Course Catalog

The primary goal of this course is to enhance preparedness and knowledge to ensure the joint effectiveness of law enforcement and public health, particularly when conducting concurrent investigations in response to a threat or attack involving bioterrorism or other types of WMD. The course addresses this goal by bringing law enforcement and public health together in a combined study of the operations and procedures of the two disciplines._x000d_
Average of 5 Hours to Complete_x000d_
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Public Health, Healthcare, Governmental_x000d_
Administrators, Emergency Medical Services, and Emergency Management Agencies_x000d_
Course Outline_x000d_
Pre-Assessment_x000d_
Module 1: Course Overview_x000d_
Module 2: National Response Framework_x000d_
Module 3: Public Health and Law Enforcement_x000d_
Module 4: Criminal Investigations_x000d_
Module 5: Public Health and Forensic Crime Labs_x000d_
Module 6: Course Summary_x000d_
Post-Assessment_x000d_
Course Evaluation

Incident Response to Terrorist Bombings – Awareness

The Essentials of Community Cybersecurity (ECCS) course provides individuals, community leaders, and first responders with information on how cyber attacks can impact, prevent, and/or stop operations and emergency responses in a community. The course also provides a cursory introduction to cybersecurity vulnerabilities, risks, threats, and countermeasures. It explains vulnerabilities of computer systems and networks and how these vulnerabilities can affect communities, organizations, and daily workplace operations. The course introduces actions communities can take in establishing a cybersecurity program. The course provides participants with an awareness of issues. It gives an overview of threats and vulnerabilities, without going into too many details, to highlight the potential impact a cyber attack could have. Participants discuss some of the fundamental activities needed to develop a cybersecurity program, without addressing the technical details of how to secure critical infrastructures. The course introduces the Community Cybersecurity Maturity Model (CCSMM) as a framework for understanding community cybersecurity and offers a brief introduction to low-cost or no-cost approaches to securing a community against cybersecurity threats and attacks. The course sets the stage for further efforts in which a community can build a cybersecurity program.

WMD Radiological/Nuclear Awareness

designed to prepare trainers to deliver the six-hour AWR-140 Radiation Awareness Course, using a prepared lesson plan. Each participant will have an opportunity to learn the basics of platform presentation and classroom discussion and will present a portion of the Radiation Awareness Course as part of their training. The course consists of classroom instruction. Upon completion of the Train-the-Trainer course, participants are then eligible to conduct (indirect) courses for their agency and surrounding jurisdictions. _x000d_

WMD Radiological/Nuclear Awareness (Train-the-Trainer)

Designed to educate rural public safety officials and responders in maritime jurisdictions to understand the unique and complex security needs of maritime facilities and vessels. Provides overview of threats, security and safety issues, threat levels, terminology, vessel types and TWIC cards.

Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium

This eight-hour awareness-level course for school administrators and emergency responders will educate rural law enforcement personnel as well as school administrators and staff to effectively respond to an emergency involving a school building or an entire school system. The training will provide representatives of rural law enforcement departments with a foundation of knowledge and skills that will enable them to progressively establish a school-based emergency response plan and crisis management team through information sharing and training.

Developed by the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), the WMD Standardized Awareness Training course is a six-hour training course that provides instruction on: prevention and deterrence, chemical and biological agents, radiological materials, explosives, and the Emergency Response Guidebook. CDP is the proprietor of this course.

AWR 160-1 Stdrdzd Awareness Auth. Trainer (SAAT)

This course is designed to build capabilities for multi-agency collaboration pertaining to risk management for sport events. It introduces the seven-step sport security risk management process, including the idea of risk management and setting risk management goals for sport events, identifying assets that need protecting and determining risk, implementing planning and mitigation actions, and implementing after-action review for events as well as incidents. Through activity-based training modules, intact security teams will enhance their ability for planning, risk assessment, training, and exercising practices specific to conducting sport events. The expectation is for participants to return to their respective organization and coordinate the development of a sport event security management system.

Leading from the Front: Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness for the Law Enforcement Executive

The Information Security for Everyone course is designed to teach the principles and practices that all computer users need to keep themselves safe, both at work and at home. By presenting best practices along with a small amount of theory, trainees are taught both what to do and why to do it. Topics covered include how to secure both clean and corrupted systems, protecting your personal data, securing simple computer networks, and safe Internet usage.

Training provides current information and best practices for response to a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak, such as H5N1, and the impact on bird and human populations with an emphasis on the agricultural sector. (Kirkwood Community College)

This course is designed to train and equip participants with the strategies and skills necessary to create vigilant, prepared, and resilient communities for homeland security. (Western Oregon University)

Terrorism Awareness: Protecting Soft Targets_x000d_
Frontline Responder Training-UNLV

Provides deaf and hard of hearing and emergency responders with basic skills needed to communicate in emergencies such as terrorist attacks, natural and biological disasters.

INSTRUCTOR: Western Oregon University. This one-day course is designed to increase public safety executives' level of terrorism awareness and preparation skills to engage the community in all-hazards and anti-terrorism strategies through partnering with federal, state, and local agencies. _x000d_