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Comprehensive Exercise Design Course

This two and one-half day course develops skills that will enable those attending to train staff, and to conduct an exercise that will test an organization or community's emergency plan and validate its operational response capability.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Describe a Comprehensive Exercise Program
  
  
• Identify the members, and describe the functions of the Exercise Design Team
  
  
• Identify and describe in writing, Action Plans for Tabletop and Functional Exercises
  
  
• Utilized accepted design step methodology, as an example:
  
  
  • Needs Assessment
    
    
  • Scope Definition
    
    
  • Purpose Statement
    
    
  • Objectives
    
    
  • Narrative
    
    
  • Major/Detailed Events
    
    
  • Expected Actions
    
    
  • Messages
    
    
• Participate in the design and conduct of a Tabletop Exercise
  
  
• Participate in the design and conduct of a Functional Exercise
  
  
• Describe the composition and function of a Simulation Team
  
  
• Explain the importance of Exercise Evaluation
  
  
• Identify the role of controller and simulator
  
  
• Explain the importance of a Master Scenario of Events List
  
  
• Describe the types of exercise enhancements
  
  

Demonstration Activities

• Conduct Community Needs Assessment
  
  
• Discuss the importance of a current emergency plan
  
  
• Access your capability to conduct an exercise
  
  
• Address costs and liabilities
  
  
• Define the exercise scope
  
  
• Develop a Statement of Purpose
  
  
• Announce the exercise - the directive
  
  
• Design the Tabletop of Functional Exercise
  
  
• Conduct/Facilitate an exercise
  
  
• Brief Summary of Design Steps