Primary Core Capability: Community Resilience

This course is designed to teach and encourage community members impacted by a disaster to prepare, take preservation actions and perform, as appropriate, light search and rescue response to aid their family and other community members in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster or human-made incident. The course is not designed for the first responder community, but would be appropriate for families of first responders along with all types of civic groups and individuals within the community.

For additional course information, including contact hours, please see the National Preparedness Catalog.

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify elements needed to prepare, act, and survive a disaster involving their community

• Demonstrate survival strategies to rescue and care for themselves, their families, and their pets during and in the immediate aftermath of an event

• Demonstrate techniques to provide assistance in the search, light rescue, care, and safety of their neighbors

There are no prerequisites for this course.

• Emergency Management

• Citizen/Community Volunteer