Course Catalog

The goal of this course is to train and educate prospective instructors so they effectively deliver Department of Homeland Security (DHS)-certified courses to the intended audiences. This course is designed to give instructors, most of whom already have years of instructional experience within their own organizations, insight into adult education as well as give them the opportunity to critique and improve their instructional style. The course focuses on enhancing instructor skills applicable for DHS-certified courses, although it also discusses organization-specific policies, procedures, and practices. (LSU)_x000d_

LSU Instructor: The purpose of this two-day workshop is to provide campus leaders, faculty governance, student governance, campus law enforcement/security departments, campus health/medical and mental health services, campus public affairs, jurisdictional law enforcement and public safety agencies, and jurisdictional public information officers with an understanding of and ability to navigate through the difficult aspects of dealing with campus emergencies such as man-made or natural events, including acts of violence.

This course provides participants with an understanding of and ability to navigate through the difficult aspects of dealing with campus emergencies involving natural or manmade events, including acts of violence. The course consists of small, problem-based, integrated group activities that require a coordinated, integrated approach to solve. Through tabletop scenarios, course participants will observe a developing incident and respond in a manner consistent with currently established campus and jurisdictional emergency operations procedures.

The HSEEP Mobile Training Course is an intermediate-level training course that incorporates exercise guidance and best practices from the HSEEP Volumes. Throughout the course, participants will learn about exercise program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning. (National Integration Center, National Exercise Division)

Enables governments and jurisdictions to preserve, maintain and/or reconstitute its capability to perform trheir essential functions in the event of threat of occurremenc of any disaster or emergency that could potentially disrupt jurisdiction/private-sector operations and services.

The Disaster Management for Electric Power Systems course provides students with information specific to preparing for, protecting against, responding to, recovering from, and mitigating against a threatened or actual natural disaster, an act of terrorism, or other man-made disaster affecting electric power facilities and systems.

This course is being taught as part of the Foundational Track of the Command College in Bossier City, La Fall 2011

This course is designed for personnel from any professional background who may become part of a community response to a bombing event. This interactive, instructor-facilitated program employs case studies and research-based information designed to enhance medical preparedness for and response to blast effects. Breakout sessions address considerations and concerns specific both to medical responders and emergency planners.

Students are encouraged to ask questions and to create a to-do list of items they don’t have the answers to, so they have a list of tasks to address when they return to their jurisdiction.

INSTRUCTOR: CDP. The WMD Incident Command Training Course is three days of in-depth training that takes the attendee through the entire spectrum of command of a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) terrorist event. The course provides instruction on WMD, the incident command system coupled with the National Response Plan. It examines the complexities of operational considerations and actions of command at a WMD event. The course takes the attendee through pre and post considerations by incorporating a segment on planning for the response using techniques that allow the commander to determine the correct composition of the planning team, evaluating the threat to the jurisdiction, identifying and prioritizing probable targets, measuring required capabilities, and developing a local incident response plan to a WMD terrorist incident. (CDP)

INSTRUCTOR: CDP. The WMD Hands-On Training course is a two-day course that provides the responder with hands-on practical exercises that gives the responder the ability to perform triage and decontamination procedures, identify residual contamination through the use of survey and monitoring equipment, and conduct scene survey and safety. As part of the 16 contact hours for this course, the performance defensive responder also performs survey and monitoring procedures, and conducts triage and decontamination of victims within a toxic facility.

INSTRUCTOR: NATIONAL SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION. The Weapons of Mass Destruction Executive Level Course is designed to prepare Sheriffs and top law enforcement administrators to plan, equip and train their departments to respond effectively to a WMD incident. Also covers WMD and the terrorist threat and addresses several areas including recognition of a threat, notification, assessments and inventories, roles and responsibilities, incident management, communication, and documentation.

This planning and management-level planning course provides business continuity training to communities nationwide. It will help prepare business owners as well as executive level managers develop a comprehensive and effective business continuity program from start to finish.

MGT 384, Community Preparedness for Cyber Incidents, is designed to provide organizations and communities with strategies and processes to increase cyber resilience. During this 12-hour course, participants will analyze cyber threats and initial and cascading impacts of cyber incidents, evaluate the process for developing a cyber preparedness program, examine the importance and challenges of cyber related information sharing and discover low to no-cost resources to help build cyber resilience.

Hospital Emergency Management: Concepts and Implications of WMD Terrorist Incidents

This course provides assistance to sport venue managers to prepare and/or enhance an evacuation plan to assist emergency responders in implementing flexible and scalable evacuation activities (i.e. evacuation, sheltering in place, or relocation). These emergency activities might occur in isolation or as a result of a larger, multi-entity response initiative. The course is highly innovative in that it builds multi-agency collaboration by delivering critical evacuation planning information.

In this course participants will learn how to develop a roadmap for progress toward the National Preparedness Goal by facilitating the development of resilience considerations and involving essential community critical infrastructure partners. Participants will learn how to formulate considerations for the resilience of community assets that leverage cross-sector partnerships. These considerations enhance the whole community’s ability to manage the risk associated with critical infrastructure protection efforts. Participants will have an opportunity to practice the practical skills necessary to formulate considerations in the local community.