Disaster Response Courses and Certifications

Preparing for Federal Disaster Operations: FEMA Response Partners

This course is designed to help prepare participants for deployment as a FEMA response partner to a domestic incident. Responding to incidents requires that we must be ready, willing, and able to depl

• FEMA
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Humanitarian Response to Conflict and Disaster

10 ratings

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Public Health in Humanitarian Crises 2

147 ratings at Coursera

Plan public health responses to disasters: outbreak detection, disaster epidemiology and surveillance, humanitarian principles, International Health Regulations, infant feeding, reproductive health, and psychosocial care.

• Coursera
• 11 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Learn the requirements for safe Urban Search and Rescue operations in known or suspected contaminated environments, following Annex B ConOps of the National US&R Response System Operations Manual.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Get oriented to FEMA's National Urban Search and Rescue Response System: task force functions, membership requirements, safety practices, and post-deployment considerations.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Learn to perform physical, visual, and technical search functions for an Urban Search and Rescue task force during a disaster or planned event.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Learn the duties and responsibilities of a Structural Collapse Specialist on an Urban Search and Rescue task force responding to disasters and planned events.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Identify rigging equipment, apply basic crane physics, and calculate load weights, sling angles, and center of gravity to lift debris during urban search and rescue operations.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Prepare to serve as a Medical Team Specialist on an Urban Search and Rescue task force, navigating the operational and organizational issues of practicing medicine during disasters.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Train disaster-response crews to operate high profile vehicles safely and effectively during coordinated flood response.

• TEEX
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

TERT Basic Course

This online course is intended to provide guidance to 9-1-1 operators, call takers, and dispatchers on what to expect when being deployed to a disaster site. The learner must achieve a minimum passing

• FEMA
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Mission Assignment Overview

This course is intended to provide basic training on the concept of the Resource Request and Mission Assignment (MA) process beginning with the Request for Federal Assistance to MA issuance, execution

• FEMA
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Community Emergency Response Team (CERTs)

This Independent Study (IS) course is an introduction to the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program for those interested in learning about the CERT program for their own knowledge or as a pr

• FEMA
• 2 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Individual Assistance (IA)

This course provides FEMA personnel and partners with a basic knowledge of the Individual Assistance (IA) Program and activities that help individuals and households recover following a disaster. The

• FEMA
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Mass Care/Emergency Assistance Overview

This course provides an introduction to Mass Care and Emergency Assistance (MC/EA) support, with a focus on Whole Community, by outlining the importance of collaboration and coordination between gover

• FEMA
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate