Emergency Management Homeland Security Exercise Design and Evaluation

Catalog description

This course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to develop and conduct emergency management and homeland security exercises using the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program (HSEEP) to test a community’s emergency operations plan, processes and inter-operational response capability. To this end, the course provides hands-on training in the foundation, design and development, conduct, evaluation and improvement planning of exercises to instruct students in developing and implementing a comprehensive exercise program. Students will have the opportunity to observe exercises in practice and be responsible for designing an exercise.