Upcoming Training Opportunities

AWR-407 Drone Assessment and Response Tactics

The Drone Assessment and Response Tactics (DART) course provides emergency personnel with the knowledge and skills necessary to detect, identify, track, assess, respond, and report Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) activity. Participants are presented with information on the current UAS criminal and terrorist threat, analog and electronic UAS detection techniques, and response tactics to address this threat.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FABAF29ABFFCE9-63600675-awr407

AWR-290 Railroad Safety Awareness

This course outlines the skills necessary to recognize the severity of incidents involving rolling stock used in rail surface transportation, contact the proper personnel with the railroads, and work seamlessly with the private sector employees and contractors that may be dispatched. These skills will be generated via education on railroad personnel, proper safety procedures for working on and around railroad property, an overview of the different types of rolling stock and the risks associated with them, the various markings and reference materials necessary to ascertain the contents of a rail car, and general overview of the different types of damage commonly incurred during a derailment. The comprehension of these subjects will allow the participant to rapidly analyze the severity of an incident and notify the appropriate people so that any specialized equipment can be dispatched as quickly as possible.

PER-331 Surface Transportation Emergency Preparedness and Security – Senior Officials (STEPS-SR)

This half-day course is perfect for those in leadership or senior official roles to learn how to prepare for surface transportation emergencies. This course provides an introduction to the roles and responsibilities of preparedness, prevention, and response to emergencies involving surface transportation freight and passenger systems. Participants will be introduced to a clear overview of freight and passenger system threats facing jurisdictions/organizations of public and private officials and the organizational structure that must be implemented according to the National Response Framework (NRF) in an incident. 

PER-330 Surface Transportation Emergency Preparedness and Security – Mass Transit & Passenger Rail (STEPS-PT)

This course will provide information to allow participants to conduct threat assessments and identify vulnerabilities within state, local, and tribal jurisdictions as they relate to mass transit and passenger rail systems. Participants will be able to recognize and prioritize passenger transportation facilities and conveyances hardening in order to prevent and protect them against identified threats involving Hazardous Material/ Weapons of Mass Destruction (HazMat/WMD), and especially IEDs.

PER-326 Surface Transportation Emergency Preparedness and Security – Freight (STEPS-FR)

The Surface Transportation Emergency Preparedness and Security for Freight by Rail or Highway (STEPS-Freight) course goal is to provide participants with the training necessary to identify the roles and responsibilities of preparedness, prevention, and response to emergencies involving surface transportation freight and passenger systems. Participants will be able to identify the hazards of Hazardous Material/ Weapons of Mass Destruction (HazMat/WMD/IEDs and apply this information to the appropriately to the applicable areas of an incident.

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. Focus will be placed on local preparedness efforts as they relate to the national approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience, enabling stakeholders to address local planning within a common framework. Informed planning is consistent with accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=AWR213&S=768 

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. 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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT315&S=1449

AWR-132 Understanding and Planning for School Bombing Incidents

The Understanding and Planning for School Bombing Incidents course is designed to provide emergency first responders and school staff with the skills to plan and respond to school bomb threats and bombing incidents through lectures and exercises. Participants are presented with information necessary to recognize a threat and determine pre- and post-detonation threat response strategies, and develop actionable items specific to each individual's school needs.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FABAF29ABFFCE9-63961823-awr132

AWR-230 Response to Bombing Incidents

The Response to Bombing Incidents, Residential (RBI) course trains emergency personnel of all disciplines to respond to the growing number of bombing incidents across the United States. This course guides participants through bombing response challenges, bombing threat response considerations, including evaluating threats when making evacuation vs. shelter-in-place decisions, and response priorities following the immediate aftermath of a bombing.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FABAF29ABFFCE9-63961853-awr230

AWR-231 Prevention of Bombing Incidents

The Prevention of Bombing Incidents course is designed to provide emergency first responders with the skills to help in the prevention of criminal and terrorist bombing incidents as well as adding awareness to threats and trending ideologies. Participants will develop skills on how to prevent, deter, and mitigate the effects of a bomber through the implementation of countermeasures and defensive concepts.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FABAF29ABFFCE9-63966465-awr231

AWR-230 Response to Bombing Incidents

The Response to Bombing Incidents, Residential (RBI) course trains emergency personnel of all disciplines to respond to the growing number of bombing incidents across the United States. This course guides participants through bombing response challenges, bombing threat response considerations, including evaluating threats when making evacuation vs. shelter-in-place decisions, and response priorities following the immediate aftermath of a bombing.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0B4FABAF29ABFFCE9-63965852-awr230

ICS 300 – Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents

The goal of this professional development course, ICS 300 Intermediate Incident Command System for Expanding Incidents, is to provide training on and resources for overall incident management skills for personnel who require intermediate application of the Incident Command System (ICS).

Metra Railway Safety

SAFETY is Metra’s number one
priority. Metra counts on the combined
efforts of its railroad employees
working with local public safety
personnel to handle emergencies.
In the event of a serious incident
involving a commuter train, Metra calls
on local police and fire personnel to
provide assistance such as:
• Emergency Evacuation of
passenger coaches
• Medical & Fire Services
• Traffic Control
• Perimeter Control

THIS TRAINING
PROGRAM ADDRESSES:
• Your role in responding to an
incident
• How agencies need to work
together as a team
• How to identify railroad equipment

AWR 228 – Community Resilience

This one-day training course will provide state and local government agency staff and other stakeholder groups with background on natural hazards. In addition, the course will guide an approach to (1) assess community resilience and (2) develop next steps for improved resilience. Through increased awareness of natural hazards and best practices, the course will enhance community resilience for state and local government agency staff that routinely interface with the community, private sector, and other stakeholder groups. The course will be designed for national implementation, while allowing integration of local concerns through case studies and focused group exercises.

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT310&S=1659

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT414&S=642

MGT-346 EOC Operations and Planning for All-Hazards

This course focuses on the core functions, processes and best practices necessary to ensure effective and 
repeatable performance of an emergency operations center at any level. The core functions and processes 
are reviewed and demonstrated via facilitated discussion and classroom activities. The participants gain 
practical experience via a series of interrelated activities and exercises supported by a state-of-the-art computer 
simulation system and are coached by instructors who have extensive emergency operations and management 
experience.