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Applications of Community Risk Reduction R0385

Training Specialist


Michael Weller
301-447-1476

Delivery type


6-day on-campus

Continuing education units


3.8

ACE recommendation


In the upper-division baccalaureate degree category, 3 semester hours in risk management.

This 6-day course is intended to inspire managing officers to lead and conduct risk-reduction activities within the service area of their community.

The course is for both the managing officers who are currently engaged in risk-reduction activities and the managing officers who desire to lay the foundation to start community risk reduction.

This course is about how managing officers can plan, implement and evaluate risk-reduction activities to benefit the citizens they serve and those in the fire and emergency services who provide the services. The course features the role of the officer as an inspirational leader for the risk-reduction cause.

The course also provides an opportunity for students to apply risk-reduction activities in communities with a diverse population. Students learn that a broader approach to fire protection involves multiple interventions, and when all are applied to a specific community risk issue, a difference is likely to occur, reducing risk for citizens.

Students learn that by reducing the community’s risk, the risk of death and injuries to firefighting forces is also reduced.

Pre-course materials and course syllabus

Course syllabus: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_r0385.pdf PDF 352KB

You must meet the criteria for the NFA's Managing Officer Program.

You must meet the criteria for and be enrolled in the National Fire Academy's (NFA's) Managing Officer Program.

Upon completion of the resident courses, managing officer candidates will have to complete a capstone project.