Western Community Policing Institute — Homeland Security Training

Creating Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities for Homeland Security

Only with strong partnerships, enhanced networking capabilities, and organized community infrastructures can United States' communities become vigilant, prepared, and resilient in the war on terrorism and other events of national significance. Whether security threats involve acts of terrorism or natural or man-made disasters, a community's ability to become vigilant, prepared, and resilient depends upon the efforts/partnerships of law enforcement, governmental and non-governmental organizations, community members, and tribal members who are adequately trained and equipped. With the continued threat of terrorist attacks and other events of national significance, now more than ever, it is incumbent on every U.S. citizen to not become a burden in times of crisis. This two-day course is designed to provide law enforcement personnel, governmental and non-governmental organization representatives, and community members awareness-level information, as well as capacity building, that leads to creating vigilant, prepared, and resilient communities for homeland security and events of national significance. This course includes classroom instruction, problem-based learning strategies, and practical"hands-on" activities. Topics include: Problem-Based Learning technique and application, elements of group dynamics (including team building, leadership principles, and conflict resolution), community policing history and tenets, components of homeland security preparedness and response (including terrorism and fear considerations), community responsibility, ethics, vision development, and action planning.
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The Leader's Role in Creating Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities

This one-day course is designed to increase public safety executives' level of terrorism awareness and preparation skills to engage the community in all-hazards and anti-terrorism strategies through partnering with federal, state, and local agencies. Through this highly interactive training, public safety managers and executives will team up with other agency personnel to share strategies and successes. Using a practical, real-life scenario, participants will identify community resources to be deployed in a real terrorist incident, natural disaster, or any event of national significance. In this course, participants will: Learn about Federal, state, and local anti-terrorism and homeland security resources, determine the preparedness needs of their jurisdiction, identify specific goals for higher levels of community preparedness in their jurisdictions, identify community partners who will assist in identifying and addressing preparedness gaps, use an implementation model to prepare an action plan, and evaluate methods to achieve identified goals for their jurisdiction. Upon course completion, participants will have developed an initial plan for addressing anti-terrorism and all-hazards issues of vigilance, preparedness, and resiliency.

Embracing Tribal Partnerships for Homeland Security

In support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Preparedness Directorate's Office of Grants and Training (G&T) mission to assist state, local, Tribal, and territorial governments to prevent, protect agianst, and respond to incidents of national signifiucance and catastrophic events, and to compliment existing WCPI homeland security efforts, this course offers a unique, innovative, and non-duplicative national training approach to enhancing national homeland security preparedness for
emergencies and disasters of all kinds on Tribal lands and in Tribal communities.

This course addresses the unique, significant, and often overlooked threats to homeland security on Tribal lands and surrounding jurisdictions, with a focus on building working, effective, and efficient collaborative partnerships throught Tribal lands.

Course content includes specific instruction on coordinating homeland security preparedness assistance expenditures and planning efforts on a regional basis, maximizing manpower, assets and resource inventories to produce effective collaborative efforts, resource tools and metholdologies that promote a national approach for critical infrastructure protection, and improving responses in planning and community outreach. Course materials will also include instruction on how to identify and prepare vulnerable populations before an event.