In support of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Preparedness Directorate's Office of Grants and Training (G&T) mission to assist state, local,
Tribal, and territorial governments to prevent, protect agianst, and respond to incidents of national signifiucance and catastrophic events, and to compliment existing WCPI homeland security efforts, this course offers a unique, innovative, and non-duplicative national training approach to enhancing national homeland security preparedness for
emergencies and disasters of all kinds on Tribal lands and in Tribal communities.
This training program includes three separate training courses to addresses the unique, significant, and often overlooked threats to homeland security on Tribal lands and surrounding jurisdictions, with a focus on building working, effective, and efficient collaborative partnerships throught Tribal lands.
Homeland security is as an issue that requires the best efforts and collaboration of the entire community and surrounding communities. Recognizing and respecting the unique cultural strengths and challenges within tribal communities, this program seeks to encourage all relevant stakeholders, tribal and non-tribal, to embrace, engage, and sustain working collaborative partnerships to address homeland security and tribal infrastructure protection on tribal lands. This program has been designed to create a culturally-competent, mutually respectful, and cooperative learning opportunity, in which tribal and/or non-tribal individuals from a geographic adjoining jurisdiction can build the necessary collaborative relationships, policies, and procedures to address homeland security issues in and around tribal communities. The target audience for this program includes representatives from public safety programs, governmental and non-governmental organizations, school and post-secondary education institutions, social service programs, private sector corporations, medical organizations, tribal community leaders, and community members.
This no-cost one-day course, Regional Collaboration & Tribal Partnerships , is the introductory course in a training program designed to provide tailored, specific guidance in designing, expanding, and sustaining homeland security regionalization through the building of both tribal and non-tribal collaborative partnerships across the United States . In this course, participants serve as representatives for their community for developing a homeland security regionalization initiative. Participants attending this course can expect a supportive learning environment that incorporates lively interactive discussions, hands-on activities, and take-home resources and continued learning opportunities. Course content includes an overview of capabilities-based planning, homeland security policies and procedures, existing programs that support regionalization initiatives, and the start-up procedures and policies necessary in creating, expanding, and sustaining homeland security regionalization initiatives, including strategic plans, timelines, MOUs, organizational structure and modus operandi, bylaws, and research tools. This unique training incorporates elements of a successful regionalization initiative model developed by the National Native America Law Enforcement Association.