N0200: Leadership Strategies for Community Risk Reduction

Course Description: This 6-day course is designed for the student who has or will have responsibility to develop, implement and lead community risk reduction and health programs to include human-caused disasters, natural disasters and health risks. The course empowers students with knowledge of how to prevent, reduce and mitigate community risk. This course advocates the use of: • Proven interventions. • Mechanisms to gather and analyze critical data. • Actions to target specific at-risk populations. • Evaluation. • How to build internal and external support to accomplish the changing mission of fire and emergency services. This course will benefit progressive fire and emergency medical services (EMS) departments who are initiating programs to reduce their community's risks and mitigate their consequences.

Prerequisite: ICS-100 and ICS-200

Dates: October 21-26

To register:https://on.in.gov/october-21-valparaiso-leadership-strategies-community-risk-reduction