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FEMA Resumes In-Person Trainings at National Schoolhouses
FEMA Resumes In-Person Trainings at National Schoolhouses

In-person training will resume in early June at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (https://cdp.dhs.gov), the National Fire Academy and the National Disaster & Emergency Management University.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of June.
CDP releases June resident course schedule

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of June.

The CDP recorded more than 3,000 course completions by first responders from Louisiana in the past five years. Consequently, it’s safe to assume numerous CDP grads were among those helping ensure the safety of fans and players at Super Bowl LIX.
CDP grads ensure safe Super Bowl LIX

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness recorded more than 3,000 course completions by first responders from Louisiana in the past five years.

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host its 2025 Law Enforcement Theme Week March 9-15 on the center’s campus in Anniston, Alabama.
CDP plans 2025 Law Enforcement Training Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host its 2025 Law Enforcement Theme Week March 9-15 on the center’s campus in Anniston, Alabama.

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Instructor Melissa Hawthorne.
In the Spotlight: Melissa Hawthorne

An experienced environmental health specialist, Melissa Hawthorne has worked as an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) for eight years, teaching the CDP’s Environmental Health Training in Emergency Response Operations (EHTER OPS), Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring (DREAM), Radiological Emergency Response Operations (RERO), and Radiological Series Train-the...

CDP has seats available in upcoming HMA, RP and ICAT courses.
Seats available in upcoming HMA, RP and ICAT courses

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has seat openings in three upcoming courses – Hazardous Materials Awareness; Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration; and Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics.

Emergency Manager Ken Spears.
CDP participates in Great American ShakeOut

Employees and students at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) ducked beneath desks and tables this morning, practicing their response in the event of an earthquake.

Artemiza Vega, a nurse and clinical supervisor at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center.
CDP training helps nurse through pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Artemiza Vega, a nurse and clinical supervisor for emergency services at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, relied on training she received from FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) to help manage intake and treatment of patients at the facility.

Students learn about biological agents and instruments used to detect them in the HT Course.
Snapshot: Biological agent detection

Students learn about biological agents and instruments used to detect them in the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) Course this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for August.
CDP releases non-resident, indirect training numbers for September

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for September.

CDP distance learning course teaches bomb material awareness.
Distance learning course teaches bomb material awareness

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.

Responders practice safely removing a protester from a device during the CDP’s FFE course.
Snapshot: FFE Course

Responders practice safely removing a protester from a device during the CDP’s Field Force Extrication Tactics (FFE) course.

CDP partnered with the Alabama Fire College Regional Training Center to provide hazmat training to fire recruits.
CDP provides hazmat training to Alabama fire recruits

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) partnered with the Alabama Fire College’s Regional Training Center in Anniston last week to teach its Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course to 18 fire recruits.

Contract Non-resident and Indirect Training Lead Rebecca Carr.
In the Spotlight: Rebecca Carr

Rebecca Carr, the contract non-resident and indirect training lead at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), has held several positions in her 23-year career here.