Cook County Emergency Management and Regional Security (EMRS) supports an initiative designed to help our partners increase the resiliency of preparation, prevention, response, mitigation, and recovery for their municipalities by offering a training and exercise schedule focused on the active threats and hazards outlined in the county and in alignment with the mandates of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). EMRS is available to discuss your municipality’s needs and work in union to develop a plan to meet identified training gaps. Please contact our team at emrs.training@cookcountyil.gov and we will direct your request to one of our team members most aligned with your request.
2025 Training Opportunities
updated 10.14.25
Date | Hours | Class Description | Organization Offering Course and Registration | Registration Link |
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| October 14 | 8 Hours | MGT 414 Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Community Lifelines
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. | TEEX – Melrose Park DHS 900 N. 25th Ave Melrose Park, IL 60160
| https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT414&S=582
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| November 18-19 | 16 hours | MGT 465 Recovering from Cybersecurity Incidents
The Recovering from Cybersecurity Incidents course is designed to provide guidance to a jurisdiction on the actions necessary to effectively recover from a cybersecurity attack. It discusses the pre- and post-incident programmatic activities needed for short-term and long-term recovery. It bridges the different worlds of information technology and emergency management. This training is particularly pertinent to IT management, emergency management personnel, as well as any other government, critical infrastructure, or private sector personnel who has the responsibility for recovering after a cyber incident. This course is intended to be delivered across the country to jurisdictions at all response levels: local, state, tribal, territorial, as well as private industry. | TEEX – 111 E. Rand Rd. Mount Prospect, IL 60056 Fire Station #13
| https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=NE&C=MGT465&S=76
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| December 10 | 8 hours | TLOC (8 Hours) | FBI – Invitation Event
| Oakton Community College 1600 E. Golf Rd. Des Plaines, IL 60016 |
2026 Training Opportunities
Date | Hours | Class Description | Organization Offering Course | Registration Link |
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| February 24 | 8 Hours | AWR 228 – Community Resilience This course demonstrates how to integrate risk and community-based collaborative strategies into plans and programs and introduces tools that help communities assess individual risks and vulnerabilities as well as introduces strategies to become more resilient and better prepared for natural disasters. | NDPTC – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/delivery/4200/ |
| March 4 | 8 Hours | AWR 319 – Leveraging Tools for Conducting Damage Assessments This course provides a review of damage assessment, the importance of providing quick and accurate assessments, and an opportunity to review and practice with tools to assist in conducting damage assessments. The course also reviews various disaster damage assessment processes, collaborating agencies, and resources. Participants will compare and contrast damage assessment tools in order to ensure that resources are in place for an adequate response, followed by a hands-on exercise using various tools and software to collect damage assessments. | NDPTC – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/delivery/4201/ |
| March 10 | 8 hours | AWR 213 – Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Awareness
This course will introduce participants to the key terms, policy, guidance, and preparedness efforts required to safeguard the Nation’s critical infrastructure. Participants will discuss the risk management framework, describe Federal critical infrastructure security and resilience and information sharing programs, and relate critical infrastructure programs to individual actions. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=AWR213&S=741
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| March 11-12 | 16 Hours | MGT 315 – Conducting Risk Assessments for Critical Community Assets 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. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT315&S=1417
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| May 5-6 | 16 Hours | MGT 310 – Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment and Stakeholder Preparedness Review 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. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT310&S=1622 |
| May 7 | 8 Hours | MGT 414 Critical Infrastructure Resilience and Community Lifelines 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. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT414&S=610
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| May 12-13 | 16 Hours | MGT 361 – Crisis Management Affecting Institutions of Higher Education: A Collaborative This course trains higher education campus and community members, and others involved in crisis management duties and responsibilities to effectively manage a crisis by applying a whole community approach. Risk management strategies, effective crisis communication, and a series of well-developed plans as described in the National Incident Management Systems (NIMS) are emphasized. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT361&S=256
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| June 2 | 8 Hours | AWR 362 – Flooding Hazards: Science & Preparedness Flooding hazards can threaten any community in any location in the United States. Flooding can occur over a period of weeks or days, or minutes, thus this course focuses the identification and assessment of hazards due to flooding to enable proper preparedness and response. As flooding is one of the top meteorological killers in the United States, and poses particular hazards to emergency responders, this introduction to recognizing flooding threats is essential for developing safe communities. | NDPTC – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/delivery/4202/ |
| July 14 | 8 Hours | MGT 452 – Physical and Cyber Security for Critical Infrastructure This course encourages collaboration efforts among individuals and organizations responsible for both physical and cybersecurity toward development of integrated risk management strategies that lead to enhanced capabilities necessary for the protection of our Nation’s critical infrastructure. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=NE&C=MGT452&S=375
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| July 21 | 8 Hours | MGT 307 – Enterprise Risk Management: A Collaborative Community Mitigation Effort This course introduces enterprise risk management (ERM) to organizations by providing a structured and comprehensive approach to identifying, assessing, managing, and mitigating risks that can impact the achievement of an organization’s goals and objectives. Given the complexity of risks faced by higher education institutions, specialized ERM training is essential. | TEEX – Cook County Emergency Management & Regional Security, 15901 Cicero Ave, Oak Forest, IL 60452 | https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT307&S=22
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