Training: UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Game Theory

http://www.stopdisastersgame.org/en/playgame.html

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction has created an online game focusing on natural disasters that effect communities throughout the world.

Tsunami’s, hurricanes, wild fires, earthquakes, and flooding are scenarios included within the game with the major goal to save lives, and reduce destruction to key infrastructures within the game.

Have fun.

Charles D. Sharp

Emergency Manager

Senior Advisor

BEMA

Training: Become A Red Cross Instructor

Become a Red Cross instructor

http://www.instructorscorner.org/benefits/

 

 

 

 

New Benefits for Red Cross Instructors in 2011

 

More Value

• Offer your students a two-year certification for first aid and CPR with free digital refreshers.
• Choose between free digital or affordable print materials for most courses.

 

Greater Convenience

• Manage your course records and print certificates through our new web-based training management system.
• Order training materials and products online and download tools from our dedicated instructor website.

 

Highest Quality

• Teach an interactive, learner-centered course design that emphasizes hands-on skills.
• Enjoy comprehensive, easy-to-use instructor resources, including manuals, multimedia course presentations, skill posters and DVDs or streaming video segments.

 

More Training Options

• Choose from flexible course options and additional modules to tailor your training to participant needs.
• Access web-based learning options for First Aid/CPR/AED, Administering Emergency Oxygen and Bloodborne Pathogens training.
• Become certified to teach a wide range of Red Cross courses, including Wilderness and Remote First Aid and Babysitter's Training.

 

 

New Programs for 2011

All programs will meet the new science guidelines.

First Aid/CPR/AED for Workplaces and Communities
Now Available

Now featuring a two-year certification, this OSHA-compliant course trains workplace responders, childcare providers, secondary school students and others to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illness until advanced medical personnel takes over. A choice of first aid; adult, child and infant CPR; and AED course options allows for tailored training. Updated blended learning and Spanish versions of the course are also being revised.

Emergency Medical Response
Now Available

This new course exceeds EMS Educational Standards and is designed for those with a duty to act, such as EMS personnel, firefighters, athletic trainers, lifeguards and medical professionals. It provides comprehensive training that gives participants the knowledge and skills necessary to work as an emergency medical responder to help sustain life, reduce pain and minimize the consequences of injury or sudden illness until more advanced medical personnel take over. Optional enrichment topics and skills on anaphylaxis, Sellick's maneuver, and C-collar and backboarding are also available.

 

 

CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers Now Available

This concise, learner-centered course trains individuals with a duty to act – EMS personnel, firefighters, athletic trainers, lifeguards and medical professionals – to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants until more advanced medical personnel takes over. Topics include performing a primary assessment, giving ventilations (includes BVM), choking (conscious and unconscious), CPR (one- and two-rescuer) and AED.

Lifeguarding
Releasing Fall 2011

This course provides participants age 15 or older with the skills needed to be a professional lifeguard, including preventing and responding quickly and effectively to aquatic emergencies. Enhanced aquatic facility on-site evaluation services will also be available.

 

Need Training Now?

If you are an organization in need of training, complete this short form and a Red Cross representative will contact you to discuss your training needs.

 

FYI: Dept of Education. Grants. Emergency Management for Higher Education

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/emergencyhighed/index.html

Emergency Management for Higher Education

	Purpose Funding Status Eligibility Laws, Regs, & Guidance Applicant Info Resources Awards FAQs Performance Contacts
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Home

Purpose
CFDA Number: 84.184T
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants
Also Known As: EMHE

Program Description

The Emergency Management for Higher Education (EMHE) grant program supports institutions of higher education (IHE) projects designed to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning efforts. A program funded under this absolute priority must use the framework of the four phases of emergency management (Prevention-Mitigation, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery) to:

1. Develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate a campus-wide all-hazards emergency management plan that takes into account threats that may be unique to the campus;
2. Train campus staff, faculty, and students in emergency management procedures;
3. Coordinate with local and State government emergency management efforts;
4. Ensure coordination of planning and communication across all relevant components, offices, and departments of the campus;
5. Develop a written plan with emergency protocols that include the medical, mental health, communication, mobility, and emergency needs of persons with disabilities, as well as for those individuals with temporary special needs or other unique needs (including those arising from language barriers or cultural differences);
6. Develop or update a written plan that prepares the campus for infectious disease outbreaks with both short-term implications for planning (e.g., outbreaks caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or food-borne illnesses) and long-term implications for planning (e.g., pandemic influenza);
7. Develop or enhance a written plan for preventing violence on campus by assessing and addressing the mental health needs of students, staff, and faculty who may be at risk of causing violence by harming themselves or others; and
8. Develop or update a written campus-wide continuity of operations plan that would enable the campus to maintain and/or restore key educational, business, and other essential functions following an emergency.

Types of Projects

The EMHE grant program provides funds to IHEs to establish or enhance an emergency management planning process that integrates the various components and departments of each IHE; focuses on reviewing, strengthening, and institutionalizing all-hazards emergency management plans; fosters partnerships with local and State community partners; supports vulnerability assessments; encourages training and drilling on the emergency management plan across the community; and requires IHEs to develop a written plan for preventing violence on campus by assessing and addressing the mental health needs of students, faculty, and staff who may be at risk of causing campus violence by harming themselves or others.
EMHE grantees enhance IHE emergency management capacity in a wide number of areas under the four phases of emergency management. In addition to responding to all elements of the Absolute Priorities and other Requirements, some key activities of EMHE grantees include:

• Garnering support from top leadership within the institution;
• Training campus faculty, staff, and students in emergency management procedures;
• Coordinating planning across all relevant components, offices, and departments of the campus as well as the local community;
• Coordinating with local and State government emergency management efforts;
• Supporting the implementation of the National Incident Management System;
• Pre-establishing roles for faculty, staff, students and first responders;
• Creating web-based emergency management portals for information sharing on campus;
• Conducting drills and exercises with faculty, staff, students, and community partners;
• Completing comprehensive vulnerability assessments of campus facilities; and,
• Purchasing emergency equipment and technology necessary to improve overall campus safety and preparedness (but not as a majority of the requested funding).

FYI: Dept of Education. Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/dvpemergencyresponse/index.html
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools

	Purpose Funding Status Eligibility Laws, Regs, & Guidance Applicant Info Resources Awards FAQs Performance Contacts
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Home

Purpose

CFDA Number: 84.184E
Program Type: Discretionary/Competitive Grants

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

This grant program supports efforts by LEAs to create, strengthen, and improve emergency management plans at the district and school-building levels, including training school personnel on emergency management procedures; communicating with parents about emergency plans and procedures; and coordinating with local law enforcement, public safety or emergency management, public health, and mental health agencies and local government.

TYPES OF PROJECTS

Grant funds may be used for the following activities: reviewing and revising emergency management plans, training school staff, conducting building and facilities audits, communicating emergency response policies to parents and guardians, implementing the National Incident Management System (NIMS), developing an infectious disease plan, developing or revising food defense plans, purchasing school safety equipment (to a limited extent), conducting drills and tabletop simulation exercises; and preparing and distributing copies of emergency management plans.