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TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT RESPONSE FOR DYNAMIC POPULATIONS

January 28-30, 2025
pueblo, co


Group Scholarship Discounts are available for groups 3 or more

Connect with us for more details:
email: contact@thereadinesslab.com
phone: 314.400.8848

Special Presenters

Michael Willis

Lee Nelson

John Scardena

Mentor Instructors

Chris
Housley

Jake
Shores

Michelle
Cechowski

Brad
Pierce

Vanessa
Flores

Zack
Borst

read complete biographies below

purpose

This course was created by field-proven, emergency management subject matter experts. It was designed to push you into innovation, broaden your understanding, and test your ability to lead in a disaster.

Emergency Management Response for Dynamic Populations dives deep into organizational style emergency management, also referred to as ‘civilian military operations’ by the Department of Defense. As such, you are responsible for coordinating strategic actions during the most complex style of emergency management response.

You will address the protection of life, property, and continuity of operations as an organizational representative. This course will induce the stress of decision making and coordination. You will return to your organization as an enhanced, “Next Level,” emergency manager.


the real deal.


Competencies

  • Definition:
    Ensuring the safety of individuals and parties through evacuation best practices, mustering considerations, decontamination, reunification, mitigating cascading impacts, and appropriate crowd dispersion.

    Summary:
    This capability addresses evacuation considerations, including common misconceptions and best practices. Different types of evacuation situations will also be discussed, including both small and large-scale scenarios. This section will answer the question of “What should emergency managers understand about the evacuation process?”

  • Definition:
    The emergency management perspective of messaging; representing and supporting an organization and its leadership in times of crisis.

    Summary:
    The emergency manager just became the emergency management public affairs representative during a crisis response. This competency will address the strategies, capabilities, and capacities necessary to provide the public and all other relevant stakeholders with pertinent safety and situational awareness in a large-scale incident, such as a CBRN Terrorist Attack.

  • Definition:
    The CBRN Counter-Terrorism Overview walks emergency managers through the initial steps to gain and maintain situational awareness, provide strategy, and reduce impact through coordination with stakeholders. This section will include immediate response, threat identification, and strategy in the given scenario. 

    Summary:
    A conversation on CBRN considerations from a strategic response perspective. What now? Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism compounds disaster response. The lack of expertise, varying degrees of impacts, release times, and protocols differ while impacted populations and responders scramble to gain situational awareness and save lives.

  • Definition:
    Gaining the skills for the totality of situational awareness through controlling the disaster theater as a leader in interoperability. 

    Summary:
    The emergency manager should actively engage, through coordination, mitigate and reduce impact of threat. Working with those who provide real-time disruption, and ultimately overcome negative actors in an emergency situation is critical to the support of the mission. The outcome of this training yields the emergency manager the ability to plan for and support the response through coordination.

  • Definition:
    Keeping People Alive: A practitioner's guide to mass care stability by caring for people’s needs during an active evolving hazard.

    Summary:
    This course will challenge you to address seemingly insurmountable obstacles: taking care of and keeping people alive during an unpredictable crisis by using predictable tools and techniques. You will be educated and trained by an expert who has been there, who will guide you along the way through exercises and discussions, and help you grow in your understanding and practical application of mass care principles, techniques, and goals.

  • Definition:
    The Medical Response Overview capability covers all facets of the medical response to a mass casualty incident (MCI) from initial triage to hospital considerations from the emergency management coordination perspective.

    Summary:
    This competency encompasses the different nuances of pre-hospital response structures, as well as scene management, transport, and receiving hospital considerations as they all relate to large-scale incident response. 


Mentor instructors

This training requests guest experts to attend and support students in specific areas of instruction (competencies). They are requested based on their field experience, training, and leadership capabilities. These Mentor Instructors are not employed by nor represent The Readiness Lab or Doberman Emergency Management. Rather, they advise and provide guidance based on their expertise.

  • Zack Borst

    Evacuation Expert
    Doberman Emergency Management

  • CBRN Counterterrorism Expert

    Chris (Tamara) Housley

    CBRN Counterterrorism Expert
    United States Air Force

  • Brad Pierce

    Public Messaging Expert
    Federal Emergency Management Agency

  • Florida HazMat Symposium

    Michelle Cechowski

    Incident Commander Expert
    Florida HazMat Symposium

  • Jake Shores

    Medical Response Expert
    Global Medical Response

  • Vanessa Flores

    Mass Care Expert
    University of California, Irvine


schedule

  • In-bound Travel Day

  • 08:00 Welcome to EM Response for Dynamic Populations
    08:30–11:30 Skill Stations
    11:30–13:00 Lunch & Special Presentation: Case Study
    13:00–16:30 Scenario Stations
    16:30–15:30 Wrap Up
    17:30–19:00 Dinner & Travel to Social Event 1
    19:00–21:30 Social Event 1: Sporting Event / Considerations of Disaster Response
    21:30 Travel back to hotels

  • 08:00 Day 2 Overview
    08:30–11:30 Skill Stations
    11:30–13:00 Lunch & Special Presentation: Case Study
    13:00–16:30 Scenario Stations
    16:30–15:30 Wrap Up
    15:30–19:00 Dinner & Travel to Social Event 2
    19:00–22:00 Networking Event
    22:00 Travel back to hotels

  • 08:00 Disaster Breaks out
    08:30–18:30 Disaster Response (No scheduled breaks, but food will be provided)
    18:30–19:30 Dinner Provided, AAR provided by Mentor Instructors
    19:30–20:30 Presentation of Certificates & Awards

  • Outbound Travel Day


logistics

Dates

  • Course: January 28th - 30th, 2025

Location

  • Pueblo, CO

    • Training & Exercise: Ambipar Response Training Facilities

  • Hotel: TBD - Link provided in Welcome Packet

Work Sites *Tentative

***A complete breakdown of day, night, and social event sites will be provided in the Welcome Packet

Travel

  • Travel arrangements and cost are incumbent upon the student to arrange and expense. This includes arriving to Pueblo and traveling between sites, as needed.

  • We will notify students of the hotel option for a discounted rate (government rate may be the cheaper option)

  • We HIGHLY recommend that you do not book travel on the first or last day of training, as the days will be long. You MUST attend the full-three day training and participate to be awarded a certificate.

Meals

  • Lunch will be provided throughout the training

  • Dinner will be provided two of the three days

Course

  • $2,500.00

    • Group scholarship discounts available

  • NLEM Certificate will be received at the end of the training using the name provided on the application.