# **National Park Service**

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#### Training and Development Servicewide Events Catalog

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*October 2001 through September 2002*

**TABLE OF CONTENTS**

[Administration and Office Management Support](#a-1) **...........
............................................. 2-6**

[Cultural Resources Stewardship](#b-1) **....................
........... ............................................. 7-9**

[Fire & Aviation Management](#c)
**..................................................................................
9**

[Historic Preservation Skills & Crafts](#d)
**.........................................................................
10-12**

[Information Management](#information-management)
**.......................................................................................
12**

[Intake Trainee Program](#f)
**.........................................................................................
12-15**

[Interpretation, Education & Cooperating Associations](#g)
**.................................................. 16-17**

[Law Enforcement & Resource Protection](#h)
**...................................................................
18-23**

[Maintenance](#i)
**.......................................................................................................
23-25**

[Natural Resources Stewardship](#j)
**..............................................................................
25-26**

[Organizational Development](#k)
**...................................................................................
27**

[Planning, Design & Construction](#l)
**..............................................................................
27-30**

[Recreation & Conservation Programs](#m)
**........................................................................
30-33**

[Risk Management (Occupational Safety & Health)](#n)
**........................................................ 33**

[Specialty Fields](#o)
**.....................................................................................................
34-35**

[Supervision, Management & Leadership](#p)
**.....................................................................
35-37**

[Univeral Competencies](#q)
**............................................................................................
37-43**

[Visitor Use Management](#r)
**..........................................................................................
43-44**

[Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL)](#t)
**.....................................................................
47**

[Points of Contact](#s-1)
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48-51**

**ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE**

[]{#a-1 .anchor}**MANAGEMENT SUPPORT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Administrative

Competencies Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** GS-1 through GS-7 Administrative and Office
Management Support personnel

**DATE:** October 1, 2001 to September 1, 2002

**LOCATION:** Participant's worksite

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Cost-share grants available to individuals and
groups to fund primarily technology-enhanced learning events obtained
through the internet or correspondence courses, local college or
university courses, details, and satellite or video training. Entry and
developmental level competencies defined in employee's IDP. Preference
given to requests that do not include travel and per diem.

**CORE COMPETENCIES**: Budget/Fiscal/Finance, Human Resources/EO,
Acquisition Management, Property/Space/Quarters/Fleet Management,
Information Management, Office Management, Support Services,
Administrative Support

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Training and Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Introduction to Park Program Management

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Managers and first-line supervisors with budget and
programming responsibilities in all disciplines.

**DATE:** Scheduled by Lead Instructor in each region

**LOCATION:** TBD---Park, regional office, or training center

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Inter-disciplinary course providing an
introduction to estimating workloads and prioritizing work; developing
estimates and justifications; the budget process and funding sources;
understanding financial reports; project evaluation and completion
reports. Preference given to new first-line supervisors and managers
with limited programming and budget management training

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Financial Management; Budget Formulation and
Execution; Project/Program Management

**FUNDING:** Tuition, benefiting account for participant's travel and
per diem.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Janet Kackstetter, Servicewide Lead Instructor, Lake Roosevelt NRA,
509-633-9441

**EVENT TITLE:** Human Resource Management for Specialists

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Human Resource Specialists (Personnel Officer,
Personnel Management Specialist, Position Classification Specialist,
Employee Relations Specialist, or Staffing Specialist)

**DATE:** February 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION**: This event defines the principles and concepts in
position management and will help to determine trends and patterns.
Develop position management and staffing plans to meet program and
mission requirements. Includes how to integrate equal opportunity and
diversity outreach efforts into recruitment and retention programs, and
analyze workforce data to identify diversity strengths and weaknesses.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Human Resources/EO

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account, benefiting account for
participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE**

**MANAGEMENT SUPPORT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Fundamental Principles of Administration

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** GS-5/6/7 Administrative Clerks/Technicians or
personnel in other divisions at the same grade level performing three or
more administrative functions

**DATE:** November 2001 and May 2002

**LOCATION:** Minneapolis, Minnesota and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Completion of Compass I prerequisite to selection
for this course. Designed for Administrative Clerk/Technician within
first two years in that position. Course focuses on entry and
developmental competencies in all functional areas of administration.
Taught by Servicewide Fundamentals Instructor Team.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Budget/Finance, Human Resources/EO, Acquisition
Management, Property/Quarters, Information Management, Administrative
Support

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account and tuition

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Administration for First-Line Supervisors

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** First-line supervisors from all disciplines
responsible for day-to-day supervision of employees and management of
administrative functions

# **DATE:** February 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Content includes: appropriations law and general
accounting principles, merit principles and prohibited personnel
practices, classification and position management, conduct and
performance issues, staffing, diversity, pay administration, politics of
budgeting and allocation methods, financial planning, acquisition
procedures, property management, OWCP and an ethics roundtable.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Ethics, Budget/Fiscal/Finance, Human
Resources/EO, Acquisition Management, Property

**FUNDING:** Tuition; benefiting account for participant's travel and
per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Fixed Assets Subsystem

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Individuals with responsibility for input and
update of the Fixed Assets Subsystem; regional, AOC, and WASO property
officers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Conservation
Training Center, Shepherdstown, West Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** In response to implementation of the new property
management system, Fixed Assets, in 1998, this training provides an
opportunity to give hands-on computer training using the program. It is
targeted for those persons who are either new to their position or have
been assigned responsibility for managing this program.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Property Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE**

**MANAGEMENT SUPPORT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Fundamentals of Financial Management

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** GS-4 through GS-9 administrative, accounting,
budget, and financial management personnel

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Participant's worksite

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Computer-based training of nine modules: budget,
accounts payable and receivables, cash management, travel, payroll,
AFS11/CCR, FFS, year-end closing, and miscellaneous reports

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Budget and Financial Management

**FUNDING:** \$100 tuition

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** SmartPay Credit Card Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees requiring a SmartPay MasterCard for
the purchase business or travel business line, a newly designated park
or office A/OPC, Fleet Managers.

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Participant's worksite

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Computer-based mandatory training as outlined in
the National Park Service Policy for use of the SmartPay credit card.
Five modules include Introduction and General Information; Travel
Business Line; Purchase Business line; A/OPC; and the Fleet program.
Testing out of module assessments required prior to authorization and
processing of applicant\'s credit card application.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Financial Management, Acquisition Management,
Travel

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Training and Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Budget Process for NPS Managers

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Park superintendents and division chiefs with
budget responsibility for parkwide programs; major program fund managers
at the region, center, or WASO levels

**DATE:** June 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Deals with the managerial, rather than technical
aspects of the NPS budget process. Intended for major program fund
managers, not budget practitioners formulating and executing budgets.
Central topics are politics, policy, and history of the Federal budget
process; effects of budget decisions and actions on park management; and
Congressional influence on the NPS budget.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Budget

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Training and Development Funds; Benefiting
Account for Participant's Travel and Per Diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE**

**MANAGEMENT SUPPORT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Personal Property Disposal Warrant

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Contracting Officers, Purchasing Agents, Property
Management Officers, and others responsible for disposal of government
personal property

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Participant's worksite

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Computer-based training to meet the requirements
of Director's Order-44 Property Management Guidelines for disposal of
personal property by a warranted disposal officer. Consists of: Personal
Property Sales; Disposal by Negotiation/Disposal Contract Law; and
Personal Property Utilization and Disposal.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Property Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Training and Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration and Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
Training---8-Hour Refresher and 24-Hour Basic Course

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Individuals who will be assigned COR duties in all
career fields

**DATE:** TBD---Eight sessions

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This three-day course will fulfil the
requirements for those needing to take the eight-hour refresher course
and for all newly designated CORS that are mandated to complete the
24-hour course. The first day will serve as an eight-hour refresher
course for participants needing to maintain the COR certification. A
refresher course must be completed every three years from the date of
the last certification. This course will inform participants of current
policies associated with contracting and contract administration. In
addition, the session will focus on new contracting methods, identify
areas in need of improvement, provide a review of ethics/EO issues and
offer opportunities for questions and answers.

For the newly designated CORs, this three-day course will be mandatory.
It will inform participants of current policies associated with
contractor selection and aspects of A/E and contract administration from
the perspective of the COR. While the training covers COR issues
government-wide, it is tailored to NPS contracting and contract
administration. In addition, the session will focus on new contracting
methods, estimating and negotiation techniques, identifying areas in
need of improvement, providing a review of ethics/EO issues and offering
opportunities for questions and answers. The course satisfies the

OMB and DOI requirements to establish a COR certification program with
at least 24 hours of initial training.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Contracting,

Estimating, Negotiating, Project Management, Problem Solving

**FUNDING:** Tuition approximately \$250; benefiting account for each
participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATORS:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration & Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center, 304-535-6402, and Dennis
Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver Service
Center, 303-987-6655

**ADMINISTRATION AND OFFICE**

**MANAGEMENT SUPPORT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Administrative Finance System, Version 3 (AFS 3)
Instructor Workshop

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Individuals who will be responsible for providing
AFS 3 training within each of their regions

**DATE:** November 2001

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This instructor workshop will train a group of
instructors to delivery AFS 3 training within their respective regions.
Hands-on computer-based training of the web-based AFS 3 to include an
overview of changes to the AFSII application and an overview of AFS 3
security. The course content includes getting started with AFS 3 by
setting up user preferences and migrating AFSII budget plans to AFS 3;
conducting financial tracking using account, labor detail, and
document-based queries and reports; and using the commitment control
register; creating and maintaining a master budget plan and "what if"
scenarios; performing budget plan administrative duties such as
archiving/retrieving, copying to new fiscal year, and merging "what if"
plans to master plans; and linking programmed and expended dollars to
GPRA goals. This workshop will also contain one day of "Effective
Presentation Skills" training.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Budget and Finance

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Training and Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration
and Office Management Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,
304-535-6402

**EVENT TITLE:** Administrative Finance System, Version 3 (AFS 3)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Individuals who are responsible for inputting data
into and maintaining records in AFS 3

**DATE:** TBD---Scheduled by Lead instructors in each of the regions

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Hands-on computer-based training of the web-based
AFS 3 to include an overview of changes to the AFSII application and an
overview of AFS 3 security. The course content includes getting started
with AFS 3 by setting up user preferences and migrating AFSII budget
plans to AFS 3; conducting financial tracking using account, labor
detail, and document based queries and reports; and using the commitment
control register; creating and maintaining a master budget plan and
"what if" scenarios; performing budget plan administrative duties such
as archiving/retrieving, copying to new fiscal year, and merging "what
if" plans to master plans; and linking programmed and expended dollars
to GPRA goals.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Budget and Finance

**FUNDING:** Tuition; Benefiting Account for participant's travel and
per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration
and Office Management Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,
304-535-6402

**CULTURAL RESOURCES**

[]{#b-1 .anchor}**STEWARDSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Introduction to the National Historic Preservation Act

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Designated Park Section 106 Coordinators, Park
Chiefs of Resource Management, Facility Managers/Chiefs of Maintenance,
Cultural Resources Program Managers, Integrated Resources Program
Managers, and other NPS staff who have responsibilities in overseeing,
advising on/or carrying out park Section 106 processes

**DATE:** (3 Offerings): Fall 2001

Spring 2002

Winter 2002

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia, Locations TBD for Midwest Region and Southeast Region

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This three-day introductory (basic) course
provides introductory training on compliance with Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. The training
focuses on the basic requirements of Section 106 and Section 110, and
how they serve to protect historic properties; on how Section 106 is
implemented in parks under 36 CFR Part 800 regulations issued by the
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, and the current nationwide
programmatic agreement specific to the National Park Service; and on how
to coordinate Section 106 review with park planning processes and
operations.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry and Developmental Performance Levels:
Preservation Law, Philosophy, and Practice; Preservation, Treatment, and
Maintenance; and Program and Project Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funding supports course costs; benefiting
account pays participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tony Knapp, Training Manager, Cultural Resources Stewardship, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6178

**EVENT TITLE:** Cultural Resources Protection and Fire Management
Planning

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Park cultural and natural resources management
staff and fire management officers; other park staff with wildfire
management responsibilities; and State Historic Preservation Officers
and State Tribal Historic Preservation Officers and staffs with
responsibility for case review of park fire activity undertakings

**DATE:** January 21--25, 2002

**LOCATION:** Western Archaeological and Conservation Center, Tucson,
Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This four-day interdisciplinary training course
stresses evaluating fire effects on cultural resources & the cooperative
rewriting of fire management plans. The course provides knowledge &
skills on program development with National Environmental Protection Act
(NEPA) and National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) compliance
achieved; cooperative implementation of joint actions in wildfire
emergencies & in NPS fire management decisions; protection of
known/suspected cultural resources before fire events; the effects of
wildfire management, hazard fuel reduction projects, and fire research
methods upon cultural resources; achieving fire program goals with
minimal impact; & developing teams of local staff members for mutual
assistance and support in emergencies.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry & Developmental Performance Levels:
Professional Discipline, Preservation Law, Philosophy, and Practice;
Preservation, Treatment, and Maintenance, Program and Project
Management, and Writing and Communications

**CULTURAL RESOURCES**

**STEWARDSHIP**

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Funds supports course costs; benefiting
account pays participants' travel and per diem (Note: Pacific West
Region FIREPRO Funds provides funding to defray participants' travel
costs)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tony Knapp, Training Manager, Cultural Resources Stewardship, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center, 304-535-6178

**EVENT TITLE:** Preserving the Cultural Landscapes of Seaport
Communities

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** NPS and non-NPS Historians, Ethnographers,
Historical Landscape Architects, Interpreters, Community and
Interpretative Planners, Cultural and Natural Resource Specialists

**DATE:** September 2002

**LOCATION:** Coastal Massachusetts

(specific site TBD)

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This will be the second part of a three-year
workshop series begun in Nantucket in FY99. The first year focused on
the identification and inventory of cultural landscapes in coastal
communities. This training event will focus on the analysis and
significance of cultural landscapes in seaport communities. This
workshop will focus on coastal New England efforts to revitalize
historic seafaring communities through development programs and heritage
tourism; identification and protection of significant cultural resources
that are an integral part of a community\'s sense of place; examination
of the significance of landscape features and associated cultural groups
and practices; and providing a working knowledge of the methodologies of
cultural landscape preservation.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry and Developmental Performance Levels:
Professional Discipline, Preservation, Law, Philosophy, and Practices,
Research and Inventory, Preservation, Treatment, and Maintenance, and
Writing and Communications

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funding and non-NPS participant tuition
support workshop costs; benefiting account pays participants\' travel
and per diem.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tony Knapp, Training Manager, Cultural Resources Stewardship, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6178

**EVENT TITLE:** Introduction to Automated National Catalog System Plus
(ANCS+)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Curators, Museum Specialists, Museum Technicians,
Archives Specialists, Archives Technicians, Archivists, Contract
Catalogers, and park staff who have museum responsibilities as a
collateral duty

**LOCATION:** TBD

**DATE:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This three-day, hands-on course provides
participants with a basic knowledge of and skills in using ANCS+. It
prepares the participant to accession and catalog cultural resources and
natural history records into ANCS+, to create supplemental records in
ANCS+, to create quick reports and access and use the NPS forms and
reports in ANCS+, to create records in the associated modules in ANCS+,
to use ANCS+ to complete the Collections Management Report, Automated
Inventory Program, and Automated Checklist Program, to use ANCS+ to
search collection data to understand the interrelationship between
archives and the collection management program, and to use ANCS+ to
produce GPRA-related reports.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry and Developmental Performance Levels:
Professional Discipline, and Research and Inventory---Documentation

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account pays

participants' travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tony Knapp, Training Manager, Cultural Resources Stewardship, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6178

**CULTURAL RESOURCES**

**STEWARDSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Critical Issues in History Education

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Historians, Interpreters', Education Specialists,
Park Planners, and Exhibit Designers, and Program Managers in parks and
support offices who are responsible for historical research and/or
historical interpretation/education programs in parks

**DATE:** Summer 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This two and a half-day seminar provides an
interdisciplinary overview of scholarship and historiography (historical
methods, literature, and points of scholarly debate) related to a
specific historical topic/theme of current concern to a significant
number of parks, and illuminates ways to use the best of current
historical scholarship within NPS park interpretative and education
programs. Participants will discuss and share information about issues
in the public presentation and interpretation of the seminar topic. The
seminar focuses on the implications of "new" fields of historical
scholarship for research and interpretation, including the intersections
of "traditional" political and military history with social, cultural,
and economic history; the interpretation of sites in broad contexts,
using the NPS thematic framework and the "compelling stories" concept;
and issues of commemoration and historical memory at National Park
Service sites.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry, Developmental, and Full Performance
Levels: Professional Discipline, Research and Inventory, Writing and
Communication

**FUNDING:** NPS History and Education Program funding supports some of
the seminar costs; benefiting account pays

participants' travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tony Knapp, Training Manager, Cultural Resources Stewardship, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center, 304-535-6178

[]{#c .anchor}**FIRE & AVIATION MANAGEMENT**

For a complete listing of all Fire & Aviation Management events, please
refer to the NPS FIRENET Website at www.fire.nps.gov. There you will
find training schedules and information for Wild Fire, Structure Fire
and Aviation. You may also contact Merrie Johnson, Training Manager, at
208-387-5224.

[]{#d .anchor}**HISTORIC PRESERVATION SKILLS & CRAFTS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Preservation and Skills Training (PAST) Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Maintenance

employees, WG-3-7

**DATE:** November 2001

**LOCATION:** Historic Preservation Training Center, Frederick, Maryland
and park units

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** During this two-year program participants receive
basic instruction in carpentry, masonry, and/or painting and will
develop preservation skills in one trade to the apprentice or
intermediate level. Group training sessions will be held out of the park
at approximately six-month intervals. During the remaining months, a
mentor will work in the trainee's park to provide hands on instruction
on repairing and maintaining park historic structures. Participants
complete a total of 640 hours of training during the two-year period.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Preservation Skills, Preservation Philosophy,
Safety, and Trade Skills

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funds for course costs; benefiting account
for

participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

**EVENT TITLE:** Striking a Balance: Preserving the Interface Between
Historic Buildings and Landscapes

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Historical maintenance persons, preservation
gardeners, carpenters, painters, maintenance workers, masons, tractor
operators, horticulturists, ground workers

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Yosemite National Park, California

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This workshop will focus on integrated approaches
to preservation maintenance and construction projects to ensure that
both historic buildings and cultural landscape features are properly
considered and protected. The workshop will emphasise a
multi-disciplinary approach to problem solving so that site managers and
maintenance staff develop additional knowledge about the property-wide
considerations of a maintenance or construction project. The workshop
will emphasise preservation issues that are common to many historic
properties, including, maintenance practices that affect multiple
resources, site protection, and construction mitigation, preserving both
structures and adjacent vegetation, and managing water and drainage.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Knowledge of Discipline, Preservation Law,
Philosophy, and Practice, Preservation Skills, Trade Skills, Risk
Management, and Project Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funds for course costs; benefiting account
for participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

**EVENT TITLE:** Protecting and Maintaining Urban Historic Landscapes

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Maintenance workers, masons, trail crews, road
crews, grounds worker, etc., historical landscape architects,
preservation horticulturists, and landscape preservation specialists

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco,
California

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This workshop will identify challenges like
choosing the right plant for the right place; alleviating/preventing
soil compaction; managing the urban forest; reducing storm water runoff;
and developing and implementing efficient and proper horticultural
maintenance techniques. Management/maintenance techniques presented will
instruct participants how to minimise threats to the resource while
still maintaining the historic character of the place. An integrated
approach to preservation maintenance, repair, and new construction
projects will be presented, stressing appropriate protection for the
historic resource.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Knowledge of Discipline, Preservation Law,
Philosophy and Practice, Preservation Skills, Trade Skills, and Project
Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funds for course costs; benefiting account
for participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

**HISTORIC PRESERVATION SKILLS & CRAFTS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Preservation Worker Safety Issues

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Maintenance

employees, all grades

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Historic Preservation Training Center, Frederick, Maryland

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course introduces participants to safety
hazards they would be exposed to while working on historic structures.
Participants will also learn how to prevent on-the-job injury and
illness. Topics to be covered include: hazard awareness, fall
protection, rigging/shoring, scaffolding, use of fire extinguishers,
lead paint awareness, and confined spaces.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Safety and Workplace Hazards

**FUNDING:** Tuition is \$350 to cover course costs; benefiting account
for participant\'s travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

**EVENT TITLE:** Preservation Woodcrafting (two-to-four courses)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Carpenters, Woodcrafters, and Exhibits Specialists

who want to increase their trade skills

**DATE:** Summer and Fall 2002

**LOCATION:** Historic Preservation Training Center Shop, Frederick,
Maryland

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** During this workshop, participants will have the
opportunity to learn how to use modern woodworking machinery and hand
tools safely and proficiently, to read historic tool marks and to
describe the sequence in which activities occurred to create wood
elements, and to create and use historic woodworking tools such as
smooth planes, match planes, bead planes, spokeshaves, etc.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Preservation Skills, Trade Skills, and Shop
Safety

**FUNDING:** Tuition is \$800 to cover course costs; benefiting account
for participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

**EVENT TITLE:** Introduction to Historic Preservation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Maintenance employees at all grade levels, Exhibits
Specialists, Preservation Specialists, Facility Managers, and all
supervisors at the entry level

**DATE:** Fall 2002

**LOCATION:** Historic Preservation Training Center, Frederick, Maryland

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This training course provides an introduction to
the NPS cultural resource management guidelines and policies and to the
day-to-day tasks of historic building maintenance. Topics include:
history of the preservation movement, National Historic Preservation Act
of 1966, application of the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for
the Treatment of Historic Properties, reading a building, determining
architectural styles, and identifying character-defining elements.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Preservation Laws, Philosophy, and Practices

**FUNDING:** Tuition is \$400 to cover course costs; benefiting account
for participant's travel and per diem.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206 ext.101

**HISTORIC PRESERVATION SKILLS & CRAFTS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Preservation Work Assignment Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Maintenance

employees, all grade levels

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Historic Preservation Training Center, Frederick, Maryland
and project sites

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The purpose of this program is to allow the
maintenance employee to develop new skills and abilities in order to
become a more versatile preservation worker. Working on historic
preservation projects throughout the National Park System, participants
will acquire basic skills and abilities in the use of tools and trade
skills during closely supervised on-the-job project assignments.
Participants will be assigned to projects based on their developmental
goals.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Preservation Skills, Trade Skills, and Safety

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account for participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dorothy Printup, Training Manager, Historic Preservation Skills and
Crafts, Historic Preservation Training Center, 301-663-8206, ext.101

Contact Training Manager Will Brimberry at 202-565-1028 for additional
information.

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## Computer-Based Training

The National Park Service (NPS) offers computer-based training (CBT), an
"anytime, anywhere" distance learning approach to employee development
and education. CBT delivery takes advantage of internet technology.
NETg, the CBT provider selected by the NPS, is the largest
computer-based training vendor in the market.

As part of the license, an employee can take advantage of any one NETg
course offering or all 550 training course titles. The category of
subjects includes Information Technology (IT), Desktop Computing,
Process Management, Project Management, and Business and Personal
Skills. As an example, the Desktop Computer offerings include courses
like the Microsoft Office 97 products (MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and
MS Access), other word processing, spreadsheets, and graphic software.
In addition to the technical courses, there are business writing &
communication courses, negotiation training, leadership, meeting
presentation, EEO, team building, and much more. As the NPS moves to
Lotus Notes, training will be available through this computer-based
training program. NETg's web site offers an up-to-date listing and
descriptions of all available courses (http://www.wbtrain.com). Many of
the courses offer GED and college accreditation.

How To Apply For A CBT License

These computer-based training licenses are distributed through the
Regional Employee Development Officers (EDO). NPS employees will
download the training modules to their personal computer. For an
employee to access the CBT server, they must have an account ID and
password. User support is provided by 800 telephone and e-mail services.
If you have questions regarding NPS computer-based training, contact
your EDO, Career Field Training Manager, or NPS Training Center.

[]{#f .anchor}**INTAKE TRAINEE PROGRAM**

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals II for New Employees: Why We're Here

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Class 2003

**DATES:** October 29--November 9, 2001

**LOCATION:** Grand Canyon, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This two-week

residential experience instils a personal connection between the
employee and the NPS Mission. Modules address resource stewardship,
interpersonal communication skills, fundamental values, personal
responsibility and leadership, and NPS operations.
Pre-requisites---Fundamentals I: History and Mission: Local Orientation;
A Virtual Tour of Government; NPS Recreation and Preservation Programs
(web-based training).

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Resource Stewardship, NPS
Operations, Fundamental Values, Communication Skills, Problem-Solving
Skills

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cindy Nielsen, Site Coordinator, Horace M. Albright Training Center,

928-638-7980

**INTAKE TRAINEE PROGRAM**

**EVENT TITLE:** Communication Skills Workshop

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees,

Class 2003

**DATE:** February 2002 (specific dates TBD)

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Intakes participate in an intensive speaking and
writing enhancement workshop with both pre- and post-training
assessments. Participants also learn unique personal skills necessary in
the new "information age."

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Communications

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Bonacorda, Intake Employee Development Specialist, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6216

**EVENT TITLE:** Technology Seminar

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Class 2003

**DATE:** Spring 2002 (specific dates TBD)

**LOCATION:** Shepherdstown, West Virginia

**EVENT DESCRITPION:** Examines use and applications of computer
technology

both within and outside the agency. Comprehensive review of NPS
hardware, software, and telecommunication standards

and capabilities will be discussed and demonstrated.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Agency Orientation, NPS Operations

Communication Skills, Problem-Solving Skills

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Bonacorda, Intake Employee Development Specialist, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6216

**EVENT TITLE:** Government Operations Institute

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Class 2003

**DATES:** Spring 2002 (specific dates TBD)

**LOCATION:** Washington, D.C.

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Participants gain a greater appreciation and
understanding of the American political system, the role of the NPS in
this system, and the responsibility of each employee in the agency's

governmental context.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Agency Orientation,
Fundamental Values, NPS Operations, Communication Skills

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Bonacorda, Intake Employee Development Specialist, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6216

**INTAKE TRAINEE PROGRAM**

**EVENT TITLE:** Orientation to the Intake Trainee Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees and Supervisors, Class 2004

**DATE:** August 2002 (specific dates TBD)

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Program expectations, initiation of an Individual
Development Plan, and establishment of performance standards are the
focus of the event.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Individual Development and Planning, Fundamental
Values, NPS Operations, Communication Skills

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Bonacorda, Intake Employee Development Specialist, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6216

**EVENT TITLE:** The New Leader

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Class 2004

**DATES:** August 2002 (specific dates TBD)

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Interactive event which explores ways to increase
personal accountability, identifying values and linking them to goals
and objectives, developing effective customer relations, improving
communication skills, and establishing teambuilding processes.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Fundamental Values, Communication Skills,
Problem-Solving Skills

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Bonacorda, Intake Employee Development Specialist, Stephen T.
Mather Training Center,

304-535-6216

**EVENT TITLE:** Technology Enhanced Learning Incentive Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Class 2003 & 2004

**DATE:** Duration of Intake Program

**LOCATION:** Distance Learning Technology, various sites

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This incentive fund is available to Intake
Trainees to facilitate use of various distance learning technologies in
order to meet identified essential competencies. Learning strategies may
include satellite, CD-ROM, Internet, or other delivery systems. Specific
guidance in applying for the fund is provided to all Intake Trainees and
their supervisors at the Orientation to the Intake Program event.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Potentially all Universal and Career Field
Competencies

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Chris Perry, Training Manager, Intake Trainee Program, Stephen T. Mather
Training Center,

304-535-6215

**INTAKE TRAINEE PROGRAM**

**EVENT TITLE:** Career Field Base Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees,

Class 2003 & 2004

**DATE:** Duration of Intake Program

**LOCATION:** Dependent on most cost-effective location

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Each Intake Trainee is provided a base and
supplemental funding authorisation in support of career-field training.
Allocations are determined through the development of an Individual
Development Plan. Competency assessments are used whenever possible and
training methods are determined using the most cost-effective strategy.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Each trainee's assigned career field

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Chris Perry, Training Manager, Intake Trainee Program, Stephen T. Mather
Training Center,

304-535-6215

**EVENT TITLE:** Intake Special Applications Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Intake Trainees, Intake Class 2003 & 2004

**DATE:** Duration of Intake Program

**LOCATION:** Dependent on most cost-effective location

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Intake trainees may apply to the Special
Application Fund for needs in support of approved Task Team or

Final Project assignments. Requests that leverage benefits to the host
site or a Servicewide application receive first consideration.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Varies

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Chris Perry, Training Manager, Intake Trainee Program, Stephen T. Mather
Training Center,

304-535-6215

**EVENT TITLE:** Intake Supervisor Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Supervisors of Intake Trainees, Class 2003 & 2004

**DATE:** Duration of Intake Program

**LOCATION:** Dependent on most

cost-effective location

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Intake supervisors are provided a stipend for
developmental opportunities in support of their leadership

development. This fund may also be used to assist supervisors in
developing their competencies in the same career field as the Intake
they supervise.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Supervision, Management & Leadership, Various
Career Fields

**FUNDING:** Intake Trainee Program

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Chris Perry, Training Manager, Intake Trainee Program, Stephen T. Mather
Training Center,

304-535-6215

[]{#g .anchor}**INTERPRETATION, EDUCATION, & COOPERATING ASSOCIATIONS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Essential Competencies in Interpretation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Field Park Rangers, Partner Employees, others doing
interpretative, education, and informational work in NPS sites

**DATE:** Ongoing throughout fiscal year

**LOCATION:** TBD by regions and instructor teams based on needs

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Informal Visitor Contacts, Interpretative Talks,
Illustrated Programs, Conducted Activities, Interpretative Writing,
Curriculum-Based Programs, Interpretative Planning, Interpretative Media
Development, Interpretative Training and Coaching, and Research and
Resource Liaison

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Entry Level, Developmental Level, Full
Performance Level Competencies

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** TBD on regional or local level

**EVENT TITLE:** Applied Principles of Interpretation for Supervisors
(title subject to change)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Front-line Interpretative Supervisors, Park
Partners who supervise interpretation in NPS areas.

**DATE:** Ongoing throughout fiscal year

**LOCATION:** TBD by regions and instructor teams based on needs

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Elements of effective interpretation; how these
elements affect interpretation's contribution to the NPS Mission, and
how they are related to individual professional development of
front-line staff.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Effective Interpretation, Coaching, Staff
Development

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** TBD on regional or local level.

**EVENT TITLE:** Curriculum Coordinator/Certifier Workshop

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Field professional interpreters who will be
required to demonstrate competency at a national standard after
completing the workshop. Professionals from other organizations who have
a demonstrated intent to emulate or assist this professional development
program.

**DATE:** January 28--February 8, 2002

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This workshop will enhance each participant's
understanding of the standards and effective elements of interpretation
as defined in the Interpretative Development Program; time will be
devoted to the certification process, including recognising critical
elements of effective interpretation; articulating verbally and in
writing those elements, and practising reviews of a series of typical
field products to assure consistency in application of the standards. A
practicum will be required to demonstrate certification standards before
becoming a certifier in this program.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Elements of Effective Interpretation, Personal
Writing and Speaking Skills

# FUNDING**:** Servicewide account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dave Dahlen, Training Manager, Interpretation, Education & Cooperating
Associations, Stephen T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6215

**INTERPRETATION, EDUCATION, & COOPERATING ASSOCIATIONS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Interpretation Leadership Seminar

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Chiefs of Interpretation; Chief Rangers responsible
for interpretation; Managers of Partner Organizations responsible for
interpretative services in NPS and partner sites

**DATE:** Spring or Summer 2002

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Seminar approach will address sensitive issues,
multiple perspectives, professional development opportunities for staff,
interpretative leadership, effective elements of interpretation, and
meeting the NPS Mission through interpretation.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Technical Elements of Interpretative Leadership,
Effective Elements of Interpretation, Multiple Perspectives

**FUNDING:** TBD

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Corky Mayo, Chief, Interpretation WASO, 202-565-1050

**EVENT TITLE:** Developing and Implementing Comprehensive
Interpretative Plans (CIP)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Field Interpretative Managers and Supervisors;
Field Interpreters with responsibility to develop and implement CIPs at
their sites.

**DATE:** Summer 2002

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Workshop will introduce the three components of
CIPs and provide participants with practical, hands-on activities and
presentations to enable them to select the best method and strategy to
develop and implement their own plans. Experts in the planning process,
interpretation, funding sources, and other specialists will present
sessions.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Interpretative Planning, Media Development,
Facilitating Plan Development

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** TBD

**EVENT TITLE**: Operating NPS Cooperating Associations (title subject
to change)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** NPS and Cooperating Association Managers
responsible for developing common goals and vision for the partnership
between organizations.

**DATE:** Summer 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course will address policies, guidelines,
best practices, and other topics essential to successful partnerships
between NPS and associations.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Implementing Policies, Partnerships, Setting
Common Goals and Vision, Organizational Communications

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** TBD

[]{#h .anchor}**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** National Park Service Ranger Law Enforcement Training
Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Mandatory for NPS Rangers (025) to be certified as
a permanent, Type I, commissioned Law Enforcement Officer.

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This intensive basic law enforcement training has
been especially developed for the NPS and is designed to meet the
legislated mandatory basic training requirement of Park Rangers in order
to begin operating at the developmental and then progress to the
journeyman level. This program also integrates an
orientation/introduction to the NPS, which provides a grounding in NPS
mission, history, tradition, vision, and the role that law enforcement
plays in meeting its goals.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission and Resources, Laws and Regulations, Law
Enforcement Skills, Jurisdiction and Authority

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

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**EVENT TITLE:** Law Enforcement for Managers

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Superintendents and Regional Managers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is intended to familiarise field and
regional managers, who have the responsibility for law enforcement
operations in their area, with Federal law including environmental,
natural and cultural resource protection, as well as authority and
jurisdiction. In addition, participants will be provided with current
information on law enforcement training civil liability and DOI and NPS
policies and procedures.

This course is designated as a Special Initiative Training Program
determined by the Director and Associate Director for Operations &
Education.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Crime Vulnerability, Planning for Law Enforcement
Events, Law Enforcement Role and Function, Potential Liabilities

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Criminal Investigators Conference

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Criminal Investigators, Special Agents, and LE
Specialists

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is an in-depth study of enforcement
concepts and techniques. The curriculum is frequently revised to stay
abreast of the changing needs of the NPS. Participants are provided the
specific information and skills training necessary to equip them for
actual job performance in law enforcement and investigation.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Advanced Investigative Techniques, Electronic
Device Utilisation, Computer Usage, External and Internal Regulations

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Basic Criminal Investigator Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers designated to be 1811 Criminal
Investigators or L.E. Specialists

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is an in-depth study of law
enforcement concepts and techniques. Participants are provided the
specific information and skills training necessary to equip them for
actual job performance in law enforcement and investigations.

This course is mandatory for any NPS employee designated as 1811
Criminal Investigators.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Interviewing, Case Work, Federal Laws, Security

**FUNDING:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Special Operations Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers to be assigned to Special Events
Teams and those assigned high drug-trafficking areas

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Ajo, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is designed for personnel who are
directly involved in special law enforcement operations in NPS areas. It
is intended for those actually performing special enforcement field
duties such as: counter-narcotics, anti-poaching operations concerning
wildlife and native plants, as well as investigating ARPA/PALEO resource
violations.

This course is mandatory for any NPS Ranger to be assigned to Special
Events Teams.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Survival, Surveillance, Counter Measures,
Weaponry

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Defensive Tactics Instructor Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers assigned to instruct defensive
tactics

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This is an advanced program in which students are
trained in the methodology of psychomotor skills development, defensive
tactics, impact weapons, OC spray, and arrest techniques at the
instructor level. The following areas are covered: Use of Force Model,
Classroom Management, Warm-up and Flexibility Exercises, Injury
Prevention Management, Legal Ramifications and Implications,
Establishing and Maintaining Agency Specific Non-Lethal Training,
Establishing an Evaluation Process.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Basic Instructor Techniques, Classroom
Management, Liability Issues, Use-of-Force Model

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Firearms Instructor

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers designated as a Firearms Instructor

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program provides a specific curriculum of
training that addresses the needs and requirements of instructors who
will serve as the point of authority in the safe conduct of the agency's
firearms training and qualification programs.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Weapon Nomenclature, Range Management,
Instructional Techniques, Shooting Skills

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Physical Fitness Coordinator Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers that want to be certified as a
Physical Fitness Coordinator

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is designed to present the
participant with information in the area of health, physical fitness
assessment and conditioning, program management, basic anatomy and
physiology, exercise leadership, and injury prevention.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Physiological Dynamics, Instructor Techniques,
Conditioning and Testing Equipment, Injury Prevention

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Archaeological Resource Protection Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Archaeologist and Permanent Type I Rangers

**DATE:** TBD (6) courses per year

**LOCATIONS:** Various, TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program

identifies the need for the team concept for archaeological resource
crime scene investigation. Subjects covered include collecting and
trafficking networks, archaeological crime scene investigation, site
analysis, prevention, case studies, and field practical exercises are
covered in the program.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Investigative Techniques, Federal Law, State Law,
Basic Archaeology

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Firearms Instructor Refresher Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Currently Certified Firearms Instructor

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program updates active firearms' instructors
with current methodologies, policies, and procedures. The program is
designed to introduce and discuss contemporary firearm trends, tactics,
and techniques. The students are required to develop a dynamic course of
fire, demonstrate instructor skills, and successfully complete all
course objectives through hands-on participation.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Advanced Course Development, Dynamic
Instructional Methods, Safe Practical Exercise Design, Use-of-Force
Continuum

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Advanced Physical Security Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is designed to provide an in-depth
knowledge of physical security systems and procedures. Subjects included
are: Vulnerability, Prevention Theory, Application and Protection.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Security, Monitoring, Planning, Assessment

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Criminal Investigations in an Automated Environment

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers and 1811 Investigators

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Intensive training introduces participants to the
principles and techniques governing the acquisition of computer data
files during the course of an investigation, and the subsequent search
and seizure of computer-related equipment and its analysis. Students are
also exposed to legal issues and investigative techniques in requesting
computer files with emphasis directly relating toward all computer
equipment.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Advanced Computer Usage, Investigative
Techniques: Data Retrieval, Laws and Regulations, Partnerships with
other Agencies

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Driver Instructor Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Designed to train instructors in all phases of
law enforcement driver training subject matter emphasis on principles
and techniques employed in driver response, skid control, nonemergency
driving, and vehicle dynamics. The proper development and presentation
of driver training curriculum is emphasised.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Instructional Techniques, Safety Concerns,
Vehicle Dynamics, Course Development

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Environmental Crimes Investigations

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers and Criminal Investigators

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The training course implements several objectives
of the "Vail Agenda" addressing resources stewardship and partnerships.
This course will provide skills in the application of key environmental
laws and their enforcement to criminal situations. Environmental crimes
cover the full range of illegal discharges, dumping, and emission of
pollutants. Types of threats encountered by parks are: mining
operations, dumping of tires and batteries, illegal taking of migratory
birds resulting from cyanide poisoning, improper disposal of hazardous
and other solid waste, ocean dumping of garbage and medical waste, and
emission of air pollutants which exceed permit limitations.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Developing Partnerships, Federal and State Laws,
Safety, Investigative Techniques

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** Advanced Interviewing Training Program

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Type I Rangers and 1811 Criminal Investigators

**DATES:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, Glynco, Georgia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program will teach the participants how to
obtain information effectively through a multidisciplinary approach that
combines linguistics, psychology, criminology, and sociology with the
principles of influence, negotiation, and bargaining.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Behavioural Recognition, Cognitive, Legal
Considerations, Persuasion

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**LAW ENFORCEMENT AND RESOURCE PROTECTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** BASIC PEER SUPPORT (Critical Incident Stress
Management)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** NPS Employees from all disciplines

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Various Locations

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program is designed to develop peer
counselling techniques for employees to serve in their parks and local
area on critical incident management teams and within employee
assistance programs.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Listening Skills, Stress Indicators, People
Skills, Diffusion Techniques

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

[]{#i .anchor}**MAINTENANCE**

**EVENT TITLE:** Maintenance Worker Skills Funds

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Non-supervisory maintenance employees

**DATE:** From date of award through September 30, 2002

**LOCATION:** Local

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This offering consists of two scholarship
Programs: 1) for front line employees in the maintenance ranks and 2)
for groups of maintenance employees to initiate cluster-based training.
Grants may be used for correspondence courses, for per diem and travel
to work with other facilities where new skills or technologies are in
use, for training opportunities in the private sector, local
Vocational/Technical School, etc. The group fund facilitates
motor-skills development through project work with students from cluster
parks under the guidance of a senior craftsperson. The group fund
historically has enabled clusters to import training to a central
location instead of funding employee travel to the training site.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Any and all can be addressed.

**FUNDING:** Both scholarship funds require a match of dollars or
in-kind services

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Steve Hastings, Training Manager, Maintenance, Horace M. Albright
Training Center, 520-638-7986

**EVENT TITLE:** Department of the Interior Safety of Dams

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Any employee with responsibility for managing dams
and other water impoundments

**DATE:** Spring, 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This annual gathering will provide Maintenance
workers, resource management specialists, engineers, and supervisors
with updates on changes in the dam safety programs of the Federal
Government.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Risk Management

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** BOR Dam Safety Office, contact 303-445-2765 for
current information and registration materials.

**MAINTENANCE**

**EVENT TITLE:** Seminar on the Safety Examination of Existing Dams
(SEED)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Regional, Support Office, and Park Facility
Managers; Maintenance Workers; Resource Specialists; Rangers; and
Emergency Operations and Dams Program Coordinators who are responsible
for managing NPS dams or monitoring non-NPS dams

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This four-to-five day seminar is designed and
given by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to provide NPS personnel with
the basic knowledge needed to examine dams and appurtenances for defects
in accordance with Departmental Manual Part 753, "Dam Safety Program"
and NPS Special Directive 87-4. Training is required every two years for
this program. Emphasis is given on small embankment dams. One day is
spent at a nearby small embankment dam, performing an examination.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Risk Management, Maintenance Program Management,
Inventory & Condition Assessment

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mr. Bill Bouley,

303-445-2740, Bureau of Reclamation;

or WASO Dams Program Officer,

Charles Karpowicz, 202-565-1249

Internet sites:

FOR SEMINAR: http://www.usbr.gov/dsis/trn_domestic.html

FOR TRAINING: http://www.usbr.gov/dsis/training.html

**EVENT TITLE:** On-site Training at Park in Conjunction with Formal
Examinations by Bureau of Reclamation Examiner

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Regional, Support Office, and Park Facility
Managers; Maintenance Workers; Resource Specialists; Rangers; and
Emergency Operations and Dam Safety Program Coordinators who are
responsible for managing NPS dams or monitoring non-NPS dams

**DATE:** Scheduled concurrently, with

periodic formal examinations

**LOCATION:** On Site

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This two- to three-hour session is provided by
the Bureau of Reclamation examiner at the park to give NPS personnel
basic knowledge of what critical features and operations to observe at
dams. Emphasis is given on small embankment dams and specific issues
affecting the park.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Risk Management, Maintenance Program Management,
Inventory & Condition Assessment

**FUNDING:** Free service during scheduled inspection

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** WASO Dam Safety Program Officer, Charles
Karpowicz,

202-565-1249

REFERENCE: http://www.nps.gov/training/mnt.htm

**EVENT TITLE:** Training Aids for Dam Safety (TADS)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Regional, Support Office, & Park Facility Managers;
Maintenance Workers; Resource Specialists; Rangers; and Emergency
Operations & Dam Safety Program Coordinators who are responsible for
managing NPS dams or monitoring non-NPS dams.

**DATE:** Any time

**LOCATION:** On Site

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** TADS are self-paced training modules with
workbooks and video tapes (standard VHS format) about the management of
dams and can be used at any location. Currently 23 modules have been
distributed and multiple sets are available at each Regional and Support
Office (two sets with Employee Development Officer and one set with Dams
Program Coordinator). They are available on a loan basis. The following
TADS Modules are available:

Interim Learner's Guide

Preparation for an Inspection

Documenting Inspection Findings

Embankment Dams (video tape)

Concrete and Masonry Dams (video tape)

Foundations, Abutments, and Reservoir Rims,

Spillways and Outlet Works (video tape)

Gates, Valves, and Other Mechanical Systems

(video tape)

Identification of Material Deficiencies

(video tape)

Instrumentation (video tape)

Facility Emergency Preparedness

How to Organize an Operations and

Maintenance Program

Identification of Visual Deficiencies (video tape)

How to Develop and Implement an

Emergency Action Plan (video tape)

How to Organize a Dam Safety Program

Evaluation of Hydrologic Adequacy

Evaluation of Seepage Conditions

Evaluation of Concrete Dam Stability

Evaluation of Earth Embankment

Dam Stability and Deformation

Evaluation of Hydraulic Adequacy

Dam Safety Awareness (video tape)

Dam Safety Process

Facilitator's Guide for Group Training

**MAINTENANCE**

Training Aides for Dam Safety - continued

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Risk Management, Maintenance Program Management,
Inventory & Condition Assessment

**FUNDING:** Free

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** Regional Dam Safety Program Coordinator, Regional
Employee Development Officer, or WASO Dam Safely Program Officer,
Charles Karpowicz, 202-565-1249. If sets of these modules no longer
exist in the Regional or Support offices, additional copies can be
procured by calling Betty Nagel at

303-445-2740

**EVENT TITLE:** Emergency Management Orientation Seminar

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Regional, Support Office, and Park Facility
Managers; Maintenance Workers; Resource Specialists; Rangers; Emergency
Operations Coordinators and Dam Safety Program Coordinators who are
responsible for managing NPS dams or monitoring non-NPS dams.

**DATE:** Established by park at convenient time

**LOCATION:** On Site

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Seminar is general in its approach to emergency
management.

It is primarily intended to provide very basic emergency management and
Early Warning System concepts and philosophies upon which the individual
can build future educational and actual experiences

**CORE COMPETENCES:** Risk Management, Maintenance Program Management,
Inventory & Condition Assessment

**FUNDING:** Free

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Betty Nagel,

303-445-2740, Charlie Swanson,

303-445-2757, Bureau of Reclamation,

or WASO Dam Safety Officer, Charles Karpowicz, 202-565-1249

Internet sites:

EMERGENCY ORIENTATION TRAINING: http://www.usbr.gov/dsis/em_orien.html
EMERGENCY PROGRAM ASSISTANCE: http://www.usbr.gov/dsis/em_prgm_asst.html

[]{#j .anchor}**NATURAL RESOURCES STEWARSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Environmental Planning---Integrating NEPA

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Environmental Specialists, Program Managers,
Planners, Grants Administrators, Concession Managers, and
Maintenance/Facility Managers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The course provides skills, knowledge, and
related experiences in environmental planning process, analyzes, and the
legal processes. Topics include CEQ regulations, NPS responsibilities,
impacts, public involvement, documentation of a NEPA decision, and legal
issues and the integration with other laws, policies, and orders.
Director's Order No. 12 will be emphasized.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Planning and Compliance, Project and Program
Management, Resource Stewardship

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account for course costs; benefiting
account for

participant travel/per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Bob Karotko, Training Manager, Natural Resources Stewardship, Horace M.
Albright Training Center, 520-638-7988

**NATURAL RESOURCES**

**STEWARDSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Integrated Pest Management

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Regional, SO, Cluster, and Park IPM Coordinators;
Maintenance Chiefs; Cultural Resource Program Managers; Concession
Program Managers, and employees seeking certification or

re-certification

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Horace M. Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This highly informative 36-hour course addresses
the principles and techniques of IPM. Using the 9-step IPM process,
students will learn through a combination of lectures, demonstrations,
hands-on exercises, and labs. Participants will be able to determine the
best management strategies for immediate and long-term pest management
and will be able to prepare an IPM Plan.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Scientific Knowledge, Scientific Methods Project
and Program Management, Resource Stewardship

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account for course costs; benefiting
account for participant travel/per diem.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Bob Karotko, Training Manager, Natural Resources Stewardship, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7988

**EVENT TITLE:** Fundamentals for Natural Resources Management

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Natural Resource Management/Technical Specialists
with a

Masters Degree and less than five years of NPS work experience in a
natural resource program.

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Horace M. Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** An intensive five-week course to enhance the
academic training of new employees in their professional natural
resource positions. The course addresses the entry-level natural
resource competencies and provides knowledge specific to the
implementation of natural and cultural resource programs. It further
introduces new employees to NEPA, law, policy, research, recreation
resources protection, and operations. Participants are also introduced
to identifying Vital Signs of the Ecosystem, writing grant proposals,
and an understanding of the budget and the planning processes.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Resource Stewardship, Planning and Compliance
Professional Credibility, Communication

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account for course costs; benefiting
account for participant travel/per diem.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** Bob Karotko, Training Manager, Natural Resources
Stewardship, Horace M. Albright Training Center,

928-638-7988

**EVENT TITLE:** Scholarship Fund for Technical Natural Resource
Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Natural Resource Management/Technical Specialists

**DATE:** Awarded throughout FY 2002

**LOCATION:** Various Locations

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This scholarship fund is used to provide
additional training in specific natural resource management topics
offered by other federal/state agencies, by colleges and universities,
or the private sector. Each scholarship awarded is to cover tuition.
Each award is indispensable in promoting interagency training
opportunities and encouraging natural resource employees to seek advance
training outside of the NPS.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Resources Stewardship, Planning and Compliance,
Professional Credibility, Communication

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account for tuition; benefiting account for
participant

travel/per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:** Bob Karotko, Training Manager, Natural Resources
Stewardship, Horace M. Albright Training Center,

928-638-7988

[]{#k .anchor}**ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Managing a Diverse Workforce

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Managers and Supervisors

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** A workshop that helps the manager and supervisor
identify ways and means to recruit and retain a diverse workforce. It
will help the manager/ supervisor to understand why a diverse workforce
is important to our mission.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Recruitment Techniques; Knowledge of Special
Hiring Authorities; How to Recognise Individual, Group, and
Organizational Barriers;

Valuing of Differences

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Samuel Fontaine, Training Manager, Organizational Development, Capital
Training Center, 202-501-8904

**EVENT TITLE:** Fundamentals of Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** New Training Managers, New Employee Development
Officers, Park and Site Training Coordinators

**DATE:** Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, West
Virginia

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This workshop focuses on teaching the new trainer
how to develop lesson plans, determine appropriate delivery methods, how
to plan and coordinate the event at a particular site, and how to make
presentations using appropriate training aides and technology
assistance.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Adult Learning Principles, Instructional Methods
and Techniques, Lesson Plan Design, Methods of Delivery

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Samuel Fontaine, Training Manager, Organizational Development, Capital
Training Center, 202-501-8904

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**PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Capital Improvement Design and Construction

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Superintendents, facility managers, project
managers, designers with current or upcoming design and constructions
projects

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD, two courses, one East Coast and one West Coast

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The four-day seminar will enhance the knowledge
and capabilities of superintendents, facility managers, project
managers, and designers in managing a broad range of capital improvement
projects. It will further emphasise the various phases of a project and
the superintendent's role and responsibilities during each of these
phases. Included will be a general overview of: NPS line item
construction program, budgeting relating to design and construction,
collaborative design approaches, charrette processes, formulation and
scope of work, project agreements, contract management, capital asset
plans, value analysis, design/construction process, construction
management and supervision and asset management

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Project Management, Decision-making, Risk
Management, Influencing, Negotiating, Decisiveness, Communication
Skills, Problem Solving, Financial Management, Management Controls and
Acquisitions

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Funds for course costs; benefiting account for
each participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dennis Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver
Service Center,

303-987-6655

**PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Choosing by Advantages (CBA)---Introduction

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All decision-makers, including park management &
staff,

facility managers, program & project managers; maintenance staff;
administrative personnel; planning, design & construction professionals
or anyone else required to make sound, defensible decisions

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD; one 24-hour course

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Choosing by Advantages in an effective
decision-making

system, often referred to as "structured common sense." The CBA process
focuses on the relative importance of advantages among alternatives. CBA
is used in many ways in NPS, e.g., in prioritising the line item
construction program, FLHP program, and in general management planning.
It is also an evaluation method for quantifying benefit in the legally
mandated value

analysis program. Used in various park and regional decision-making
scenarios, it is rapidly spreading into many other areas within NPS. CBA
responds to National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) and
Congressional concerns that cost-benefit decision-making should be
employed to ensure value in NPS construction programs. CBA is an
invaluable tool for making sound, work-related decisions.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Decision-making, Risk Management, Cost-Benefit
Analysis

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Funds for course costs; benefiting account
for each participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dennis Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver
Service Center,

303-987-6655

**EVENT TITLE:** Contracting Officer's Representative (COR)
Training---8-Hour Refresher and 24-Hour Basic Course

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Individuals who will be assigned COR duties in all
career fields

**DATE:** TBD---Eight sessions

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This three-day course will fulfil the
requirements for those needing to take the eight-hour refresher course
and for all newly designated CORs that are mandated to complete the
24-hour course. The first day will serve as an eight-hour refresher
course for participants needing to maintain the COR certification. A
refresher course must be completed every three years from the date of
the last certification. This course will inform participants of current
policies associated with contracting and contract administration. In
addition, the session will focus on new contracting methods, identify
areas in need of improvement, provide a review of ethics/EO issues and
offer opportunities for questions and answers.

For the newly designated CORs, this three-day course will be mandatory.
It will inform participants of current policies associated with
contractor selection and aspects of A/E and contract administration from
the perspective of the COR. While the training covers COR issues
government-wide, it is tailored to NPS contracting and contract
administration. In addition, the session will focus on new contracting
methods, estimating and negotiation techniques, identifying areas in
need of improvement, providing a review of ethics/EO issues and offering
opportunities for questions and answers. The course satisfies the OMB
and DOI requirements to establish a COR certification program with at
least 24 hours of initial training.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Contracting, Estimating, Negotiating, Project
Management, Problem Solving

**FUNDING:** Tuition approximately \$250; benefiting account for each
participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATORS:**

Jan Gauthier, Training Manager, Administration & Office Management
Support, Stephen T. Mather Training Center, 304-535-6402, and Dennis
Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver Service
Center, 303-987-6655.

**PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION**

**EVENT TITLE:** Cost Estimating for Construction Projects

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Park management, facility managers, maintenance
staff, planning, design, and construction professionals

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Total of three 24-hour courses; one in Denver, one on each
coast

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Current estimating techniques lack uniformity and
frequently produce inaccurate results. Considering the importance of
estimating in current project review cycle, this three-day course will
focus on methodologies and tools that can help simplify the process and
provide a variety of hands-on scoping and estimating opportunities. It
will aid the participants in grasping the big picture, conceptualizing
construction projects and their various components, and producing
accurate trackable estimates.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Data Gathering/Analysis, Estimating, Materials &
Methods, Problem-Solving

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account for each participant's travel per diem
and course tuition

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dennis Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver
Service Center,

303-987-6655

**EVENT TITLE:** Director's Order No. 2 and General Management Plans

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Planning and design professionals, park managers,
program managers, cultural and natural resource

specialists, and others who are involved in developing, reviewing, or
contributing to general management plans

**DATE:** TBD, 1 course

**LOCATION:** TBD, 1 course

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Director's Order No. 2, approved in 1998, is the
NPS guideline for conducting planning for units of the National Park
System. This three-day course provides a brief overview of the NPS
framework for interrelating general management plans (GMP), strategic
plans, implementation plans, and annual performance plans. The majority
of the course focuses on a practical, 11-step process for developing a
GMP, including methods for determining park mission, decision points,
management prescriptions, management zones, alternative concepts, and
environmental consequences. It also addresses a way to analyze and
incorporate public comments. The course closely follows the Planners
Sourcebook, the reference manual for DO-2 that participants will
receive.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Knowledge of Planning Discipline, Resource
Stewardship, Knowledge of NPS Operations, Problem-Solving Skills

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Funds for course costs; benefiting account for
each participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dennis Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver
Service Center,

303-987-6655

**EVENT TITLE:** Sustainable Applications: Planning, Design and
Construction

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Superintendents, facility managers, planners,
landscape architects, architects, engineers and other design
professional at regions and parks

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD, four courses, two days in length

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Sustainable practice is the philosophy that human
development and activity should exemplify the principles of conservation
and encourage the appreciation of those principles in daily life. This
two-day course will explore, enhance the knowledge and capabilities, and
provide practical understanding for superintendents, regional design and
planning staff and facility managers to apply sustainable practices to
capital improvement projects. It will further emphasise the direct tie
between life cycle long term maintenance and operational costs to
initial application of sustainable practices and products. After
completion of the training participants will be able to: apply U.S.
Building Council "LEED" Green Building Rating System to applicable
projects, apply sustainable principles to a broad range of facility
improvements, better utilise operational funds to achieve reductions in
life cycle cost of facilities, identify available resources and products
to support sustainable practices, and explain what sustainability is and
why it is one of the Guiding Principles for NPS.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Project Management, Decision-making, Risk
Management, Sustainability, Ecosystems Management, Financial Management,
and Problem Solving

**FUNDING:** Benefiting account for each participant's travel per diem
and course tuition

**PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION**

**EVENT TITLE**: Sustainable Applications: Planning, Design and
Construction - continued

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dennis Nagao, Training Manager, Planning, Design & Construction, Denver
Service Center, 303-987-6655

[]{#m .anchor}**RECREATION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Basic Grants Workshop

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** A basic overview for NPS staff (and State
counterparts by benefiting account) of the legal and programmatic
aspects of effective administration of grants to states pursuant to the
Land and Water Conservation Fund (L&WCF) and the Urban Parks and
Recreation Recovery Act (UPARR).

**CORE COMPENTENCIES:** All competencies for "Recreation and
Conservation Planner---Grants"

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funds for course costs; benefiting account
for each participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marilyn Gillen, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Midwest Region,

402-221-3292

**EVENT TITLE:** The Artful Facilitator

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation staff whose frequent
and/or high-stakes public meeting facilitation or public involvement
designs are job traits

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The training will provide individuals at the
developmental level with intermediate to advanced skills in facilitation
strategies, techniques, knowledge, mindset, and temperament to enable
participants to gain confidence in facilitation. The training will begin
with an assessment of the group's level of expertise and fill any gaps
to create a common toolkit of facilitation techniques. Participants will
then be exposed to increasingly challenging facilitation situations.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Public Involvement and Facilitation,
Communication Skills, Problem-solving Skills, and Public Speaking

**FUNDING:** Tuition will be paid by the Servicewide Career Field
Account; benefiting accounts to pay for travel and per diem expenses.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**RECREATION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance (RTCA) New
Staff Orientation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance new
employees

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course provides new program staff essential
grounding in the philosophical basis of the RTCA program, an overview of
its legislative authorities, and practical assistance within its
procedural requirements. A great deal of the time is devoted to learning
from colleagues about the wide range of conservation and recreation
strategies that can be undertaken and to participants sharing their
experiences with their projects to date so as to benefit from feedback
and questions by more experienced staff.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** All competencies for "Recreation and Conservation
Planner---Technical Assistance"

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account and Benefiting Account to
pay for travel and per diem expenses

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**EVENT TITLE:** Individual Employee Development Funding

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees within the Recreation and
Conservation Programs

**DATE:** Application deadline March 15, 2002, events must occur within
FY 2002.

**LOCATION:** Varies for each grantee

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This program will consist of mini-grants for
innovative, self-identified employee development opportunities. This
approach has proven highly valued by staff for allowing them to pursue
venues that might not have otherwise been funded but have proven useful
for staff learning and renewal. Small group/team proposals are highly
encouraged.

**CORE COMPENTENCIES:** All competencies within the Recreation and
Conservation Programs Career Field

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account; Cost sharing from benefiting
account is encouraged

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marilyn Gillen, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Midwest Region,

402-221-3292

**EVENT TITLE:** Hydro Program New Staff Orientation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation/Hydro Program staff

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course provides new Hydro Program staff
essential grounding in the program including an overview of legislative
authorities, updates on administrative and legislative reforms, and
practical assistance with its procedural requirements. A great deal of
the time is devoted to learning from colleagues about the wide range of
conservation and recreation strategies that can be undertaken and to
participants sharing their experiences with their projects to date so as
to benefit from feedback and questions by more experienced staff and
national cooperators.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Recreation and Conservation Planner---Technical
Assistance Career Field: Public Involvement and Facilitation, River
Corridor Conservation, Regulation & Compliance, Integration of
Conservation & Recreation, Organizational Mission, Managing Technical
Assistance, Application of Laws and Regulations

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account and Benefiting Account

**VENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**RECREATION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Fundamentals of Grantsmanship for Partnership Projects

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** A basic course on the principle sources of
implementation funding for NPS-assisted partnership projects and winning
techniques for helping partners to secure these funds. The course will
include information about the most significant Federal grant sources,
state pass-through funds, and most promising Nationwide Foundation and
private sector grant sources. Hands-on work to improve grant writing
skills will be emphasised.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Writing and Editing, Representing the Service,
Team and Partnership Building, Cultural Resource Conservation

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account and Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**EVENT TITLE:** Advanced Fundraising

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** An advanced workshop on the skills needed for
successful fundraising from the private sector. This training will be
targeted for staff who have already achieved some level of success in
pitching opportunities for project support to the private sector,
particularly in situations where established grant-making programs are
not in place and creative approaches are needed to gain the attention of
potential donors.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Writing and Editing, Representing the Service,
Team and Partnership Building, Public Involvement & Facilitation

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account and Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**EVENT TITLE:** Advanced Negotiation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Staff often finds themselves in difficult
situations that require careful negotiation between various partners.
This training will provide the necessary skill set for arriving at a
successful negotiation. In addition to formal instruction, case studies
and insights will be garnered from those staff with experience in
facilitation.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Public Speaking, Representing the Service,
Organizational Development, Team and Partnership Building, Public
Involvement & Facilitation

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account and Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Cyndi Szymanski, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Washington Office, 202-565-1194

**RECREATION AND CONSERVATION PROGRAMS**

**EVENT TITLE:** Friendraising the NPS Way

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Recreation and Conservation

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This training is designed to provide skills to
individuals working with volunteers and friends groups, knowledge of how
to start and manage friends groups, an understanding of the Director's
Order No. 21 on Fundraising, and managing fundraising activities for
parks, as well as programs. This program will be designed and produced
in conjunction with the BLM Partnership Series, tailored to meet NPS
needs. The diverse subject matter will be based upon two new
publications that will be released in the spring of 2001: The new
guideline/handbook on fundraising that supplements Director's Order No.
21 and the new publication (yet to be named) on how to start friends
groups.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Partnering with Cooperating Associations, Team
Building, Partnership Development and Management, Effective
Facilitation, Customer Service, Goal Setting, Public Involvement,
Multi-Discipline Teams, Communications, Program Planning, and
Organizational Development

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Account and Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marilyn Gillen, Co-Training Manager, Recreation and Conservation
Programs, Midwest Region,

402-221-3292

[]{#n .anchor}**RISK MANAGEMENT (OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH)**

**EVENT TITLE:** OSHA 600, Occupational Safety and Health for NPS
Supervisors

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Risk Management Managers, Safety/Occupational
Health Officers, Unit Managers, Supervisors and Collateral Duty Park
Safety Officers

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The Risk Management Program recognises the focus
on the Supervisor as the on-site person responsible for occupational
safety and health issues in their workplace, and the need for training.
This course is designed to train supervisors to recognise hazardous
conditions and unsafe behaviours.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Problem Recognition, Responsibility, Legal
Requirements, Prevention Measures

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Tom Cherry, Training Manager, Law Enforcement and Resource Protection,
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, 912-267-2246

**EVENT TITLE:** OSHA 510, Basic Course in Construction Safety

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Supervisors, safety officers, and other employees
who are directly involved with construction, alteration, and/or repair
requiring knowledge of basic OSHA Construction Standards.

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course will introduce participants to OSHA
policies, procedures, and standards in construction safety and health.
The OSHA Construction Standard-29 CFR, Part 1926, applies to the work of
construction, alteration, and/or repair, including painting and
decorating. Topics will include: Confined Spaces, Welding, Tools, Fall
Protection, Ladders, Scaffolding, Electrical, Health Hazards, Cranes and
Rigging, and Fire Protection.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Safety Concerns, OSHA Standards, Responsibility,
Recognising Hazards

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Shirley Rowley, Co-Training Manager, Risk Management, Lakewood, CO,
303-969-2197

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**EVENT TITLE:** Concessions Law and Regulation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Park Managers, Superintendents, and Assistant
Superintendents

**DATE:** Fall 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This mandatory 24-hour program will address Title
IV of Public Law 105-391(Concessions Management) and Concession
Regulations. This program is required for those Superintendents that
have not attended prior programs and have been assigned to a park with
concession operations. This is a full developmental level program geared
for Park Managers with Concession contracting responsibilities.
Participants will be able to interpret and implement the new regulations
and policies pertaining to concession contracting and gain knowledge of
concession terminology such as Prospectus, Public Notices, Preferential
Right, Leasehold Surrender Interest, Franchise Fee Exemptions, and will
learn how and when to utilise them. Participants will also learn what
role the NPS Concessions Advisory Board has in the day to day management
of park concession programs.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Legal Framework, Concessions Program Management

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dee Highnote, Training Manager, Speciality Fields, Washington
Office/Capital Training Center,

202-565-1217

**EVENT TITLE:** Concessions Environmental Management Program (CEMP) &
Audit Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Concession Assistants, Concession Specialists, and
Collateral Duty Personnel such as Park Rangers, Administrative Officers,
Maintenance personnel, Superintendents and/or Assistant Superintendents

**DATES:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Program will provide participants on the goals,
criteria, and processes of the Concessions Environmental Management
Program (CEMP). This is a mandatory developmental level program for NPS
Concession Specialists (both park and region). The primary purpose of
the training is to provide an overview and understanding of the CEMP.
The class will address procedures for monitoring and evaluating
concession environmental programs. Participants will become familiar
with the concession contract require-ments relating to environmental
compliance, the new Environmental Operating Plan, and Environmental
Operational Standards.

Upon completion, participants will also be familiar with the processes,
techniques and criteria of a NPS environmental audit and have the
necessary skills.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Concession Program Management, Legal Framework
(as it relates to environmental management), and Hospitality

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D funds for course costs and Benefiting
Account for participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dee Highnote, Training Manager, Speciality Fields, Washington
Office/Capital Training Center,

202-565-1217, and Wendy Berhman, Environmental Specialist,

303-987-6900

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**EVENT TITLE:** Concessions Authorisation Development

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Full-time Concession Specialists, Concession
Analysts, and Concession Circuit Riders responsible for developing and
managing concession

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**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This is a developmental level program mandatory
for NPS Concession Specialists, Concession Analysts, and Concession
Circuit Riders who are responsible for developing and managing Level III
concession contracts. Participants must attend this program prior to
conducting concession contracting. Upon completion, participants will be
provided with the knowledge and skills to complete concession contract
planning and development process through the actual development and
process of a concession contract.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Concession Program Management, Legal Framework,
Accounting

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account

EVENT COORDINATOR:

Dee Highnote, Training Manager, Speciality Fields, Washington
Office/Capital Training Center,

202-565-1217

**EVENT TITLE:** Concession Evaluation and Pricing

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Concession Assistants, Concession Specialists, and
Collateral Duty Personnel such as Park Rangers, Administrative Officers,
as well as Superintendents and/or Assistant Superintendents.

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This 40-hour program serves as an entry level
course for Concession Specialists; Concession Analysts; Concession
Circuit Riders; Park Managers; and program leaders. It will also serve
as a developmental course for Concession Assistants and those with
concession as a collateral duty. Participants will be provided with the
knowledge and skills to complete the most frequently required portion of
the concession management process in accordance with policy and current
administrative procedures. Participants will complete rate studies,
conduct actual on-site inspections of concession services, as well as
gain knowledge of the current U.S. Public Health Food Code. Upon
completion of this mandatory training participants will be authorised to
assign concessioner's contractual/operational performance ratings.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Hospitality Knowledge

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Dee Highnote, Training Manager, Speciality Fields, Washington
Office/Capital Training Center,

202-565-1217

[]{#p .anchor}**SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Supervision: Fundamentals

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** New First Line-Supervisors

**DATE:** Various (Can be offered at units with a larger number of
supervisors)

**LOCATION:** Various

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The Supervision: Fundamentals course is a
combination of the essential elements of effective supervision and a
"how to" on performance and conduct issues. It is offered for NPS
supervisors who have been supervising without formal training and for
those who need to refresh their supervisory skills. This course
introduces effective supervisory techniques and skills to help the
participants perform more effectively in the role of supervisor. Topics
include: overview of the NPS employee relations handbook; identifying
and using learning styles; perceptions at work; developing critical
results; dealing with leave; disciplinary action guide; recruitment, and
managing a diverse

workforce.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Human Resources Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account (Travel and Per
Diem---Benefiting Account)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Supervision, Management and Leadership Fund

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All Supervisors and Managers

**DATE:** Various

**LOCATION:** Various

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This matching grant fund is available for
employees or field units that wish to develop specific SML competencies
or to improve/expand their competencies in their current supervisory or
managerial positions. A funding request can include attendance at a
professional meeting, a college or university course on communications,
business management, or human resource management, a detail working with
another agency or private sector firm, or other similar programs leading
to development of SML competencies. All request activities must be
related to the NPS Leadership competencies.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** All SML Competencies

**FUNDING:** Matching funds from Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**EVENT TITLE:** Supervision The Next Step: Performance and Conduct

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** First Line Supervisors

**DATE:** Various

**LOCATION:** Various

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Supervision the Next Step: Performance and
Conduct is designed to cover the regulatory issues that are important to
every supervisor and manager. The course is an in-depth review of
personal policy and EEO. Formally called "Managing Performance and
Conduct," this course is designed to cover the regulatory issues that
are important to every supervisor and manager. These are the regulations
that should be followed in order to do one's supervisory job properly as
well as to avoid adverse actions and/or lawsuits from being successfully
filed.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Human Resources Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account, (Travel and Per
Diem---Benefiting Account)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**EVENT TITLE:** The New Superintendent

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All First Time Superintendents

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This eight-day course is designed for newly
assigned superintendents. It will focus on NPS organizational values,
philosophy, and concepts that are critical in the thought processes that
a manager uses to make decisions. Participants will have many
opportunities for informal discussions with experienced and senior
managers who will act as resource persons throughout the course.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Service Motivation, Strategic Thinking, Problem
Solving, Decisiveness, Accountability, Teambuilding, Political Savvy

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account (Travel and Per Diem
Benefiting Account)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP**

**EVENT TITLE:** Manager's Policy Institute

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Experienced Superintendents and Program Managers

**DATE:** February 25, 2002--March 8, 2002

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This course is designed to give managers a better
understanding of the Legislative Branch of the Federal Government, and
the impact its actions have on the Executive agencies. The first week of
the course will be conducted on Capitol Hill with presentations by
Members of Congress, Congressional staff, agency officials, and
university professors. There will be many opportunities to observe
congressional committee activities as well as sessions of Congress. The
second week will cover the critical issues confronting the National Park
Service, Departmental and Service policies and inter-relationships, and
media relations.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Service Motivation, Strategic Thinking, Vision,
External Awareness

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account (Travel and Per Diem
Benefiting Account)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**EVENT TITLE:** The Division Chief

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Division Chiefs in various fields

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This eight-day course is designed to prepare
division chiefs for park management positions. It is for division chiefs
and program managers that want to develop a customer-driven service
strategy that focuses on goals, measurement, two-way communication,
empowerment, and rewards. The course will also address technical
credibility and speciality in small groups working on developing
strategies for organizational effectiveness. It will focus on NPS
organizational values, philosophy, and concepts that are critical in the
thought processes that a park manager uses to make decisions. The
participants will receive in-depth information on all NPS functional
areas such as budget, personnel policy, contracting, and concessions.
Breakout sessions in functional groups will allow each participant to
review their career fields' strategic priorities. Learning teams will
allow for discussions with experienced superintendents and managers who
will act as resource persons throughout the course.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Continual Learning, Cultural Awareness, Political
Savvy, Customer Service, Team Building

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account (Travel and Per Diem
Benefiting Account)

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Marta Cruz Kelly, Training Manager, Supervision, Management and
Leadership, Horace M. Albright Training Center, 928-638-7982

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**INTRODUCTION:** All NPS employees may enroll in Universal Competencies
Core Curriculum, which is called "NPS Fundamentals," and consists of
five Courses of Study (NPS Fundamentals I-V). Some courses are targeted
for new employees and are fully funded; others are targeted for
experienced employees. Please read the descriptions carefully to
ascertain the course most appropriate for your needs. Web-based modules
may be taken in any order, by any employee, at no cost and at his/her
convenience.

**EVENT TITLE:** "Compass I"

This course has been renamed: it is now called "NPS Fundamentals I: Who
We Are" and is described below.

**EVENT TITLE:** "Compass II: Today's Leaders, Tomorrow's Legends"

This course has been renamed: it is now called "NPS Fundamentals II for
Experienced Employees" and is described below.

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals I, Module I: History and Mission of
the NPS

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees

working to attain Universal Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Web Page; off of the Learning Place
Web Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

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**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** In this web-based training, employees will
explore the NPS Mission and their role in achieving it as leaders in
their organization. The module introduces the philosophy, history, and
evolution of the national park idea, Service and System, and its place
within the Department of the Interior. Employees will examine linkages
between their personal values and those embodied in the Organic Act and
the Mission Statement of the NPS.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Agency Orientation,
Individual Development and Planning

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals I, Module 2: Local Orientation

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Web Page; off of the Learning Place
Web Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This web-based training prepares employees to
function effectively within their unit (i.e., park or office) by
learning the roles and responsibilities of park staff and how to assist
their colleagues by understanding their own role relative to those of
others. The purpose of their unit, and the organizational structure of
the NPS are covered.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Agency Orientation,

NPS Operations

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals I, Module 3: A Virtual Tour of
Government

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees

working to attain Universal Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Web Page; off of the Learning Place
Web Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This web-based training examines the nature of
public service and how the Federal government works. Employees will be
able to explain the influence of local, state and national politics on
parks, and to avoid compromising situations related to these.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Agency Orientation, NPS
Operations, Fundamental Values (Ethics)

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals I, Module 4: Partnership Programs of
the National Park Service

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Web Page; off of the Learning Place
Web Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This training consists of two distance learning
modules: a web-based module and an interactive television broadcast. The
web-based training introduces recreation and preservation programs that
are part of the NPS Mission but that primarily affect resources located
outside the national parks. Topics include citizen involvement, healthy
communities, open space, linking rural and urban areas, and the role of
NPS staff in fostering collaborative efforts to save America's cultural
and natural heritage. The interactive television broadcast builds on
learning acquired from the web site by looking at a case study.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, NPS Operations

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** "NPS Fundamentals II for New Employees: Why We're Here"

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All new employees (less than one-year permanent
employment in the National Park Service)

**DATE:** Course schedule is regularly updated at the Universal
Competencies Home Page: http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**LOCATION:** Horace M. Albright Training Center, Grand Canyon, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This two-week

residential experience instils a personal connection between the
employee and the NPS Mission. Modules address resource stewardship,
interpersonal communication skills, fundamental values, personal
responsibility and leadership, and NPS operations.
Pre-requisites---Fundamentals I: History and Mission; Local Orientation;
A Virtual Tour of Government; NPS Recreation and Preservation Programs
(web-based training).

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Resource Stewardship, NPS
Operations, Fundamental Values, Communications Skills, Problem-solving
Skills

**FUNDING:** Central Training & Development Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** "NPS Fundamentals II for Experienced Employees: Why
We're Here" (Formerly "Compass II: Today's Leaders, Tomorrow's Legends)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees who have more than one year's
experience, and who are working to attain Universal Competencies.

**DATE:** Course schedule is regularly updated at the Universal
Competencies Home Page: http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**LOCATION:** Training Centers and park units

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This 40-hour classroom course instils a personal
connection between the employee and the NPS Mission. Modules address
resource stewardship, interpersonal communication skills, fundamental
values, personal responsibility and leadership, and NPS operations.
Pre-requisites---Universal Competencies web-based training: History and
Mission; Local Orientation; A Virtual Tour of Government; NPS Recreation
and Preservation Programs.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, Resource Stewardship, NPS
Operations, Fundamental Values, Communications Skills, Problem-solving
Skills

**FUNDING:** Benefiting Account. Tuition is \$300 per participant.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals II, Module 2: Peer Mentoring

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page;
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This module is part of the post-course assignment
for "Fundamentals II" participants. Participants continue their
examination of the NPS Mission, their contribution to achieving it, and
their evolving connection to the Mission. Discussion in a virtual
conference center begins from a set of standard questions and may be
facilitated by an experienced NPS employee/mentor.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals III, Module 1: Retirement Planning

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page:
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This training consists of two parts: a web-based
training unit and an interactive television broadcast. The outcome of
the training is to ensure that employees have the information and the
motivation they need to begin planning for retirement from their first
day on the job. It provides information that may help them achieve
financial security by providing easy access to information on Federal
life and health insurance programs and the Thrift Savings Plan.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Individual Development and Planning

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals III, Module 2: Career Planning

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page:
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** Using this web-based training, employees can
chart their careers using the NPS Career Planning and Tracking Kit and
the Individual Development Planning process. They will learn how to use
performance appraisals, self-assessment instruments and other tools to
build on their strengths and strengthen their weaknesses, with the
ultimate goal of improving their job performance.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Individual Development and Planning

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals IV, Module I: Ethics

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** TBD

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page:
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** In this web-based training, employees will learn
the ethical standards required of Federal employees as defined by law,
statute, and regulation. By examining the Code of Conduct, they will be
able to meet high expectations of public service and avoid placing
themselves and others in situations that might generate serious civil or
criminal consequences. Recommended pre-requisite: "NPS Fundamentals: Why
We're Here" classroom course.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Fundamental Values

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals IV, Module 2: Different Gifts:
Diversity and Accessibility

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees.

**DATE:** Scheduled to be released, late Spring 2002

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page:
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This web-based training addresses the legal and
regulatory requirements that underpin a fair and equitable workplace.
Employees will study the purviews of Equal Opportunity and the Americans
with Disabilities Act. An emphasis on legalities will be balanced by an
examination of how positive and ethical behaviours contribute to the
overall health of the organization, allowing every employee to
contribute to achieving the NPS Mission. Recommended pre-requisite: "NPS
Fundamentals II" classroom course.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Fundamental Values

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

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**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals IV, Module 3: Safety

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Ongoing

**LOCATION:** Universal Competencies Home Page:
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This web-based training builds behaviour-based
safety practices. Employees will be able to contribute specific skills
and safety-conscious attitudes to maintaining a safe workplace for
themselves and their co-workers. Recommended pre-requisite: "NPS
Fundamentals" classroom course.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Fundamental Values (Universal Competencies)

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS Fundamentals V: Working Together

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees working to attain Universal
Competencies, including new employees

**DATE:** Current schedule is posted on the Universal Competencies Home
Page:

http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm NOTE: This course is being
piloted in FY2001 and offerings may be limited in FY2002.

**LOCATION:** Stephen T. Mather Training Center, Harpers Ferry, WV

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This event adds new skills and insights,
enhancing those already acquired in preceding "NPS Fundamentals"
training. Employees will increase their ability to function well within
a team setting, providing leadership and being a good follower as
circumstances demand. They will use effective interpersonal and
problem-solving skills to resolve difficult issues within their realm of
influence. They will, in effect, embody the spirit of the National Park
Service. Topics include: Team Effectiveness Model; Self-assessment Tool;
Trusting Others; Through Conflict to Cooperation; Leadership; Team
Roles; Living With Change; Creative Thinking and Problem Solving;
Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Organizational
Culture; Decision-making in Groups; Vision, Planning, and Goal Setting;
Getting to Know GPRA; Organizational Goal Setting; and a concluding
one-day Workshop.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** All eight Universal Competencies

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account for new employees; tuition
based for employees with more than one year permanent status.

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Horace M. Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** Fas Trac Computer-Based Training Courses

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees

**DATE:** Personalized training available anywhere, any time.

**LOCATION:** Training can be taken at the employee's duty station, at
home, or on the road. Access to the training can be located on the
Universal Competencies Home Page at
http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** FasTrac provides commercially available
Computer-Based Training (CBT) for software and professional development
skills. Hundreds of courses are available including official computer
study guides (such as Microsoft and Netscape---including certification
exams), as well as so-called "soft skills" (such as writing skills,
leadership, customer service and conflict resolution). These are
skills-based training courses that enhance the knowledge of the
workforce.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** All eight Universal Competencies and competencies
within the Information Management Career Field.

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**EVENT TITLE:** NPS National Recreation and Preservation Programs
(TELNPS)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees, especially those attaining the
Universal Competencies including new employees.

**DATE:** Current schedule is updated regularly at the Universal
Competencies Home Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**LOCATION:** Any NPS unit with a TELStation

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This is the second part of the "NPS Fundamentals
I, Module 4: NPS National Recreation and Preservation Programs." This
interactive television course builds on information attained from the
web-based unit on this topic, which is a pre-requisite. Participants
interact with an instructor(s) versed in the range of these programs,
which include the National Register, Rivers and Trails, and Federal
Lands to Parks programs. The course emphasises the NPS Core Value:
Shared Stewardship, and discusses the impact of these programs that
occur outside park boundaries, on park resources.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Mission Comprehension, NPS Operations

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

**UNIVERSAL COMPETENCIES**

**EVENT TITLE:** Retirement Planning for New Employees (TELNPS)

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Employees with less than five years permanent
status.

**DATE:** Current schedule is updated regularly at the Universal
Competencies Home Page, http://www.nps.gov/training/uc/home.htm

**LOCATION:** Any NPS unit with a TELStation

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This is the second part of the "NPS Fundamentals
IV, Module 1: Retirement Planning" training. This interactive television
course builds on information attained from the web-based unit on
retirement planning, which is a pre-requisite. Participants interact
with an instructor(s) versed in the Federal Employees Retirement System
(FERS), the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), and Federal benefits.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Individual Development and Planning

**FUNDING:** Servicewide Career Field Account

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Maia Browning, Training Manager, Universal Competencies, Horace M.
Albright Training Center,

928-638-7985

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**EVENT TITLE:** CISM Basic Peer Support Training

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** All employees available to serve as peer counselors

**DATE:** TBD 2002

**LOCATION:** Tucson, Arizona

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** The National Park Service has an active Critical
Incident Stress Management (CISM) program available to all park
employees. This course will allow employees to meet the basic standard
for participation in the CISM program. Basic training is conducted
concurrently with the Advanced CISM meeting, thus allowing an important
opportunity for mentoring by those peers who have been active in CISM
for several years

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Emergency Medical Services, Peer Counselling,
Incident Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Pat Buccello, CISM Program Manager, WASO-RAD, 207-288-0431

**EVENT TITLE:** New Products and Devices to Improve Accessibility in
the Park and Recreation Environment

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Managers, Accessibility Coordinators, and other
park employees responsible for planning for universal access for
visitors to programs and facilities.

**DATE:** Spring or Fall of 2002

**LOCATION:** Selected sites around the country

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This project will provide a series of short
Distance Education programs, identifying products, their advantages and
disadvantages, their costs, and the vending sources for purchasing them.
Products that would be covered would include, but not be limited to,
accessible picnic tables, cooking grills, porta-toilets, portable ramps,
chair lifts, trail surfacing materials, and all-terrain wheelchairs.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Laws, Rules, and Regulations Pertaining to
Accessibility, Resources for Access

# FUNDING: Servicewide T&D Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Gary Robb, Executive Director, National Center on Accessibility,
Bloomington, IN, 812-856-4429

**VISITOR USE MANAGEMENT**

**EVENT TITLE:** Special Park Uses Annual Updates

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Superintendents and Regional Special Park Uses
Coordinators

**DATE:** TBD

# **LOCATION:** TBD

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** This is an eight-hour workshop for
Superintendents and Regional Special Park Use Coordinators. It is
designed to provide the participants with the skills they need when
dealing with any emergent or highly political issue concerning Special
Park Uses. The existing teams of SPU trainers will present one-day
sessions in each region.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Basic Authorities and Procedures, Application of
DO-53, Recreational Uses, Agricultural Use, Occupancy, Commercial Film
Use, Special Events, NEPA Compliance

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Funds for course costs; benefiting account
for each participant's travel and per diem

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Mary Robinson, Acting Training Manager, Visitor Use Management, Stephen
T. Mather Training Center,

304-535-6215

**EVENT TITLE:** New Dimensions in Accessibility Training-Learning from
your Desktop Computer via Video Streaming Technology

**TARGET AUDIENCE:** Managers, Accessibility Coordinators, and other
park employees responsible for planning for universal access for
visitors to programs and facilities

**DATE:** Late 2002

**LOCATION:** Selected sites around the country

**EVENT DESCRIPTION:** New outdoor recreation accessibility standards
have recently been introduced and their complexity requires a solid
understanding of both general accessibility standards and how they apply
to outdoor environments. New streaming video technology will allow the
NCA to expand on its current Internet- based training modules, bringing
real-life video examples of how to make trails, campgrounds, picnic
areas, and beaches accessible to people with disabilities.

**CORE COMPETENCIES:** Accessibility, Visitor Studies, Recreation
Management, Campground Management, Program Management

**FUNDING:** Servicewide T&D Funds

**EVENT COORDINATOR:**

Gary Robb, Executive Director, National Center on Accessibility,
Bloomington, IN, 812-856-4429

[]{#t .anchor}**Technology Enhanced Learning**

**Great strides in implementing the Technology Enhanced Learning events
currently being delivered:**

**Learning Program (TEL) are occurring this Fiscal Year. By PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT**

**July, close to seventy sites will be installed, reaching about
RESOLVING PERFORMING ISSUES**

**50% of our employees. Training in Supervision, Management SYSTEM FOR
CONDUCT AND PROGRESSIVE**

**& Leadership and Universal Competencies is delivered DISCIPLINE**

**on a regular basis with new courses being developed INTRODUCTION TO
PERFORMANCE AND**

**continually. CONDUCT**

**COMMUNICATION**

**This distance learning equipment package allows learning WHAT MATTERS
MOST**

**to take place at or near an employee\'s work site. Parks RECREATION
AND PRESERVATION PROGRAMS**

**interested in installing their own TEL Station should contact
RETIREMENT PLANNING**

**Jim Boyd at** <jim_boyd@nps.gov> **or call 304-535-6401. CAREER
PLANNING**

**TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT**

[]{#s-1 .anchor}**TRAINING MANAGERS**

## Mary Robinson, Acting

Visitor Use Management

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P. O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6215

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: m_robinson@nps.gov

## Maia Browning

Universal Competencies

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (520) 638-7985

Fax: (520) 638-2953

Email: maia_browning@nps.gov

## Tom Cherry

Law Enforcement and Resource Protection and Risk Management

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

Bldg, 64

Glynco, GA 31524

Phone: (912) 267-2795

Fax: (912) 267-3188

Email: tom_cherry@nps.gov

## Becky Lacome, Acting

Interpretation, Education, & Cooperating Associations

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P. O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6215

Fax: (304) 535-6408

## Jan Gauthier

Administration & Office Management Support

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P. O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6402

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: jan_gauthier@nps.gov

## Steve Hastings

Maintenance

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (520) 638-7986

Fax: (520) 638-2953

Email: steve_hastings@nps.gov

## Vacant

Natural Resources Stewardship

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (928) 638-7988

Fax: (928) 638-2953

## Mary Killeen, Acting

Supervision, Management, and Leadership

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (928) 638-7983

Fax: (928) 638-2953

Email: mary_killeen@nps.gov

**Tony Knapp**

Cultural Resources Stewardship

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P.O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425-0077

Phone: (304) 535-6178

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: tony_knapp@nps.gov

## Dorothy Printup

Historic Preservation Skills & Crafts

Historic Preservation Training Center

4801A Urbana Pike

Frederick, MD 21704

Phone: (301) 663-8206 x101

Fax: (301) 663-8032

Email: dorothy_printup@nps.gov

## Linda Wright

Organizational Development

Seattle Support Office

909 First Avenue

Seattle, WA 98104-1060

Phone: (206) 220-4640

Fax: (206) 220-4160

Email: linda_wright@nps.gov

**COLLATERAL DUTY**

**TRAINING MANAGERS**

**Vacant**

Information Management

1849 C Street, NW, Room 2507

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 565-1028

Fax: (202) 565-1041

## Marilyn K. Gillen

Recreation & Conservation Programs

Midwest Region

1709 Jackson Street

Omaha, NE 68102

Phone: (402) 221-3292

Fax: (402) 221-3372

Email: marilyn_gillen@nps.gov

## Dee Highnote

Specialty Fields

1849 C Street, NW, Room 7319

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 565-1217

Fax: (202) 565-1224

Email: dee_highnote@nps.gov

## Major Hugh Irwin

Law Enforcement

U.S. Park Police

1100 Ohio Drive, SW

Washington, DC 20242

Phone: (202) 690-5083

Fax: (202) 690-5229

Email: hugh_irwin@nps.gov

## Merrie Johnson

Fire & Aviation Management

National Interagency Fire Center

3833 S. Development Avenue

Boise, ID 83705

Phone: (208) 387-5224

Fax: (208) 387-5250

Email: merrie_johnson@nps.gov

**Cheryl Everman, Acting**

Planning, Design, & Construction

P. O. Box 1088

12795 W. Alameda Parkway

Denver, CO 80225

Phone: (303) 987-6655

Fax: (303) 987-6658

Email: cheryl_everman@nps.gov

## Shirley Rowley

Risk Management

Intermountain Region

Denver Support Center

Phone: (303) 969-2197

Fax: (303) 969-2536

Email: shirley_rowley@nps.gov

## Cynthia Szymanski

Recreation & Conservation Programs

1849 C Street, NW, Room 3606

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 565-1200

Fax: (202) 565-1204

Email: cynthia_szymanski@nps.gov

## SERVICEWIDE PROGRAM COORDINATORS

**Mary Arthurs**

Intake Trainee Program

Capital Training Center

1849 C Street, NW, Room 7516

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 501-8906

Fax: (202) 501-8902

Email: mary_arthurs@nps.gov

## Jim Boyd

Distance Learning Coordinator

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P.O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV

Phone: (304) 535-6401

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: jim_boyd@nps.gov

## Vacant

National Center for Preservation

Technology & Training

NCPTT NSU Box 5682

Natchitoches, LA 71497

Phone: (318) 357-6464

Fax: (318) 357-6421

## Chris Perry

Intake Trainee Program

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P.O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6215

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: chris_perry@nps.gov

## Rick Potts

NPS/Wilderness Representative

Arthur Carhart National Wilderness

Training Center

32 Campus Drive

Missoula, MT 59812

Phone: (406) 243-4612

Fax: (406) 243-4717

Email: rpotts@fs.fed.us

## Mary Robinson

Servicewide Catalog Coordinator

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P.O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6732

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: m_robinson@nps.gov

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## Peggy Sandretzky

NPS/FWS Liaison

National Conservation Training Center

Route 1, Box 166

Shepherd Grade Road

Shepherdstown, WV 25443

Phone: (304) 876-7467

Fax: (304) 876-7751

Email: peggy_sandretzky@nps.gov

**TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT**

**PROGRAMS**

**Vacant**

Leader, Training and Development Program

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (928) 638-7989

Fax: (928) 638-2953

## John W. Tyler

Deputy Leader, Training and

Development Program

1849 C Street, Room 7526

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 501-8916

Fax: (202) 501-8920

Email: john_tyler@nps.gov

## Lucia Bragan

Employee Development Specialist

1849 C Street, N.W., Room 7526

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 501-8917

Fax: (202) 501-8920

Email: lucia_bragan@nps.gov

## Albertha "Bert" Hudson

Management Services Specialist

Washington Office

1849 C Street, NW, Room 7526

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 501-8918

Fax: (202) 501-8920

Email: bert_hudson@nps.gov

**TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT**

**PERSONNEL**

**Gloria Baker**

Employee Development Assistant

Human Resources Division

Harpers Ferry Center

P.O. Box 50

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304)535-6489

Fax: (304) 535-6290

Email: gloria_baker@nps.gov

## Deborah Burnett

Employee Development Officer

Northeast Region

NPS, U.S. Custom House

200 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Phone: (215) 597-9153

Fax: (215) 597-4791

Email: deborah_burnett@nps.gov

## Rosalind Calacal

Employee Development Assistant

Pacific Great Basin Support Office

600 Harrison Street, Suite 600

San Francisco, CA 94107-1372

Phone: (415) 427-1343

Fax: (415) 427-1486

Email: rosalind_calacal@nps.gov

## Dianne Cooper

Regional Employee Development Manager

Pacific West Region

909 1st Avenue

Seattle, WA 98104

Phone: (206) 220-4080

Fax: (206) 220-4160

Email: dianne_cooper@nps.gov

## Margie Fresquez

Employee Development Officer

Intermountain Support Office

P. O. Box 728

Santa Fe, NM 87504

Phone: (505) 988-6070

Fax: (505) 988-6099

Email: margie_fresquez@nps.gov

## Shema Gregory

Employee Development Personnel

Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

Building 64

Glynco, GA 31524

Phone: ((912) 267-2246

Fax: (912) 267-3188

Email: shema_gregory@nps.gov

Employee Development Officer

Capital Training Center

1849 C Street, NW, Room 7515

## 

## Esther Hodges

Employee Development Offficer

National Capital Region

1100 Ohio Drive, SW

Washington, DC 20240

Phone: (202) 501-8907

Fax: (202) 501-8902

Email: esther_hodges@nps.gov

**TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT**

## PERSONNEL - continued

## 

## Joyce Howe

Office Automation Assistant

Stephen T. Mather Training Center

P. O. Box 77

Harpers Ferry, WV 25425

Phone: (304) 535-6217

Fax: (304) 535-6408

Email: joyce_howe@nps.gov

## 

## Ann Johnson

Employee Development Specialist

Horace M. Albright Training Center

P.O. Box 477

Grand Canyon, AZ 86023

Phone: (928) 638-7929

Fax: (928) 638-2953

Email: ann_e_johnson@nps.gov

## 

## Quinton Lee

Equal Opportunity and

Employee Development

Alaska Region

2525 Cambell Street

Anchorage, AK 99503

Phone: (907) 257-2698

Fax: (907) 257-2533

Email: quinton_lee@nps.gov

## 

## Lea Scow

Employee Development Officer

Pacific West Region-Pacific Island Support Office

300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 6305

Box 50165

Honolulu, HI 96850

Phone: (808) 541-2693

Fax: (808) 541-3696

Email: lea_scow@nps.gov

## 

## Pat Smedley

Employee Development Officer

Intermountain Region

12795 W. Alameda Parkway

Lakewood, CO 80228

Phone: (303) 969-2530

Fax: (303) 969-2037

Email: pat_smedley@nps.gov

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## Sandy Taylor

Employee Development Officer

Southeast Region

100 Alabama Street, SW

Atlanta, GA 30303

Phone: (404) 562-3158

Fax: (404) 562-3255

Email: sandy_taylor@nps.gov

## 

## Floy Westermeier

Employee Development Specialist

Midwest Region

1709 Jackson Street

Omaha, NE 68102

Phone: (402) 221-3385

Fax: (402) 221-3430

Email: floy_westermeier@nps.gov

## 

## Laura Woodson

Employee Development Officer

National Capitol Region

1100 Ohio Drive, SW

Washington, DC 20242

Phone: (202) 619-7262

Fax: (202) 205-3834

Email: laura_woodson@nps.gov

**RESOURCE CENTERS**

**Ray Bloomer, Director**

National Center on Accessibility

Indiana University

2805 East 10th Street, Suite 190

Bloomington, IN 47408-698

\(812\) 856-4429

http://www.ncaonline.org/

**Gary Drier, Program Analyst**

Bureau of Land Management

7139 W. Rue de Lamour

Peoria, AZ 85381

\(602\) 615-0526

http://www.blm.gov

**Merrie Johnson, Training Manager**

National Interagency Fire Center

3833 S. Development Avenue

Boise, ID 83705

\(208\) 387-5224

http://www.nifc.gov/NifcInfo.html

**Nora Mitchell, Director**

Conservation Study Institute

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP

P. O. Box 178

54 Elm Street

Woodstock, VT 05091

\(802\) 457-3368 ext. 17

http://www.nps.gov/mabi/

**Connie Myers, Director**

# Arthur H. Carhart National

Wilderness Training Center

32 Campus Drive

Missoula, MT 59812

\(406\) 243-4644

http://www.wilderness.net/carhart

**Bob Page, Director**

Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation

99 Warren Street

Brookline, MA 02445

\(617\) 566-1689

http://www.nps.gov/frla/oclp.htm

**Pat Tiller, Acting Executive Director**

National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

645 College Avenue

Natchitoches, LA 71457

\(318\) 356-7444

http://gopher.ncptt.nps.gov/

**Peggy Sandretzky, NPS/FWS Liaison**

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

National Conservation Training Center

Route 1, Box 166

Shepherd Grade Road

Shepherdstown, WV 25443

\(304\) 876-7751

http://www.nctc.fws.gov/