FEMA's National Training and Education Division (NTED) serves the nation's first responder community, offering more than 150 courses to help build critical skills that responders need to function effectively in mass consequence events.
NTED primarily serves state, local, territorial, and tribal entities in 18 professional disciplines. Instruction is offered at the awareness, performance, and management and planning levels. Students attend NTED courses to learn how to apply the basic skills of their profession in the context of preparing, preventing, deterring, responding to and recovering from acts of terrorism and catastrophic events. Course subjects range from weapons of mass destruction terrorism, cybersecurity, and agro-terrorism to citizen preparedness and public works.
NTED draws upon a diverse group of training providers like the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium (NDPC), the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Emergency Management Institute (EMI), TEEX and others to develop and deliver NTED approved training courses.
NTED training includes multiple delivery methods: instructor-led (direct deliveries), train-the-trainers (indirect deliveries), customized (conferences and seminars) and web-based. Instructor-led courses are offered in residence (i.e., at a training facility) or through mobile programs, in which courses are brought to state and local jurisdictions that request the training.
To date, NTED has delivered training and broadcast information to over 2 million first responders.
Learn more at www.firstrespondertraining.gov/frts/