Recommended Training – March 2025

IS-2901: Introduction to Community Lifelines

Overview:
IS-2901, Introduction to Community Lifelines, introduces the Community Lifelines construct, an outcome-driven response structure used to achieve incident stabilization. This course provides an overview of the seven (7) Community Lifelines, including how they promote the importance of situational awareness, prioritization of response efforts, and decision-making processes during a disaster response to work toward incident stabilization.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: ≈ 1 hour

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IS-241.C: Decision Making and Problem Solving

Overview:
The goal of this course is to enable participants to improve their decision-making skills. At the completion of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe how decisions made before an emergency affect decision making and problem solving during an emergency.
• Identify attributes associated with an effective decision maker.
• Describe the steps in the problem-solving model.
• Describe strategies for effective group decision making.
• Describe crisis decision making and strategies for applying the problem-solving model.
• Describe ethical decision making.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: ≈ 2.5 hours (Must be completed within seven days of registration.)

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