This engaging, self-paced, personal preparedness online course teaches you how to recognize pending crises and disasters, develop the skills to successfully prepare for and manage emergency situations using preparedness theory and frameworks.
Particularly in today’s world, it’s important to know what to do in the face of pandemics, extreme weather, wildfires, and other crises such as natural disasters. In the United States, organizations from Homeland Security, American Red Cross, and FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to local emergency response services, including first responders and emergency responders, are valuable resources for crisis and incident management, it is still important to know what you can do on an individual level to prepare for different types of emergencies.
By the end of this preparedness course, learners will:
- Develop their own personal preparedness plan for use in case of emergencies, natural disasters, and other crises.
- Test their skills and knowledge by surviving zombie apocalypse scenarios in a gamified environment.
- Learn how to prepare their home and their family members for the zombie apocalypse & other disasters
- Learn when to move, escape or defend.
- Have the chance to put their preparedness skills to the test & try to survive in two disaster simulations
- Gather the materials they need to create an emergency kit and an evacuation plan.
Key features of the course:
- A focus on practical skills that can be applied to competency in real-world survivalist situations.
- Fundamental survival skills for various emergency and survival situations, from urban disasters to wilderness survival scenarios.
- Each module has a disaster plan challenge: you may be required to take a picture of your food stockpile or create your own candles in the event of a power outage!
- By the end of the course you will have created an emergency preparedness plan
