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

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 [1]

Download this information [2] (PDF format)

Links
[1] http://www.training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-11.a
[2] http://prepareiowa.training-source.org/sites/default/files/u2/03%20IS11A%20Animals%20in%20Disaster%20Community%20Planning.pdf