Upcoming Events

"Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a set of skills that helps disaster responders care for their clients, co-workers, families, friends, and neighbors. PFA has become the standard in helping others cope in times of crisis. Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an evidence-informed approach that is built on the concept of human resilience. PFA aims to reduce stress symptoms and assist in a healthy recovery following a traumatic event, natural disaster, public health emergency, or even a personal crisis.

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As the centerpiece of many communities, public health, hospital and healthcare staff, county services, law enforcement, school staff, and other emergency service and community support providers are in a unique position to see and assist in monitoring the public during and after an event. As helping professionals, we are not immune from these events either and dealing with our own colleagues is stressful as well. PFA will add to the skills you already possess in effectively helping ourselves and others."

"The E/L/G 2300 Intermediate Emergency Operations Center Functions is a three-day course with the goal of assisting individuals and jurisdictions who desire to develop or improve their Emergency Operation Centers (EOC). By the end of the course, students will be able to demonstrate, through activities and a Final Exam, the managerial and operational roles of the modern-day EOC as a NIMS Command and Coordination functional group operating within a Multiagency Coordination System (MACS). Selection Criteria:

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The intended audience(s) are federal, state, tribal, territorial, local level, business and nongovernmental emergency management personnel who may be designated to support an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) within their jurisdiction or organization. The materials were developed with the assumption that audience members may have little or no actual experience as a member of an EOC Staff."

"This course will overview CEPA (Colorado Emergency Preparedness Assessment), which is a county-level self-assessment that uses POETE (planning, organization, equipment, training, and exercises) elements to assess core capabilities in the five mission areas; prevention, protection, mitigation, response & recovery efforts. The course will also provide a summary of AFN (Access and Functional Needs) and CMIST (Communication, Maintaining Health/Medical, Independence, Safety & Support Services , and Transportation) resources."

"Community Outreach Teams survey community members and collect data on gaps and barriers experienced during response. In this training participants will discuss why and how surveys are vital in determining and assessing lessons learned, information for after action reports, information sharing, and building community competence. Trainers and participants will gather sample survey questions to build off of within communities and understand the power of community collaboration.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify best practices for relationship building, empowerment sharing, and meaningful inclusion of the community

2. Demonstrate how to complete an outreach survey"

"Information can mean the difference between life and death during disasters. To promote the safety of all community members during and after disasters, communication is crucial for disseminating emergency information, evacuation instructions, and other vital messages. How and what we communicate is the cornerstone of effective disaster response. However, language barriers can put communities at risk of being left behind when disasters strike. This course helps emergency managers and their partners learn how to develop appropriate messaging across different cultural contexts, manage multilingual communication, and build trust with communities to expand the reach of emergency information.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify language barriers in emergency management and real-world impacts

2. Identify strategies and solutions to provide multilingual disaster information"

"Community Outreach Teams survey community members and collect data on gaps and barriers experienced during response. In this training participants will discuss why and how surveys are vital in determining and assessing lessons learned, information for after action reports, information sharing, and building community competence. Trainers and participants will gather sample survey questions to build off of within communities and understand the power of community collaboration.

Learning Objectives

1. Identify best practices for relationship building, empowerment sharing, and meaningful inclusion of the community

2. Demonstrate how to complete an outreach survey"

"Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a set of skills that helps disaster responders care for their clients, co-workers, families, friends, and neighbors. PFA has become the standard in helping others cope in times of crisis. Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an evidence-informed approach that is built on the concept of human resilience. PFA aims to reduce stress symptoms and assist in a healthy recovery following a traumatic event, natural disaster, public health emergency, or even a personal crisis.

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As the centerpiece of many communities, public health, hospital and healthcare staff, county services, law enforcement, school staff, and other emergency service and community support providers are in a unique position to see and assist in monitoring the public during and after an event. As helping professionals, we are not immune from these events either and dealing with our own colleagues is stressful as well. PFA will add to the skills you already possess in effectively helping ourselves and others."

"Join emergency management professionals and partners from across Colorado in Loveland for three days of sharing lessons, exchanging ideas, building connections and exploring the newest tools, strategies and insights shaping the field.

Whether you’re bringing experience to the table or looking for new ideas to take back to your community, COEMC is where Colorado’s emergency management community comes together to learn from one another (and have some fun along the way).

Registration, speaker applications and sponsor/exhibitor opportunities are opening soon."