Course Catalog

The Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP) is a program designed for advanced exercise practitioners in emergency management exercise design, conduct and evaluation. Participants refine and practice skills critical to performing the phases of the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) cycle. The Master Exercise Practitioner Program (MEPP) is the pinnacle program in the National Standard Exercise Curriculum offered by FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI).

LSU Instructor. problem-based training for small to medium-sized jurisdictions providing opportunity for participants to develop and/or refine strategies for responding to incidents in which suspected WMD devices may be in transit via rail, truck, barge or inter-modal cargo container. Realistic scenarios, facilitated discussion process with final scenario-driven field training.

The Field Force Command and Planning course is a three-day training course that prepares the management level student to serve as a member of an incident management team during a civil action or disorder. The course provides instruction on incident management, incorporating preplanning considerations and other responsibilities of management level responders during such an event. The course also provides the student with the ability to develop a local Incident Action Plan (IAP) for a civil action or disorder and implement response actions from the management level. The course culminates with the student participating in a tabletop exercise that enables them to use knowledge and skills developed in the previous session to plan for and command resources at the incident site.

This course introduces the six-step THIRA/SPR process which includes identifying threats and hazards that stress a community’s capabilities, giving context to those threats and hazards and identifying associated impacts consistent with specific factors, identifying community-specific capability targets, assessing current levels of capability in comparison to those targets, identifying capability gaps and subsequent strategies to close those gaps using the POETE (Planning, Organization, Equipment, Training, and Exercises) areas, and assessing and describing the impact of funding sources on building or sustaining capabilities in a community.

Successful completion of the course will assist local emergency management efforts and stakeholders in generating actionable preparedness data that communities can use to support a variety of emergency management efforts, including planning, training, exercises, and incident response and recovery. THIRA/SPR-informed planning is consistent with, and expands on, nationally accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

INSTRUCTOR: TEEX. Mayoral Institute is a forum for the nation’s mayors to discuss disaster response challenges unique to mayors, county executive officers, and county commissioners. This facilitated discussion is designed for 8-12 mayors—preferably a group of mayors sharing regional response interests. Providing a unique opportunity to share proven strategies, the seminar features a multimedia terrorism scenario and other relevant all-hazards vignettes designed to fuel discussion and highlight key issues of the Emergency Management framework._x000d_

This course provides a forum to discuss strategic and executive-level issues related to all-hazard disaster preparedness, to share proven strategies and best practices, and to enhance coordination among officials responsible for emergency response and recovery from a disaster. This workshop integrates a multimedia scenario and vignettes that highlight key issues and facilitates executive-level discussion of the United States’ National Strategy for Homeland Security. Additionally, the forum provides an opportunity to apply lessons learned from past local and national all-hazards disasters.

This course includes seven distinct modules incorporating lecture, discussion, and a practical exercise. Each module focuses on a key component of disaster preparedness, such as Culture of Preparedness, Integrated Partnerships, Organizing for Success, Crisis Communications, etc. Within the various modules are opportunities for group interaction and discussion. The final module of the course is designed to provide the participants the opportunity to develop an action plan or to-do list for follow-up consideration and action.

The practical exercise consists of an expanding incident, designed specifically to address the local community’s needs or concerns. Participants are provided information and periodic updates, after which they are given a list of questions to consider and discuss. Through these updates, the incident builds upon itself until it reaches a mass casualty/catastrophic level, thereby overwhelming the normal capabilities of the local jurisdiction and challenging the participants to consider their local policies, resources, and limitations.

This workshop provides a unique opportunity for local or regional executives to share strategies and coordinate plans for emergency preparedness and response. This workshop is an effective process for discussing executive-level issues with leaders from the agencies involved in all levels of the emergency management structure.

INSTRUCTOR: TEEX. The Senior Officials Workshop is for local-jurisdiction elected and appointed senior officials. Its purpose is to provide a forum to discuss strategic- and executive-level issues related to disaster preparedness, share proven strategies and best practices, and enhance coordination among officials responsible for emergency response to a disaster._x000d_
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Course taught as part of the Foundational Track of the Command College in Bossier City Fall 2011

INSTRUCTOR: TEEX. This course trains emergency responders and their supervisors and managers in the skills necessary to effectively plan for and manage a WMD/terrorism incident by adapting the existing Incident Command System (ICS) to the unique challenges posed by the integration of local, state, and federal agencies and departments into a unified command structure.

Enhanced IM/UC course focuses on incident management skills, staff responsibilities, and the related situational awareness and decision-making skills using a computer-driven training simulation to offer a challenging decision-making environment in a WMD scenario and the Incident Command Post (ICP) and the key decision-making requirements within that response node. (TEEX)

The Conducting Risk Assessments to Critical Community Assets course teaches the critical components of risk management and provides participants the basic fundamentals of determining and mitigating risks associated with their critical infrastructure. Through a combination of lecture, facilitated discussion, and group activities, participants will learn how threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences determine risk and are given an opportunity to practice the fundamentals of conducting vulnerability assessments by conducting an on-site site-specific risk assessment of select local facilities. Additionally, they will identify potential mitigation measures associated with their findings and work together to develop and present a risk assessment report.

The Developing a State/Regional CBRNE Task Force is 24 hours, 3 days, 8 hours of instruction each day and is designed to provide the sponsoring jurisdiction with the knowledge to develop, train, and sustain and deploy a task force capable of conducting offensive operations at incidents involving chemicals, biological agents, radiaition, nuclear material or explosives.

This course provides the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to help protect public safety and infrastructure from the threat of a terrorism incident.

This course examines the role of public information in managing an all-hazards incident and provides practical
training in crisis communication techniques. In such an incident, it is imperative that community leaders,
incident managers, and public information officers are prepared to communicate with the public through
the news and social media. The course focuses on the role of public information in incident management,
the information needs of the public in a crisis, and the various means of effectively communicating through
the news and social media. Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to manage the major
elements associated with public information in a WMD, terrorism and all-hazards incident.

This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of medical countermeasures in response to a large-scale public health incident. This course focuses on planning considerations, recommendation to achieve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) 48-hour standard for Mass Prophylaxis, and the local community’s Mass Prophylaxis and Point of Dispensing (POD) site preparedness. The course material is applicable to pandemic influenza, bio-terrorism, and other public health emergencies.

Instructor: TEEX. This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners in the local public health system to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of pharmaceuticals for the jurisdiction as they relate to the Division of Strategic National Stockpile (DSNS) Program. The purpose of this course is to enhance a jurisdiction’s preparedness and emergency response efforts by developing (or revising) a plan addressing an all-hazards approach towards mass prophylaxis. The course is delivered by two public health professionals and consists of a combination of lectures, small group activities and a tabletop exercise/game._x000d_

24 hour training on software applications to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies and WMD incidents for front-line responders._x000d_

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Commanders provides an overview of emergency response to a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) event and obtaining and integrating WMD incident-related intelligence into a tactical operations plan. Building on this foundation, you will be provided information to demonstrate the mission planning processes. As the course progresses, this knowledge will be used to develop tactical warning orders, operations orders, and supplemental orders necessary to ensure a successful WMD incident response.

This course provides participants with the skills they need to prepare for and respond to an agricultural terrorist attack on their area’s food supply. (LSU)