CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for November

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

The CDP conducted 32 non-resident courses for 1,009 responders and 52 indirect courses for 1,253 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 November consisted primarily of the center’s Field Force Operations Course being delivered to members of law enforcement organizations in Flushing, New York; Lynchburg, Virginia; Charlotte, North Carolina; Phoenix, Arizona; and Granada Hills, California.  

Indirect training during November included the CDP’s Hospital Emergency Department Management of Radiation Accidents; Hospital Emergency Response Training for CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives) Incidents; Integrating Communications, Assessment, and Tactics; and Law Enforcement Protective Measures Awareness for CBRNE Incidents courses, delivered to firefighters, medical specialists and law enforcement officers in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania; Rutledge, Tennessee; Hollywood, Florida; Lubbock, Texas; Muskegon and Northfield, Minnesota; Fargo, North Dakota; Hebron, Nebraska; 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.