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Training and Exercises

EM Training • Hazmat Training • Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program • Radiological Emergency Response • Search and Rescue Training • Public Safety Response to Terrorism

Emergency Management Training

Advanced Professional Series

Students who complete the five required courses and any five of 16 elective courses are eligible to receive the EMI Advanced Professional Series (APS) Certificate of Completion. Students who complete any or all of the courses in the original APS can use those for credit. Upon completion of all training, student must submit a request for their certificate through VDEM. Copies of all supporting certificates/documentation must accompany the request. Download the request form. [34kb PDF]

View a list of emergency management professionals who have completed the Advanced Professional Series.

Required Courses

• EOC Management and Operations: G275
• Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface: G191
• Rapid Assessment Workshop: G250.7
• Recovery from Disaster, the Local Government Role: G270.4
• Mitigation Planning Workshop for Local Governments: G318

Elective Courses

• Donations Management Workshop: G288
• Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools: G362
• Emergency Planning and Special Needs Populations: G197
• NIMS Resource Management: IS703
• Debris Management: G202
• Mass Fatalities: G386
• Exercise Program Manager: G137
• Flood Fight Operations: G361
• Emergency Management Operations Course for Local Governments: G110
• Homeland Security Planning for Local Governments (formerly Terrorism Planning): G408
• Community Mass Care Management: G108
• Evacuation and Re-entry Planning: G358
• Basic Public Information Officers: G290
• Hazardous Weather and Flood Preparedness: G271
• Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk, IS271
• Warning Coordination: G272
• Advanced Incident Command System: G400

Course descriptions, information regarding the original required courses and changes to course electives are available on FEMA's Web site at http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/.