Course Announcement - ICS-400 - January 25-26, 2011 - Craig, CO

Moffat County will be hosting an ICS-400 Training Course on January 25-26, 2011, in Craig, Colorado.  The course is intended for command and supervisory personnel who require advanced application of the Incident Command System.  To register, go to http://co.train.org and look for Course ID 1006001 and for questions, contact Robyn Knappe, DEM Training Officer at (720) 852-6617 or at robyn.knappe@state.co.us.

Course Announcement - ICS-300 - Feb 16-17, 2011 - Denver, CO

Denver-UASI will be hosting an ICS-300 Training on February 16-17, 2011 at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) in Denver, CO.  Intended for Command or Upper Level Management from Fire, Emergency Medical, Law Enforcement, Public Works, Public Safety Communications, Emergency Management, Public Health, Health Care, Government Officials and Hazardous Material Technicians and will cover incident planning, objectives, forms, resource management, demobilization, command transfer and incident closeout. 

To register, contact Tom Witowski at (720) 865-7651 or at tom.witowski@denvergov.org.

Recovery from Disaster: The Local Government Role - Multiple Dates - Emmitsburg, MD

The National Emergency Training Center will be hosting two iterations of the E-210 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Government Role in Emmitsburg, MD, from February 14-17, 2011, and March 28-31, 2011.   What makes this course announcement unique is that the course was completely revised in 2010 and is designed for local disaster recovery teams consisting of emergency managers, city/county administrators, public works directors, building inspectors and community planners.

The course focuses on the roles and responsibilities of each team member and provides guidance on developing a local disaster recovery plan.  For more information, see the E-210 Recovery From Disaster:  The Local Government Role Course Flyer.  To register, contact Robyn Knappe, DEM Training Officer at robyn.knappe@state.co.us

Shared Strategies for Homeland Security - Recap/Links

This past week, the  Denver Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) hosted the "Shared Strategies for Homeland Security" Conference.  The Conference drew in nearly 700 domestic and international subject matter experts from the first responder, medical/public health, private sector and citizen preparedness fields. We pitch in with the hosting effort and wrote a series of articles through the week on http://sharedstrategiesblog.com to help share the information from inside the Conference.  While we are in the process of uploading all the additional slides, videos and pulling together our notes for more articles, there were some articles posted as-it-happened that you might find interesting:

The Terrorism Threat:  Fact or Fiction?
Speaker:  Mike Walker, Chairman of the Board of Plexus Scientific Corporation and former Acting Secretary of the Army and Deputy Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Social Media and Public Warnings
Speaker: Dr. Dennis Mileti, Professor Emeritus and former Director, Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado

Emergency Medical System and Pre-Hospital Response:  Israeli-Style
Speaker:  Uri Sacham, Director General's Head of Office, Magen David Adom

Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology - Innovation Efforts to Support Emergency Responders
Speaker:  Susan Law, Deputy Director, Interagency Programs, Department of Homeland Security - Science and Technology

Media and Terror
Speaker:  Gil Kleiman, for Public Information Office with the Israeli National Police (2001-2004 during period of intense terror activity in Israel)

Resolve to be Ready
Speaker:  Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Israeli Healthcare System:  On Constant Alert
Speaker:  Dr. Daniel Laor, Director of Emergency and Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Health

Crisis Communications - Break-Out Session Exercise Re-Cap
Panelists: Dan Alexander, Director, Denver Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security; Matt Murray, Lieutenant, Denver Police Department; Charles Marrone, Program Manager, McMunn Associates and Holly Vaughn, Senior Associate, McMunn Associates

Lessons Learned from Disaster Interventions:  A Personal Perspective
Speaker:  Dr. Reuven Gal, Senior Research Fellow, Kinneret Institute for Social, Security and Peace Studies in Israel

Structuring the Administrative Side of a Hospital for Disaster
Speaker:  Dr. Charles Little, Medical Director, Emergency Preparedness, University Hospital and The Center for Integrated Disaster Health Preparedness

Sharing Strategies for Effective Collaboration
Speaker:  Dr. Michael Fraser, Chief Executive Officer, Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Austin, TX, Response to a Deliberate Plane Crash into a Federal Building
Speaker:  Assistant Chief George Blackmoore, Special Operations and Homeland Security, Austin Fire Department

Denver Hosts International Conference on Homeland Security and Terrorism

More than 600 people from all over the country will gather in Denver next week for a first of its kind conference designed to improve safety and security. The Shared Strategies For Homeland Security conference, put on by the Denver Urban Area Security Initiative, with funding from FEMA/DHS, will integrate first responders, healthcare professionals, the business community and citizens with information, ideas and concepts from around the world that promote increased safety and security.

More than 70 presenters will address four main disciplines: business and critical infrastructure, community resiliency, first responder needs, and medical/health issues. Presentations include topics such as Terror Medicine, Cyber Security, Lessons from Israeli Bombing Investigations and Law Enforcement in a Terror Environment. Speakers come from all disciplines and will include Richard Serino, Deputy Administrator of FEMA as well as numerous security experts from Israel.

The goal is to engage a broad cross section of people throughout a community – from police and fire to business and citizens – in the discussion and planning of safety and security issues. Speaker information and the conference schedule is at: http://www.sharedstrategiesconference.com/. 

Note:  During the Conference, the Division of Emergency Management and others will be posting updates on the Shared Strategies Blog and on Twitter using the #sshs tag.