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Students operate a hospital emergency operations center during a simulated mass casualty incident in HCL course.
Snapshot: Emergency Operations

Students operate a hospital emergency operations center during a simulated mass casualty incident in this week’s Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP Instructor Chad Hawkins.
In the Spotlight: Chad Hawkins

Chad Hawkins has been a hazardous materials instructor for the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) since 2017.

CDP offers online course in WebEOC basics.
CDP offers online course in WebEOC basics

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.

Students learn about types of respiratory masks and their fit testing procedures during RP course.
Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course

Students learn about types of respiratory masks and their fit testing procedures this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.

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(Left to Right) Jesse Cardenas and Lisette Garcia take a timeout for a photo at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). The brother and sister team are police officers from Los Angeles, and attending their third CDP course together.
Los Angeles Siblings Train Together, Prepare

Lisette Garcia, 41, and her younger brother, Jesse Cardenas, 31, have taken a path to increase the safety in their hometown of Los Angeles, Calif. Garcia, a police officer assigned to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), and Cardenas, a patrol officer on the city's Southside, believe in preparedness and have committed themselves by learning as much as possible in an effort to respond safel...

CDP Alumnus Issue 10 cover
CDP Alumnus Issue 10

Welcome to the tenth issue of the CDP Alumnus, a quarterly newsletter for Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) students, alumni, and others interested in the CDP.

Community leaders from five Central Minnesota cities recently attended training at FEMA's Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). These 21 leaders representing fire departments, police departments, public works, and even administrators attended the Incident Command: Capabilities, Planning, and Respo
Minnesota Cities Plan for Response

In the world of emergency response many citizens only consider traditional disciplines, such as fire fighters, law enforcement officers, or Emergency Medical Services. Following implementation of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) in March 2004, the role of traditional emergency response expanded to include a more diverse group of operators and city leaders. City mayors, administrators...

These five officers from the Long Beach Police Department, in California, recently attended the Law Enforcement Protective Measures (LEPM) and Law Enforcement Response Actions (LERA) courses at FEMA?s Center for Domestic Preparedness, in Anniston, Ala. The CDP training allows the Long Beach Police D
Long Beach Police Train for Hazardous Threats, Expand Knowledge for Department

Five police officers from Long Beach, Calif., recently attended training at FEMA's Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), in Anniston, Ala. The officers enrolled in three courses with a goal to increase their knowledge in response to a toxic agent or biological incident. The CDP training allows the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) to remain current with California safety mandates and lays the ...

Emergency responders attending the Hospital Emergency Response Training (HERT) for Mass Casualty Incidents course decontaminate simulated survivors and rush them to waiting hospital personnel attending the Healthcare Leadership (HCL) for Mass Casualty Incidents course. The emergency responders were
Mini ICE Takes Hefty Approach to Integrate Courses, Cohorts

Sirens wail as ambulances deliver more patients to the makeshift decontamination site set up outside the hospital's emergency department entrance. Medics and hospital staffers race to triage the new patients. It's a nightmare scenario that everyone prays never happens, but you have to be prepared to face. And, that's exactly what these medics, nurses, doctors and other specialists are doing: Train...

A nurse from Tennessee decontaminates a simulated patient during a mass casualty exercise at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP). Ten hospitals representing the northeast region of Tennessee sent 37 employees to the CDP’s Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT)
NE Tennessee Hospitals Find Benefit in CDP Training

The 10 facilities sent 37 employees to the CDP's Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) course and the HERT Train-the-Trainer course. The HERT course is designed to prepare hospitals to conduct safe and effective emergency medical response to a mass casualty incident, while the train-the-trainer course allowed the graduates to deliver CDP training programs in their...

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Center for Domestic Preparedness Receives Reaccreditation to Offer Continuing Education Credits

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) recently passed a stringent year-long reaccreditation process that allows its emergency responder students to earn continuing education credits for the courses they take at the CDP.

CDP Alumnus Issue 9 cover
CDP Alumnus Issue 9

Welcome to the ninth issue of the CDP Alumnus, a quarterly newsletter for Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) students, alumni, and others interested in the CDP.

CDP Alumnus Issue 8 cover
CDP Alumnus Issue 8

Welcome to the eigth issue of the CDP Alumnus, a quarterly newsletter for Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) students, alumni, and others interested in the CDP.

CDP Alumnus Issue 7 cover
CDP Alumnus Issue 7

Welcome to the seventh issue of the CDP Alumnus, a quarterly newsletter for Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) students, alumni, and others interested in the CDP.