedness & Response to Bombing Incidents
This course addresses the training gap for both emergency responders and first receivers to respond safely and effectively to an explosive event resulting in blast injuries. This 16-hour face-to-face course is a combination of lectures, case studies, facilitated discussion. The course is generally delivered using the standard delivery model of two consecutive days. TEEX and NMT are partners in the NDPC, which is tasked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to help improve emergency response capabilities and leadership in state, local and tribal jurisdictions.
MGT-414: Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Community Lifelines
The purpose of this management level course is to extend the knowledge, skills, and abilities developed in the awareness level course (AWR-213) and to formulate considerations for the resilience of jurisdictional assets leveraging cross-sector partnerships. These considerations as part of a resilience action plan will enhance the whole community’s ability to manage the risk associated with critical infrastructure protection efforts.
4 Hour OSHA Awareness
First responders at the awareness level are individuals who are likely to witness or discover a hazardous substance release and who have been trained to initiate an emergency response sequence by notifying the proper authorities of the release.
eFINDs Train the Trainer
eFINDS is a tracking system/application on the Health Commerce System (HCS) that should be used by a healthcare facility in the event of an emergent, urgent or planned evacuation. The application captures minimal amounts of data and allows facilities to track the patient/resident movement to other facilities, facility types or temporary shelters.
Hospitals that need to build capacity or need to replace an eFINDS facility-based trainer who can no longer fulfill this responsibility should send a staff person to this training.
ICS 700 Webinar
ICS 700: This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS)
Mass Casualty Incident Management Workshop
This MCI workshop is designed for anyone involved in delivering emergency services as a result of a mass-casualty incident. EMS, fire, police, aeromedical, ED, and dispatch center personnel will benefit from attending since joint response and coordination are crucial to successful MCI management.
AWR-362: Flooding Hazards - Science & Preparedness
Flooding hazards can threaten any community in any location in the United States. Flooding can occur over a period of weeks or days, or minutes, thus this course focuses the identification and assessment of hazards due to flooding to enable proper preparedness and response. As flooding is one of the top meteorological killers in the United States, and poses particular hazards to emergency responders, this introduction to recognizing flooding threats is essential for developing safe communities.