CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for September

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

The CDP conducted 43 non-resident courses for 1,487 responders and 88 indirect courses for 1,440 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 September included the CDP’s Law Enforcement Protective Measures for CBRNE Incidents, Field Force Operations, and Emergency Medical Response Awareness for CBRNE Incidents courses delivered to responders in California, New York and Minnesota.

Indirect training in September included the CDP’s Hazardous Materials Awareness, Hospital Emergency Response Training: Basic, and Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics courses delivered to responders in Tennessee, Nevada and Montana.

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.