CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for October

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

The CDP conducted 41 non-resident courses for 1,111 responders and 44 indirect courses for 698 responders during the month, the report 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 October included the CDP’s Field Force Operations and Law Enforcement Protective Measures courses delivered to responders in central Virginia; Chicago, Illinois; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Los Angeles, California.

Indirect training during October included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness; Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents; and Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics courses delivered to responders in Harrisonburg, Virginia; West Palm Beach, Florida; Indianapolis, Indiana; Hugoton, Kansas; Arlington, Houston and Lubbock, Texas; West Burlington, Iowa; and Kahului, Hawaii.

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.