Professional Continuity Practitioner

Continuity Excellence Series Level I

Applicant must complete the following courses and activities in any order from Level I or Level II unless specified as prerequisite to another course on the list.

• IS-546.12: COOP Awareness Course
• IS-547.a: Introduction to COOP
• IS-242.a or equivalent E/L/G course: Effective Communication
• E/L/G 548 or IS 548: COOP Manager’s T-t-T Course or E/G/L 549: Continuity of Operations (COOP) Program Manager Course or MGT 331 University of Maryland Preparing the States Continuity Courses
• E/L/G 550: COOP Planner’s T-t-T Workshop or L 552: Continuity of Operations for Tribal Government Course
• IS-100 or IS-100.a or IS-100.b: Intro to Incident Command System (ICS) or ICS 100: Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS) or ICS 200 or IS-200.b:  Incident Command System (ICS) for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents
• IS-230 or equivalent E/L course:  Principles of Emergency Management or IS 230.a: Fundamentals of Emergency Management or IS-230.b
• IS-700.a: Intro to National Incident Management System (NIMS)
• IS-800.b: A National Response Framework (NRF), An Introduction
• E136 (limited to EMI Resident MEPP candidates) or IS 139: Exercise Development Course/Exercise Design Course/or COOP Exercise Design/Development T-t-T Course
• Complete attendance in continuity exercise Pandemic Influenza (PI) Determined Accord Workshop or IS 520: Introduction to Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas and IS 522: Exercising Continuity Plans for Pandemic Course (both Independent Study courses are required) or Resilient Accord Cyber Security Workshop or Guardian Accord Terrorism Awareness Workshop
• ** NARA/CoSA Vital Records Training (optional, recommended)