Colorado DEM Information Report

CEMA Annual Emergency Manager Awards

The CEMA Awards Committee is requesting nominations for our 2008 All Hazards Region Emergency Manager of the Year.

We want to recognize an Emergency Manager of the year for each of the nine All Hazard Emergency Management Regions. As before two nominators are required. A letter of nomination stating the reasons for the recognition, sent to the awards committee chair Steve Blois at steve.blois@greeleygov.com or Stacey Davis at sdavis@ci.firestone.co.us.

These individuals by their dedication to the profession should be recognized and thanked. Many individuals in the organization deserve such recognition but unless they are nominated by their peers they will remain unsung heroes.

Nominations deadline: January 26, 2008.

Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS 300)
January 23 - 24, 2008
Sagre De Cristo Art Center
Pueblo, Colorado

The Pueblo Department of Emergency Management is sponsoring this ICS 300 course. This course provides training on and resources for personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System (ICS).

The target audience includes all individuals who may assume a supervisory role in expanding incidents. This course expands upon information covered in ICS 100 and 200 courses. (Both are pre-requisites for ICS 300.) This course will include but not be limited to: unified command, incident/event assessment and objective development, the ICS planning process, incident/event resource
management, transfer of command and demobilization.

Target Audience/Discipline
• Emergency Management Directors and staff
• Police
• Fire
• Emergency Medical Service (EMS)
• Elected and appointed officials
• Public works
• Volunteer agencies
• Military
• Department of Natural Resources

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Pandemic Preparedness Coordinator
Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE)

The Emergency Preparedness and Response Division works to ensure that CDPHE, healthcare facilities and local public health agencies have plans for responding to emergency events and administering medication in mass quantities to all citizens in Colorado. This division also assesses natural and man made disaster events for enhancing response, trains public health professionals on the latest and improved response protocols, and ensures effective and redundant communication connectivity among stakeholders involved in public health detection and response.

This position is the pandemic planning authority for over 70 acute care hospitals in Colorado receiving hospital preparedness funds for CDPHE. This position will direct hospital pandemic preparedness planning to ensure integration with public health, emergency management and other response partners by providing: oversight, technical assistance, guidance and support. This position will also serve as the coordinator to support state-level pandemic preparedness activities such as writing response planning documents and conducting educational presentations. This position works closely with staff from both public health preparedness and hospital preparedness to ensure pandemic planning is consistent, cohesive and coordinated.

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Community Specific Integrated Emergency Management Course (IEMC)

The IEMC is a 4-day exercise based training activity that places public officials and emergency personnel in a realistic crisis situation within a structured learning environment.

Jurisdictions have until January 10, 2008 to apply for a Community IEMCs specific program. Applications and requests letters should be forwarded to the Superintendent of the Emergency Management Institute through the appropriate State Emergency Management Agency and FEMA Regional Office.

The course builds awareness and skills needed to develop and implement policies, plans, and procedures in an emergency operations center (EOC) to protect life and property through applications of sound emergency management principles in all phases of emergency management.

If interested and you need help with your application, contact Robyn Knappe 720.852.6617

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Emergency Medical Service Operations & Planning for Weapons of Mass Destruction (PER 211)
April 15, 16, 17, 2008

Participants completing this program will be able to properly perform patient triage, treatment, and transportation in the event of exposure to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) weapons. The course consists of facilitated discussions, small group exercises, hands-on activities, and task oriented practical applications using both adult and pediatric human patient simulators to promote critical thinking skills while utilizing the RAPID – Care concept.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to demonstrate the skills necessary for proper detection and monitoring, triage, mass decontamination, treatment, stabilization, self-protection, and cross-contamination prevention.

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Threat & Risk Assessment
Local Jurisdiction • MGT-310

This course prepares emergency response managers and community leaders to conduct a comprehensive, capabilities-based threat and risk assessment for a weapons of mass destruction (WMD)/terrorism/all-hazards incident under the National Response Framework (NRF) and Homeland Security Presidential Directives.

Participant activities focus on the jurisdictional process for determining ability to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) and all-hazards events and the development of the needs assessment to fill gaps identified within the solution areas. The assessment incorporates the State Homeland Security and Strategy (SHSAS) processes.

The course delivery combines lecture, small group discussions, participant activities, and multimedia scenarios to improve the multidisciplinary emergency team’s capability to prevent, protect, respond to, or recover from CBRNE/all-hazards mass casualty events.

This course is free for qualifying jurisdictions. Please review the materials below if you are interested in scheduling a course in your area.

Click here for the course flyer.

Click here for the course catalog entry & description.

Click here for the course syllabus.

Emergency Services Media Relations Seminar
March 11-14, 2008
Virginia Beach Resort Hotel & Conference Center
2800 Shore Drive
Virginia Beach , VA.

Are you confident of your media and public relations skills during crisis situations? A critical part of responding to crisis situations is working with the media and the public. However, few emergency services personnel and others are trained in working with the media and other public relation professionals during a crisis.

Who should attend this program? This intensive, four-day seminar has been developed especially for senior leaders, pio’s and others with media and public relations responsibilities in law enforcement, fire, medical, health, schools and other emergency services, hospitals, government and private organizations with crisis communication needs. This course is especially designed to train you how to work and partner with those in other fields during a crisis.

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Prepared Newsletter Articles - Deadline Extended

HELP - We need your articles for our Prepared newsletter.

If you have lessons learned from exercises, real events, special activities, trainings, or something you feel will benefit our emergency management community, we want to hear about it. Please send all articles and ideas to Polly White (polly.white@state.co.us).

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Deadline EXTENDED AGAIN for input to January 15, 2008.
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