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Executive Seminar: Prevention of, Response to, and Recovery from Campus Emergencies

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The purpose of this two-day workshop is to provide campus leaders, faculty governance, student governance, campus law enforcement/security departments, campus health/medical and mental health services, campus public affairs, jurisdictional law enforcement and public safety agencies, and jurisdictional public information officers with an understanding of and ability to navigate through the difficult aspects of dealing with campus emergencies such as man-made or natural events, including acts of violence. The course will consist of small, integrated group activities that are problem-based and will require a coordinated, integrated approach in order to solve them.

Course participants will be allowed to observe a developing incident and respond in a manner that would be consistent with currently established campus and jurisdictional emergency operations procedures.

This course is designed to address campus emergencies associated with a spontaneous event requiring the attention of college and campus officials, emergency responders, elected officials, and other community stakeholders. The course consists of nine modules. These modules include classroom instruction, facilitated discussions, and practical activities involving scenario-driven problems that are intended to facilitate discussion and decision-making.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Explain how participant performance is evaluated
• State how class materials can be applied to assist college and university officials and other stakeholders in preventing, deterring, responding to, and recovering from campus emergencies
• Describe the barriers university officials and stakeholders will face while seeking to prevent, deter, respond to, and recover from a campus emergency
• Discuss strategies campus officials and jurisdiction stakeholders can use to meet their responsibilities during a campus emergency
• Identify potentially dangerous behavior
• List the important factors associated with recovering from a significant campus event
• Understand that foreign and domestic terrorist groups have historically attended our nations’ colleges and universities and may be present within our own campus communities
• Identify the evolutionary process of how information becomes intelligence from the street level to the national level
• Discuss the importance of and how to identify and implement the elements of an up-to-date and integrated all-hazards EOP
• Identify the benefits and constraints of campus-wide information sharing
• Identify the benefits and constraints of community-wide information sharing
• Identify the importance of campus and student risk assessments as a proactive campus security component
• Identify the importance of an integrated response among campus officials and public safety entities during an emergency
• Identify the components of the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS)
• Understand how NIMS and ICS can assist with preventing, protecting, responding to, and recovering from campus emergencies

• Identify and apply the ICS and Unified Command (UC) system principles as they apply to campus emergencies
• Define the elements of command and control
• Identify the core elements of a crisis communications plan
• Identify crisis communications methods and technologies
• Identify challenges in both internal and external crisis communications.
• Identify communication practices that can boost or “kill” operational success
• Identify some of the recovery issues resulting from high-consequence events and their impact on campus communities
• Name the components of the recovery process and identify campus and community stakeholders
• Explain the importance of developing and exercising a continuity of operations plan to aid in the recovery process
• Identify the varieties of threats (i.e., instantaneous events) facing college or university campuses
• Discuss the critical roles that planning, training, exercising, building relationships, and integrated operations play in an emergency response
• Discuss the importance of identifying campus vulnerabilities
• Identify the information available from the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium to assist campuses in responding to emergencies
• Identify training available to assist the campus community in preparing an integrated response to a campus emergency
• Successfully complete a comprehensive post-test
• Provide feedback by completing a course evaluation form

Target Audience/Discipline
EMS, EMA, FS, GA, HS, HZ, LE, PH, PCS, PW

Scheduling
Contact a NCBRT training coordinator today to schedule this course.

Min/Max Enrollment Min 30; Max 45

Hours 16.0

Format Instructor-Led Training (Direct Delivery)

DHS Course # MGT-324

Prerequisites
Participants should be familiar with their respective roles and responsibilities with regard to emergency preparedness planning, the response to campus emergencies, and related post-incident activities and consequences