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FEMA congratulates 35 graduates from the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy on July 15, 2016, on the Emergency Management Institute campus at the National Emergency Training Center.
FEMA’s National Emergency Management Advanced Academy is designed for mid-level managers seeking to advance their skills through strategic level training and education. The training provided is essential for emergency management professionals to effectively design and lead cutting-edge programs. Students learn skills critical to performing mid-manager responsibilities such as program management and oversight, effective communication, integrated collaboration, and strategic thinking. The Advanced Academy provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their critical thinking ability through a guided research project.
The Advanced Academy is the second of a three-level
Academy series in the Emergency Management Professional Program (EMPP). The EMPP includes
three separate training programs: Basic Academy, National Emergency Management
Advanced Academy, and the National Emergency Management Executive Academy. The
Basic Academy program offers tools to develop comprehensive foundational skills
needed in emergency management. The Advanced Academy program offers the
next generation of emergency managers trained in advanced concepts and issues,
management, strategic/critical thinking, and problem solving. The Executive
Academy program is designed to challenge and enhance the skills of the
nation’s emergency management senior executives through critical thinking,
visionary strategic planning, challenging conventional concepts, and
negotiation and conflict resolution applied to complex, real-world
problems.
Congratulations graduates! Interested
emergency management professionals should visit www.training.fema.gov/empp for more
information about which academy best suits their needs.
Graduates of the National Emergency Management Advanced Academy
Today, July 26 marks
the 26th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
(ADA). This milestone law prohibits discrimination against people
with disabilities in state and local government, private entities and
telecommunications.
The Ready Campaign’s We Prepare
Every Day video exemplifies one of the ADA goals by
delivering a strong preparedness message portraying individuals with
disabilities taking charge with emergency preparedness for themselves, their
family and their community. The
preparedness video also provides equal access including
open captioning, a certified deaf
interpreter, and audio
description for viewers who are blind or have low vision. Visit Ready.gov for
more information on emergency preparedness for individuals with disabilities
and other with access and functional needs.
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 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.
EMI Virtual Tabletop Exercise for Mass
Casualty Incident
FEMA’s Emergency
Management Institute (EMI) is offering a virtual tabletop exercise (VTTX)
focusing on Mass Casualty Incident (MCI) on August 23-25 from 12:00
pm to 4:00 pm EDT. This VTTX addresses MCI awareness and information
sharing during response efforts to assist affected communities.
Session content is the same each day and participants
only need to attend one session.
This VTTX allows
participating communities to share details and best practices regarding mass
casualty awareness, integration into all-hazard preparedness, information
sharing, incident management, and resource management processes. The goals of
the VTTX are to enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and abilities to
effectively conduct all-hazards emergency response and recovery. The VTTX also
enables coordination of response operations with counterparts from federal
agencies, state and local governments, private sector organizations,
non-governmental agencies, and other whole community partners.
Interested individuals
should email Doug Kahn at douglas.kahn@fema.dhs.gov
or call 301-447-7645. Additionally, it is requested that
individuals send a courtesy copy email to the Integrated Emergency
Management Branch at FEMA-EMI-IEMB@fema.dhs.gov or
call 301-447-1381. The deadline for VTTX applications is August 5 and
additional information can be found by visiting https://training.fema.gov/programs/emivttx.aspx.
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.
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 (NOAA) 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, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
FEMA National Training
Program Continuing Grants
FEMA announced funding
opportunities for the Fiscal Year 2016 Continuing Training Grants program. The
Homeland Security National Training Program’s Continuing Training Grants will
provide $11.5 million to qualified applicants to help improve the nation’s
ability to respond to and recover from all-hazard events.
This highly
competitive program attracts applicants from state, local, tribal, and
territorial governments, eligible non-profit organizations, and higher
education institutions. Funding is provided as cooperative agreements and
awarded directly to the selected applicants.
For more
information and to download the application package, visit www.grants.gov and submit applications no later
than August 22.
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