Animal Crisis Team

2006-12-07 Training session

The Illinois Regional Institute for Community Policing, The American Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals, and Gulf States Regional Center for Public Safety.

This day long program will provide participants with information to help families and communities become better prepared to respond to any kind of disaster therefore enhancing their ability to make sound, emergency decisions involving their community, themselves and their animals

Additionally, participants will be given a model emergency operations plan and templates that will allow them to, upon returning to their community, support and guide a local community planning team through the process of creating and preparedness plan that is current, multi-disciplined and working toward National Incident Management Sysytem compliance...and containing an animal annex as an integral componant of their local emergency operations plan. The overall goal of the program is to provide participants with information to help themselves and their communities become stronger, and better prepared to respond to any kind of disaster or major incident. This program will create a contact in which all existing community resources are incorporated into one community-specific emergency plan thast is aligned and compliant with national, state and county standards.This unique program will assist communities in the development and implementation of programs that will ensure coodination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of individuals, communities, and agencies affecting the welfare and safety of all animals in disaster.

This training will take place Dec 7th 2006 from 8:30 am-4:pm (Auburn university Montgomery, Goodwyn Hall Room 112)

To register for this free training opportunity, please contact Sue Patterson toll free at: 877-864-7427 or by email [spatt1 @ uis.edu]