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• Understanding and Planning for School Bombing Incidents (UPSBI)

  • When
    29 Jul 2026
  •  
    8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Appleton Police Department

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  AWR-132 - Understanding and Planning for School Bombing Incidents (UPSBI)

  Course Description

  The Understanding and Planning for School Bomb Incidents, Mobile course is designed to provide emergency first responders and school staff with the skills to plan and respond to school bomb threats and bombing incidents through lectures and exercises. Participants are presented with information necessary to recognize a threat and determine pre- and post-detonation threat response strategies and develop actionable items specific to an individual's school needs.

  Course Objectives

  • Describe critical decision-making moments during a school bomb threat.
  • Develop the ability to validate a school bombing threat.
  • Identify pre-detonation response strategies in a school environment.
  • Identify post-detonation response strategies in a school environment.

  Mission Areas

  • Prevent

  Prerequisites

  United States Citizenship

  Disciplines

  • Emergency Management
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Fire Service
  • Law Enforcement
  • Security and Safety
  • Education

  
  Prerequisites & Other Information:
  N/A
  
  Cost:
  

  No tuition is charged.

  Register at: www.trainingwisconsin.org 

  
  

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• Whole Community Emergency Management Planning

  • When
    6 Aug 2026
  •  
    9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Sun Prairie Utilities, 510 Linnerud Dr., Sun Prairie, WI

  AWR-330 - WHOLE COMMUNITY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING
  
  Through guided discussions, individual and group activities, the AWR-330 Whole Community Emergency Management Planning Course helps participants identify and better understand the stakeholders and resources within their communities. Students will learn to develop strategies to better incorporate stakeholders into their emergency planning process, with a goal of increasing individual, community, and national resilience to all hazards.
  
  This course is designed for any individual involved in emergency management planning from both public and private agencies. The intended audience for this course includes but is not limited to:

   • Emergency Management Personnel
   • Governmental administrative representatives (state / county  / municipal / tribal)
   • Citizen/community volunteers
   • Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO)
   • Advocacy groups and organizations; and other community stakeholder
  
  Prerequisites & Other Information:
  A FEMA SID is required to register for and participate in any training provided by FEMA. The FEMA SID will serve as your unique identifier and be used to maintain the record of FEMA trainings you attended. Register for a FEMA SID at: cdp.dhs.gov/femasid
  
   Recommended Trainings
  • IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System, ICS 100
  • IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response, ICS 200
  • TEEX MGT-312 Senior Officials Workshop for All Hazards Preparedness
  
  Cost:
  No tuition is charged.

  Register: www.trainingwisconsin.org 

  
  

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• Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP)

  • Start
    17 Aug 2026
  • End
    20 Aug 2026
  • Location
    Virtual

  K-0146 - Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (virtual)
  
  Course Description
  This is an intermediate-level course designed to provide a set of guiding principles, standardized methodology, available resources and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistent exercise program. This course describes a common approach to exercise program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning.
  
  The target audience for this training are those involved in planning, program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.
  
  Course Objectives
  Understand the role of HSEEP in National Preparedness, and how HSEEP exercise principles and methodology support efforts across the whole community to improve our national capacity to build, sustain, and deliver core capabilities.
  
  Prerequisites Courses:
  IS-0120.c: An Introduction to Exercises
  
  Other Prerequisites:
  Recommended: IS-0130, Exercise Evaluation and Improvement Planning
  

  Register Here: Wisconsin Emergency Management

  
  NOTE: INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST ALSO APPLY FOR THIS COURSE ON FEMA's ADMISSION SYSTEM HERE:
  
  https://training.fema.gov/generaladmissionsapplication/staticforms/startapplication.aspx
  
  When asked for Head of Organization name (or the head of the sponsoring agency), enter: Troy Klemstein, State Training Officer (troy.klemstein@widma.gov)
  
  Students will need a FEMA Student ID (SID) in order to register. If you do not already have one or do not know your SID, visit this site: https://cdp.dhs.gov/femasid
  
  Note: If you do not see this class with this specific date in FEMA's registration system, it likely means that the class has already been filled to capacity. If so, please choose a different offering. The class is administered entirely on FEMA's system and they do not inform us when classes have been filled to capacity; we list classes like this on our calendar for the ease of our local students who are interested and might not otherwise be able to attend. 
  
  Cost:
  No tuition is charged.

  
  

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• Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP)

  • Start
    21 Sep 2026
  • End
    24 Sep 2026
  • Location
    Virtual

  K-0146 - Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (virtual)
  
  Course Description
  This is an intermediate-level course designed to provide a set of guiding principles, standardized methodology, available resources and practical skill development, which will assist in developing an HSEEP consistent exercise program. This course describes a common approach to exercise program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning.
  
  The target audience for this training are those involved in planning, program management, design and development, conduct, evaluation, and improvement planning of HSEEP consistent exercises.
  
  Course Objectives
  Understand the role of HSEEP in National Preparedness, and how HSEEP exercise principles and methodology support efforts across the whole community to improve our national capacity to build, sustain, and deliver core capabilities.
  
  Prerequisites Courses:
  IS-0120.c: An Introduction to Exercises
  
  Other Prerequisites:
  Recommended: IS-0130, Exercise Evaluation and Improvement Planning
  

  Register Here: Wisconsin Emergency Management

  
  NOTE: INTERESTED STUDENTS MUST ALSO APPLY FOR THIS COURSE ON FEMA's ADMISSION SYSTEM HERE:
  
  https://training.fema.gov/generaladmissionsapplication/staticforms/startapplication.aspx
  
  When asked for Head of Organization name (or the head of the sponsoring agency), enter: Troy Klemstein, State Training Officer (troy.klemstein@widma.gov)
  
  Students will need a FEMA Student ID (SID) in order to register. If you do not already have one or do not know your SID, visit this site: https://cdp.dhs.gov/femasid
  
  Note: If you do not see this class with this specific date in FEMA's registration system, it likely means that the class has already been filled to capacity. If so, please choose a different offering. The class is administered entirely on FEMA's system and they do not inform us when classes have been filled to capacity; we list classes like this on our calendar for the ease of our local students who are interested and might not otherwise be able to attend. 
  
  Cost:
  No tuition is charged.

  
  

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• Mass Fatalities Incident Response (Mauston, WI)

  • Start
    20 Oct 2026
  • End
    21 Oct 2026

  G386 - Mass Fatalities Incident Response
  
  This course prepares state and local response personnel and other responsible agencies and professionals to handle mass fatalities effectively and to work with the survivors in an emergency or disaster.

  This course covers incident management; mass fatalities; planning before and operations during an incident; establishing the morgue; family assistance support operations; and assistance from the Federal government. The course concludes with a tabletop exercise.
  Participants will learn to identify the characteristics of a mass fatality incident and identify the roles and responsibilities of key personnel in the incident. In addition, the instructor will describe the steps required to respond to a mass fatalities incident, including catastrophic numbers of fatalities and contaminated remains, and help participants determine their jurisdiction’s preparedness for a mass fatalities event.

  
  

  Selection Criteria:

  The target audience for this course is local responders who may have responsibility for the recovery, handling, identification, and return of remains following a mass fatalities incident.

  Course Objectives:

  • Describe the critical operational activities:
    • Notification
    • Staging
    • Search and recovery
    • Morgue operations
    • Media relations
    • Family assistance
  • Explain how the Family Assistance Center is used to support families and to aid identification of the deceased.
  • Identify the requirements to ensure that the psychological needs of morgue personnel are addressed.
  • Recognize the importance of Critical Incident Stress Debriefings for responders at a mass fatalities incident.
  • Identify the resources that are available during a mass fatalities incident and describe their roles and responsibilities.
  • Apply the principles of ICS to a simulated incident.

  Prerequisites & Other Information:
  N/A
  
  Cost:
  No tuition is charged.
  

  Register: https://www.trainingwisconsin.org/ 

  
  

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