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L-101 Foundations of Emergency Management
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FEMA recognizes the need to tie training programs to an established set of emergency management competencies and to a Career Development Program through a progressive training and education system that includes the entry-level Academy, called the National Emergency Management Basic Academy. Training objectives for this course are based on the newly established emergency manager competencies that the National Emergency Management Association; the International Association of Emergency Managers; and state, local, territorial, and tribal emergency management professionals have established in coordination with EMI.
The following topics in emergency management are covered in this course: history; legal issues; intergovernmental and interagency context; influencing and organizing; social vulnerability issues; managing stress; collaboration, preparedness, and team building; mitigation, response, prevention, and protection; ethical decision-making; recovery; technology; administration; and th
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Target Audience
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Course Objective
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- •Describe the foundations of emergency management in the United States, including its history, doctrine, and principles, and the role of the emergency manager
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•Identify and explain legal issues in emergency management, including legal authorities for emergency management, potential legal issues, and strategies for avoiding legal risk
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•Describe the intergovernmental and interagency context of emergency management, including the roles of Federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government organizations, individuals and households, the private sector, and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the emergency management network
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•Identify and apply concepts and techniques for leading through influencing, including influencing strategies, sources of power, results of applying different influence styles, and steps to build and sustain influence
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•Describe the organization of emergency management for emergency response and routine operations
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•Explain key factors in serving the
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