CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for August

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for August.

The CDP conducted 31 non-resident courses for 717 responders and 51 indirect courses for 725 responders during the month, the release said.

Non-resident courses are delivered by contract CDP instructors at locations across the United States. Indirect courses are delivered by volunteer responders to others in their organization, community, or both. The volunteer responders must be graduates of the courses they instruct as well as that course’s associated train-the-trainer course.           

Non-resident training during August included the CDP’s Field Force Operations and Law Enforcement Protective Measures courses delivered to responders representing the New York City Police Academy and state policemen and women from Rhode Island and New Jersey.

Indirect training during August included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness and Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents courses delivered to responders in Buffalo, New York; Freehold, New Jersey; Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Kankakee, Illinois; St. Cloud, Minnesota; Winfield and Northridge, Kansas; Sioux City, Iowa; Fresno, California; Bellingham, Washington; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Guayama, Puerto Rico.

Since opening in 1998, the CDP has trained more than 1.3 million responders. That number includes responders trained online; on the CDP’s campus in Anniston, Alabama; and at locations across the United States and its territories.