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List of Courses
Chief Officer: Community Risk Reduction
Chief Officer: Human Resource Management
Chief Officer: Leadership
Chief Officer: Operations
National Response Plan: An Introduction
Executive Skills Series: Influencing
Executive Skills Series: Leading Diverse Communities Beyond Conflict
Executive Skills Series: Managing and Leading Change
Fire Service Case Law
Introduction to Unified Command for Multi-Agency and Catastrophic Incidents
Introduction to Volunteer Emergency Services Management
ISO: How to Get a Better Grade
NIMS: Command and General Staff
Chief Officer: Community Risk Reduction
This course will help chief officers develop and manage response areas or neighborhood-based risk reduction programs based on a systematic analysis of their target audience and a profile of their communities. Topics will include the role of the chief officer in neighborhood-based risk reduction, developing community equity, assessing community risk, and developing a strategy to implement a community risk plan.
Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: Preferred that students attend the Chief Officer: Leadership course
Min/Max: 10/25
ACE Credit Recommendation:
1 semester hour in the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category
Chief Officer: Human Resource Management
This course will provide students with basic skills, knowledge, and tools in the areas of organizational environment, diversity, workforce management, and personnel support. Topics covered will include internal and external organizational environment, community diversity, managing organizational diversity, workforce conflict, and managing/supporting/encouraging the workforce.
Contact Hours: 32
Prerequisite: Preferred that students attend the Chief Officer: Leadership course
Min/Max: 10/25
ACE Credit Recommendation:
2 semester hours in the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category
Chief Officer: Leadership
This course will help students define and apply the concepts, theories, and history of leadership to individual and organizational leadership issues. In addition, students will develop a personal leadership development plan, apply leadership practices, learn how to design an organizational plan based on the three phases of leading change, and analyze an organizational or personal leadership issue and formulate a plan to effectively address the issue.
Contact Hours: 32
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 10/25
ACE Credit Recommendation:
2 semester hours in the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category
Chief Officer: Operations
This course will help chief officers make strategic decisions to effectively manage an emergency incident. Students will learn how to develop an incident action plan (IAP) for a complex incident and how to preplan for target hazards. Other topics covered will include incident command decision making, IAPs, Incident Command System (ICS) for emergency medical systems’ (EMS), health and safety officers, laws and regulations, incident safety officer and risk management, fire cause determination, and simulations for nursing homes, bulk storage, facility/tank farms, structural collapse, terrorism, enclosed malls, public assembly/mass casualties, highrises, dormitories, grain elevators, and penal institutions.
Contact Hours: 80
Prerequisite: NIMS: ICS for the Fire Service or I-200
Min/Max: 10/25
ACE Credit Recommendation:
3 semester hours in the lower division baccalaureate/associate degree category
Executive Skills Series: Influencing
Influencing is considered a critical leadership skill, particularly at the executive level. This course will examine how leaders successfully influence others in order to accomplish common goals. Formally planning to influence others will be a primary discussion area in the course. Case studies of executives influencing others will be analyzed to illustrate the challenges and opportunities associated with complex situations in the public sector. This course will require an extensive reading assignment on the evening of the first day.
Contact Hours: 14
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 10/25
Executive Skills Series: Leading Diverse Communities Beyond Conflict
This course will provide senior executives in fire and emergency service organizations with information, perspectives, and tools they need to harmonize the diverse audiences that comprise their work and stakeholder communities. The course will be a springboard for forming and launching plans of action. It will break new ground in addressing fire and emergency service culture and challenges and that position its leadership in a complex and sometimes difficult society. Finally, the course will help participants mobilize support and identify resources that can make a difference. The course is intended to be a “launch pad” for action projects that students can undertake when they return to work
Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 10/25
Fire Service Case Law
This course focuses on the basics of law, the court system, and how both affect the fire service. Specific examples and case studies from fire service case laws will be examined. The course also will use the text Fire and Emergency Law Casebook by Thomas Schneid.
Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 15/25
Executive Skills Series: Managing and Leading Change
This course will introduce students to a four-step model they can use to effectively manage change. Course activities will include analysis, planning, implementation, and evaluation. The same model will be used to examine the executive’s role in leading change. A variety of activities and simulations will allow students to apply management theories to issues that executive officers experience daily. This course will require an extensive assignment to be completed on the evening of the first day.
Contact Hours: 14
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 10/25
I-800 National Response Plan: An Introduction
The National Response Plan, or NRP, specifies how the resources of the Federal Government will work in concert with State, local, and tribal governments and the private sector to respond to Incidents of National Significance. The NRP is predicated on the National Incident Management System, or NIMS. This course introduces you to the NRP, including the concept of operations upon which the plan is built, roles and responsibilities of the key players, and the organizational structures used to manage these resources. The NRP provides a framework to ensure that we can all work together when our Nation is threatened. This course meets training requirements to become NIMS compliant.
Contact Hours: 4
Prerequisite: I-700
Min/Max: 15/50
Introduction to Unified Command for Multi-Agency and Catastrophic Incidents
This course is designed for officers who would likely function in a command or a general staff position during a multi-agency operation. Students will be exposed to lectures and activities designed to promote a better understanding of multi-agency needs and a Unified Command structure. This course will cover the requirements of a Unified Command organization and the skills necessary to operate effectively at complex incidents.
Contact Hours: 12
Prerequisite: NIMS: ICS for the Fire Service or I-200
Min/Max: 15/30
ACE Credit Recommendation:
1 semester hour in the vocational and in the lower division baccalaureate/associate
category
Introduction to Volunteer Emergency Services Management
This course is designed for individuals who are responsible for managing all facets of an emergency service organization. The course will explore the transition individuals have to make when they step into a management role within their organizations. Small group activities will be used to help participants learn and apply the basic principles of communication, motivation, problem solving, decision making, and the management process in order to accomplish their organizations’ missions and goals. Upon completion, participants will have an overview of management principles as they relate to emergency services and a foundation upon which to build their management skills. (Applicable toward Division of Fire Safety Instructor re-certification)
Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 15/40
ISO: How To Get A Better Grade
Is your department preparing for an Insurance Services Office (ISO) grading survey? Do you understand the benefits that a good ISO survey can provide? This course will prepare you to work with the ISO to lower your insurance classification, which will benefit taxpayers in your jurisdiction. Participants will be given copies of all necessary forms, but should bring, if possible, a copy of their last grading survey and a current copy of their ISO grading schedule.
Contact Hours: 12
Prerequisite: None
Min/Max: 15/50
This course is available on a limited basis dependent upon instructor availability.
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This course builds on the NIMS: Advanced Incident Command System (ICS) course. The focus will be on the roles and responsibilities of section chief at major incidents. Each ICS section (i.e., incident commander, planning section chief, operations section chief, logistics section chief, and finance/administration section chief) will be discussed in detail. This course includes an intense activity designed to expand the ICS to its full potential.
Contact Hours: 16
Prerequisite: NIMS: Advanced ICS
Min/Max: 15/30
ACE Credit Recommendation:
1 semester hour in the vocational and in the lower division baccalaureate/associate
category
G & T approved
This course is endorsed by the United States Fire Administration’s National Fire Academy.
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