Course Catalog

EMTs provide out of hospital emergency medical care and transportation for critical and emergent patients who access the emergency medical services (EMS) system. EMTs have the basic knowledge and skills necessary to stabilize and safely transport patients ranging from non-emergency and routine medical transports to life threatening emergencies. EMTs function as part of a comprehensive EMS response system, under medical oversight. EMTs perform interventions with the basic equipment typically found on an ambulance. EMTs are a critical link between the scene of an emergency and the health care system.

"This course illustrates how organizational dynamics are influenced by individuals and their use (or misuse) of workplace power and politics, as well as the existing organizational culture. This course must be completed within 1 year of promotion. This course is a pre-requisite to ""CPTP 2015 Group 2 Capstone.""

This course is an alternate for the ""Developing a Motivated Work Group"" course. ""Developing a Motivated Work Group"" does satisfy this course requirement, as long as it was taken after 1/1/2012."

The capstone is the final step in the learning process. It allows the student to take a cumulative and integrative approach to all that was learned from the previous instructional modules and apply their own personal experiences to the learning process. The student applies their understanding to the concepts of intelligence, terrorist tradecraft, homeland security, and critical infrastructure in an environment within their own jurisdiction. Through instructor interaction and direct feedback, the capstone helps the student review what was learned and observe the application of the learned material in a practical environment. The capstone must be completed as the final course in the MicroCert. It will be offered several times a year in a date specific cohort based group. Please check sections for date availability.

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

Distinguish the difference between an aggressor and a protector.
Create a target planning and assessment using the provided terrorist attack cycle.
Construct practical security recommendations to defend or mitigate a local terrorist attack.

Annual Training.

"This course provides participants with a general overview of safe work practices. Provides the necessary precautions to prevent exposure to a blood borne pathogen. This course must be completed every five years."

"This course provides safe driving concepts and stimulates awareness of hazardous situations while driving. This course must be completed every three years."

Annual Training.

The course must be taken for new cardholder approvers prior to being assigned as a cardholder's approver, as well as annually, to continue assignment of cardholder approver for the State of Louisiana Travel Card. This course must be completed annually.

"This introductory course provides participants an overall, basic introduction into the Public Assistance Program. Participants will learn at a high level about the disaster declaration process, Applicant Briefing, Request for Public Assistance process, Applicant eligibility determination process, Kickoff Meeting, Project Worksheet development and approval process, the reimbursement process, and the Closeout process. This course is sometimes referred to as ""Public Assistance 101."" This course is a pre-requisite to PA 102."

"This course provides participants an overview of the Public Assistance process and the grant management process. Participants will gain a more detailed understanding of the Public Assistance Program as well as the work processes involved in managing the grants within the Public Assistance Program. Pre-requisite for this course is ""PA 101.""

This course was formerly named ""PA Overview"" and also ""PA In-Depth."" ""PA Overview"" and ""PA In-Depth"" do satisfy this course requirement."

This course provides parish and city staff with information specific to the Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) process; roles and responsibilities; collection of information for the PDA; methodologies for conducting damage assessments; and general program specifications.
Virtual option will be available for those who register with the exception of the final practical; Must be present to participate in practical

"This course provides participants an overview of the Progressive Applicant Resolution Team (PART) and PART’s role within the Disaster Recovery Division. Participants will gain an understanding of identifying overpaid PWs and applicants and PART’s techniques and procedures for working with applicants who are overpaid. Participants will also learn about their role in PART’s workflow."

PDA Training

This training provides an overview of the FEMA’s Cost Estimating Format (CEF) for Large projects and guidance on the CEF process and how it is developed.