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Community Risk Issues and Prevention Interventions (F0347)
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Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Public Education
This 2-day course is designed for students who work in the field of prevention. Students learn a basic overview of the "three E's" of prevention--education, engineering, and enforcement. The course concludes that the most effective way to combat community risk issues is to develop strategies that use all "three E's." The course is designed to provide the motivation and leadership for local organizations to enhance their prevention efforts.
Course content includes
* evaluation of the types and levels of community prevention;
* how injuries, fires, and burns can be prevented;
* strategies and countermeasures to help people understand the injury, fire, or burn event and reduce the loss; and
* prevention approaches--behavior changes, legislation, and enforcement and engineering.
| Selection Criteria | * Prevention personnel in local organizations.
* Persons serving on local or State prevention committees. * Fire marshals, inspectors, and public educators. * Career and volunteer firefighters who have prevention responsibilities. * EMS personnel who coordinate community life-support programs. * Community volunteers wishing to enhance fire and life safety efforts. * Community health educators. * Part-time or full-time public educators. |
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| Delivery Type | 2-Day Off-Campus |
| Prerequisites | None. |
| ACE Recommendation | In the vocational certificate category or lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, 1 semester hour in Public Administration, Fire Science, Public Health, Industrial Loss Control, or Political Science. |
| CEU's | 1.5 |
| Post-Course Requirements | None. |
| Student Pre-Course Materials | None. |
| NFPA Standards | None. |
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Course Schedule Information
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| October 14 - 15, 2013 | Rancho Cordova, California |
Rodney Slaughter
Michelle Cummings
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| October 19 - 20, 2013 | Camp Douglas, Wisconsin |
Shari Jacobson
Matt Davies
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| October 26 - 27, 2013 | Wasilla, Alaska |
Mahlon Greene
Victoria Clyde
Tara Mellon
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| November 6 - 7, 2013 | St. Louis, Missouri |
Kevin Zumwalt
Kevin Zumwalt
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| November 23 - 24, 2013 | Noblesville, Indiana |
Brandon Wood
Kurt Aikman
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| January 23 - 24, 2014 | Ames, Iowa |
Randal E. Novak
James Kenkel
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| February 1 - 2, 2014 | Stow, Massachusetts |
Edmund M. Walker
David Houghton
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| July 12 - 13, 2014 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
Carlos Chavez
Greg Cliburn
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