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.
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
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.
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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Snapshot: Radiological Equipment
Students learn to zero out and set up radiation alert equipment in the Radiological Emergency Response Operations (RERO) Course this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.
Health facility credits CDP for successful incident response
Training provided by FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is being credited with the successful response to a school bus accident earlier this fall by the Chinle Comprehensive Health Facility in Chinle, Arizona.
CDP releases October resident training numbers
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released the number of course completions recorded in October by those who trained on its campus in Anniston, Alabama.
CDP offers web-based OBP train-the-trainer course
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.
CDP partners with others for 2024 Tribal Nations Training Week
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will again partner with several other federal and federally-funded agencies to conduct its annual Tribal Nations Training Week, which is scheduled March 9-16, 2024, on the CDP campus.
Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course
Students learn to inspect, assemble, and use a self-contained breathing apparatus this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.
Seats available in December courses
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has seat openings in four courses scheduled during December.
In the Spotlight: Ann Sports
Ann Sports, an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2015, has over 30 years of public health experience.
CDP staffers assist Idalia survivors
Four employees from the Center for Domestic Preparedness deployed earlier this fall to assist FEMA relief missions in Florida, following Hurricane Idalia, which made landfall as a Category 3 hurricane on August 30.
CDP hosts site visit by Texas medical executives
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) hosted executives from the Memorial Hermann Hospital System for a site visit in mid-September.