**December 11-12, 2006 FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education
Project Activity Report**

\(1\) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT:

All Hands Community. \"Counties Focused on Planning and Preparedness,
NACo Says.\" 4Dec2006. at:
<http://www.all-hands.net/portal/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2991>

Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP). A Legislator\'s
Checklist to Emergency Preparedness & Public Communication. EMAP & The
Council of State Governments (Lexington, KY), 12 pages, October 2006.

Accessed at:
[[http://www.emaponline.org/?300]{.underline}](http://www.emaponline.org/?300)

National Association of Counties. \"County Emergency Management Agencies
on Rise Post Sept. 11.\" NACo Press Release, November 3, 2006. Accessed
at:
<http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=homeland_security&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21687>

\(2\) NIMS MULTI-AGENCY COORDINATION SYSTEM INDEPENDENT STUDY COURSE
(IS-701) NOW ONLINE:

Received EMI Gram No. 702, dated December 5, 2006, pasted in below:

Course Information: This web-based course offers training in how to
coordinate the components of a multi-agency coordination system and how
relationships between all elements of the system are established. In
combining all incident-support facilities, equipment, personnel,
procedures, and communications, such an integrated system is the means
for coordinating and supporting domestic incident management activities.

Course Length: Although the overall length of the course will vary by
individual, IS-701 will take an average of 5 hours to complete.

Audience: Federal, State, local and Tribal emergency managers; first
responders to include incident commanders from all emergency management
disciplines; private industry personnel responsible for coordination
activities during a disaster; and personnel of Voluntary Organizations
Active in Disaster (VOAD).

Course Objectives: After completing the course, participants will be
able to:

\* Define multi-agency coordination at the local, State, and

Federal levels of government.

\* Identify each agency involved in incident management activities

> to ensure appropriate situational awareness and resources status
> information is shared through multi-agency coordination.

\* Identify typical priorities established between elements of the

multi-agency coordination system.

\* Define key terms related to multi-agency coordination systems.

\* Describe the process of acquiring and allocating resources

> required by incident management personnel in relationship to the
> entire multi-agency coordination system.

\* Identify typical future resource requirements for the entire

multi-agency coordination system.

\* Identify potential coordination and policy issues arising from

an incident relative to the entire multi-agency coordination system.

Course Completion: The course is available at
<http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/is/is701.asp>. When you have completed
the course, you can take the online test. Fill out the student
information and submit the test for scoring. The Emergency Management
Institute\'s (EMI) Independent Study Office will notify you via email of
your successful completion of the course and will send you a course
certificate.

Classroom Course: Although IS-701 is designed to be taken online as an
interactive Web-based course, classroom materials are available.
Materials may be downloaded for instructors to deliver to groups. To
obtain scoring sheets for the test, course managers may call the EMI
Independent Study program office at (301) 447-1256. The best way to take
the test, however, is online in the manner explained above. Questions:
Please contact the course manager, Tom Gilboy at (301) 447-1535 or
<tom.gilboy@dhs.gov>.

B.Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM

Higher Education Project Manager

Emergency Management Institute

National Emergency Training Center

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Department of Homeland Security

16825 S. Seton, K-011

Emmitsburg, MD 21727

\(301\) 447-1262, voice

\(301\) 447-1598, fax

wayne.blanchard@dhs.gov

[[http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu]{.underline}](http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/edu)

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