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The National Incident Management System
(NIMS) provides a consistent nationwide
template to enable all government, private-sector,
and nongovernmental organizations to
work together during domestic incidents.
This includes public information.
To meet this mandate the NIMC Integration
Center has announced the availability
of a new Independent Study course called
"IS-702 National Incident Management
System (NIMS) Public Information Systems
Training Course".
The public information systems described
in NIMS are designed to effectively
manage public information at an incident,
regardless of the size and complexity
of the situation or the number of entities
involved in the response. The goal of
this course is to facilitate NIMS compliance
by providing you with the basic information
and tools that you need to apply the
NIMS public information systems and
protocols during incident management.
This course is designed for local and
State public information officers and
takes approximately three hours to complete.
Federal public information officers,
as well as, private-sector and nongovernmental
organization personnel are encouraged
to complete the training also.
At the conclusion of this course, you
should be able to:
1. Define NIMS public information systems
to include onsite operations, the Joint
Information System (JIS), and the Joint
Information Center (JIC), and how they
relate to each other.
2. Describe the JIS/JIC process of gathering,
verifying, coordinating, and disseminating
information by public information and
incident management personnel.
3. Identify each agency involved in
given emergency situations and the role
of each in the JIS to ensure appropriate
situational awareness information is
communicated to the public.
4. Define key terms related to public
information systems to include the relationship
with multi-agency coordination systems
and the field.
5. Identify typical resource requirements
for public information systems.
The course can be accessed through
the FEMA Independent Study Program at
http://training.fema.gov/emiweb/IS/is702.asp.
A downloadable classroom version of
the course will be posted on the FEMA
Independent Study website upon completion.
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