TRAINING PROGRAM
Train-the-Trainer: Citizen Preparedness and Program Sustainability
The two-day Train-the-Trainer program will enroll a minimum 80 college staff from 40 colleges each year
(125 colleges total) that are committed to the goal of building a sustainable program to prepare their
students and community for a disaster. The program will deliver a community college business model that
stresses responsibility to the community and nation.
Community preparedness training will be based on the 8 Key Scenario Sets and 15 National Planning
Scenarios, putting emphasis on local priorities through the local colleges existing collaborative
partnerships with local first responders and their needs assessments of the region.
The training will enable HUB colleges to:
Assess local needs using the defined DHS sets and scenarios
Review the communities capabilities
Develop partnerships with Citizen Corps Councils, Red Cross, Emergency Management
Organizations and any other organization involved in community preparedness
Produce sustainable model programs and courses
Meet staffing, staff development and equipment requirements through budgeting and resource
development
Deliver the two-hour Citizen Preparedness Course, described below
Citizen Preparedness Course
The two-hour blended curriculum will be developed and delivered to a minimum 125 Hub Colleges and 5
Lead Colleges, strategically located throughout the United States with the goal of helping citizens
preserve life and minimize injuries sustained in a disaster. Learning objectives:
Threat Awareness and Assessment (30 min)
Preparedness is everyones responsibility
Defining potential man-made, technical and natural threats
Assessing local threats
Ways to be Prepared (60 min)
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Creating a plan for home, school and business including personal safety
Preparing your survival and first aid kit
Shelter in place
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Hazard considerations
Communications and practice
Evacuation planning with consideration for special needs/special populations, domestic animals
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Recovering from a disaster
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Available Information and Training (30 min)
Online federal, state and local information, training and volunteer opportunities within the local
Citizen Corps Council, Red Cross, and community organizations
Curriculum Materials & Blended Delivery
The proposal guidelines ask us the HUB Colleges to identify the number of programs that will be delivered
face-to-face and electronically.
In developing the two-hour citizen preparedness program, 3CP2 will use community college experts,
subject matter experts, federal agency representatives, and consultants to develop a curriculum drawing
upon available research-based curriculum, such as [Link], [Link], and Red Cross
materials.
During Train-the-Trainer, Hub colleges will receive a DVD with the two-hour course modeled by 3CP2 staff
and a Curriculum CD with a course overview, course syllabus, course text, Power Points, and student
certificates with field notes. Upon successful completion of Train-the-Trainer, colleges will receive
permission to duplicate materials. Hub colleges will offer classes either face-to-face or electronically,
depending on the needs of the particular audience. Community college students will be prepared during
college orientationsome colleges offer orientation electronically, others offer it face-to-face. Through
college continuing education offerings, community members may enroll in both electronic and face-to-face
courses that are advertised on a quarterly basis online and in printed course catalogs.
Impact and Outcomes
125 strategically-located colleges will know how to implement self-sustaining homeland security
programs and offer citizen preparedness courses in cooperation with community-based organizations.
A minimum 500,000 citizens will know how to: avoid death/ injury resulting from disaster, and recover
from a disaster. The intent is to have many of these citizens l share this information with others and
become involved in community preparedness organizations.
Target Audience
A minimum 500,000 students, faculty, staff, associated families, and community members served by
1,173 local community colleges make up the projects target audience. Priority will be placed on student
populations from English for Speakers of Other Languages and their families, families from economically
disadvantaged areas, and families of first generation college students. These populations commonly
attend community colleges and are documented to be minimally prepared for surviving a natural, manmade or technological disaster.
Students and staff will receive training during orientation in the fall and spring of each year. Mentors will
be assigned assist students who have not mastered the English language. These students will be
encouraged to translate materials for their families. The community will be invited to participate in no-cost
courses offered through continuing education divisions of each college.
There are no course pre-requisites. Participants will receive certificates of course completion with wallet
size field notes printed on the back of their certificate for future reference when needed.