Emergency Management Institute

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Emergency Management Institute
Stephen G. Sharro Superintendent
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Vision

• The Emergency Management Institute (EMI) supports
  the Department of Home-land Securitys (DHS)
  goals by improving the skills of U.S. officials
  at all levels of government to prevent, prepare
  for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the
  potential effects of all types of disasters and
  emergencies.

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Goals

• Improve the abilities of FEMA and other DHS
  employees
• Improve the abilities of U.S. state, local, and
  tribal officials by
• Directly training state, local, and tribal
  employees in selected subjects
• Enabling state, local, and tribal officials to
  develop and deliver training for their own
  constituents
• Enhance the preparedness of U.S. individuals,
  families, and special audiences through training

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EmergencyManagementInstitute
Preparedness
Disasters Operations Recovery
Mitigation
Superintendent
Distance Learning
Integrated Emergency Management
Employee Development
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FEMA Training Activities
National Emergency Training Center Emmitsburg
Noble Training Center Anniston
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FEMA RegionsRegional Training Managers
FEMA Training Activities
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Emergency Management InstituteCore Training
Values

• Inherent dignity of all learners
• Performance-based NOT content-based
• Learning by doing NOT teaching by telling use
• Case studies
• Exercises
• Games
• We learn by making mistakes NOT by getting
  everything right
• Exploit technology when appropriate
• Make learning--and teachingfun
• Really use evaluation
• Take student opinion surveys with a grain of salt
• Use discriminating evaluation of student
  performance
• NOT to fail students, but to get meaningful
  feedback

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Employee DevelopmentProgram

• FEMA Orientations
• Computer training
• Job-specific training
• Secretarial Development
• Management Leadership Development Training
• Executive Training

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Emergency Management Institute
Employee Development Training for FEMA Personnel
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Emergency Management InstituteResponsibilities

• Determine training needs--all audiences
• Acquire or develop appropriate training
• Deliver training
• Evaluate results
• Revise as appropriate
• Support local exercising

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Training Needs
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Geography
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Hazards
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Training Strategy
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Resident Training

• Last resort most costly
• Only training that cant be done some other way
• Train-the-trainer courses
• Training for EPR/FEMA employees
• Specialized courses with small audiences
• Courses requiring special equipment or facilities
• More than 10,000 enrollments in Fiscal Year 2004
• Stipend program

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Resident Enrollments1995-2004
EMI
10,301
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Training Strategy
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Field Training

• Courses designed and developed at EMI
• Hand-off materials include
• Student manual
• Instructor guides
• Training aids
• EMI Training Network
• Delivered in all 50 states
• State instructors trained by EMI
• Materials downloadable from Internet

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Training Strategy
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Distance Learning

• Emergency Education
• Network
• NETC Virtual Campus
• 44 EMI courses
• FEMA Employee Knowledge
• Center
• Internet-based Courses

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Independent Study ProgramCompletions1995-2005
EMI
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Training Strategy
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Exercise Support

• Exercises provide best training
• Goal is to enable local official to exercise
• FEMA support Exercise Training Officer in every
  state
• Comprehensive Exercise Curriculum
• Design
• Conduct
• Evaluate results
• Implement corrective actions

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Training Strategy
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EMI Training Strategy
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Preparedness Courses

• Incident Command / NIMS
• Planning
• Evacuation
• Hazardous Materials
• Earthquake
• Terrorism

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Mitigation Courses

• Flood and Floodplain Management
• Earthquake/Hurricane Mitigation
• School Safety

• Multihazard Building Design Summer Institute
• Community Emergency Response Team
• Schools Programs

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Disaster Operations Recovery Courses

• Disaster Response Operations
• Disaster Operations Leadership
• Managing EPR/FEMA Staff in Disasters
• Disaster Recovery Operations/Programs
• Disaster Field Training Organization--Just-in-Time
  training at Joint Field Offices

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Integrated Emergency Management Course

• 5-day resident course
• Focus on integrated response
• Exercise-based
• Participants selected based on positions
• Versions
• Community-specific
• Hazard-specific

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EMI Master Trainer Program

• Courses
• Training management
• Needs analysis
• Instructional design
• Course development
• Instructional delivery
• Evaluation (on-line)
• Practicum

• For emergency management training officers
• Based on instructional system design model (ISD)
• Students projects become EMI courses

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