indigenous training program
Hazardscape Indigenous Training Program
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Preparing Indigenous Peoples For a Career in Emergency Management
The Crown and post-secondary institutions are focused on developing Emergency Management professionals who will get jobs in non-Indigenous government settings, in municipalities, and in industry but not your community.
To support the need for enhanced emergency preparedness in Indigenous communities Hazardscape provides Emergency Management training, coaching, and mentorship across Canada.
Once trained, students can apply what they have learned to improve the safety in their own and other communities.
Our training program is mobile. It travels from Edmonton to communities in Canada and we provide career support remotely through several digital options.
Our Training Program Includes
We include land-based learning opportunities in your community as part of the course fees.
Introduction to Emergency Management and Leadership (Full day). Includes:
Your traditional and local knowledge in the context of your Emergency Management Program.
How Emergency Management supports your sovereignty.
How communities can create employment and enhance capacity through their Emergency Management Program.
Community Hazard and Risk Assessments (1/4 day classroom, 3/4 day on the land)
Community Emergency Operations Centre Design and Set-up (1/2 day classroom, 1/2 day mock activation)
Community emergency services awareness and equipment demonstrations (1/4 day classroom, 3/4 day hands-on)
Emergency Management Planning Basics (2 hours)
Individual and Family Preparedness (1 hour)
No More Expensive Consultants
The days of hiring expensive consultants, like this guy who are happy to take your money and leave you with a 6 inch binder with a static plan that know one wants to read are over.
Your community and your people are good enough.
You have the people and capacity right now to design, develop, and sustain your own Emergency Management Program that is culturally appropriate.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Please contact us to receive a detailed quote that includes mileage and travel to your specific location/community.
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We will need a room that is comfortable for 15 students with access to Internet.
We will also need access to your community’s fire hall and any other community managed emergency services buildings (Not your Health Centre).
Locations of high risk areas in your community where we can take students to. For example, low lying areas that flood often, areas of thick forest and tree stands that have not been fire smarted, existing fire breaks.
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Please contact us for dates as we are always booking.
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If funding is required, there is typically ISC funding available. Once we send the quote, it can be submitted to ISC for consideration.
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The program is designed for 15 students however, we can make an exception for more. We need, at minimum, 3 months’ notice to accommodate for groups larger than 10.
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Typically, we wrap up in 4 ½ days.
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Staff and members with no previous emergency management training. The Fire Chief and any emergency management staff, the Public Works Manager and anyone passionate about making their community more prepared and wanting to help out during emergencies and disasters.
If leadership is too busy they should try to attend the morning of day one where we lay out the game plan with short and long term goals with the intent of how does the community want to get from where they are now to where they want to be.