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Cybersecurity among featured tracks for CDP Tribal Nations Training Week.
Cybersecurity among featured tracks for Tribal Nations Training Week

FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host its 10th annual Tribal Nations Training Week Sep. 20 - 27 on the CDP campus in Anniston, Alabama.

Integrated Capstone Events (ICE) will cap off Law Enforcement Training Week.
Realistic exercises will cap off Law Enforcement Training Week

During Law Enforcement Training Week, September 7-13, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP), plans to hold Integrated Capstone Events (ICE) for each of its training tracks, giving students the opportunity to experience realistic scenarios in a training environment.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.
CDP releases October resident course schedule

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.

CDP has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.
CDP releases October resident course schedule

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) has released its resident training calendar for the month of October.

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Videographer Rudy Marshall films activity in the Noble (Hospital) Training Facility's Emergency Room.
Lights! Camera! Action! – Team filming promotional videos of CDP training

A four-member team of videographers from FEMA headquarters in Washington, D.C. is on the CDP campus this week, collecting footage of various aspects of the Center’s advanced responder training and interviewing CDP staff, instructors and students.

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FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness featured in Homeland Security Today

The Center for Domestic Preparedness’ highly infectious disease training is featured in the Nov. 16 edition of Homeland Security Today.

Field Force Extrication Tactics training at the CDP.
CDP releases October training numbers

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

The course hones healthcare professionals' disaster planning skills.
Online version of health sector preparedness course in works

Center for Domestic Preparedness course developers are currently storyboarding, or outlining, an online version of its popular Health Sector Emergency Preparedness course.

The community’s emergency strategy was developed using CDP course material.
Preparation enables tribal community to weather power outages

While most communities in northern California were struggling through recent power outages, the tribal community of Blue Lake Rancheria was mostly operating normally, courtesy of stand-alone, solar-powered mini-electrical grids it had installed in preparation for such events.

Responders don protective suits during hazardous materials training at the CDP.
CDP to train those in special chemical operations program

To better protect the public during chemical disasters, the Center for Domestic Preparedness is helping FEMA’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Office develop a Chemical Operations Support Specialist program.

The scene of the climate change protest in Washington, D.C.
CDP training evident in protest response near White House

When law enforcement officers in the District of Columbia recently untethered climate change protestors from a boat in the middle of a busy intersection, just two blocks away from the White House, they did so safely using tactics taught in the CDP’s Field Force Extrication Course.

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Center for Domestic Preparedness to be featured in USA Today

An upcoming issue of USA Today will include a feature article about the Center for Domestic Preparedness.