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January 22, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm
- Homeland Security
Online
Venue Address:
Description:
This course will be held online. Information about logging into the course will be provided by the course host.
This performance-level, virtual, instructor-led training will provide participants with an understanding of how to build shelter and relocation capacity. The course will review the requirements of sheltering and evacuation, including the equipment and staffing needs for these operations. In addition, planning for sheltering, evacuation, and relocation will also be covered. The course will review case studies of previous disasters and look at best practices from these events.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify available resources for constructing, retrofitting, equipping, staffing shelters and community safe rooms.
- Analyze the current structure of ESF-6 leadership roles and responsibilities for coordinating mass care to ensure more accurate mass care capability assessments.
- Evaluate best practices of jurisdictions in capacity building and the delivery of evacuee support, sheltering and relocation.
- Assess how pandemics can affect ESF-6 approaches.
Special Instructions
This is a virtual course and attendees will need a computer or mobile device. It is being hosted by Harris County Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University.
For Questions
Contact Jennifer Suter from the Harris County Homeland Security and Emergency Management.