Leadership Strategies for Community Risk Reduction R0200

Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Management

Training Specialist

Michael Weller
301-447-1476

Delivery type

6-Day On-Campus

Continuing education units

4.1

ACE recommendation

In the upper division baccalaureate degree category, three semester hours in public safety, fire science or emergency management.

This six-day course is designed for the student who has or will have responsibility to develop, implement and lead community risk reduction and health programs to include human-caused, natural disasters, and health risks.

The course empowers students with knowledge of how to prevent, reduce and mitigate community risk.

This course advocates the use of:

Proven interventions.
Mechanisms to gather and analyze critical data.
Actions to target specific at-risk populations.
Evaluation.
How to build internal and external support to accomplish the changing mission of fire and emergency services.

This course will benefit progressive fire and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) departments who are initiating programs to reduce their community’s risks and mitigate their consequences.

Student pre-course materials and course syllabus:

https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/pcm_r0200.pdf PDF 747KB
https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_r0200.pdf PDF 159KB

Selection criteria

Individuals in emergency services, especially those in operations and EMS, who want to strengthen their knowledge and skills in community risk reduction, fire, injury, and illness prevention as well as health promotion.

Target audiences include chief fire officers, company officers, firefighters, fire inspectors, fire marshals, EMS officers, fire and life safety educators, and other community or allied professionals in community risk reduction.

Prerequisites

Incident Command System (ICS)-100-level and ICS-200-level training. Preferred courses are Q0462 and Q0463, available through NFA Online. Chief’s signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training.

There is a pre-course assignment to conduct a community risk assessment.

Post-course requirements

None

Upcoming offerings

		Dates	Availability	Location	Contact(s)	CCP	Train-the-Trainer?
		February 24, 2019 - March 1, 2019	Full	Emmitsburg, Maryland
Apply		August 11 - 16, 2019	Apply by 12/15	Emmitsburg, Maryland

Student comments

This course worked as both an introduction and a deep dive into CRR. Makes you realize that what you are perceiving as a high risk may in fact may not be the highest risk.