Sessions / Dates

15 Seats Maximum

Session 1:
Session 2:
Session 3:
Session 4:

02/02/2009 - 02/05/2009
04/13/2009 - 04/16/2009
06/22/2009 - 06/26/2009
09/21/2009 - 09/25/2009

Leadership
Human Resource Development
Community Risk Reduction / Operations, Pt. 1
Operations, Pt. 2

Cost:

$999.00

( Lunch is not included )

Times: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM each day

Location

Snohomish Fire and Rescue
1525 Avenue D
Snohomish, WA 98290

Special Notice -
Attendee's are strongly encouraged to bring a portable computer to the courses, as course material will be in electronic format.

Course Information — The U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) National Fire Academy (NFA) has developed this new curriculum for newly promoted chief officers in both career and volunteer departments. This curriculum follows the recommendations of a panel of experts from across the country convened at the National Fire Academy to validate the need for this curriculum. The Curriculum Advisory Committee (CAC) agreed that the target audience, newly promoted chief officers and battalion chiefs, represented a small but critically important segment of the fire and emergency services population. The committee further agreed that adequate training programs did not exist on the local or national level. Participants of the CAC reached consensus on a curriculum addressing 24 content areas and comprising 4 weeks of training.

Leadership — The goal of this class is to provide an educational experience that helps students recognize what effective leadership is, understand the differences between leadership styles, and develop the skills required to select the most appropriate style for them and the situation.

Human Resource Development — was identified as one of the training programs needed. The overall goal of this course is to provide a foundation of skills, knowledge, and tools for the newly promoted chief officer to effectively manage and develop the human resources in his or her command.

Community Risk Reduction — The goal of this course is to prepare newly promoted chief officers to manage risk reduction responsibilities at their organizational level, in concert with the overall risk reduction missions of their departments.

Operations — The goal of this course is to provide an educational experience that will help the newly promoted chief officer or Battalion Chief (BC) to perform competently at an emergency incident. Although emergencies have been reduced at varying rates, they are still the most resource intensive and dangerous component of the emergency services today.

Target Audience — The target audience is composed of those officers who have recently moved from being in charge of a responding section within a station or department (possibly over multiple shifts) to being responsible for commanding a variety of units from multiple stations or departments. In their new roles, the newly promoted chief officer would be responsible for strategic decision-making at incidents, leaving the tactical decision-making to lower-level officers. In career departments, this newly appointed chief officer might often be at the battalion chief level. In a volunteer or combination volunteer and career department, the newly appointed chief officer could typically be referred to as a Battalion Chief, but may have another rank such as Captain or Lieutenant, Senior Firefighter aspiring to become a chief officer.