[ARRL-OK] REMINDER: ARES-Oklahoma Training Standard

[Mark Conklin]

ARES-Oklahoma Training Standard
 
National Incident Management System (NIMS)is the national standard in managing emergency responses for any emergency, disaster or event requiring a coordinated response from one or more agencies.
 
Every served agency that may request the services of ARES-Oklahoma requires all of their employees, volunteers and *partner agencies* to meet this valuable training standard. To be of greater value to our served agency partners ARES-Oklahoma will continue to work to meet this nationally required training standard.
 
All ARES-Ok Volunteers and Leaders shall meet the standard by completing four short NIMS Courses IS-100. IS-200, IS-700 and IS-800. ARES-OK leaders shall insure that all volunteers on their teams meet this training standard.
 
All of this training is FREE and ON-LINE and takes only a couple of hours for each of the NIMS course. All is required of you is to study as you read, then test at the end of each course. All courses and tests are free and on-line. Once each course is successfully completed you print out your proof of training certificate and forward a copy to your local EC or DEC. The total time required for all four courses is far less time then you invested in your first Radio Amateur license.
 
For all ARES-OK Leaders - after you have completed all the required NIMS courses you should continue onto the ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE) EC-001 -Introduction to Emergency Communication course, which is also on-line via the ARRL.


To make it easy to for ARES-Ok volunteers and leaders to comply with this NIMS training standard we have posted the training resources all in one place on-line at  www.ARESOK.org   look on the left hand side of the page click on the tab labeled *Other Resources*.
 
Then scroll down to:
*Online Emergency Communications Courses*                                  

IS-100National Incident Management System (NIMS),
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is100b.asp
IS-200ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents,
http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is200b.asp

IS-700National Incident Management System (NIMS),
http://training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is700a.asp

IS-800.ANational Response Plan (NRP), An Introduction,
http://www.training.fema.gov/EMIWeb/IS/is800a.asp
 
MORE TRAINING:
On-Line Emergency Communication Training from
ARRL Certification and Continuing Education (C-CE)
EC-001-Introduction to Emergency Communication,http://www.arrl.org/online-course-catalog                                             
 
On-Line DigitalEmergency Communication Course - Winlink 2000
http://www.winlink.org/node/23
 
 
Learn from your own home with more ARRL on-line courses, especially for emergency communications volunteers:
http://www.arrl.org/emergency-communications-training
 
 
If you have questions, feel free to contact your EC, DEC, your region’s ZEC or me. 
Good luck and have fun learning.
 
73,

Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Oklahoma Section Emergency Coordinator
Amateur Radio Emergency Service
918.232.8346
n7xyo at arrl.net
Follow me on Twitter @N7XYO

www.ARESOK.org