This is an eight-hour management-level course to provide emergency managers, first responders, and campus officials with a basic understanding of the latest knowledge of the best practices of hazardous weather preparedness activities for academic/government/corporate campus communities.

It is the aim of this course to equip emergency managers and campus officials with the knowledge necessary to prepare their communities for a wide variety of hazardous weather events. This course will address all-haards weather preparedness across multiple core capabilities, including "planning", "public information and warning", "community resilience", "long term vulnerability reduction," "risk and disaster resilience assessment," and "threats and hazard identification." These core capabilities will be discussed in detail, giving participants the tools necessary to create their own hazardous weather management plans and increase their home agency's hazardous weather resilience.

 COURSE MODULES:

• Science of Short Lead-Time Weather Events
• Preparedness for Short Lead-Time Weather Events
• Science of Long Lead-Time Weather Events
• Preparedness for Long Lead-Time Weather Events
• Warning Dissemination and StormReady

• Emergency Managers
• Campus Incident Management Teams
• Campus Officials/Administrators
• Safety and Security Officials
• Student Leaders
• Emergency Response Groups
• Campus Facilities Administrators
• Planners/Developers

It is recommended that the participants have a general understanding of the Incident Command System and the National Incident Management System (IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, and IS-800)