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Responders practice skills analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination in the HEC course.
Snapshot: Hazardous Evidence Collection

Responders practice skills in analyzing a crime scene with potential contamination during Evidence Collection in a Hazardous Materials Environment (HEC) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP to train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during Law Enforcement Theme Week.
Field force training a focus for Law Enforcement Theme Week at CDP

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama campus.

First responders prepare instruments & kits for use during hazardous materials detection exercise in HT course.
Snapshot: Detecting hazardous materials

First responders prepare instruments and kits for use during a hazardous materials detection exercise in the Hazardous Materials Technologies: Sampling, Monitoring, and Detection (HT) course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP).

CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response.
CDP Law Enforcement Theme Week includes hazardous materials response

The Center for Domestic Preparedness will train law enforcement officers to respond to a variety of incidents, including those in hazardous environments, during its Law Enforcement Theme Week, September 20-26 at the center’s Anniston, Alabama, campus.

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CDP participated in the Black Chief Officers Committee’s annual education symposium.
CDP participates in BCOC education symposium

The Center for Domestic Preparedness participated this week in the Black Chief Officers Committee’s (BCOC’s) annual education symposium in St. Louis, Missouri.

CDP has recorded more than 1,300 VILT course completions by responders in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
CDP continues to build on Caribbean Area Initiative

Since the beginning of 2021, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has recorded more than 1,300 Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) course completions by responders in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

CDP training has benefitted thousands of nursing students in the Southeast.
Nursing students benefit from CDP training

Training offered by FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has benefitted thousands of nursing students in the Southeast.

CDP will soon incorporate climate information into select training courses.
CDP incorporating climate information into training

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will soon include information in select courses on how members of law enforcement can be impacted by climate and weather.

Students discuss various regulations during the Hazardous Materials Awareness (HMA) Course.
Snapshot: HMA Course

Students discuss various regulations during this week’s Hazardous Materials Awareness (HMA) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP is gearing up for its annual Tribal Nations Training Week.
Working group starts mapping out 2023 Tribal Nations Training Week

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

CDP has seat openings in its resident Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents Course.
CDP has openings in upcoming EMO Course

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has seat openings in its resident Emergency Medical Operations for CBRNE Incidents (EMO) Course scheduled July 10-15.

CDP Instructor Thomas Johnstone.
In the Spotlight: Thomas Johnstone

A retired captain with the East Lansing, Michigan, police department, Thomas Johnstone has been an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness since 2000.

CDP offers IED Awareness and Safety Procedures (IED ASP) as a distance learning course.
IED awareness taught through CDP distance learning

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness offers responders a library of self-paced, web-based, training offerings which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.

Students in this week’s FRAME Course discuss how to prioritize various hospital systems in an emergency.
Snapshot: FRAME Course

Students in this week’s Framework for Healthcare Emergency Management (FRAME) Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness discuss how to prioritize various hospital systems in an emergency.