Course Catalog

This course is designed to:

Examine the role, design, and function of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and their supportive relationship as a NIMS Command and Coordination component of a Multi-Agency Coordination System.

Provide training about staffing, organization, information, systems, communications, and equipment needs at the EOC, such activating and deactivating, operations, as well as training and exercising.

Focus on the role of an EOC as one of four NIMS Command and Coordination functional groups.

The purpose of this course is to provide the participants practice around the EOC Skillsets with experiences on how to activate and run an effective and efficient EOC. This will enable EOC leaders to understand the importance of multiple EOC positions and responsibilities, gathering and analyzing data, maintaining continuity of the organization, and delivering information to the appropriate agencies and individuals, as well as the confidence in making decisions to protect life and property.

An advanced Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Planning Support training course that teaches to the EOC Skillsets does not exist and has been identified as essential training, providing learners with the knowledge to successfully support EOC planning activities of varying complexities. This advanced, performance-based course will provide learners with the ability to perform specific skills and tasks aligned with the skillsets needed for planning support, leading to knowledge that will enable personnel to support EOC planning, no matter the organizational structure, incident level, or role.

The primary goal of this course is to provide participants a practical learning experience on the EOC Skillsets associated with resources support tasks. This training will provide individuals in resource roles with a greater understanding of the responsibilities and processes involved in EOC resources, the development of essential documentation, and the continual management of information across multiple agencies and personnel as it relates to effective EOC operations.

Describe the National Qualification System (NQS), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), and EOCs.
Perform various tasks within the identified skillsets for Resources Support.
Develop EOC resource documentation.
Manage a variety of resource processes and procedures within the EOC.

This course aims to provide the participants practice around the EOC Skillsets with experiences on activating and performing with effectiveness and efficiency in an EOC. The course will enable EOC personnel to understand the importance of multiple EOC positions and responsibilities, gathering and analyzing data, maintaining continuity of the organization, delivering information to the appropriate agencies and individuals, and the confidence in making decisions to protect life and property.

Describe the foundation provided by NPG, NIMS, and NQS, for EOC organizations.
Perform the duties and tasks to maintain situational awareness within an EOC.
Demonstrate how to perform action tracking within an EOC.
Represent their EOC organization, support EOC activities, and explain the discipline-specific resource streams.
Perform the necessary tasks to drive organizational representation within an EOC.
Assemble and respond to requests for documents and records within an EOC.
Create a PTB for tasks associated with situational awareness, action tracking, organizational representation, and document and records management.
Create the proper forms and documentation associated with operations and situational awareness during a cascading incident.

G250.1 WEM: COG

G250.12 Senior Official Workshop on Terrorism

G250.3 WEM: Disabled & Elderly

G271 Hazardous Weather and Flood Preparedness

G275 Emergency Operation Center Management and Operation Course

G290 Basic Public Information Officer's Course

The Basic Public Information Officer Course (G0290) is designed to provide participants with the opportunity to start applying basic concepts underlying the Public Information Officer (PIO) role. This course can provide a basic understanding of the PIO function for those new to the position.

This 2-day course will consider the value of communication before, during, and after an incident. It will help PIOs identify critical audiences, both internal and external.

G311 Hazardous Materials Contingency Planning

G-318 Mitigation Planning Workshop

G320 Fundamental Crs for Radiological Response

G360 Hurricane Planning

A two and one-half day course addressing community planning and response options for riverine flooding. While it does not deal with specialized flooding situations such as alluvial fan floods, coastal floods, flash floods, or floods related to ice jams, the same basic planning and response procedures could apply in these unique situations. This training emphasizes how to conduct a flood fight and provides information to help communities decide if a flood fight is possible and worth the effort and cost. An examination is included.

G385 Disaster Response & Recovery Operations

G386 Mass Fatalities Incident Course

This course provides information and resources that will enable participants to plan an
effective Damage Assessment Program and conduct rapid and effective damage
assessments in order to save lives, protect property and the environment, and begin the
process of Recovery and Mitigation.

NIMS Resource Management

Before the 9/11 attacks, ICS training was exercised nearly
exclusively on fire-based incidents. Recognizing the applicability and sincere need for NIMS principles across incident response disciplines, an “all-hazards” approach to training will be embraced in this course.

With an “all-hazards” approach, this course will focus on how a Planning Section Chief (PSC) needs to fundamentally possess the same core knowledge, skills, and abilities whether they are responding to a fire, an oil spill, a mass-casualty incident, or another incident. In other words, regardless of the hazard, discipline, or incident, the essential job of a PSC is the same.

This course uses lecture, discussion, student participation, and activities to focus on understanding the behaviors, duties, responsibilities, and capabilities of an effective PSC on a Type 3 AHIMT.

The intended audience(s) Federal, state, tribal, and/or local level emergency responders who may be designated as a Planning Section Chief (PSC) on their local or state IMT. The materials were developed with the assumption that audience members may have little or no actual experience as a member of an AHIMT.

The audience may include students from a variety of agencies and functional disciplines, including fire service, law enforcement, emergency management, public works departments, as well as public health organizations, medical emergency teams, and hospitals.

NIMS ICS specific training should be completed by personnel who are regularly assigned to function on a Type III AHIMT or by those persons who desire to seek credentials/certification in those positions.