| MICUA Offers Incident Command Training for Emergency Responders |
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MICUA Matters Fall 2008
MICUA hosted a workshop on Incident Management Strategies for Colleges and Universities in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University Center for Public Health Preparedness on October 23, 2008. Developed in response to interest from the higher education community, the workshop built on the Emergency Preparedness Summit which MICUA offered in January 2008. The day-long event delved into the National Incident Management System (NIMS) with a particular focus on the Incident Command System (ICS).
NIMS provides a consistent nationwide template to enable all government, private-sector, and non-governmental organizations to work together during emergencies. The agenda included a full-day training workshop focused on implementing the ICS on a college or university campus. With brain-storming sessions and practical exercises, training topics covered communications, information management, supporting technology, and the roles of regular college and university staff during an ICS emergency.
The workshop attracted a broad audience of college and university "first responders"-those who have an important emergency response role and would likely be first on the scene of an incident on campus, including administrators, campus police, media specialists, financial officers, and others. In addition to representatives of Maryland's independent colleges, leaders of Maryland's public universities, Maryland's community colleges, the Maryland Higher Education Commission, and several Washington, D.C. institutions were invited to attend free of cost. |