This one-day awareness level course will provide participants with an understanding of the concept of resilience as it applies to coastal communities with a focus on resilience as a unifying framework for community-based planning, preparedness, response and recovery. The course will emphasize target capabilities to enhance preparedness and response to natural disasters, including chronic, as well as extreme events affecting coastal communities. It will demonstrate how to integrate risk-based, community-based, and collaborative strategies into plans and programs.

The goal of the course is to enhance the participant’s ability to support preparedness and response efforts by developing and sustaining resilient coastal communities. The course is targeted for a broad cross section of professionals involved in emergency management, fire services, coastal zone managers, planners, developers, and municipal services.

Attendees are eligible for 8 Continuing Education Credit Hours for planners under the American Planning Association (APA), emergency managers under the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), and floodplain managers under the Association of State Floodplain Managers (ASFPM).

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