Course Catalog

This is a certification from the Louisiana Bureau of Emergency Medical Services for a EMT Certification.

The Train-The-Trainer/Facilitator Program is a two (2) day training. This is a comprehensive training with Instructional Materials Guide for the (Train-The-Trainer/ facilitators) to provide a one-day Foundational BTAM (approximately 6-7 contact hours) training class, throughout the state. Attendance of the Foundational Training is a prerequisite for this training. (Core course material will be provided).

The Louisiana Center for Safe Schools’ Safety and Security Assessment Training provides an introduction to conducting physical security assessments on schools. This course will help your school’s Emergency Operation Plan planning team become more acquainted with a layered approach to physical security, which will help your team in recognizing and addressing vulnerabilities and security gaps on campus.

Target Audience:
• SROs and SRO Supervisors
• Law Enforcement
• School Safety Personnel
• Facility Managers
• Local OHSEPs
• Principals
• School Administrative Staff
• Fire Department Personnel
• Everybody who is part of the EOP planning team

"This course will cover the benefits of CATS time self-entry; the single date time request overview screen; create, copy, and saving favorites; multi-date time request; supervisor approvals; and supervisor forward and substitution."

"This course voers how students will use the Traveler Work Center and learn: to create a trip travel expense, to print a trip travel expense report for submission and for personal files, to modify a trip travel expense, to delete a trip travel expense, to create a weekly trip travel expense, to create a travel advance request, and to attach a trip travel expense to a travel advance."

This briefing provides an overview of the Louisiana National Guard (LANG), its units, capabilities, and expectations during an all hazards event. Emergency management partners will come away with an understanding of how and when to request LANG support.

This course will familiarize participants with the LouisianaPA.com online application which manages Public Assistance grants in Louisiana. Participants will learn how to navigate within the LouisianaPA.com website.

To satisfy this requirement a candidate must demonstrate at least two years experience in a comprehensive disaster/emergency management position AND participation in a full scale exercise by (1) planning, (2) conducting or coordinating, and/or (3) having a major disaster/emergency management role during the exercise, OR experience in the preparation, response, recovery and mitigation phases of an actual disaster.

Louisiana Center for Safe Schools serves as the state's premier clearinghouse to advance school safety resources, guidance, technical assistance and tools for school safety. This interactive workshop will feature phased elements that are vital to preparedness, planning, response, recovery and mitigation, and showcase expertise around the state on innovative best practices. Through the phased approach, all stakeholders will be immersed in best practices to learn what to do before, during and after an active shooting at your school campus. This post conference training session is open to any interested stakeholder in the crisis response, emergency management, law enforcement, education, campus facilities, etc. The subject matter covered during the session will be particularly relevant to K-12 superintendents and district administrators, principals and school administrators, policy makers, and state and local education groups

Campus Security Assessment and Response Training for LEMC Conference 2023

In accordance with Act 526 of the Louisiana Legislative Session of 2022, GOHSEP has developed the Emergency Management Training Program for Local Officials and Employees. This training program is essential for local officials and employees to understanding key components of emergency management. This training will include the following:
 Roles + Responsibilities for State + GOHSEP + Local Officials
 Contracting for Goods and Services Before, During and After a Disaster, Procurement Procedures + Reimbursement Requirements + Utilization of Prepositioned Contracts
 Submitting Requests for Resources and Services
 Standards + Regulations for Disbursement of Public Assets and Diversion of Resources
 Availability + Utilization of Nonprofits

GOHSEP Grants Training (Public Assistance/Hazard Mitigation Preparedness Program) at LEMC Conference May 2023.

New OHSEP Staff Training for LEMC conference May 2023

The course will provide New OHSEP staff the necessary knowledge and tools to form a collaborative partnership with GOHSEP. This course is designed to assure interagency collaboration between state and local entities to prevent, prepare, respond, recover and mitigate from disasters that impact Louisiana. GOHSEP will provide helpful tips and answers to common FAQs. There will be representation from each GOHSEP Division available to answer questions or provide guidance.

GOHSEP’s Public Assistance Director of Field Operations, GOHSEP’s Director of PA Grants Management and Tangipahoa Parish’s Director of Finance will be presenting on what it takes to get a parish declared, what documentation is needed and why to work toward meeting the threshold, and discuss the required turnaround time. The presentation will include what documentation FEMA is requiring for PA reimbursements and steps the applicant can take to assure that PA reimbursement documentation is complete.
Examples will be provided demonstrating proper documentation techniques and helpful guidance on how to prepare ahead of time.

Stop the Bleed (STB) Course LEMC Conference May 2023

To satisfy this requirement a candidate must demonstrate at least two years experience in a comprehensive disaster/emergency management position AND participation in a full scale exercise by (1) planning, (2) conducting or coordinating, and/or (3) having a major disaster/emergency management role during the exercise, OR experience in the preparation, response, recovery and mitigation phases of an actual disaster.

The Louisiana Emergency Manager Technical (LEM-T) credential was designed by LEPA to provide credentials to emergency management professionals who are not seeking credentials of an LEM-B or LEM-P. LEPA recognizes and awards the LEM-T credential to personnel proving mastery in the occupational fields illustrated within the National Response Framework. These fields are listed below:

Transportation: Aviation, maritime, surface, railroad, and pipeline transportation.
Communications: Tactical Radio, IT, commercial AM and FM radio, television, and amateur radio.
Public Works and Engineering: Infrastructure restoration, damage assessment, debris removal.
Fire Services: Municipal, industrial and commercial fire fighting.
Emergency Management: EOC Operations and the coordination of emergency response plans at all levels of government.
Mass Care: Sheltering, Emergency Assistance, Housing, and Human Services.
Logistics Management and Resource Support: Equipment, supply and service requirements.
Public Health and Medical Services: Medical care, health surveillance, medical equipment and supplies, patient evacuation.
Search and Rescue: Structural collapse, waterborne, swift water, flood water, land SAR.
HAZMAT: Response to uncontrolled releases of oil or hazardous materials, industrial safety.
Agriculture & Natural Resources: Nutrition assistance, food supply safety, animal control and disease eradication, household pets and veterinary assistance.
Energy and Fuel: Producing, refining, transporting, generating, transmitting, conserving, building, distributing, maintaining, controlling and estimating damage to energy and fuel infrastructure.
Specialized Public Safety and Security: General Law Enforcement, investigations, crisis reaction teams, access control, site security.
Long Term Community Recovery: The coordination of federal, state, and local governments, and the private sector to enable community recovery from the long-term consequences of extraordinary disasters.
External Affairs: Media relations, Joint Information Center Operations, Public Affairs, Congressional Affairs, Intergovernmental Affairs.
Critical Infrastructure and Key Resource Protection: Assessing, prioritizing, protecting, and restoring critical infrastructure and key resources.
Financial Management: Comptrollers, FEMA Public Assistance management, Homeland Security, FEMA, Fire Services, DOTD Grants management.
Volunteers and Donations: Management of unaffiliated volunteers and unsolicited donations.