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AWR-232 Mass Fatalities Planning and Response for Rural Communities - May 2024 ANC/RDPC

Brief Description: Mass Fatalities Planning and Response for Rural Communities

Full Description: This awareness-level course will teach rural and tribal participants the basics of mass fatality response while providing them with opportunities to exchange rural and tribal perceptions and brainstorm solutions to simulated emergencies. In the course of six modules, delivered over an eight-hour period, participants will learn how to identify critical resources necessary for identified functions, develop strategies for responding to unique challenges of mass fatalities incidents, implement forums for partnerships with key community, regional, state, and federal stakeholders for effective response and community recovery, and identify the components that comprise a comprehensive community-wide mass fatalities incident response plan. Upon completion of this instructor-led course, participants will benefit from an increased awareness of morgue operations and human remains recovery operations, and an enhanced ability to plan for the unique challenges of mass fatality incidents in rural and tribal communities

Course Objectives
Assist local authorities in response to a mass fatalities event, and assist in the development of a mass fatality response plan
Identify the significant difference in the death-care process following a mass fatality event from that of the normal, daily process and list possible mass fatality scenarios that may affect their communities.
Review stakeholders¿ responsibilities in a mass fatality response, examine federal resources available following a mass fatality event, and identify methods of obtaining federal resources
Identify the roles recovery operations play in the identification process, the procedures for properly, safely, and respectfully recovering and documenting deceased human remains and associated personal effects, and the staff and equipment needed.
Describe temporary morgue operations during a mass fatality response, the skill sets needed to work at various stations found in the temporary morgue, the interaction between morgue and family assistance operations, and the role recovery operations play in the overall identification process.
describe the Family Assistance Center's (FAC) role in the identification process; the components, staffing needs, and support services needed to facilitate FAC operations; and describe Family Assistance Center constructs.

Training Dates: 05/22/2024 - 05/22/2024

Hours: 8h 0m

Fee: None Specified

Training Location: Alaska State Medical Examiner's Office
5455 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Ave
Anchorage, AK 99507

Reporting Instructions: POC:
Ann’e Waisanen
Operations Administrator
State Medical Examiner Office
Office: 907-334.2202
anne.waisanen@alaska.gov

Signup Details: Register through RDPC:
https://ruraltraining.org/course/AWR-232/?scheduled=true&id=11282

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AWR-232 Mass Fatalities Planning and Response for Rural Communities - May 2024 ANC/RDPC