E602 - Performance and Needs Assessment

Course Description:

This course will provide the participant with the knowledge, skills, and tools to conduct performance and needs assessments and the opportunity to practice these acquired abilities. An assessment plan will be based on a problem which individuals will analyze to determine whether an assessment needs to be done and what is the appropriate intervention.

Selection Criteria:

The primary focus will be State Emergency Management Agencies and Officess, FEMA staff, State exercise training officers, and other key emergency management trainers who also may participate if they so desire.

Prerequisites:

Applicants must complete E601 first. Participants also should do research on a real problem from a department, agency, or organization.

ACE Recommendation:

2 semester hours upper division credit in Education, Public Administration, or Emergency Management.

CEUs: 3.1