EMA 230 - Emergency Management for Local Government.

1. Local emergency management post 9/11
2. Origins and evolution
3. Organization
4. The role of emergency management
5. Coordination, managing, and financing
6. Collaborative emergency management
7. Preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery
8. Role of health and public health sector
9. Legal issues
10. Social vulnerability
11. New information technologies
12. Local, state, and federal funding
13. Emergency management myths/lessons, profession, and the future

1. Summarize modern emergency management. (1,2)
2. Associate administrative functions and business continuity. (3,4)
3. Define intergovernmental context/collaborative emergency management. (5,6)
4. Describe phases of emergency management and the health sector in emergency management. (7,8)
5. Identify tort law, immunities, evolving standards and other legal issues. (9)
6. Diagnose social vulnerabilities and utilize the tools and strategies to build an approach. (10)
7. Illustrate the barriers, tools, applications and challenges of new information technologies. (11)
8. Explain the importance of budgeting. (12)
9. Analyze the future direction of emergency management including its professions. (13)