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Learn more about emergency? Disaster? In your community?!? #NatlPrep
Many local communities provide free training! Yes, my favorite four-letter word. F-R-E-E
Plan to attend classes to learn more about how your community is making a difference in emergency disaster preparedness & response #NatlPrep
I do tons of training, and Community Emergency Response Training (CERT) is a great place to start to learn what to do in an emergency. Best part? Almost all the training is offered free to many communities across this great nation.
#PlanAhead and learn good stuff!
Day-1 Ohio EMA Emergency Planning
Welcome to another solid start of Ohio EMA’s G-235: Emergency Planning course!
Thank you to Ashtabula County EMA for hosting this class for participants from three different FEMA regions. Here’s Ashtabula County EMA Deputy Director Tim Settles welcoming message to all our participants.
I immediately started involving them on identifying solid planning system characteristics.
Great discussion among Fire representatives, Emergency Management, and Red Cross professionals.
Additionally, CERT and HAM radio operators’ involvement was critical in plan writing as they will be testing/using those annexes.
Team leads from the Ohio National Guard / 52nd Civil Support Unit attended and worked closely with leadership from local/county EMAs.
Outstanding first day of class!
State of Ohio EMA – Basic Public Information Officer’s Course in Medina County
Day-2 of Ohio EMA’s Basic Public Information Officer’s course here in Medina County EMA welcoming participants from two different FEMA Regions to our class!
We have representation from almost every ESF – outstanding to see that kind of participation in our state class.
It’s going to be a packed two days of training including classroom discussion…
…complex in-class activities…
…on-camera interviews…
…engaging (and crazy reporter) type questions…
…and of course we had several contentious mock press conferences.
Train like you fight right? We also discussed how our varied experiences lends a ton of expertise to our ongoing operations in any community across this great nation.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s JIC/JIS course!
Usually the last one to leave…
So being an instructor is more than just talking, blabbing, and telling war stories.
There is a ton of preparation that is done even before the class starts. At the site hours before the start of class – just to make sure everything is working, all teaching materials are out and ready for all participants as they stroll into class exactly at the start.
And in the end? You are undoubtably the last one to leave.
Long LONG days and lots of added value aka sharing extra stuff for all participants is what separates average teachers from passionate instructors about their subject matter.
I love it because I believe I am making a difference in all aspects of disasters and emergencies.
Brand new Social Media Engagement Strategies course debut at SAC EOC #NDPTC
Solid start to the week being able to deliver the brand new FEMA NDPTC Social Media Engagement Strategies course.
Numerous pros from across the state of California attending today.
Special thanks to the Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services in hosting this fun class in their Emergency Operations Center.
Super special shoutout goes to MayJo!
Talked specifically about addressing audiences and their appropriate platforms. Mediums like static posts are great however we need to explore outside of your comfort zone and try new avenues to communicate. FacebookLive, Periscope, InstagramLive, YouTubeLive, etc…..these new emerging live broadcast tools can allow agencies to be creative in their broadcast of messages.
Solid afternoon facilitation on the formulation of a strategic communications specifically focusing in on social media and audience engagement.
And of course the standard shout out to our friend Cheryl.
Overall, the intent of this class is really to be a catalyst to start a meaningful conversation about engaging your constituents on various social media platforms.
Obviously, you would be taking FEMA NDPTC PER-344 Social Media Tools & Techniques first – which gives you a heavy dose of the currrent tools/platforms that are out there as well as a bunch of tactics and techniques that you could use in your EOC or JIC.
Both courses provide a different take on social media actions esp during disasters / crisis.
Keep on learning peeps. Much more to digest and figure out.
We all must do better to support our local communities, county coordinators, and state officials to work and communicate together before, during, and after the disaster.
We the people right? #Merica
Planning for upcoming class in June
Trust me, I read through ALL my evaluations
Monday morning..in the office.
As an Emergency Management Instructor, I read through all my evaluations. Like ALL evaluations.
It helps better my instructional delivery as a professional as well gain valuable insight to how participants perceive our enabling learning objectives and key points.
The comments below are from a course I taught last week.
“I have taken a couple dozen or so FEMA classes and these two are the best pair of instructors I have had!”
“More Kevin”
Setting up for this week’s classes
Setting up all the fun today for our Basic PIO course and JIC/JIS course.
Both these FEMA courses are cornerstone classes that all external affairs professionals should take. Additionally, the emergency management/disaster response networking opportunities are outstanding.
And yes, we are going to do some on camera interviews too.
Bring your A-game.
Hope to see you in my class tomorrow.
Humans all communicate differently…and speak lego
As human beings, we all communicate differently.
No seriously, we do. However, if we can find a common language, we can better fulfill our SMART objective, implement our strategies, and of course utilize the right tactics.
Common language? Yes, we use legos to demonstrate this process.
Just one of the fun training tabletop exercises we run through during the Command and General Staff Training.
Additionally, I got to talk about preparedness efforts too.
Fun stuff…doh!
Where is @rusnivek? 