Building Organizational Support for Community Risk Reduction W0636

Course only available to on-campus weekend program students.

Curriculum: Fire Prevention: Management

Training Specialist

Michael Weller
301-447-1476

Delivery type

2-day on-campus

Continuing education units

1.3

ACE recommendation

In the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category, one semester hour in fire science, emergency management, disaster mitigation, or public safety.

This two-day course is designed to help fire and emergency services learn what community risk reduction is and how to build organizational support for it. This course will address the challenges that fire departments face in shifting their priorities from response to prevention. In many departments, community risk reduction is still considered a low priority. This course will show you how community risk reduction can help you and your department become more of a community player in times of decreased budgets.

This course includes three units of instruction:

Unit 1: Components of Community Risk Reduction.
Unit 2: Community Risk Reduction as a Service Priority.
Unit 3: Building Organizational Support for Community Risk Reduction.

At the end of this course, students will be evaluated through a 25-question multiple-choice examination. A final grade will be provided to each student. The minimum score needed to pass is 70.

Student pre-course materials and course syllabus:

https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/BYOD_Instructions_0636.pdf PDF 74KB: Instructions to Download Student Manual
https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/pcm/pcm_f0636.pdf PDF 22KB: Pre-course Assignment
https://nfa.usfa.fema.gov/ax/syll/syllabus_w0636.pdf PDF 98KB: Course Syllabus

Selection criteria

The target audience for this course includes:

Fire and emergency services personnel who want to learn about community risk reduction.
Fire and emergency services personnel who are currently involved with fire prevention and have an interest in advancing risk-reduction efforts in their community.

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 that should take about one hour to complete.

Post-course requirements

None

Upcoming offerings

Apply online if you are interested in attending a state or national weekend program.

		Dates	Availability	Location	Contact(s)	CCP	Train-the-Trainer?
		July 25 - 26, 2020	Cancelled	Emmitsburg, Maryland	Jack E Smith Superintendent Ohio Fire Academy 614-644-0523 jack.smith@com.state.oh.us Scott Walker Deputy Superintendent Ohio Fire Academy 614-752-7119 Scott.walker@com.state.oh.us	Course coordination plan
		September 19 - 20, 2020		Emmitsburg, Maryland	Reid Vaughan Director of Regional Services Alabama Fire College 205-343-7414 rvaughan@alabamafirecollege.org	Course coordination plan
	NEW	September 26 - 27, 2020	Vacancies	Emmitsburg, Maryland
		November 21 - 22, 2020		Emmitsburg, Maryland	Monna Gillespie Administrative Assistant North Carolina Office of the State Fire Marshal 919-647-0088 monna.gillespie@ncdoi.gov Kim Williams Deputy Director North Carolina Office of the State Fire Marshal 919-647-0089 kim.williams@ncdoi.gov	Course coordination plan
		April 17 - 18, 2021		Emmitsburg, Maryland	Brian Benstead Deputy Chief NYS Divsion of Homeland Security & Emergency Services - Office of Fire Prevention & Control 716-847-3934 brian.benstead@dhses.ny.gov John Gilmore State Fire Training Director NYS Divsion of Homeland Security & Emergency Services - Office of Fire Prevention & Control 518-242-5249 john.gilmore@dhses.ny.gov	Course coordination plan

Student comments

This course has a lot of potential to turn fire departments into proactive rather than reactive.