Southeast Wisconsin Homeland Security Partnership upcoming events

SEWI COAD Meeting: Incorporating Wildfire Smoke Events into Health Hazard Planning (10 Sep 2026)

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Southeast Wisconsin Community Organizations Active in Disasters (COAD) will be holding its fall General Membership Meeting on Thursday, September 10, from 10:00–11:30 a.m.

If your organization has a role in helping communities prepare for, respond to, or recover from emergencies and you'd like to learn more about COAD, please consider joining us. You can register below, or by visiting www.sewicoad.org.

Homeland Security Exercise & Evaluation Program (HSEEP) (21 Sep 2026)

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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.

ICS-400 Advanced Incident Command System (ICS) (6 Oct 2026)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT

Waukesha County is hosting an ICS-400 Advanced ICS course presented by TEEX on October 6^th and 7^th, at the Waukesha County EOC. ICS-400 prepares public safety and incident management personnel to operate within the Incident Command System in major or complex incidents and introduces participants to the concept of Area Command for Type 1 & 2 incidents. ICS-400 is also a prerequisite for many other valuable courses, such as Command & General Staff and Position-Specific incident management courses. Please see the attached course flyer or click the course title link below for full information.

Course: MGT-905 / ICS-400 Advanced ICS
Date: Tuesday, October 6 – Wednesday, October 7
Time: 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: Waukesha County EOC, 1621 Woodburn Rd Waukesha, WI 53188
Registration: via TEEX

This is the only ICS-400 course scheduled for Waukesha County in 2026. Additional participants are needed to ensure the course is delivered. Please share within your organization and with partner agencies that may be interested.

Recovery from Disaster - G205 (6 Oct 2026)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:00:00 GMT

G205 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Role

Racine County is hosting a G205 Recovery from Disaster course presented by WEM on October 6 and 7 at Aurora Mount Pleasant.

This course covers foundational concepts in disaster recovery and the latest guidance on recovery planning. Participants will either assess their own recovery plan or a sample against this national planning guidance.

Following that, participants will discuss how a disaster recovery effort can be organized, managed, and led along with the types of challenges faced by recovery managers. Scenario activities throughout the course give participants the opportunity to target information strategies, and address local capabilities and challenges. They will also analyze lessons learned from Joplin, Missouri.

Course: G205 Recovery from Disaster: The Local Community Role

Date: Tuesday October 6 - Wednesday October 7

Time: 8am - 4:30pm

Location: Aurora Medical Center Mount Pleasant, Conference Room 3, 13250 Washington Ave, Sturtevant WI 53177

Registration: Wisconsin Emergency Management

Additional participants are needed to ensure the course is delivered. Please share within your organization and with partner agencies that may be interested.

When Cyber Strikes: Communicating with Confidence (13 Oct 2026)

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:00:00 GMT

Mass Fatalities Incident Response (Mauston, WI) (20 Oct 2026)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 05:00:00 GMT

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/