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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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A medical specialist directs an ambulatory patient through decontamination line during HERT training at the CDP.
Snapshot: HERT Training

A medical specialist directs an ambulatory patient through a decontamination line during Hospital Emergency Response Training for Mass Casualty Incidents (HERT) training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.

CDP is completing the first on-campus delivery this week of its new ICAT program.
CDP unveils new ICAT program

The Center for Domestic Preparedness is completing the first on-campus delivery this week of its new Integrating Communications Assessment and Tactics (ICAT) training program.

CDP Instructor David Linthicum.
In the Spotlight: David Linthicum

Students can learn a lot from David Linthicum, who has been an instructor at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness for the past seven years.

CDP has released the number of web-based course completions it tallied during October.
CDP releases web-based training numbers for June

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week released its number of web-based course completions for June.

CDP to hold final DREAM pilot later this month.
CDP to hold final DREAM pilot

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness will hold the final pilot of its four-day Disaster Related Exposure Assessment and Monitoring (DREAM) course later this month.

CDP expanding number of public order policing VILT offerings.
CDP expanding number of public order policing offerings

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness, in coordination with FEMA’s Office of Law Enforcement and Integration, is developing two additional virtual instructor-led training (VILT) courses focused on public order policing.

More than 500 responders in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico received training from the CDP over the last month.
CDP wraps up unique training effort in U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness last week wrapped up an extensive, month-long training effort geared specifically at responders in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

CDP updated ‘Field Force Command: Executive’ course set for fall launch.
Updated ‘Field Force Command: Executive’ Course set for fall launch

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness announced this week that the updated version of its Field Force Command: Executive Course will be ready for delivery in early fall.

Responders learn to cap hazardous material leaks this week in the CDP Hazardous Materials Technician Course.
Snapshot: Hazardous Materials Technician Training

Responders learn to cap hazardous material leaks this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Hazardous Materials Technician Course.

Tiffany Bush, CDP occupational health nurse, discusses the layout of the center’s new medical clinic, which should be complete next month.
CDP constructs new medical screening clinic

The CDP will soon open a medical clinic in its Chemical, Ordnance, Biological and Radiological Training Facility.