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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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Disaster Surgery.
CDP to be featured in national publication

The CDP will be featured in the July issue of the American Journal of Disaster Medicine.

CDP Emergency Operations Center Manager Ken Spears.
CDP unveils ‘new’ Emergency Operations Center 

Ken Spears isn’t hoping to have the CDP’s ‘new’ emergency operations center baptized anytime soon. But, he says the EOC, which recently underwent an extensive renovation, is ready, should it need to be put into action.

A responder takes down an assailant during the capstone exercise of the CDP’s Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week.
CDP hosts annual Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week

The Center for Domestic Preparedness hosted its 2019 Complex Coordinated Attack Theme Week June 10-14 on its campus in Anniston, AL.

Brian Shirley says CDP training helped him deal with traumatic experiences.
Responder lauds CDP healthcare training

CDP alum lauds training, says it helped him deal with traumatic experiences.

CDP Field Force Operations Training
CDP Releases May Training Numbers

The CDP has released its training numbers for the month of May.

Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina.
CDP preps responders for 2020 Republican National Convention

More than 70 law enforcement specialists from North Carolina attended CDP non-resident training this week to enhance their skills in advance of the 2020 Republic National Convention in Charlotte.

Students attending select courses at the COBRA training facility will soon wear Blauer suits (Right) instead of JSLIST (Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology) suits (Left).
Students to train in new protective suits

Students attending select courses at the CDP’s COBRA (Chemical, Ordnance, Biological, and Radiological) Training Facility will soon be outfitted with Blauer XRT suits when they train here.

The expansion of the CDP’s primary kitchen more than doubles the number of students the Center is able to feed.
CDP completes massive kitchen expansion

The CDP now has the capacity to feed more than 1,000 students three meals a day. 

One of the CDP’s newest courses will teach responders how to manage surges in an ER or surgical department.
CDP developing medical ‘Overwhelming Trauma Events’ course

The CDP is now one-step closer to developing its new ‘Medical Response to Overwhelming, No-Notice Trauma Events’ course.

CDP training in Puerto Rico.
CDP trains 700-plus in Puerto Rico

The CDP on Thursday said that it trained more than 700 healthcare professionals from across Puerto Rico during two consecutive weeks of training it conducted on the island.