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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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More than 100 CDP federal and contract employees have completed the TECC Active Bystander Course.
CDP employees participate in critical medical training

More than 100 federal and contract employees at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) have completed the agency’s Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) Active Bystander Course.

CDP will host a law enforcement-themed training week Nov. 17-23.
CDP to host law enforcement-themed training week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host a law enforcement-themed training week Nov. 17-23 on its campus in Anniston, Alabama.

CDP hosts Tribal Nations Training Week working group.
CDP hosts Tribal Nations Training Week working group

A working group gathered at the Center of Domestic Preparedness (CDP) May 27-31 to begin outlining the center’s next Tribal Nations Training Week.

CDP COBRA Training Facility passes annual compliance inspection.
CDP facility passes annual compliance inspection

The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility (COBRATF) recently passed its annual Chemical Agent Standard Analytical Reference Material (CASARM) audit.

CDP Disaster Field Training Operations team  supports New Mexico claims offices.
DFTO supports New Mexico claims offices

Members of the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Disaster Field Training Operations team are supporting FEMA claims offices in Santa Fe, Mora, and Las Vegas, New Mexico, for the 2022 Hermit’s Peak and Calf Canyon fires.

CDP training benefits Pennsylvania health system.
CDP training benefits Pennsylvania health system

The emergency preparedness coordinator for a nine-hospital health system in Pennsylvania credits the Center for Domestic Preparedness for successful responses by system employees to multiple mass casualty incidents over the past decade.

CDP hosts 2024 National Preparedness Symposium.
CDP hosts 2024 National Preparedness Symposium

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) is hosting the 2024 National Preparedness Symposium this week on its campus in Anniston, Alabama.

CDP COBRA Training Facility prepares for CASARM audit.
COBRA Training Facility undergoes virtual compliance inspection

The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility is preparing to undergo its annual Chemical Agent Standard Analytical Reference Material (CASARM) audit – one of several routine examinations of the facility by experts from the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security, and other organizations.

CDP hosting 2024 Hurricane Theme Week.
CDP hosting 2024 Hurricane Theme Week

It’s Hurricane Theme Week this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP kicks off virtual Tribal Nations Training Week.
CDP kicks off virtual Tribal Nations Training

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has started the virtual portion of its annual Tribal Nations Training Week.