CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for March

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for March.

The CDP conducted 76 non-resident courses for 1,792 responders and 20 indirect courses for 240 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.

The 96 total courses included the CDP’s Standardized Awareness Training and Law Enforcement Response Actions for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) Incidents courses, presented to law enforcement recruits and officers, and the CDP’s Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) Course, presented to healthcare professionals.

The courses were delivered at sites across the country including Flushing, New York; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Nashville, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Atlantis, Florida; Euclid, Ohio; and Los Angeles, California.

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.