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 Sign up to be notified about weather alerts on your home and mobile phone. This system offered FREE to Okaloosa County residents will quickly notify you by phone of weather threats to your area. Code Red can call up to two numbers per address, and unlike weather radios, you will only be notified if your address is inside the highlighted warning area.
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Ready Okaloosa is a planning program that aims to help Okaloosa County citizens and Okaloosa County Emergency Management prepare for the threat of a hurricane to our area. By registering, you will inform the county of your expected evacuation plans so they can plan for expected traffic flow out of the county and evacuation shelter populations. Also by registering, you will receive in the mail literature on how to create your family's disaster plan, preparing your disaster supply kit, and more. And even further, you'll receive customized maps showing which flood and evacuation zones your home is in. All this offered FREE to Okaloosa County residents by Okaloosa County Emergency Management! This is great for folks new to the area!! 
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Further Online Trainings

Check out these sites for further
disaster-response training!!!

ST PETERSBURG (FL) COLLEGE National Terrorism Preparedness Institute

http://terrorism.spcollege.edu/ Register for CEUs.  Segments run approximately 1 hour in a television news show format.  There is a new video every month.  Recent topics include:   Playas Training & Research Center; COOP Planning; The Intelligence Toolbox Training Course; Restoration of Lifelines; National Infrastructure Protection Plan.

FEMA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE:  http://training.fema.gov/IS/crslist.asp One of the first large providers of on-line emergency management training, they now have 60 independent study courses

CENTER FOR HOMELAND DEFENSE and SECURITY:  http://www.chds.us/?special/info&pgm=Noncredit The Naval Post Graduate School offers non-credit versions of two of their Master’s degree courses:  Critical Infrastructure: Vulnerability Analysis and Protection and Technology for Homeland Security: Inspection and Detection Technologies

TEEX (Texas Engineering Extension Service):  http://www.teexwmdcampus.com All courses require registration.  Courses run from one to several hours.  If you achieve 80% on the test, you receive a certificate and CEUs, (usually 0.1 to 0.4…1 to 4 hours).  There are currently 11 courses in the on-line system:  Public Works for WMD (CBRNE) Incidents; Basic EMS Concepts for WMD Incidents; WMD Terrorism Awareness for Emergency Responders; WMD Incident Management/Unified Command Concepts;

Introduction to SNS and Mass Prophylaxis; Botulism; Children and Nerve Agents; Canine Emergency Medical Care; Emergency Management; Bacillus Anthracis; Avian Flu

 NATIONAL FIRE ACADEMY:  http://www.nfaonline.dhs.gov/browse/index.shtm  Alternative Water Supply: Planning & Implementing Programs; EMS Operations at Multi-Casualty Incidents; Fire Service Supervision; Introduction to ICS;  Basic NIMS ICS for Operational Responders; Emergency Response to Terrorism; Self-Study Course for Community Safety Educators; Testing and Evaluation of Water Supplies for Fire Protection

 
CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION: http://www.bt.cdc.gov/training/  Targeted to public health audience.  Recent training and webinars include:  Radiological Terrorism; Learning from Katrina; Mass Antibiotic Dispensing: Using Public Information to Enhance POD Flow

 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY – Mailman School of Public Health – National Center for Disaster Preparedness: http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/training.htm  *Asterisk indicates registration required and certificate available.  Their current courses are: *Basic Emergency Preparedness On-Line Course; Point of Distribution Medical Officer Training; *Basic Emergency Preparedness for Dental Professional; *Basic Crisis & Emergency Risk Communications for Public Health Workers; Principals of Disaster & Public Health Emergency Response for Journalists-A Webinar; Israel Lessons Learned in Emergency Preparedness

UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY – School of Public Health:  http://www.ualbanycphp.org/learning/default.cfm 
They currently have ten courses: Working in a Point of Dispensing (POD); Terrorism, Preparedness, and Public Health: An Introduction; Preparedness & Community Response to Pandemics; Personal Preparedness; Microbiology: An Introduction; HazMat Transportation Incidents: Using the Emergency Response Guidebook; Emergency Preparedness Training for Hospital Clinicians; Nuclear Terrorism: Pathways & Prevention; Mass Dispensing: A Primer for Community Leader; Your Family Disaster Plan

G-TRAIN (Georgia Training and Resource Inventory Network) - Emory Center for Public Health Preparedness http://www.sph.emory.edu/GTRAIN/ Some sessions have CEUs available.  They divide training into segments.  The approximate number of current training activities in each segment is in parenthesis.  Note there is duplication among categories: Biological Hazards (13); Chemical Hazards (4); Nuclear and/or Radiological Hazards (3); Explosive/Mass Trauma (2); Antiterrorism and Veterinary/Zoonotic Preparedness (11); Epidemiology and Surveillance (21); Infectious; Mental Health/Psychosocial Issues (4); Information Technology/Communication (13); Coordination Across Agencies (20); State and/or Local Public Health System Operations (21); Terrorism or Disaster Preparedness and Response (36)

NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS (University of North Carolina School of Public Health):  http://nccphp.sph.unc.edu/training/training_list/
Some sessions have CEUs available.  Training is divided into over 30 diverse segments including Grant Writing and GIS.

 YALE NEW HAVEN CENTER FOR DISASTER PREPAREDNESS & DISASTER RESPONSE: http://ynhhs.emergencyeducation.org/  Free courses include:  Best Practices for the Protection of Health Care Facility-Based First Receivers; Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians; Mental Health Aspects of Emergencies and Disasters for Non-Mental Health Professionals

 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI (Extension Disaster Education Network) http://extension.missouri.edu/eden/  Plant Biosecurity Management Course