Snapshot: Emergency Response Training
Students from Piedmont University learn to triage and treat patients while wearing personal protective equipment during the Healthcare Emergency Response Operations for CBRNE Incidents (HERO) Course this week at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.
Snapshot: Hazmat Training
First responders learn technical decontamination procedures during Hazardous Material Operations training this week at the Center for Domestic Preparedness. The CDP’s five-day HMO course provides responders the information and skills required of operations-level HAZMAT technicians.
Snapshot: Extrication Training
The Center for Domestic Preparedness' Field Force Extrication (FFE) course is designed to teach responders techniques to defeat various devices protestors use to illegally block streets and buildings, prolonging public and private service disruptions and public freedom of movement.
CDP releases resident course schedule for April, May
The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the months of April and May.
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CDP unveils FY2021 Training Strategy
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has formally unveiled its training strategy for FY2021.
CDP Coronavirus training material now available online (Updated)
Healthcare and other responders now have a number of additional resources they can turn to, to help them identify and treat those exposed to COVID-19 as well as learn how to safely move and transport patients suspected or confirmed to be infected with the virus.
CDP teaches medical students ‘displaced’ by COVID-19
At the request of the university, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week started providing crisis and disaster response training to more than 120 University of Alabama - Birmingham medical students who have been displaced from their classrooms by the COVID-19 pandemic.
CDP team exploring distant learning offerings
Like many learning institutions across the country, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has been taking a hard look at what of its advanced disaster response training material for first responders it can provide via distant learning methods.
Medical responders credit CDP for successful COVID-19 response
Two doctors who were among the first healthcare professionals to deal with the coronavirus in the United States attribute training at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness for their team’s effective response in early March to the outbreak of the disease in their community.
Public Communication Concerns during Social Distancing
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has produced a podcast which tells public information officers and other responders how to safely and effectively communicate with their audiences while adhering to social distancing and other COVID-19 practices recommended by the CDC.
CDP releases February training numbers
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its training numbers for the month of February.
CDP welcomes ‘revamped’ Instructor Training Course
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week unveiled an updated version of its popular Instructor Training Course.
CDP statement regarding training
The CDP mission to support the nationwide response to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been cancelled.
Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL officials train at Center for Domestic Preparedness
About 40 officials from Birmingham and Jefferson County, AL, participated in Incident Command training in late February at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.