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Institute of Emergency Management
Planning/Management Level
Course # IEM-311
Course Title
Mayoral Institute for WMD and Terrorism Incident Preparedness
Description
The executive seminar theme is “knowing the right questions to ask …and getting the right answers”.
The purpose of the Mayoral Institute for WMD and Terrorism Incident Preparedness is to provide the nation's mayors a “ mayors only ” forum to discuss the strategic and executive level issues and challenges related to WMD/terrorism preparedness, and share proven strategies and practices.
The 6-hour seminar integrates multimedia scenarios and vignettes that highlight the key issues and facilitate executive level discussion.
Discussion Threads
The major discussion threads of the Mayoral Institute for WMD/Terrorism Incident Preparedness include:
• Relevance and importance of WMD/terrorism incident preparedness
• Leveraging domestic preparedness resources
• Homeland Security Strategic Planning
• Incident response and recovery considerations including legal and financial considerations
• Recovery and restoration process
OGT Training Level
Planning/Management
Delivery
This instructor led course can be delivered in two ways:
• At a mayor's conference, or
• At a selected host city with other regional mayors
Course Length
6 hours.
Prerequisites
None
Target Audience
Mayors
Benefits
• Executive Handbook - Mayors attending the executive seminar are provided a Mayoral Institute for WMD/Terrorism Incident Preparedness Executive Handbook outlining potential mayoral-level issues and discussion topics using the preparedness (pre-incident), response (incident), and recovery (post-incident) phases of the traditional emergency management framework.
Additionally, the executive handbook contains important “desktop” appendices.