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Title |
Advanced Skills in Disaster Family Assistance |
Description |
This course will explore the unique set of leadership skills required to successfully manage the family assistance process within the chaotic post-disaster environment. Participants will be provided with decision-making tools, crisis communication strategies, and methods for deploying resources to families.
The program will offer practical solutions for the challenging aspects of managing large-scale fatality events while coordinating available resources with industry, federal, state and local agencies. |
ID Code |
TDA405 |
Dates and Tuition |
June 9-11, 2009
$880 for all applications with payment received no later than May 9
$962 for all applications with payment received May 10 – June 3
$1,012 for all applications submitted between June 4 and
12:00 pm (noon) ET on June 8
$50 processing fee will be added to tuitions for all offline applications (starting October 1, 2008)
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Times |
9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Location |
NTSB
Training Center • 45065 Riverside Parkway • Ashburn, Virginia 20147 |
Status |
OPEN. Applications are now being accepted. |
Prerequisite |
Transportation
Disaster Response - Family Assistance (TDA301) |
Apply
to Attend |
June 9-11, 2009 |
CEUs |
2.0 |
Overview |
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Key techniques for
effective family assistance leadership in disaster situations
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Practical strategies for disaster crisis management
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Managing family assistance operations
- Integrating lessons learned from recent disasters into
the next generation of family assistance operations
- Exercise: Participants will
establish and operate a Family Assistance Center
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Performance Results |
Upon completion of this course the
participant will be able to:
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Define an integrated model of
disaster family
assistance
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More effectively manage family
assistance responses using crisis management
tools
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Communicate with family
members on complex and difficult
topics
- Define crisis leadership skills
necessary to effectively work in
an emotionally charged environment
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Who May Attend |
- Commercial transportation industry
officials, particularly those that are in a position to set or influence
policy, or have a family assistance role during transportation disasters
- Representatives of federal agencies,
particularly those that have a role in transportation disaster response
- Representatives of non-governmental
and/or private agencies that have a legitimate and recognized
transportation disaster response role
- Members of the academic community attending for research purposes (on a space-available basis)
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Accommodations |
Area hotels and
restaurants |
Airports |
Washington
Dulles International (IAD): 10 miles
Washington Ronald
Reagan National (DCA): 30 miles
Baltimore/Washington
International (BWI): 60 miles |
More Information |
Email TrainingCenter@ntsb.gov
or call (571) 223-3900
Courses, forums and symposia are added to the schedule throughout the
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and new programs: http://www.ntsb.gov/TC/list/list.htm |