Provider: FEMA

Course Overview: This course provides information for groups to meet and develop meaningful and effective plans that improve the care of animals, their owners, and the animal-care industries in disasters.

Course Objectives:

At the completion of this training, the learner will be able to:

• learn how to develop a community plan for managing animals in an emergency,
• identify hazards and threats most likely to affect your community and ways to minimize their impact on animals,
• indicate how communities use the Incident Command System (ICS) to respond effectively to an incident involving animals,
• describe resources available to help communities recover from a disaster, and
• develop community support for a disaster preparedness plan involving animals.

Course Length: 4.5 hours

Target Audience: Emergency management officials, animal owners, animal-care providers, and animal-care industries

Access at IS-11.A: Animals in Disaster: Community Planning

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