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Foundations of Emergency Management (L101) - 20230918

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Full Description: Course Overview:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) recognizes the need to tie training programs to an established set of emergency management competencies and to a career development program through a progressive training and education system that includes the entry-level Academy, called the National Emergency Management Basic Academy. Training objectives for this course, Foundations of Emergency Management, are based on the newly established Emergency Manager competencies that the National Emergency Management Association (NEMA); the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM); and local, State, territorial, and tribal emergency management professionals have established in coordination with the Emergency Management Institute (EMI).//////

The following topics in emergency management are covered in this course: legal issues; intergovernmental and interagency context; influencing, organizing, social vulnerability issues; managing stress; collaboration, preparedness; team building; mitigation; response; prevention and protection; ethical decision-making; recovery; technology; administration; and the future./////

Selection Criteria:
This course is intended for newly appointed emergency managers from State, local, tribal, territorial, and Federal emergency management agencies, and prospective professionals transferring from another discipline to emergency management./////

Prerequisites: IS-235 Emergency Planning
IS-241 Decision Making
IS-242 Effective Communication
IS-244 Developing and Managing Volunteers
Based on federal grant requirements IDHS is required to track personnel who attend training that are funded by the Emergency Management Performance Grant.

Please select if you are funded through the EMPG grant - Select "Yes" if either partially or in whole funded.
IS -200 Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
IS-120: Introduction to Exercise
IS-230: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
IS - 800 An Introduction to National Response Framework
IS - 100 Introduction to Incident Command System
IS-700 National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction
IS-240 Leadership and Influencing

Training Location: Whitley County Government Center
220 W Van Buren Street
Room A & B (Lower Level)
Columbia City, IN 46725

Resources Required: Prerequisites:
IS-100.c: An Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100
IS-120.c: An Introduction to Exercises
IS-200.c: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response
IS-230.d: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
IS-235: Emergency Planning
IS-240: Leadership and Influencing
IS-241: Decision Making
IS-242: Effective Communication
IS-244: Developing and Managing Volunteers
IS-700.b: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System
IS-800.c: National Response Framework, An Introduction