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

The CDP this week released its non-resident and indirect training numbers for December.

CDP instructor demonstrates the use of thermal imaging equipment during the Hazardous Materials Technician Course.
Snapshot: Hazmat detection

An instructor demonstrates the use of thermal imaging equipment during this week’s Hazardous Materials Technician Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP has released its number of web-based course completions for December.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for December

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its number of web-based course completions for December.

CDP has completed a web-based refresher version of its resident HMO Course.
CDP readies release of HMO refresher course

The Center for Domestic Preparedness has completed a much-anticipated web-based refresher version of its resident Hazardous Materials Operations (HMO) Course.

Program Specialist Bill Reneau.
In the spotlight: Charles “Bill” Reneau

A program specialist in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Training and Education Directorate, Charles ‘Bill’ Reneau has more than three decades of experience in public health, emergency management and health systems performance.

Tribal responders enhance knowledge, skills with virtual learning.
Virtual options available for Tribal Nations Training Week 2022

Participants in this year’s Tribal Nations Training Week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness will be able to choose from 16 web-based courses in addition to in-person training offered at the center.

CDP students learn to use radiation detection equipment during HERT training this week.
Snapshot: HERT Course

Students learn to use radiation detection equipment during Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

December tornado response likely included CDP alumni.
Tornado response likely included CDP alumni

When a series of devastating tornadoes tore through the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic in early December, leaving destruction, despair and grief in their wake, hundreds of responders sprang into action to tend to the storms’ survivors.

Tribal responders enhance knowledge, skills with virtual learning.
Tribal Nations Training Week 2022 includes 8 resident courses

Responders are reminded the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ annual Tribal Nations Training Week, March 5-12, will include eight courses on the center’s campus in Anniston, Alabama.

Southern Nevada Correctional Center officers used CDP training to help quell a disturbance.
CDP FFO tactics assist with quelling disturbance

Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC) officers used training provided by the Center for Domestic Preparedness to help quell an inmate disturbance in December.