Standardizing Professional Development for the Fire and Emergency Services

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Standardizing Professional Development for the
Fire and Emergency Services
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Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education
(FESHE) Program

• Mission
• Establish an organization of post-secondary
  institutions to promote higher education and to
  enhance the recognition of the fire and emergency
  services as a profession to reduce loss of life
  and property from fire and other hazards.

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Is This You?

• Have taken many college courses, including fire
  science and/or general education
• Have taken many state, local and NFA training
  courses
• Have achieved various levels of certification
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• All combined, these efforts have moved your fire
  service professional development in a unified,
  coherent and planned way?

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A Public's Right to Ask

• As citizens expect their tax dollars to be spent
  wisely, the public has the right to ask
• How many times should the fire department pay for
  a fire officer to accomplish the same job-related
  competency?

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Where are we going?

• Have taken the right college courses, including
  fire science and general education
• Have taken many state, local and NFA training
  courses, knowing how they fit in a professional
  development plan or not
• Have achieved various certifications with little
  duplications of effort
• AND
• All combined, these efforts have moved fire
  service professional development in a unified,
  coherent and planned way.

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Inter-operability for Fire Service Professional
Development

• The imperative for inter-operability of radios
  and hoses so that they connect and work together
  is matched by the need for training, education
  and certification entities to do the same.

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FESHE Strategic Goals

• Working collaboratively, the professional
  development community will produce a
• National model for an integrated,
  competency-based system of fire and emergency
  services professional development
• National model for an integrated system of higher
  education from associate's-to-doctoral degrees
• Well-trained and academically-educated fire and
  emergency services preparing the nation for all
  hazards

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Applying Inter-Operability to Professional
Development by Standardizing

• Fire Science Courses FESHE Model Curriculum
• General Education Courses Building
  Competency-Based FESHE Programs Recommended
  Under- and Post-Graduate Courses and
  Competencies
• Standardizing Crosswalks National Professional
  Development Matrix

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Professional DevelopmentModel for the Fire
andEmergency Services
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Developed by the U.S. Fire Administration/National
Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services
Higher Education network. For more information
please visit www.usfa.fema.gov/fire-service/nfa/hi
gher-ed/he.shtm
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Fire Prevention Professional Development Model
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Standardized Education FESHE Model Associate's
and Bachelor's Courses
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FESHE Associate's CoursesFire Science

• Core Curriculum
• Fire Prevention
• Building Construction for Fire Protection
• Fire Protection Hydraulics and Water Supply
• Fire Protection Systems
• Principles of Emergency Services
• Fire Behavior and Combustion

• Non-Core Curriculum
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Legal Aspects
• Hazardous Materials Chemistry
• Strategy and Tactics
• Intro to F ES Admin
• Fire Investigation I (First Responders)
• Fire Investigation II (Investigators)

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New Concentrations for Associate's Programs

• Fire Prevention
• Fire and Life Safety Education
• Fire Inspection Principles
• Plans Review

• Fire Protection Engineering
• Advanced Concepts in Structural Fire Protection
  Systems
• Human Behavior in Fire
• Performance-Based Design

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FESHE Support ofNFFF's Everyone Goes
HomeCampaign

• 1) Two New LODD courses
• Associate's - Principles of FF Health Safety
• Bachelor's Advanced Principles of FF Safety and
  Survival
• 2) Walk of Honor Brick Campaign
• 3) Change Culture through Education

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FESHE Bachelor's CoursesFire Administration/Prev
ention Technology

• Core Curriculum
• Community Risk Reduction for the Fire Service
• Applications of Fire Research
• Fire Emergency Services Administration
• Analytical Approaches to Public Fire Protection
• Fire Prevention Organization Management
• Personnel Management for the Fire Emergency
  Services
• Non-Core Curriculum
• Fire Protection Structures Systems Design
• Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials
• Disaster Planning Control
• Political Legal Foundations of Fire Protection
• Fire Dynamics
• Fire Investigation Analysis
• Fire Related Human Behavior

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FESHE Baccalaureate Courses EMS Management
Core Curriculum

• Foundations of EMS Systems
• EMS Operations Administration
• Injury Illness Prevention in the Community
• EMS Quality and Performance Management
• Legal, Political and Regulatory Environment of
  EMS
• Safety and Risk Management
• Non-Core Curriculum
• EMS Educator
• EMS Public Information, Education Relations
• Management of Transport Services
• http//home.gwu.edu/mikeward/FESHE_EMS.html

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A National, Standardized Undergraduate Program
for the Fire and Emergency Services
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National FESHE Degree Model
Baccalaureate (DDP)
APFSS
FPOM
FPSS
FD
FESA
PLFFP
DFDP
MIHM
FPS
FBC
LA
HMC
FI-I
ST
IFES
Associate's
BC
Non-Core Courses
Core Courses
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The National Professional Development Matrix
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National Professional Development MatrixPurpose

• Moves Professional Development Model from concept
  to reality
• Designed for training and certification agencies
  and academic fire programs to assist the
  emergency services personnel they serve in their
  professional development planning

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National Professional Development Matrix
Supervisory Fire Officer (FO I)
Fire Prevention Officer



         
Education Education Competencies/Standards Competencies/Standards Training
NFA Courses - ACE Recommendations College Courses Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies Correlating NFPA Standards State Local Courses
FSC (R107) English Composition (A) SFO-01 Ability to write detailed prose. 1031, 1035, 1037      
FSC (R107) Public Speaking or Oral Communications (A) SFO-02 Understanding and using basic interpersonal, group and public communication skills. 1021, 1033, 1035, 1037, 1041  
FSC (R107) Business or Written Communications (A) SFO-03 Ability to write accurate and clear letters, memos, technical reports and business communications. 1021, 1031, 1033, 1037, 1041  
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National Professional Development Matrix
Managing Fire Officer (FO II) Fire Prevention
Officer



         
Education Education Competencies Standards Competencies Standards Training
NFA Courses - ACE Recommendations College Courses Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies Correlating NFPA Standards State Local Courses
ED (R123), OTP (R331) Fire and Emergency Services Administration (FBC) Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection (FBC) MFO-08 Understanding the basic principles of organization and management as applied to fire service agencies apply theories to management problems. 1037  
  Law (A) Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection (FBC) MFO-09 Understanding the basic legal system structures and content as they affect local government and employers. 1031, 1037  
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National Professional Development Matrix
Administrative Fire Officer (FO III) Fire
Prevention Officer



         
Education Education Competencies Standards Competencies Standards Training
NFA Courses - ACE Recommendations College Courses Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies Correlating NFPA Standards State Local Courses
  Economics (A) AFO-1 Understanding basic concepts of economic thinking basic understanding of the complex economics problems in modern society.    
CLTO (R815), EP (R506), IDFSO (R332), TPM (R342), ED (R123), EL (R125), MFPP (R225), LA (R810) Principles of Management (B) Fire and Emergency Services Administration (FBC) AFO-02 Understand the field of management including planning, motivation, group dynamics, decision making, organizing, and group organizational change. 1021, 1035, 1037  
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National Professional Development Matrix
Executive Fire Officer (FO IV) Fire Prevention
Officer



         
Education Education Competencies/Standards Competencies/Standards Training
NFA Courses - ACE Recommendations College Courses Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies Correlating NFPA Standards State Local Courses
  Public Finance (G) Financial Management in the Public Sector (G) EFO-04 Understands managerial uses of accounting and financial management in the public sector includes fund accounting, cost accounting, asset accounting, internal controls, auditing, financial analysis and reporting. 1031  
EL (R125) Public Policy (G)/Management of Policy Process (G) EFO-05 Understands the issues involved in the implementation of public policy and programs the institutional and political constraints on policy making and the skills needed to address them. 1035, 1037  
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What the Future Holds

• The primary service providers
• -training agencies-certification
  offices-academic fire programs have
• -united together to eliminate duplications of
  effort for fire service personnel
• -enabled a holistic approach to an integrated
  education and training plan that brings the
  combination of theory and practice to Fire
  Officer/Prevention-related development

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What the Future Holds continued

• States will convene Professional Development
  summits comprising of-fire departments-academic
  fire programs-State associations -other key
  stakeholders to -customize the Matrix with
  their own training and college courses-transpose
  competencies to State's JPRs -decide how to
  document sufficient Fire Officer/Prevention-relat
  ed test preparation, e.g. transcripts,
  certificates, etc.

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For More Information

• Write to Fema-FESHE_at_dhs.gov
• Visit the FESHE Web Page
• www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed/