Homeland Security Exercise Page


Why Exercise? Clarify roles and responsibilites; Evaluate plans and procedures; Develop effective teamwork and enhance individual skills; Meet program mandates or industry standards; Assess resources and capabilities; Identify needs and solutions.	Types of Exercises: Orientation - Overview of plans and responsibilities. Tabletop - Facilitated, scenario-based group discussion. Functional - Supervised activation of the Emergency Operations Center. \Full Scale - “Real-life simulation with actual deployment of personnel and equipment	Why MSU? Access to multi-disciplinary resources of the University; Practitioner-oriented problem solving focus; Expertise in building public-private partnerships; 150 years of timely response to local and global issues.



Customized Services: Exercise design, facilitation and evaluation; Pre-exercise planning and training; Needs assessment; Consultation and technical advice; All hazard scenarios (including terrorism and WMD); After action report.	Service Focus: Government agencies, non-profit organizatons and businesses with responsibilities/requirements for conducting exercises.

The School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University has well established programs with proven expertise to serve your homeland security and all-hazards emergency management training and exercising needs. Some of our major programs include:

Emergency Response Solutions (ERS) has worked with the public and private sectors to conduct tabletop exercises since the early ‘80’s and leads the nation with experience in training both public and private sector in all phases of emergency response. Each year more than 600 days of training are provided.
http://www.ers.msu.edu

Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) has training and technical assistance to enhance emergency first responders knowledge of terrorism and criminal extremist groups, to asssit in target assessment, to review and/or develop emergency plans and to exercise those plans, to examine terrorism’s ethical considerations for first responders, and to enhance the role of “community” in the prevention and detection of terrorism.
http://www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/rcpi

Critical Incident Protocol Community Facilitation (CIP) assists communities of any size to build and enhance public-private partnerships for critical incident preparedness. Funded by the Office for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and facilitated by Michigan State University, this program helps communities identify resources to mitigate the impact of critical incidents. The process culminates in a tabletop exercise designed to assess planning, response, and recovery capabilities and identify areas for improvement. Our experience, expertise, and guidance provide a quality experience, challenging scenarios, and detailed feedback to communities.
vu.msu.edu/preview/cip001

Michigan Safe Schools Initiative is a partnership of state and local safe school stakeholders who pool resources to provide local level trianing and technical assistance to Michigan Schools. Both the School Risk Analysis workshop and the Table-Top Exercise Facilitator Training workshop provide schools with do-it-yourslef tool kits with access to web based courses on pre-exercise training, planning and assessments, exercise design and facilitation, and related discussion group opportunities facilitated by content experts.
www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/safe_schools/train.html

	Emergency Response Solutions (ERS) has worked with the public and private sectors to conduct tabletop exercises since the early ‘80’s and leads the nation with experience in training both public and private sector in all phases of emergency response. Each year more than 600 days of training are provided. http://www.ers.msu.edu

Michigan Regional Community Policing Institute (RCPI) has training and technical assistance to enhance emergency first responders knowledge of terrorism and criminal extremist groups, to asssit in target assessment, to review and/or develop emergency plans and to exercise those plans, to examine terrorism’s ethical considerations for first responders, and to enhance the role of “community” in the prevention and detection of terrorism. http://www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/rcpi

	Critical Incident Protocol Community Facilitation (CIP) assists communities of any size to build and enhance public-private partnerships for critical incident preparedness. Funded by the Office for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and facilitated by Michigan State University, this program helps communities identify resources to mitigate the impact of critical incidents. The process culminates in a tabletop exercise designed to assess planning, response, and recovery capabilities and identify areas for improvement. Our experience, expertise, and guidance provide a quality experience, challenging scenarios, and detailed feedback to communities. vu.msu.edu/preview/cip001

Michigan Safe Schools Initiative is a partnership of state and local safe school stakeholders who pool resources to provide local level trianing and technical assistance to Michigan Schools. Both the School Risk Analysis workshop and the Table-Top Exercise Facilitator Training workshop provide schools with do-it-yourslef tool kits with access to web based courses on pre-exercise training, planning and assessments, exercise design and facilitation, and related discussion group opportunities facilitated by content experts. www.cj.msu.edu/~outreach/safe_schools/train.html

The Global Community Security Institute, managed by the School of Criminal Justice, serves as the clearinghouse to access the variety of homeland security resources at Michigan State University. For further information contact Phillip Shertzing, 517.432.3156 or email him at schertzi@msu.edu.