To better prepare all participants, the COE offers assistance with training exercises, complete with scenario development, modeling and processes to plan and prepare for emergency response, whether natural, technologic, or complex humanitarian emergency.
Training focuses on the application of concepts for response, include exercises.
Gaming pursues a structured sequence of sessions in which players respond to scenarios under a set of constraints which might be found in a disaster response. It also allows the examination of other viewpoints, positions, and potential solutions to problems in a controlled environment. Further, it provides a networking forum for participants with the actual people and within the actual roles they would work with in a disaster situation. The Center of Excellence looks continually at ways to improve training opportunities whether on the tabletop or in the field. Working Group 98-1.