Available Courses

This 3-day course will examine the role, design, and function of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and their supportive relationship as a NIMS Command and Coordination component a Multi-Agency Coordination System. Provide training about staffing, organization, information, systems, communications, and equipment needs at the EOC, such activating and deactivating, operations, as well as training and exercising. Focus on the role of an EOC as one of four NIMS Command and Coordination Structures.

1) If registration doesn't reach 15 students the course may be cancelled. Continue to monitor your emails that come from this office for updates. 2) Please park on the east side of the building. 3) All other travel expenses are on your own. **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 an Iowa resident. ? Prior to start of class, email your lodging reimbursement request to HSEMDTraining@iowa.gov ? Lodging reimbursement is limited to the first 20 registrants who respond prior to start of class. ? Maximum lodging reimbursement will be State of Iowa rate of $80 + taxes = $89.60/night.

Do you fully understand the risk to your facility? Do you know what makes your facility susceptible to risk? Are you prepared to mitigate those risks? The Critical Asset Risk Management course helps participants answer those questions by teaching critical components of risk management. 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 on-site assessments 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.

1) If registration doesn't reach 25 students the course may be cancelled. 2) Please park on the east side of the building. 3) All other travel expenses are on your own. **Please follow the current CDC guidelines, and if you feel ill, have a temperature, or have a sore throat, stay home.

Register on the TEEX online course calendar site. https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/?MO=mExtLogin Questions related to registration contact FEMA POC: (979) 845-6677, ilepse@teex.tamu.edu

This course will enhance skills to manage the risk associated with critical infrastructure protection efforts. Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to increase infrastructure owner/operator participation in jurisdictional planning, organizing, equipping, training, and exercising critical infrastructure protection efforts.

1) If registration doesn't reach 25 students the course may be cancelled. 2) Please park on the east side of the building. 3) All other travel expenses are on your own. **Please follow the current CDC guidelines, and if you feel ill, have a temperature, or have a sore throat, stay home.

Register on the TEEX online course calendar site. https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/?MO=mExtLogin Questions related to registration contact FEMA POC: (979) 845-6677, ilepse@teex.tamu.edu

This 2-daycourse is designed to prepare response personnel and other responsible professionals to handle a mass fatalities incident effectivly by properly caring for the dead and the living--both responders and survivors.

1) Parking will be on the north side of the building. If parking is full there is free parking behind the One Stop Shop gas station. 2) 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 an Iowa resident. ? Prior to start of class, email your lodging reimbursement request to HSEMDTraining@iowa.gov ? Lodging reimbursement is limited to the first 10 registrants who respond prior to start of class. ? Maximum lodging reimbursement will be State of Iowa rate of $80 + taxes = $89.60/night. 3) Meals are on your own. Please follow the current CDC guidelines, and if you feel ill, have a temperature, or have a sore throat, stay home.