Release Date: October 26 – 29, 2009
                      July 19 – 22, 2010

Course Description:

This course enables emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions to more effectively understand, activate, implement, and utilize the EMAC system.

Course Goal:

The goal of this course is to introduce emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions to the EMAC process and assist them in gaining familiarity and competency with the EMAC system that, when an event occurs that requires activation of the EMAC system, they know how to proceed; and what documentation and sources of information to use for guidance in order to maximize use of all available resources.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the legal stipulations in the EMAC Articles of Agreement
2. Describe the EMAC governance structure and Member State roles and responsibilities.
3. Explain the process for requesting and offering assistance through the EMAC system.
4. Apply the recommended actions during eachphase of the EMAC process.
5. Identify the EMAC levels of operations and span of control.
6. Apply the process and procedures for reimbursing resource providers.

Prerequisite:

None.

Course Length:

4 full days. Travel days are Sunday and Friday.

Target Audience:

Emergency management personnel and response and recovery personnel from all political jurisdictions who can be legally deployed through the EMAC system, persons officially responsible for requesting & providing EMAC assistance, and those individuals desiring a more comprehensive working knowledge of the EMAC system.

Location:

National Emergency Training Center (NETC), Emergency Management Institute (EMI),
Emmitsburg, Maryland.

Continuing Education Units:

EMI awards 2.4 CEUs for completion of this course.

To Apply:

This course is available at http://www.training.fema.gov/IS. When you have completed the course, you may take the online test, fill out the student information and submit the test for scoring. FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute’s Independent Study office will notify you via email of the results. If you successfully complete the test, a link will be included in the email for you to access and print your course certificate.

You may contact the Independent Study office via email Independent.Study@dhs.gov or contact the call center at (301) 447-1200 or toll free at 1-800-238-3358, extension 1200. Independent Study Program office hours are 7:30a.m. – 7:30p.m. (ET).

To Apply :

Complete a FEMA Form 75-5, General Admissions Application with student signature and signature of supervisor or sponsoring agency official. Submit the application through the State emergency management training office who will fax it to the NETC Admissions Office at (301) 447-1658. For further enrollment information, refer to the EMI web site at http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/apply.

EMI Point of Contact:

Deborah Evans at (301) 447-1139, 1-800-238-3358 (ext. 1139), or email Deborah.Evans1@dhs.gov