Upcoming Training Opportunities

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.

MGT 482 – Disaster Recovery Public Assistance Programs, An Introduction

The Disaster Recovery Public Assistance Programs, an Introduction course was designed to provide an overview of the FEMA Disaster Recovery Public Assistance Program and process and will prepare front-line jurisdiction staff and leaders for working within that process. The outcome being to begin preparing for recovery in advance of a disaster.

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.

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=AWR213&S=741    

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. 

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT315&S=1417  

NWS Beyond the Warning: A Look at Weather Forecasting and Preparedness

•    Where to get trustworthy and how to monitor weather information
•    How to be prepared for typical spring and summertime hazardous weather
•    Provide context to recent severe weather events in the local area (forecast information leading up to the event, behind the scenes look to the science of the event, impacts of the event)
•    How to get involved in reporting severe weather and getting involved in the local community
 

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=1622   

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=610   

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT361&S=256

AWR 326 Tornado Awareness

This course will prepare participants to understand the basics of tornado science, the weather forecasting process, the tornado warning process, and the fundamentals of tornado safety and preparedness. Multiple core capabilities will be addressed, with particular emphasis on "public information and warning" and "threats and hazard identification. Participants will be better able to implement safety measures for themselves, their families and their organizations in preparation for tornado season.

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.

MGT 439 – Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness

This course prepares participants to employ best practices for the planning and operational needs of children impacted by disaster. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to make pediatric considerations/accommodations while planning and preparing for community all-hazards events. The goal is the implementation of a safe, efficient, and effective integrated response with pediatric-focused utilization of public safety response assets. This course addresses pediatric emergency planning considerations through a combination of lectures and small group activities.

MGT 439 – Pediatric Disaster Response and Emergency Preparedness

This course prepares participants to employ best practices for the planning and operational needs of children impacted by disaster. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to make pediatric considerations/accommodations while planning and preparing for community all-hazards events. The goal is the implementation of a safe, efficient, and effective integrated response with pediatric-focused utilization of public safety response assets. This course addresses pediatric emergency planning considerations through a combination of lectures and small group activities.

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=NE&C=MGT452&S=375   

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.

https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/Default.aspx?MO=mCourseCatalog&D=LS&C=MGT307&S=22

MGT318 – Public Information in an All-Hazards Incident

This course examines the role of public information in all-hazards incident management and provides practical training in crisis communication techniques.  In a major incident, it is imperative that community leaders, incident managers, and Public Information Officers (PIOs) are prepared to communicate with the public through traditional and social media. The course consists of three modules.

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).