Emergency Preparedness Workshops
The role of public health in the response to disasters is rapidly emerging, both in terms of operational and training issues.
Disasters have negative impacts on the community's health, and public health employees, healthcare professionals, first responders, and community volunteers must be well-prepared and trained to assure an effective and sustained public health response during an emergency in Sonoma County.
Working in collaboration with regional partners, the Sonoma County DHS divisions of Environmental Health and Mental Health, the Department of Emergency Services, the Public Health Laboratory, and local hospitals, the Public Health Preparedness training program is conducting emergency preparedness workshops to address these training needs.
August 25, 2008
Exercise Design & Evaluation Training
The Sonoma County Department of Health Services is pleased to offer another free HICS workshop to local hospitals, community clinics, skilled nursing facilities and other response partners.
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The Anatomy of a Flood Disaster (A HICS Perspective)
The Sonoma County Department of Health Services is pleased to offer another free HICS workshop to local hospitals, community clinics, skilled nursing facilities and other response partners.
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Working Together for All-hazards Readiness: Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, and Explosive Terrorism - an Overview
This two-day, basic-level workshop enables participants to hear from and interact directly with representatives from national and state agencies that support all-hazards readiness efforts, and is useful to those who may initially respond to an act of chemical, biological, radiological/nuclear or explosive terrorism.
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The Hospital Incident Command System: An Organized Approach to Manage Emergency Situations
The Sonoma County Department of Health Services is pleased to offer a free HICS conference and free NIMS 800 for Leaders course as part of the public health disaster preparedness planning efforts.
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Regional Training Conference for Emergency and Hospital Safety Staff
The overarching goal of this half-day conference is to provide hospital staff and other community partners with the knowledge and skills required to reduce the impact of a critical incident on medical treatment facilities in order to save lives, protect staff, and keep facilities open.
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DHS Disaster Service Worker Conference
This day-long event is comprised of five courses, each focusing on topics related to serving as a disaster service worker during a disaster event.
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Conference on Mental Health Disaster Support
This day-long workshop is comprised of four workshops, each focusing on topics related to mental health issues typically encountered following disasters.
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The Anatomy of an Outbreak of Pandemic Influenza
This half-day, scenario-based workshop for local stakeholders and regional partners focuses on topics related to an outbreak of pandemic influenza.
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Public Health Preparedness Training Conference for Public Health Administrators and Public Safety Staff
Partnership between public health officials and law enforcement is prerequisite to sound bioterrorism planning and response. Pubic health and law enforcement must understand each other's work, standards and culture.
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Public Health Preparedness Training Conference for Medical Professionals and Laboratorians
This day-long workshop is a collaborative training effort among the counties that form the Redwood subregion of California's OES Region 2. The purpose of this collaboration is to establish a common training curriculum for the region that creates an integrated regional response in the event of a public health critical incident, by supporting standardized performance compentencies for public health responders.
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