Training Work Group

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Training Work Group

• NDMS Conference

May 2, 2005 Jane Stringer, Chair
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Training Work Group

• RESPONSIBILITIES,
• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• FUTURE ACTIVITIES

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Training Work Group Members
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Management Work Group

• Process for Making Recommendations
• Individual Work Groups make recommendations to
  Management Work Group
• Management Work Group reviews/clarifies
  recommendation
• Management Work Group makes a recommendation to
  NDMS Chief for action
• NDMS Chief acts on recommendation, or returns to
  Management Work Group if further work required

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Work Groups

• Initial Strategy of Work Groups
• Identify working structure for Work Groups
• Designate Meeting Place and DisasterHelp as tools
  to facilitate Work Group work product
• Identify work in progress and items which can be
  turned into action items
• Ask individual Work Groups to identify 3 or 4
  priority items
• Prioritize and task projects within Work Groups
• Identify non-agenda items requiring urgent
  attention

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Training Work Group

• Initial Strategy of Training Work Group
• Schedule Face-to-face meetings (not accomplished)
• Conducts weekly and now bi-monthly conference
  calls using FEMAs Meeting Place conference call
  bridge
• Receive support from NDMS staff for minutes
• Report progress and agenda items
• Identify priority items requiring immediate
  attention
• Provide representative (John Burgard) to Pubs
  Docs Work Group
• Pubs Docs Work Group tracks project progress
  and generates a written history of
  recommendations

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Training Work Group

• Priority Items
• Web Based Training Improvement
• Training Officer Development
• Field Training Standardization

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Training Work Group

• Recommendations Web Based Training
  Improvement
• Change in NDMS online training curriculum
• Improve curriculum composition to more accurately
  reflect DMAT, VMAT, DMORT specialty team
  educational needs
• Establish a single, general CORE curriculum,
  named NDMS CORE, and adopt as standard curriculum
  for all team members
• Establish a NDMS Pre-deployment Requirements
  curriculum and require completion to be eligible
  for any deployment

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Training Work Group

• Request a memo to clarify
• Requirement percentages for Type I, II and III
  DMAT categories
• Ten topics required for deployment
• Establish a time line to announce changes

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Training Work Group

• Status of Recommendations
• Approved by Management Work Group
• Forwarded to NDMS Chief for review
• Approved by NDMS Chief
• Forwarded to FEMA Under Secretary for final
  approval
• Pending Acceptance

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Training Work Group

• Training Officer Development
• Recommended training officer attend NDMS
  conference
• Exercise design course offered to training
  officers
• Requested improvements in After Action Reports of
  Field Training Exercises
• NDMS Training Program Manager has under
  development a resource web site

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Training Work Group

• Field Training Exercise Standardization
• Addressed need for organized field training with
  standardized training objectives
• Reviewed After Action Reports from previous DMAT
  exercises
• Requested by NDMS to develop a DMAT, VMAT DMORT
  field training exercise criteria and exercise
  checklist

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FTX Check List (pending approval)
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FTX Check List (pending approval)
FTX Check List (pending approval)
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FTX Check List (pending approval)
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FTX Check List (pending approval)
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FTX Check List

• How would a FTX training committee use this check
  list?
• How would the NDMS evaluator use this check list?
• How would a team leadership use this check list?

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FTX Check List

• How would a team training committee use this FTX
  check list?
• Planning
• Meeting NDMS FTX expectations
• Post- exercise assessment
• Identifying strategies for future FTXs

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FTX Check List

• How would the NDMS evaluator use this check list?
• Provide standards for consistency for exercise
  evaluation
• Use in the Remedial Action Plan
• NDMS Team Readiness Evaluation Process discussed
  in
• session 19

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FTX Check List

• How would a team leadership use this check list?
• Validate effectiveness of team
• Validate individual team member skills
• Continuous improvement for DMAT performance

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Invitation to Participate

• NDMS at-large members wishing to serve on a
  specific WG
• Forward list to MWG liaison
• Submit names with a short resume to their Team
  Commander for approval
• Select according to current needs
• Criteria for assignment may include Region, team
  type, specific skill set

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WG members

• Responsibility of the WGs
• Fill any vacant position (by attrition or other
  reasons) promptly
• Establish sub-committees that will tackle
  specific projects and utilize new members

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Training Work Group

• Send any correspondence to
• Jane Stringer, Chair
• jstringer_at_triad.rr.com

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