Introduction to Community Lifelines

IS-2901, Introduction to Community Lifelines, introduces the Community Lifelines construct, an outcome-driven response structure used to achieve incident stabilization. This course provides an overview of the eight (8) Community Lifelines, including how they promote the importance of situational awareness, prioritization of response efforts, and decision-making processes during a disaster response to work toward incident stabilization. The learner must achieve a minimum passing score of 75% on final knowledge assessments to earn the IACET CEU for IS-2901.

• Define the Community Lifelines construct and its use in emergency management operations
• Recognize the evolution of the lifelines construct based on a historical need to characterize incident impacts and prioritize emergency management efforts during a disaster response
• Define the eight (8) Community Lifelines and its relationship with individual components and sub-components
• Define the concept of incident stabilization and how lifelines are used to support stabilization efforts
• Describe how Community Lifelines are applied to gain Situational Awareness, Status Reporting, Priorities, Planning, and Operational Decision Making
• Assess and analyze components and or sub-components to determine the status of Community Lifelines
• Assign priority to Community Lifelines based on greatest incident impacts toward incident stabilization
• Recognize the tools and products that support Situational Awareness, Reporting, and Operational Decision Making that organizations use to present disaster impacts, stabilization goals, and status reports
• Utilize lifeline status and priorities to develop operational strategies (lines of effort) in order to achieve incident stabilization
• Apply an iterative process of lifeline reassessment based on changing incident conditions and progress of operational strategies