MGT 449: Community Based Response to All-Hazards Threats in Tribal Communities

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Overview

The purpose of this management level, instructor-led course is to provide tribal nations with the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to effectively detect, respond to, manage and mitigate all-hazard threats using a whole community approach. This course will include a practical exercise designed specifically to meet the needs of tribal communities.

Scope

The course will address the unique challenges that tribal nations face in in effectively detecting, responding to, managing and mitigating threats that include disease outbreaks and the occurrence of environmental health threats, using a whole community approach.

Target Audience

The target audience will be tribal nation representatives and other support officials from emergency management, public health, law enforcement, fire, cooperative extension, medical services, environmental health, veterinarians, and animal health officials.

Course Offerings

Currently, this course is not scheduled. If you are interested in scheduling this course, please visit https://www.ruraltraining.org/training/request/.

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Prerequisites

We have no pre-requisites identified at this time. We may identify prerequisites during our development process.

Fees

Instructor-led courses fees vary due to the cost of materials and course production. Please contact us for costing information.

Length

The instructor led course will be one day and a half in length (12 hours) and will be developed at the management level.

ModuleTitleTime Allocation
1Course Overview and Administration1.00 hour
2Whole Community Response to All-Hazards Threats2.00 hours
3Community Needs in Managing an Effective All-Hazards Response2.50 hours
4Applying Risk Assessments in Emergency Planning2.50 hours
5Community-Based Response and Recovery Strategies3.00 hours
6Practical Exercise: Utilizing a Whole Community Approach in Developing All-Hazards Threats Emergency Plans4.00 hours
7Course Evaluation1.00 hour