🔵🔵 NJVOAD presents “8 Dimensions, One Resilient You” on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from 1 – 2:30 PM ET. In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to practical tools and strategies for building resilience and achieving well-being. Drawing from the 8 dimensions of wellness – emotional, physical, social, intellectual, spiritual, environmental, occupational, and financial – participants will evaluate and explore how each area contributes to overall wellness and supports becoming more resilient. Register.
🔵🔵 FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute is offering K0289: State Volunteer and Donations Management. Course Dates: July 14–18, 2025 (10 a.m.–3 p.m. ET. 25 hours of online instruction. This virtual course will be held over 5 consecutive days (5 hours/day). Go to Training Opportunity 1879.
🔵🔵The Lehigh County LEPC is sponsoring the Rail Car Incident Response for Crude, Ethanol, and Other Flammable Liquids training course from the University of Findlay on both July 16 and July 17, 2025, in Schnecksville, PA at the Lehigh Carbon Community College, from 8 AM to 5 PM. You only need to register for ONE day. Register for July 16. (Deadline July 2). Register for July 17. (Deadline July 3). For registration assistance, please contact Susan Bloomfield at Susan.Bloomfield@findlay.edu or ☎️419-434-4353.
🔵🔵 AWR 328: All Hazards Preparedness for Animals in Disasters will be presented on Monday, July 28, 2025, from 8 AM to 5 PM ET, at the Wyoming County EMA, 3880 US-6, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. This 8-hour, tuition-free, DHS/FEMA-certified course will provide emergency managers and the agricultural community with tools to protect, respond to, and recover from the consequences of disasters involving animals in rural communities. The course will introduce participants to the unique issues that must be considered and addressed when animals are involved in an emergency. All content will be presented at an in-person workshop that will include didactic presentations by expert instructors, and small-group, hands-on, problem-solving activities that will be completed by participants. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required by July 21, 2025 here. A FEMA S.I.D. is required.
🔵🔵 MGT 448: All Hazards Planning for Animal, Agricultural, and Food Related Disasters will be presented on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, from 8 AM to 5 PM ET, at the Wyoming County EMA, 3880 US-6, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. This DHS/FEMA-certified, 8 hour, tuition-free, management-level course will provide the background information needed to lead a multi-agency team of emergency planners in the development of an Emergency Support Functions (ESF) annex for food and/or animal-related disasters to supplement their community’s existing Emergency Operation Plans (EOP). The course will address topics such as agroterrorism, detection and diagnosis, unique challenges that rural communities face in planning for and responding to food and/or animal-related disasters, utilization of ESF, recovery and the importance of sustainable operations during a disaster event, and mapping a community to identify areas of vulnerability and resources. All content will be presented at an all-day instructor-led training that will include presentations and problem-solving activities that will be completed in small groups. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required here by July 21. A FEMA S.I.D. is required.
🔵🔵 AWR 328: All Hazards Preparedness for Animals in Disasters will be presented on Monday, July 30, 2025, from 8 AM to 5 PM ET, at the Monroe County EMA, 100 Gyosum Road, Stroudsburg, PA 18360. This 8-hour, tuition-free, DHS/FEMA-certified course will provide emergency managers and the agricultural community with tools to protect, respond to, and recover from the consequences of disasters involving animals in rural communities. The course will introduce participants to the unique issues that must be considered and addressed when animals are involved in an emergency. All content will be presented at an in-person workshop that will include didactic presentations by expert instructors, and small-group, hands-on, problem-solving activities that will be completed by participants. Lunch will be provided. Register here. A FEMA S.I.D. is required.
🔵🔵 MGT 448: All Hazards Planning for Animal, Agricultural, and Food Related Disasters will be presented on Thursday, July 31, 2025, from 8 AM to 5 PM ET, at the Monroe County EMA, 3880 US-6, Tunkhannock, PA 18657. This DHS/FEMA-certified, 8 hour, tuition-free, management-level course will provide the background information needed to lead a multi-agency team of emergency planners in the development of an Emergency Support Functions (ESF) annex for food and/or animal-related disasters to supplement their community’s existing Emergency Operation Plans (EOP). The course will address topics such as agroterrorism, detection and diagnosis, unique challenges that rural communities face in planning for and responding to food and/or animal-related disasters, utilization of ESF, recovery and the importance of sustainable operations during a disaster event, and mapping a community to identify areas of vulnerability and resources. All content will be presented at an all-day instructor-led training that will include presentations and problem-solving activities that will be completed in small groups. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required here. A FEMA S.I.D. is required.
🔵🔵 FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute is offering K0418: Mass Care/Emergency Assistance Planning and Operations on August 11–14, 2025 (10 a.m.–3 p.m. ET). Course Length: 20 hours of online instruction. This virtual course will be held over 4 consecutive days. Go to Training Opportunity 1877.
🔵🔵 FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute is offering K0419: Shelter Field Guide Training for State and Local Communities. It is designed for use with its companion piece, the Shelter Field Guide. Read more in Training Opportunity 1804. August 25–26, 2025. The course is 10 hours of online instruction, held over 2 consecutive days.
🔵🔵 FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute is offering E0490: Voluntary Agency Coordination in Disasters. Course dates: September 8–11, 2025. Course Length: This course is 4 days in length at EMI. Go to Training Opportunity 1874.
🔵🔵 MGT 335: Event Security Planning for Public Safety Professionals will be present on October 22 and 23, 2025 at the Northampton County EMA Building, 100 Gracedale Avenue, Nazareth, PA 18064, from 8 AM to 5 PM ET each day. MGT 335 is a DHS/FEMA-certified, tuiton-free, 16-hour course designed to educate small and rural community public safety personnel, as well as local officials, regarding security concerns and considerations involved with planning any event. This course enables participants to recognize and plan adequate strategies and security measures to prevent or mitigate security incidents which may occur during scheduled events. This course reinforces the importance and magnitude of security planning required to execute a safe and effective event regardless of the size. Registration is required at least 2 weeks prior to the training at this link: https://ruraltraining.org/course/MGT-335/?scheduled=true&id=13837.
🔵🔵 The Lehigh Emergency Services Training Academy (LESTA) was established to coordinate the delivery of training to all fire and rescue services, EMS and Law Enforcement within Lehigh County, PA. Through partnerships with several public safety training organizations, LESTA seeks to provide high-quality programs for firefighters and rescue personnel and is committed to meeting the training needs of all first responders in Lehigh County. Out of county students: It is LESTA’s policy not to turn away out of county students if in-county (LEHIGH) students are given priority. Read the latest Training Newsletter.
🔵🔵 AWR-423-W: Mass Care Shelter and Relocation Communication (Web based) is available on TRAIN. The estimated time of completion is 1.5 hours. This web-based course provides participants with an understanding of messaging for shelter and evacuation operations and reviews at-risk populations and messaging for the whole community. By the end of the course participants will be able to fulfill the following learning objectives:
- Identify multiple effective communication strategies for individuals and households about where to find information on evacuation and shelters.
- Identify the ways in which age- and culturally-appropriate warning and notification systems, evacuation protocols, and coordinating services for at-risk individuals are developed and disseminated in multiple platforms and multilingual, multicultural formats.
- Compare messaging approaches that can differ between jurisdictions and subpopulations
Access the course via TRAIN.
🔵🔵 The Institute of Disaster Mental Health has made available the recording of their webinar, Effective Response to Chemical Disasters: Leadership, Communication, and Lessons Learned from East Palestine. This webinar provides an overview on chemical disasters by Dr. David Heslop, Associate Professor at UNSW Sydney and the Chair of the World Association for Disaster Emergency Medicine (WADEM) special interest group on chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) disasters. Also on the webinar are Barbara Thomas and Emily Probst of the Northern Ohio Red Cross, who were instrumental in the Red Cross response to the East Palestine, OH train derailment and chemical spill. Click here to watch the webinar.
🔵🔵The Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program provides training, funding, and a Resource Portal of tools to empower human health research in response to disasters and public health emergencies. Visit the DR2 Website.
🔵🔵 You can access the Bucks County Community College’s Training Catalog here.
🔵🔵 You can view the Lehigh County Emergency Services training schedule here.