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Should the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommend to the President and Congress to remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from the DHS structure and make it an independent agency of the US Executive Branch? Discuss challenges facing FEMA responding to disasters. What strategies should be taken to lessen these challenges?

Complete a briefing paper on the following:

Should the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recommend to the President and Congress to remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) from the DHS structure and make it an independent agency of the US Executive Branch? Discuss challenges facing FEMA responding to disasters. What strategies should be taken to lessen these challenges?

 

 

Write a 2- to 3-page paper about what you learned as an emergency manager and use examples to support your paper, using proper citations in APA style.

FEMA’s IS-100.C Certificate Course

For this assignment, you are to take and successfully complete FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute’s online course “IS-100.C: Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS 100).” As a value-added feature of HM500, you will receive a FEMA certificate upon successful completion of IS-100.C.

FEMA. (2018). IS-100.C: Introduction to the incident command system, ICS 100.

IMPORTANT: After successful completion of FEMA IS-100.C,  save your certificate and submit it in the Unit 1 Assignment Dropbox.

FEMA. (n.d.). How to open and save IS completion certificate.

Summary Paper

Once you have completed the certificate course, write a 2- to 3-page paper about what you learned as an emergency manager and use examples to support your paper, using proper citations in APA style.

Note: If you have already earned a FEMA IS-100.C certificate before the start of this course, complete one of the specialist FEMA IS-100 courses (i.e., ICS for Public Works).