FEMA’s Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC) is a
four-and-a-half day training that simulates realistic crisis situations that emergency
operations center (EOC) personnel and community leadership/elected officials
may encounter during disasters or other events.
FEMA congratulates Des Moines County, Iowa for completing their
IEMC. Des Moines’ course was designed
specifically for their jurisdiction, providing both lecture and exercised-based
training focused on response operations for a simulated tornado.
IEMC
courses help increase the skills of participating officials, and provide a
forum to evaluate the effectiveness of their specific emergency policies,
plans, and procedures that protect life and property.
The
course’s target audience includes state, local, tribal, and territorial
government personnel; their elected and appointed officials; supervisory,
operations, and emergency support personnel; nonprofit organizations; the
private sector; law enforcement personnel; firefighters; attorneys; public
information officers; planners; and more. Each participant is assigned a
role similar to their designed position in an EOC. Each IEMC course
addresses leadership, policy-based decision making, lessons learned, and best
practices from real world activations, as well as the functional aspects of an
EOC.
IEMC classes are principally delivered at
FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute at the National Emergency Training
Center, Emmitsburg, Maryland; however delivery may occur in the community.
Questions should be directed to FEMA-EMI-IEMB@fema.dhs.gov. If
your jurisdiction is interested in applying for the program and obtaining
information on the application process and its timeline, please visit http://training.fema.gov/iemc/.
On July 6, Secretary of
Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced $10 million in available funds for the
new Fiscal Year 2016 Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program.
This is the first federal
assistance program devoted exclusively to providing local communities with the
resources to counter violent extremism in the homeland. In addition to state,
local and tribal governments, non-profit organizations and institutions of
higher education are eligible to apply. These grants will help scale
community-led initiatives across the country to address the evolving terrorist
threat, including international and domestic terrorism. Specifically, funding
will support training, community engagements, and activities that challenge
violent extremist narratives used to recruit and radicalize individuals to
violence.
This grant program was
developed by the DHS Office for Community Partnerships in conjunction with
FEMA. The notice of funding opportunity and application process is now open.
For more information on how to apply please go here: www.dhs.gov/cvegrants.
FEMA Region III Hosts
Public-Private Sector Tabletop Exercise
On July 21, 2016,
FEMA Region III will host the third annual Public-Private Sector Tabletop
Exercise in Philadelphia, PA, which will focus on cyber as the threat scenario.
This full-day event will bring together members of the public and private
sectors to educate and inform participants on contemporary cyber threats.
Throughout the course of the day’s events, participants will be invited to
share best practices, information sharing methods, capabilities, resources, and
incident response plans for cyber attacks. For more information on this event
or to register, click here.
FEMA Posts Draft
Individuals and Households Program Unified Guidance for Public Comment
On June 15, 2016, FEMA
posted the draft Individuals and Households Program Unified Guidance (IHPUG) to
the Federal Register
for public comment. FEMA strongly encourages the public and emergency
management community to submit comments. The Individuals and Households Program
(IHP) is the most publicly recognizable FEMA program and this is an excellent
opportunity for the public to provide their input.The draft guidance is posted
to the Federal Register,
and will be available for comment until August 1, 2016.
Apply for the 2017
National Emergency Management Executive Academy
The objective of the
Executive Academy is to engage, challenge and enhance the talents of emergency
management executives through critical thinking, visionary strategic planning,
and negotiation and conflict resolution when applied to complex real-world
problems. The Executive Academy consists of four resident sessions, webinars,
distance learning, and literature reviews. Executives will explore how they can
leverage science, technology, engineering, and data analysis to impact critical
decisions and guide informed policy development. Executives will have the
opportunity to work collaboratively on projects, share smart practices, and
participate in exercises on cascading and catastrophic events.
The four resident
sessions, to be conducted by EMI at the National Emergency Training Center, in
Emmitsburg, Maryland, will include:
• Systems
Thinking& Research Methods for Executives: February 13 – 16, 2017
• Executive Emergency
Management Leader Core Competencies I: April 24 – 27, 2017
• Executive Emergency
Management Leader Core Competencies II: July 10 – 14, 2017
• Executive Emergency
Management Leaders Core Competencies III: September 18 – 22, 2017
Applications will be
accepted through August 5, 2016. There are a limited number of seats and
enrollment is competitive. For more information on the Executive Academy and
the application and selection process, visit www.training.fema.gov/EMPP/executive.asp.
The Executive Academy
is the pinnacle of a three-level Academy series in the Emergency Management
Professional Program (EMPP) which includes Basic, Advanced, and Executive
Academies. Emergency management professionals should visit the EMPP page for more information about which
academy best suits their needs.
Draft Disaster Resilience Indicators Concept
Released By Mitigation Federal Leadership Group Subcommittee
FEMA, National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration and their federal partners in the
Mitigation Federal Leadership Group (MitFLG) Disaster Resilience Indicators
Subcommittee released a “Draft
Interagency Concept for Community Resilience Indicators and National-Level
Progress Measures."
This concept is the
result of a year-long effort to identify potential indicators of community
resilience capacity building that align with the Mitigation and Recovery Core
Capabilities under the National Preparedness Goal. Learn more details about
this joint FEMA/NOAA initiative here www.fema.gov/community-resilience-indicators.
The document, compiled
in response to broad public interest in identifying key factors of community
resilience nationwide in order to promote better-informed capacity building
strategies, is intended to start a broad conversation among public- and
private-sector stakeholders on how best to define and track improvements in
community resilience capacity across 28 key indicator categories.
Interested
stakeholders seeking to add their input can submit comments and feedback to the
Disaster Resilience Indicators Subcommittee of the MitFLG at FEMA-CommunityResilience@fema.dhs.gov
by August 15, 2016.
The MitFLG
subcommittee was led by representatives of FEMA and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration and includes significant contributions from federal
partners such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Geological Survey, and others.
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