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Ready Okaloosa is a planning program that aims to help Okaloosa County citizens and Okaloosa County Emergency Management prepare for hurricane evacuations. By registering, you will infom the county of your expected evacuation plans, so they can plan for things such as traffic flow and county shelter operations. Also by registering, you will receive information customized to your address regarding which flood and evacuation zone your home is in, along with other helpful materials to help you with you disaster plan.
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disaster-response training!!!
HOMELAND RESPONDER TRAINING NETWORK
http://www.homelandresponder.org/Pages/HR-2-features.htmlThey have a library of over 200 very short videos (most are 15 minutes or less) on topics related to first responders.
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:
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
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
*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
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) -
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.
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