Director/Practitioner Qualification Program

HSEM grant staff will provide an overview of existing grant opportunities, life cycle of a sub-grant, financial management, programmatic requirements, environmental and historic preservation (EHP), and record keeping. The presentation will also discuss E-Grants the Department of Public Safety’s electronic grant management tool.

This course will provide learners with detailed information regarding Disaster Declarations in Minnesota based on federal and state regulations that govern declarations. Additional information will be provided on federal, state, and local recovery programs and resources that may be available after an event.

This course prepares local officials to conduct rapid, effective initial damage assessments for any event that causes damage to private/public property and critical infrastructure. Also covered are types of impacts caused by damages (economic, social environmental, among others). Tasks covered include methods for assessing damages, collecting relevant information, and reporting damages.

This course teaches emergency management personnel responsible for warning coordination and communication how to work closely with the National Weather Service (NWS), IPAWS alerting authorities, the news media, social media, and the public to provide effective warnings that can be received and understood by people at risk.

This course prepares emergency management personnel and voluntary agency representatives to develop and execute an effective volunteer and donations management program as well as develop a volunteer and donations management support plan annex. The course addresses potential concerns that may arise during and after an incident due to self-deployed volunteers and excess donated items.

This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design and implement an Evacuation and Re-Entry Plan for their jurisdictions. It uses a community’s Vulnerability Analysis and Evacuation Plan. It also addresses evacuation behavior and recommends methods to make evacuation and re-entry more efficient.

This course is designed to enable the non-technical emergency worker to acquire skills in the use of mitigation. The course provides training in how to perform mitigation activities fundamental to reducing and eliminating long-term risk from hazards. It addresses the important roles of the emergency program manager (and others) in mitigation.

Rapid needs assessments provide the critical initial information needed to match a jurisdiction’s emergency needs with the available resources in the immediate aftermath of an incident. This course teaches first responders and others how to plan for, design, and conduct Rapid Needs Assessments for any event that threatens public safety, causes damage to property, and impacts critical infrastructure.

This course is designed to: - Examine the role, design, and function of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and their supportive relationship as a NIMS Command and Coordination component of a Multi-Agency Coordination System. - Provide training about staffing, organization, information, systems, communications, and equipment needs at the EOC, such as 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 functional groups. PRE-REQUISITES: IS-0100, IS-2200 (formerly IS-0775), IS-0700, IS-0800. RECOMMENDED: G-0191, IS-0200