Emergency Preparedness Training

IS-36: Multihazard Planning for Childcare (2 hrs/0.2 CEUs)

Course Overview

This course covers the steps to help childcare providers prepare for incidents to ensure the safety of the children at their site. Childcare providers must have plans and procedures to keep children safe from everyday hazards and to respond and recover when an emergency happens.

The goal of this course is to provide childcare providers, of all sizes and with responsibility for children of all ages, with the knowledge and tools to analyze the hazards and threats at the site, to develop a plan to address these hazards and threats, and to implement processes to update and practice the emergency plan.

The topics addressed in this course include:

• Knowing your hazards.
• Developing a plan.
• Testing and updating your plan.

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the participant will be able to:

• Describe why it is important to be prepared.
• Identify hazards and threats that impact your childcare site.
• Describe how to prevent or mitigate the impact of likely and high-consequence hazards and threats.
• Describe procedures for when an emergency occurs.
• Identify how your childcare site will recover from an emergency.
• Describe how to develop and maintain your plan.
• Describe how you will communicate, train, and practice your preparedness procedures.
• Identify the emergency preparedness information you will share with your community.
• Describe when to update your plan.

Primary Audience

This course is designed for childcare providers of all sizes and for all age children, including, but not limited to, home childcare sites, childcare facilities, nursery schools, camps, scouts, sports programs, faith-based programs, and afterschool programs. However, anyone with a personal or professional interest in childcare site preparedness is welcome to participate. Teachers, camp counselors, parents, volunteers, scout leaders, and coaches alike will find useful information in this course.

IS-366: Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters (4 hrs/0.4 CEUs)

Course Overview

The purpose of this course is to provide guidance for Emergency Managers and implementers of children’s programs about meeting the unique needs that arise among children as a result of a disaster or emergency.

Much of the information in this course is based upon a document titled “The Unique Needs of Children in Emergencies: A Guide for the Inclusion of Children in Emergency Operations Plans,” published by Save the Children.

Course Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, you should be able to create, update, or revise an Emergency Operations Plan for your community or organization to effectively address the unique needs of children in disasters.

Primary Audience

The target audience for this course is local and state emergency managers and planners. Other individuals or groups that may benefit from taking this course include those directly involved with meeting the needs of children, such as the following:

• Judges and other members of the State, county, and local governmental legal system
• Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (VOADs), faith-based organizations, and other non-profits
• Child service agencies
• Child care providers
• Schools