Suggested IS Courses

What if you can’t send someone to class at EMI?

Because of the complex nature of the concepts and materials in the EMI Tribal Curriculum courses, they are not available as online courses.

The Emergency Management Institute does offer many online courses through its Independent Study (IS) Program that can be valuable to a tribal government starting a new emergency management program. The following courses are a suggested short list of (IS) courses recommended to begin the training process in emergency management:

IS-100.c Incident Command System (ICS) 100 – Introduction to the Incident Command System

IS-200.b ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents, ICS 200

IS-700.b National Incident Management System (NIMS), An Introduction

IS-800.c National Response Framework (NRF), An Introduction

IS-230.d Fundamentals of Emergency Management

IS-235.c Emergency Planning

IS-0029 Public Information Officer Awareness

IS-0318 Mitigation Planning for Local and Tribal Communities

IS-0201 Forms Used for the Development of the Incident Action Plan

IS-0368 Including People with Disabilities & Others with Access and Functional Needs in Disaster Operations

IS-0393.b Introduction to Hazard Mitigation

IS-1300 Introduction to Continuity of Operations

IS-2200 Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions

For training about responding to an event, please consider completing the following response and recovery IS courses:

IS-0111 Livestock in Disasters

IS-0559 Local Damage Assessment

IS-0703.b NIMS Resource Management

IS-0632.a Introduction to Debris Operations

IS-0633 Debris Management Plan Development

IS-1000 Public Assistance Program and Eligibility

IS-1025 Grant Administration Decisions for Tribal Governments

IS-1160 Damage Assessment Operations

For training about FEMA’s disaster assistance programs for eligible tribes that may be part of a Federal Declaration, please complete the following IS courses to prepare for available programs

IS-0403 Introduction to Individual Assistance

IS-0634 Introduction to FEMA’s Public Assistance Program

For a full listing of available IS courses from EMI, please click here: http://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.aspx?all=true