Pierce County Emergency Management offers a variety of training for our First Responders, Citizen Corps members, and High Risk Population agencies. Check the links below for information specific to each class.

**Due to customer feedback about the webpage, we've added (**) before those sessions that are newly added since the last Training Announcement was sent. Thanks for the input!

• ICS-300 and ICS-400 - To identify who needs ICS Training, view the ICS Fact Sheets from the NIMS Five Year Training Plan (Feb 2008 version).
  
  
• ** Pre-Requisites Revised ICS Position Specific and All-Hazard Type III Training - Pierce County will offer Operations and Logisitics Position Specific training in February, March 2010 followed by All-Hazard Type III Training in April. To attend the IMT training, you will need to have had three modules of position specific training in addition to other pre-requisites. In addition the Emergency Management Institute in Maryland offers Resident ICS Position Specific as well.
  
  
• DEM Portal training is also offered on alternate months. The DEM Portal is a secured website for Pierce County responders to access for Incident Management and/or planning, School Information, Infrastructure Information, Maps, and other tools.
  
  
• EOC Liaison training is offered quarterly. This is an opportunity for PC-DEM to meet with our First Responders and Contract City Liaisons to provide updated information about EOC activities, learnings from drills/activations, and allow for practice time with the available technology.
  
  
• Exercise Design Series - this is a series of short modules offered once over three consecutive months and each builds on the previous class discussions.
  
  
• All-Hazard Training for Schools - this all-hazard emergency preparedness program for schools is a series of 2-hr modules covering a variety of threats associated with Natural Disasters, Human Caused Disasters and School Violence.
  
  
• 2010 DEM University - Technical Rescue Systems I, Rescue Systems II, Rope Rescue, etc. available to First Responders throughout the year.
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• American Red Cross - Rainier Chapter - Offers you convenience and value in safety training in First Aid, CPR, Bloodborne Pathogens, and Disaster Response.
  
  
• Emergency Management Institute - EMI offers both resident and non-resident courses and serves as the national focal point for the development and delivery of emergency management training to enhance the capabilities of federal, state, local, and tribal government officials, volunteer organizations, and the public and private sectors to minimize the impact of disasters on the American public.
  
  
• Independent Self-Study - FEMA's Emergency Management Institute offers a wealth of online self-study classes on a broad scope of topics.
  
  
• Office of Domestic Preparedness Consortium Partners - These agencies have contracted with ODP to provide training to First Responders across the country. In some cases, that coverage includes airfare, lodging, and/or meals to take First Responders to the training; in other cases, the training can be brought to Pierce County.
  
  
• DHS First Responder Website - DHS is committed to ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared, equipped, and trained for any situation by bringing together information and resources to prepare for and respond to a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other large-scale emergency.
  
  
• Grant Writing Best Practices Training - This is just one of many vendors who provide Grant Writing training. This is listed to provide an option for a class and is not an endorsement by Pierce County for this particular course.

• WA State Emergency Management
• King County Emergency Management
• WA State Patrol HazMat Calendar 2009-2010
• Pierce College HLS Emerg Mgmt AA Degree