Available Courses

The Basic Training Course has been updated to include guidance for emerging types of emergency response, individual and community hazards and to incorporate feedback from registered CERTs. It features a revised Disaster Medical Operations section, updated Terrorism and CERT Organization section and new hazard-specific annexes. The Basic Training Course Instructor Guide shares many best practices and tips on how to run a successful CERT training program. To update the course materials, FEMA engaged with technical experts from colleges and universities, partners from within the government and FEMA learning and training subject matter experts. The CERT Basic Training includes research-validated guidance for CERT programs to teach members what to do before, during and after the hazards their communities may face.

Friday, May 15, 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Linn County Emergency Management 1) Come in the main entrance of the college and go around the roundabout. It's a brick building on north end of campus we sit behind the tennis courts. 2) Please park in the parking lot to the west of are building and use the southwest entrance of the building. Saturday-Sunday, May 16-17, 8:30am - 5:30pm, Marion Fire Station 1 1) Plenty of parking, use main entrance, watch for signs Travel and meals are on your own, adequate time will be provided. Attendance for all 3-days is required for credit Registration is required, follow the link below

Information flyers can be found here: https://linncounty-ema.org/index.asp?SEC={EB9C1FA6-7345-405A-A322-8C83CC9D8E13} Sign-up Here: https://forms.office.com/g/pXJgpgk97q

This training course provides public safety and security professionals fundamental knowledge and skills to recognize and respond appropriately to hostile surveillance at facilities and planned and unplanned events. Topics covered include: hostile operations, vulnerability assessment, hostile surveillance requirements, surveillance detection requirements and fundamentals, activity reporting & response and compromise & deployment.

1) Ample parking available, enter at main door under the flags 2) Participants also will need a photo ID in order to gain entrance to the Joint Forces Headquarters Building. 3) Travel and meals will be on your own, adequate time will be provided. 4) Registrants must have a FEMA SID, follow the registration below All invited students must register using the CDP Student Portal web site: http://cdp.dhs.gov/students. A Promo Code will be shared to those invited individuals.

Promo Code will be sent to those "invited" individuals to complete their registration. http://cdp.dhs.gov/students

This 2-day course provides training on and resources for personnel who has a responsibility to function in a command post managing and expanding incident. Topics include use of an Incident Complex and Area Command, and the interactions between Multi-Agency Coordination (MAC) entities.

1) Parking will be on the south side of the Sheriff's Office, entrance through SE door marked "Civil/Admin", take elevator up to 3rd floor training rooms. 2) Meals are on your own, adequate time will be provided. 3) This multi-day course is supported with Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP) funding. You may request lodging reimbursement if you traveled an excess of 50 miles one-way and are an Iowa resident. Requests are based upon available funding. BEFORE making lodging reservations and PRIOR to start of class, email your lodging reimbursement request to HSEMDTraining@iowa.gov limited to available funding. 4) All other travel will be on your own if the above doesn't apply or requested.

Disaster Recovery is a complex, costly, and potentially lengthy process. Depending on the scope of a disaster, recovery efforts can last years and cost millions of dollars. Planning has a direct positive impact on a community’s ability to recover from disasters. Planning for disaster recovery before disasters occur can significantly speed up and facilitate the post-disaster recovery process. This course will provide facilitated discussions on key concepts for disaster recovery planning, including the benefits of pre-disaster planning, key elements, and the plan development process. This course will prepare participants to initiate disaster recovery plans and participate in the long-term recovery planning process in their own communities through the review of case studies and existing disaster recovery plans. The goal of this course is to prepare participants to evaluate and develop disaster recovery plans in the context of the whole community approach to planning.

1) This is a virtual offering from NDPTC, follow the registration link below. 2) Two days--four hours each day

Copy and paste link to complete registration: https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training/delivery/4175/

This 1-day, Advanced Professional Series course will allow participants to develop an effective interface between Emergency Operations Center (EOC) by applying Incident Command System (ICS) principles. This course works best when delivered to ICS and EOC personnel from the same community. The course reviews ICS and EOC responsibilities and functions and depends heavily on exercises and group discussions to formulate the interface. **This course is part of the FEMA Advanced Professional Series (APS)

1) This facility takes a whole block, with Polk County Public Health on the front (south side of bldg)—directly to the north of the Polk County Human Services (DHS) Building. Download facility parking locations at https://www.polkcountyiowa.gov/emergency-management/about-us/location-facilities/ 2) Meals on your own, adequate time will be provided