SEPA Disaster Training Institute 2025: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Govn't Ops Fundamentals (new class)

Friday April 25, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Government Operations Fundamentals is a basic level, instructor-led and virtual instructor-led course that introduces the roles, responsibilities and tasks of the Red Cross government liaison. The course content is based on Government Operations doctrine. Participants engage in activities and scenarios that Red Cross government liaisons typically encounter when representing the Red Cross throughout the disaster cycle.

Note: Government Operations Fundamentals replaced the Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command Liaison course in 2013. Anyone who completed the old course was not required to take the new one.

Speakers

Gerry De Luca

Friday April 25, 2025 9:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Independence B

External Relations

REQUIRED Prerequisites Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview
Recommended Pre-requisites IS-100 Introduction to Incident Command System; IS 230 Fundamentals of Emergency Management; IS-700 An Introduction to the National Incident Management System; IS-800 National Response Framework, An Introduction

1:00pm EDT

Collaborating Essentials

Friday April 25, 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Independence B

Collaborating Essentials is a basic level, virtual and instructor-led course designed to promote and support collaboration at the Red Cross. Participants will engage in discussions and scenarios to determine the different skills and behaviors required for building and maintaining internal and external relationships. The course emphasizes the role that collaboration plays in the successful delivery of disaster services.

Speakers

Alana Mauger

Friday April 25, 2025 1:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Independence B

External Relations

REQUIRED Prerequisites Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview