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Product Name: E911 - IEMC/Earthquake: Recovery and Mitigation

Product Description

This exercise-based course emphasizing recovery and mitigation is new in the IEMC curriculum. It is similar to the IEMC Earthquake: Preparedness and Response course in its format but emphasizes recovery and mitigation activities following a major earthquake. This course is conducted for two types of audiences. The participants in the generic audience offering represent various communities throughout the country. This IEMC also may be offered to communities who have previously participated in a specific community IEMC. The IEMC Earthquake: Recovery and Mitigation places public officials and other key community leaders in a simulation that begins after a disaster has affected a community. The course sessions and exercises allow for structured decisionmaking in a learning environment that is nonetheless realistic. A key outcome of this IEMC is to provide participants with the ability to carry out their respective functions related to disaster recovery, in both the short-term and the long-term. The exercise scenario focuses on a community recovery from an earthquake disaster. Mitigation activities to prevent or reduce the future impact of an earthquake also are identified during course exercises.

Selection Criteria:

Except for courses reserved for specific communities, participants are recruited via our National Open Enrollment System. 

Prerequisites:

Required:

None.

Recommended:

None.

Course Length: 

CEUs: 2.5

NOTE: Participants are encouraged to enroll in both the Earthquake: Preparedness and Response and the Earthquake: Recovery and Mitigation, in consecutive, back-to-back, offerings.

Company Details

The Federal Emergency Management Agency - a former independent agency that became part of the new Department of Homeland Security in March 2003 - is tasked with responding to, planning for, recovering from and mitigating against disasters. FEMA... more