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Demonstrating Your Community Risk Reduction Program's Worth R0378

Training Specialist

Michael Weller
301-447-1476

Delivery type

6-day on-campus

Continuing education units

4.3

ACE recommendation

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

This 6-day course provides students with the tools and skills to be able to evaluate their organization’s fire and injury prevention programs. The course provides a systematic way to improve and account for evaluation actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical and accurate.

Course framework guides fire prevention professionals in their use of prevention program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of prevention program evaluation. The emphasis is on the practical, ongoing evaluation strategies that involve all prevention stakeholders, not just evaluation experts.  The main themes of the course include:

  • Misconceptions regarding the purposes and methods of prevention evaluation.
  • The essential elements of prevention program evaluation.
  • The steps for conducting effective prevention program evaluation.
  • Review standards for effective program evaluation.


Pre-course materials and course syllabus

Welcome Letter, BYOD Instructions, Pre-course Assignment: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/pcm_r0378.pdf PDF 272KB
Course Syllabus: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_r0378.pdf PDF 272KB

Any person responsible for evaluating programs involved with fire/injury prevention and community risk reduction.

Target audiences typically include fire marshals, fire and building inspectors, public fire/life safety educators, company officers, youth firesetter intervention specialists, youth firesetter program managers, code inspectors and public health officials, and other community or allied professionals in the fire and injury prevention field.

Local and state statisticians who manage data for fire prevention and community risk reduction programs/outcomes are also admissible candidates.

ICS 100 level and ICS 200 level training. Chief’s signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.

Students are required to bring a laptop computer with a recent version of Microsoft Excel to class. Students will be responsible for the computer and its programs while at the National Fire Academy (NFA). The NFA will not purchase or reimburse for the purchase of a computer or its programs.

NOTE: There is a pre-course assignment, course homework, a student project and a course examination.

Upcoming offerings

Dates Availability Location Contact(s) CCP
July 28, 2024 - August 2, 2024 Application period closed Emmitsburg, Maryland