# Presentation: 939910

## Standardizing Professional Development for the Fire and Emergency Services

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## Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Program

**Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education (FESHE) Program**

- Mission
- Establish an organization of post-secondary institutions to promote higher education and to enhance the recognition of the fire and emergency services as a profession to reduce loss of life and property from fire and other hazards.

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## Slide 3

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## Is This You?

- Have taken many college courses, including fire science and/or general education
- Have taken many state, local and NFA training courses
- Have achieved various levels of certification
- AND
- All combined, these efforts have moved your fire service professional development in a unified, coherent and planned way?

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## A Public's Right to Ask

- As citizens expect their tax dollars to be spent wisely, the public has the right to ask:
- How many times should the fire department pay for a fire officer to accomplish the same job-related competency?

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## Where are we going?

- Have taken the “right” college courses, including fire science and general education
- Have taken many state, local and NFA training courses, knowing how they fit in a professional development plan or not
- Have achieved various certifications with little duplications of effort
- AND
- All combined, these efforts have moved fire service professional development in a unified, coherent and planned way.

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## “Inter-operability for Fire Service Professional Development”

- The imperative for inter-operability of radios and hoses so that they connect and work together is matched by the need for training, education and certification entities to do the same.

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## FESHE Strategic Goals

- Working collaboratively, the professional development community will produce a:
- National model for an integrated, competency-based system of fire and emergency services professional development
- National model for an integrated system of higher education from associate's-to-doctoral degrees
- Well-trained and academically-educated fire and emergency services preparing the nation for all hazards

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## Applying Inter-Operability to Professional Development by Standardizing:

- Fire Science Courses: *FESHE Model Curriculum** *
- General Education Courses: *Building Competency-Based FESHE Programs: Recommended Under- and Post-Graduate Courses and Competencies** *
- Standardizing Crosswalks: *National Professional Development Matrix*

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## Professional DevelopmentModel for the Fire andEmergency Services

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## Slide 11

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## Developed by the U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education network. For more information please visit www.usfa.fema.gov/fire-service/nfa/higher-ed/he.shtm

- Developed by the U.S. Fire Administration/National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services Higher Education network. For more information please visit _[www.usfa.fema.gov/fire-service/nfa/higher-ed/he.shtm](http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed/index.shtm)_

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## Fire Prevention Professional Development Model

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## Standardized Education: FESHE Model Associate's and Bachelor's Courses 

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## FESHE Associate's Courses:Fire Science

- Core Curriculum
- Fire Prevention
- Building Construction for Fire Protection
- Fire Protection Hydraulics and Water Supply
- Fire Protection Systems
- Principles of Emergency Services
- Fire Behavior and Combustion

- Non-Core Curriculum
- Occupational Health and Safety
- Legal Aspects
- Hazardous Materials Chemistry
- Strategy and Tactics
- Intro to F & ES Admin
- Fire Investigation I (First Responders)
- Fire Investigation II (Investigators)

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## New Concentrations for Associate's Programs

- _Fire Prevention_
- Fire and Life Safety Education
- Fire Inspection Principles
- Plans Review

- _Fire Protection Engineering_
- Advanced Concepts in Structural Fire Protection Systems
- Human Behavior in Fire
- Performance-Based Design

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## FESHE Support ofNFFF's Everyone Goes HomeCampaign

- 1) Two New LODD courses:
- Associate's - Principles of FF Health & Safety
- Bachelor's – Advanced Principles of FF Safety and Survival
- 2) Walk of Honor Brick Campaign
- 3) Change Culture through Education

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## FESHE Bachelor's Courses:Fire Administration/Prevention Technology

**Core Curriculum**
**Community Risk Reduction for the Fire Service **
**Applications of Fire Research**
**Fire & Emergency Services Administration**
**Analytical Approaches to Public Fire Protection**
**Fire Prevention Organization & Management**
**Personnel Management for the Fire & Emergency Services**
**Non-Core Curriculum**
**Fire Protection Structures & Systems Design**
**Managerial Issues in Hazardous Materials**
**Disaster Planning & Control**
**Political & Legal Foundations of Fire Protection**
**Fire Dynamics**
**Fire Investigation & Analysis**
**Fire Related Human Behavior**

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## FESHE Baccalaureate Courses: EMS Management Core Curriculum

- FESHE Baccalaureate Courses: EMS Management Core Curriculum

**Foundations of EMS Systems**
**EMS Operations & Administration**
**Injury & Illness Prevention in the Community**
**EMS Quality and Performance Management**
**Legal, Political and Regulatory Environment of EMS**
**Safety and Risk Management**
- Non-Core Curriculum
**EMS Educator**
**EMS Public Information, Education & Relations**
**Management of Transport Services**
_**http://home.gwu.edu/~mikeward/FESHE_EMS.html**_

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## A National, Standardized Undergraduate Program for the Fire and Emergency Services

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## National FESHE Degree Model

**Associate's**

**Baccalaureate (DDP)**

**Core Courses**

**BC**

**FPS**

**FB&C**

**Non-Core Courses**

**LA**

**HMC**

**FI-I**

**S&T**

**IFES**

**FPOM**

**FPSS**

**FD**

**PLFFP**

**MIHM**

**DFDP**

**FESA**

**APFSS**

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## The National Professional Development Matrix

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## Moves Professional Development Model from concept to reality 
Designed for training and certification agencies and academic fire programs to assist the emergency services personnel they serve in their professional development planning

- Designed for training and certification agencies and academic fire programs to assist the emergency services personnel they serve in their professional development planning

**National Professional Development Matrix:****Purpose**

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## National Professional Development Matrix Supervisory Fire Officer (FO I)	                    Fire Prevention Officer		

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| Education |  | Competencies/Standards |  | Training |
| NFA  Courses - ACE Recommendations |      *College Courses | Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies | Correlating NFPA Standards | State & Local Courses |
| FSC (R107)  | English Composition (A) | SFO-01 Ability to write detailed prose. | 1031, 1035, 1037 |       |
| FSC (R107) | Public Speaking or Oral Communications (A) | SFO-02 Understanding and using basic interpersonal, group and public communication skills. | 1021, 1033, 1035, 1037, 1041 |   |
| FSC (R107) | Business or Written Communications (A) | SFO-03 Ability to write accurate and clear letters, memos, technical reports and business communications. | 1021, 1031, 1033, 1037, 1041 |   |

**National Professional Development Matrix Supervisory Fire Officer (FO I)****	****                    Fire Prevention Officer****	****	**

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## National Professional Development Matrix Managing Fire Officer (FO II)	Fire Prevention Officer	

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| Education |  | Competencies & Standards |  | Training |
| NFA  Courses - ACE Recommendations |      *College Courses | Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies | Correlating NFPA Standards | State & Local Courses |
|  ED (R123), OTP (R331) | Fire and Emergency Services Administration (FBC)                                    Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection (FBC)                                            | MFO-08 Understanding the basic principles of organization and management as applied to fire service agencies; apply theories to management problems. | 1037 |   |
|   | Law (A)                                                             Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection (FBC) | MFO-09  Understanding the basic legal system structures and content as they affect local government and employers. | 1031, 1037 |   |

**National Professional Development Matrix ****Managing Fire Officer (FO II)****	****Fire Prevention Officer****	**

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## National Professional Development Matrix Administrative Fire Officer (FO III) Fire Prevention Officer

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| Education |  | Competencies & Standards |  | Training |
| NFA  Courses - ACE Recommendations |      *College Courses | Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies | Correlating NFPA Standards | State & Local Courses |
|   | Economics  (A) | AFO-1 Understanding basic concepts of economic thinking; basic understanding of the complex economics problems in modern society. |   |   |
| CLTO (R815), EP (R506), IDFSO (R332),  TPM (R342), ED (R123), EL (R125), MFPP (R225), LA (R810) | Principles of Management (B)                                      Fire and Emergency Services Administration (FBC) | AFO-02 Understand the field of management including planning, motivation, group dynamics, decision making, organizing, and group organizational change. | 1021, 1035, 1037 |   |

**National Professional Development Matrix ****Administrative Fire Officer (FO III) ****Fire Prevention Officer**

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## National Professional Development Matrix Executive Fire Officer (FO IV) Fire Prevention Officer

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| Education |  | Competencies/Standards |  | Training |
| NFA  Courses - ACE Recommendations |      *College Courses | Fire Officer/Prevention Competencies | Correlating NFPA  Standards | State & Local Courses |
|   | Public Finance (G)                                       Financial Management in the Public Sector (G) | EFO-04 Understands managerial uses of accounting and financial management in the public sector; includes fund accounting, cost accounting, asset accounting, internal controls, auditing, financial analysis and reporting. | 1031 |   |
| EL (R125) | Public Policy (G)/Management of Policy Process (G) | EFO-05 Understands the issues involved in the implementation of public policy and programs; the institutional and political constraints on policy making and the skills needed to address them. | 1035, 1037 |   |

**National Professional Development Matrix ****Executive Fire Officer (FO IV) ****Fire Prevention Officer**

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## What the Future Holds 

- The primary service providers:
- -training agencies-certification offices-academic fire programs have:
- -united together to eliminate duplications of effort for fire service personnel
- -enabled a holistic approach to an integrated education and training plan that brings the combination of “theory and practice” to Fire Officer/Prevention-related development

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## What the Future Holds continued

- States will convene Professional Development summits comprising of:-fire departments-academic fire programs-State associations -other key stakeholders to: -customize the Matrix with their own training and college courses-transpose competencies to State's JPRs -decide how to document sufficient Fire 	Officer/Prevention-related test preparation, e.g. transcripts, 	certificates, etc.

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## For More Information

- Write to: Fema-FESHE@dhs.gov
- Visit the FESHE Web Page:
- _[www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed](http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed/)__[/](http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/nfa/higher_ed/)_

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