The following selected courses may be appropriate for individuals interested in learning more about basic emergency response protocols, especially for rural areas.  Please note this is only a partial listing of courses available through the EMI. Click here for the full list of course offerings.

IS-10.a: Animals in Disaster: Awareness and Preparedness
This course is intended to help animal owners, care providers, and industries to understand incident management. The objectives of this course are to increase awareness and preparedness among animal owners and care providers, and to describe how typical hazards affect animals and what can be done by responsible owners to reduce the impact of disasters.

IS-11.a: Animals in Disaster: Community Planning
This course provides information for groups to meet and develop meaningful and effective plans that improve the care of animals, their owners, and the animal-care industries in disasters. The objectives of this course are to learn how to develop a community plan for managing animals in an emergency, identify hazards and threats most likely to affect your community and ways to minimize their impact on animals, indicate how communities use the Incident Command System (ICS) to respond effectively to an incident involving animals, describe resources available to help communities recover from a disaster, and develop community support for a disaster preparedness plan involving animals.

IS-15.b: Special Events Contingency Planning, Training for Public Safety Agencies
This course provides public safety agency personnel information related to pre-event planning, forming the planning team, event hazard analysis, and responding to incidents during special events in their community.

IS-36: Multi-hazard Planning for Childcare
This course covers the steps to help childcare providers prepare for incidents to ensure the safety of the children at their site. Childcare providers must have plans and procedures to keep children safe from everyday hazards and to respond and recover when an emergency happens.

IS-42: Social Media in emergency Management
The purpose of this course is to provide the participants with best practices including tools, techniques and a basic roadmap to build capabilities in the use of social media technologies in their own emergency management organizations (State, local, Tribal) in order to further their emergency response missions.

IS-100.c: Introduction to Incident Command System, I-100
ICS 100, Introduction to the Incident Command System, introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the foundation for higher level ICS training. This course describes the history, features and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

IS-111.a: Livestock in Disaster
This course combines the knowledge of livestock producers and emergency managers to present unified approach to mitigate the impact of disasters on animal agriculture.

IS-230.d: Fundamentals of Emergency Management
The goal of this course is to introduce you to the fundamentals of emergency management. This course presents emergency management as an integrated system with resources and capabilities networked together to address all hazards. This is the first course in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Institute’s independent study Professional Development Series.

IS-235.c: Emergency Planning
This course is designed for emergency management personnel who are involved in developing an effective emergency planning system. This course offers training in the fundamentals of the emergency planning process, including the rationale behind planning. It will develop your capability for effective participation in the all-hazard emergency operations planning process to save lives and protect property threatened by disaster.

IS-242.b: Effective Communication
This course is designed to improve your communication skills. It addresses: Basic communication skills; How to communicate in an emergency; How to identify community-specific communication issues; How to use technology as a communication tool; Effective oral communication; and, How to prepare an oral presentation.

IS-244.b: Developing and Managing Volunteers
The goal of this course is to strengthen abilities to prepare for and manage volunteers before, during, and after a severe emergency or major disaster. This course will: Provide strategies for identifying, recruiting, assigning, training, supervising, and motivating volunteers. Include discussion of spontaneous volunteers as well as those affiliated with community-based, faith-based, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).

IS-271.a: Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk
This course provides emergency managers and other decision makers with background information about weather, natural hazards, and preparedness. This module offers web-based content designed to address topics covered in the multi-day Hazardous Weather and Flood Preparedness course offered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the National Weather Service (NWS).

IS-288.a: The Role of Voluntary Agencies in Emergency Management
This course provides a basic understanding of the history, roles, and services of disaster relief volunteer agencies in providing disaster assistance. It is appropriate for both the general public and those involved in emergency management operations.

IS-317: Introduction to CERT
“Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT),” IS-317, is an independent study course that serves as an introduction to CERT for those interested in completing the basic CERT training or as a refresher for current team members. The course includes six modules: CERT Basics, Fire Safety, Hazardous Material and Terrorist Incidents, Disaster Medical Operations, and Search and Rescue, and Course Summary.

IS-325: Earthquake Basics: Science, Risk and Mitigation
This course presents basic information on earthquake science, risk, and mitigation. It also discusses techniques for structural and non-structural earthquake mitigation. Earthquake Basics is targeted to a wide range of audiences, including homeowners, business owners, the private sector, federal, state, tribal and local government workforce at all levels, first responders, non-profit organizations, volunteers, and community based organizations.

IS-360: Preparing for Mass Casualty Incidents: A Guide for Schools, Higher Education, and Houses of
Worship
This course provides leading practices and resources to assist elementary and secondary schools, institutions of higher education, and houses of worship in developing emergency plans for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from mass casualty incidents.

IS-362.a: Multi-hazard Emergency Planning for Schools
This course covers basic information about developing, implementing, and maintaining a school emergency operations plan (EOP). The goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the importance of schools having an EOP and basic information on how an EOP is developed, exercised, and maintained. This course is designed for teachers, substitute teachers, counselors, parent volunteers, coaches, bus drivers, and students; however, anyone with a personal/professional interest in school preparedness is welcome to participate.

IS-366.a: Planning for the Needs of Children in Disasters
Provides guidance for Emergency Managers and implementers of children’s programs about meeting the unique needs that arise among children as a result of a disaster or emergency. 

IS-368: Including People With Disabilities & Others With Access & Functional Needs in Disaster Operations
The purpose of this course is to increase awareness and understanding of the need for full inclusion of disaster survivors and FEMA staff who are people with disabilities and people with access and functional needs. The course provides an overview of disabilities and access and functional needs and explains how disaster staff can apply inclusive practices in their disaster assignments.

IS-394.a: Protecting Your Home or Small Business from Disaster
The purpose of this course is to provide a foundation of knowledge that will enable participants to: Describe different types of natural disasters, Describe hazards that pose a risk to their home or small business, Explain how protective measures can reduce or eliminate long-term risks to their home and personal property from hazards and their effects, and to explain how protective measures for small businesses secure people, business property, and building structures and prevent business loss from a natural disaster.

IS-505: Religious and Cultural Literacy and Competency in Disaster

This course provides emergency management professionals and faith and community leaders active in disaster with the literacy and competency tools needed to effectively engage religious and cultural groups both pre- and post-disaster.

IS-520: Introduction to Continuity of Operations Planning for Pandemic Influenzas
This course introduces students to the characteristics of a pandemic influenza, the effects that a pandemic can have on every facet of our society, and the steps their organizations can take to minimize the effects of a pandemic. The primary audiences for this course are personnel at any level of government, representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs), or representatives from private industry who may have a need for a basic understanding of pandemic influenza and the impacts that they can expect should a widespread pandemic occur in the United States.

IS-700.b: National Incident Management System (NIMS), and Introduction
This course provides an overview of the National Incident Management System (NIMS). The National Incident Management System defines the comprehensive approach guiding the whole community - all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations (NGO), and the private sector - to work together seamlessly to prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the effects of incidents. The course provides learners with a basic understanding of NIMS concepts, principles, and components.

IS-906: Basic Workplace Security Awareness
This course provides guidance to individuals and organizations on how to improve the security in your workplace and presents information on how employees can contribute to their organization’s security.

IS-909: Community Preparedness: Implementing Simple Activities for Everyone
The purpose of this course is to present a model program for community preparedness. In addition, resources are available to help organizations conduct simple preparedness activities for everyone.

IS-912: Retail Security Awareness: Understanding the Hidden Hazards
The purpose of this course is to make persons involved in commercial retail operations aware of the actions they can take to identify and report suspicious purchases or thefts of products that actors could use in terrorist or other criminal activities. This course provides an overview of prevention steps aimed at identifying and monitoring high-risk inventory products and reporting suspicious activities to law enforcement agencies.

IS-2200: Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions
The Basic Emergency Operations Center Functions course is designed to introduce the role, design, and function of the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and the supportive relationship as a NIMS Command and Coordination component of the Multiagency Coordination System.