Students Should Take These Courses First:

FEMA COURSES:

     Listed below are several very valuable courses are available through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute (EMI), via their web-based Independent Study course program.

     These free, self-paced online courses are available at the FEMA Independent Study website, and are short and easy to complete. You will find dozens of courses that may interest you—we encourage you to take as many as you can.

     Seven FEMA courses are strongly recommended as prerequisites for HSUS Disaster Response courses. While the material will be reviewed during the appropriate sections of the courses, if a large number of students enter an HSUS disaster class without having taken these FEMA courses, it slows down the class.

     Further, in order to be eligible for HSUS deployment, the required courses shown below must be completed with six months of acceptance on the National DART.

REQUIRED:

·        Incident Command System (IS-100)

·        National Incident Management System (NIMS) (IS-700)

VERY STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:

·        Animals in Disaster Module A – Awareness and Preparedness (IS-10)

·        Animals in Disaster Module B – Community Planning (IS-11)

·        Livestock in Disasters (IS-111)

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED:

·        Introduction to Hazardous Materials (IS-5)

·        The Role of Voluntary Agencies in Emergency Management (IS-288)

NICE TO HAVE:

·        Many other FEMA EMI Courses …

OTHER (non-FEMA) COURSES:

REQUIRED:

·        (Human) First Aid and CPR (offered by the American Red Cross)

RECOMMENDED:

·        Animal (Pet) First Aid (offered by the American Red Cross)