CDP supports disaster response training of FEMA employees

While FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) teaches responders how to respond to a variety of hazardous events, it also provides administrative and logistical support to FEMA’s Incident Workforce Academy (FIWA) which ensures the agency’s 20,000 employees and reservists are prepared to support states, communities and survivors in the aftermath of disasters.

In fact, the Incident Workforce Academy is located on the CDP campus and many of its students are housed in the same lodging complex, dine in the same dining facilities and attend classes in the same buildings as responders attending resident CDP training.

The academy trains full-time FEMA employees, Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employees or COREs, and reservists to perform in their disaster response roles, ensuring they are trained and ready to deploy at a moment’s notice. It also is responsible for several other programs, including the onboarding and orientation of new FEMA employees, the operation of a personnel mobilization center when activated, and just-in-time training of agency employees and reservists when needed.

The FIWA has been located at the CDP campus since 2013.