All Hazards EM/LE/PIO Courses
Rescue Task Force- Active Shooter Training
Active Attack Integrated Response Train-the-Trainer
This 5-day performance level direct delivery course designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and emergency medical services (EMS) in active attack / shooter events.
Instructors: Joe Richardson, Lead Instructor with Jimme Smith & Luke Fleener
Date: Monday, March 14-Friday, March 18, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Class Maximum: 32 LE, 16 Fire/EMS, 4 Dispatchers
Active Attack Integrated Response Train-the-Trainer
This 5-day performance level direct delivery course designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communicator and emergency medical services (EMS) in active attack / shooter events.
- No previous rescue task force training necessary – you just need to be sworn law enforcement, a 911 dispatcher, or a fire/medical first responder. Fire/medical first responders must be an EMT or above.
- The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care (TECC) guidelines, which can be used at the point of injury (POI) to increase survivability of victims.
- The course also provides a model framework for law enforcement, fire, and EMS to integrate responses during an active attack / shooter event through the rescue task force concept.
- This course has been designed to improve the safety and survivability of victims of active attack/ shooter events and increase the effectiveness, coordination, and resource integration between law enforcement, fire, tele-communications and EMS when responding to these events.
Instructors: Joe Richardson, Lead Instructor with Jimme Smith & Luke Fleener
Date: Monday, March 14-Friday, March 18, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Class Maximum: 32 LE, 16 Fire/EMS, 4 Dispatchers
First Responder Disability Awareness Training
This 8 hour course for firefighters, law enforcement, and EMS personnel in the State of South Dakota. If you are a first responder who has an interest in educating yourself on how to properly respond to individuals with disabilities this training is for you. This is the nation’s only comprehensive disability awareness training for first responders. Content includes, but is not limited to, disabilities defined specific to first response, community resources, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Recognize-Identify-Approach-Interact-Response (RIAIR) model, victimization/abuse, etiquette/interaction skills, CIT interface, service animals, and person/identity first language.
Instructor: Captain Patrick Mann, Buffalo PD ret.
Lead Master Trainer for Law Enforcement Disability Awareness
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Maximum Attendees: 40
This 8 hour course for firefighters, law enforcement, and EMS personnel in the State of South Dakota. If you are a first responder who has an interest in educating yourself on how to properly respond to individuals with disabilities this training is for you. This is the nation’s only comprehensive disability awareness training for first responders. Content includes, but is not limited to, disabilities defined specific to first response, community resources, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Recognize-Identify-Approach-Interact-Response (RIAIR) model, victimization/abuse, etiquette/interaction skills, CIT interface, service animals, and person/identity first language.
Instructor: Captain Patrick Mann, Buffalo PD ret.
Lead Master Trainer for Law Enforcement Disability Awareness
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Maximum Attendees: 40
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Nuclear Convoys Briefing
This 4-hour program, brought to you by the US Dept. of Energy Office of Secure Transportation OST’s liaison program, communicates with law enforcement and public safety agencies nationwide, creating awareness of the OST mission (provide safe and secure transportation of nuclear weapons and components and special nuclear materials). This information helps to assist first responders during an OST emergency and provides direction for working with Federal agents during such an event. A post briefing Q&A session is included in the session. Attendees must be active first responders or supervisors/managers of a public safety agency. Instructor: Charles “Chuck” Miller, Lead Federal Agent, Dept. of Energy, Office of Secure Transportation Date: Saturday, March 19, 8:00am-12:00pm Maximum Attendees: 40 |
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E/L0105 Public Information Basics
This 3-day course, normally offered only at Emergency Management Institute, brings highly trained professionals discussing the differences with PIO work in the response field.
To equip participants with the skills needed to be work on the fly as a PIO, or those who are full or part-time PIOs, including oral and written communications; understanding and working with the media; and basic tools and techniques to perform effectively as a PIO, both in the proactive/advocacy times and crisis/emergency response. This for EM’s and upper level response personnel from state, local, tribal, territorial response agencies who could find themselves talking to the media.
Instructor: Lead Instructor-Pat Gerdes has 36 years in Fire/EMS, 15 years as Director of EM in a 5-county area of Nebraska where he managed 22 declared disasters in that time. He is an Advanced Certified EM in Nebraska and South Dakota as well as a certified EM in Wyoming. He is a graduate of the National Emergency Management Basic Academy as well and serves as an Assistant Fire Chief at Piedmont Fire in the northern Black Hills.
Support Instructor-Collin Baldacci, is a firefighter from Evansville WY for the last 3 years. He has a real passion for crisis communication after working as PIO for several industries as well as a reporter for an online athletic website. He is heavily involved in Search and Rescue in Natrona County where he aids in the delivery of public information and formerly was in a similar role in healthcare in Casper, WY. He is also an ICS and a Basic PIO Instructor.
Date: Wednesday, March 16-Friday, March 18
Prerequisites: IS-29-Public Information Officer Awareness
Maximum Attendees: 25
This 3-day course, normally offered only at Emergency Management Institute, brings highly trained professionals discussing the differences with PIO work in the response field.
To equip participants with the skills needed to be work on the fly as a PIO, or those who are full or part-time PIOs, including oral and written communications; understanding and working with the media; and basic tools and techniques to perform effectively as a PIO, both in the proactive/advocacy times and crisis/emergency response. This for EM’s and upper level response personnel from state, local, tribal, territorial response agencies who could find themselves talking to the media.
Instructor: Lead Instructor-Pat Gerdes has 36 years in Fire/EMS, 15 years as Director of EM in a 5-county area of Nebraska where he managed 22 declared disasters in that time. He is an Advanced Certified EM in Nebraska and South Dakota as well as a certified EM in Wyoming. He is a graduate of the National Emergency Management Basic Academy as well and serves as an Assistant Fire Chief at Piedmont Fire in the northern Black Hills.
Support Instructor-Collin Baldacci, is a firefighter from Evansville WY for the last 3 years. He has a real passion for crisis communication after working as PIO for several industries as well as a reporter for an online athletic website. He is heavily involved in Search and Rescue in Natrona County where he aids in the delivery of public information and formerly was in a similar role in healthcare in Casper, WY. He is also an ICS and a Basic PIO Instructor.
Date: Wednesday, March 16-Friday, March 18
Prerequisites: IS-29-Public Information Officer Awareness
Maximum Attendees: 25
