Emergency management is critical for all professions, especially helping professionals. This course introduces the history and concept of emergency management and explores ethics, decision-making, and limitations of emergency management.
Course created on May 31, 2023
On Demand
Course Type: Video, Audio
CE/CEU Offered: AK/1.25; AL/1.25; AR/1.25; ASWB ACE/1.25 General; AZ/1.25; CA/1.25; CE Broker/1.25 CE Broker #20-1076586; CO/1.25; CT/1.25; DC/1.25; DE/1.25; FL/1.25; GA/1.25; HI/1.25; IA/1.25; IACET/0.1; ID/1.25; IL/1.25; IN/1.25; KS/1.25; KY/1.25; LA/1.25; MA/1.25; MD/1.25; ME/1.25; MI/1.25; MN/1.25; MO/1.25; MS/1.25; MT/1.25; NC/1.25; ND/1.25; NE/1.25; NH/1.25; NJ (ASWB ACE)/1.25; NM/1.25; NV/1.25; NY-Contact Hours/1.0 Self-Study; OH/1.25; OK/1.25; OR/1.25; PA/1.25; RI/1.25; SC/1.25; SD/1.25; TN/1.25; TX/1.25; UT/1.25; VA/1.25; VT/1.25; WA/1.25; WI/1.25; WV/1.25; WY/1.25
Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to explain the history and concepts of emergency management to helping professionals.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify how continuous improvement, prevention, and more are priorities in the field.
- After this course, participants will be able to describe ethics, decision-making, how to be involved, and present limitations as the field evolves into a profession.
Agenda
0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
5-25 Minutes | History and Concepts of Disaster and Emergency Management |
25-40 Minutes | Continuous Improvement, Prevention, and Priorities |
40-55 Minutes | Ethics, Decision-making, Being Involved, and Limitations |
55-61 Minutes | Summary, Q & A |
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Jennifer Carlson
MSW, PhD CEM, LCSW
Dr. Jennifer Carlson, Ph.D., CEM®, LCSW, is a New England emergency management expert, facilitator, speaker, trainer, university faculty member, writing professional, and author of Write Your Story: A Self-Start, Write Your Own Biography and Exploring the Professionalization of Emergency [Disaster] Management. For over 20 years, she has dedicated her life in service to the emergency management field, deploying on disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Boston Marathon bombings through the American Red Cross and the State of Massachusetts. She currently works as a professor with Anna Maria College and has worked as faculty and teaching staff for emergency management courses, workshops, and Homeland Security content at MIT for FEMA, the Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Eastern Kentucky University, and at other locations across the country while deployed. Jennifer serves as the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) Co-Chair for the Higher Education Academician Caucus and on the Scholarship Commission Nominations Task Force with IAEM. Jennifer also serves with the Department of Defense as the Affairs Director for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve in Massachusetts and reviews journal articles for the Journal of Emergency Management.
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