West Valley - Mission Community College District Partners with the City of Saratoga to Hold a Large-scale Community Emergency Response Team Drill on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Volunteers culminated 20 hours of training by responding to a large scale mock earthquake drill. The California Highway Patrol and California Shock Trauma Air Rescue helicopters landed on the West Valley campus to train rescuers on how to utilize helicopters during disasters. Click here to read more. Click here to view more photos from the event. Photos copyright (c) 2010 Mark Bohrer www.activelightphotography.com
Podcast: Community College Officials Discuss Enrollment Spikes, Open Carry features three safety officials, including the California Community College's Director of Emergency Preparedness Peter Wright, discussing enrollment changes and innovative ways to improve campus safety during a panel in Long Beach, CA. Click here to listen to this podcast and view the article in Campus Safety Magazine.
Campus Attacks: Targeted Violence Affecting Institutions of Higher Education is a collaborative effort by the United States Secret Service, the United States Department of Education, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to understand the nature of this violence and identify ways of preventing future attacks that would affect our nation’s colleges and universities. Click here to read the report.
The DRCCC Task Force meeting notes from the March 24, 2010 are now available online. Click here.
Active Shooter: Readiness, Response & Recovery Seminar at Chabot College on April 21, 2010. This seminar will provide perspectives and insights on the nature of active shooters, offer strategies for prevention and response, and provide a guide for planning, practicing, and response. Click here for more information.
April 2010 C-CERT Training at West Valley-Mission sponsored by State Farm. The course will take place over a 3-week period on Friday, April 9 and 16th with the final exercise and graduation on Saturday, April 24th. Free for district and college employees. To sign up for this useful class, please contact Kim Aufhauser at kim.aufhauser@wvm.edu.
California National Guard offers free ICS 300 & 400 on January 22-24, 2010. Click here for more information.
Solano County Emergency Operations Center offers free "Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) Course" February 8-11, 2010. Click here for more information.
California Specialized Training Institute (CSTI) offers free "ICS 300/400 Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) Intermediate and Advanced Field Course" on April 5-8, 2010. Click here for more information.
California Department of Public Health H1N1 resources are available online. Click here.
The Great California Shakeout: Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 10:15 a.m.
"I encourage all colleges to participate in the exercise as it will help our students, faculty and staff be prepared in the event of a real earthquake." - Chancellor Jack Scott
Visit www.shakeout.org to register. Click here for a copy of Sonoma County Junior College District's Great Shakeout Exercise Plan. Click here to view Golden West College's Great Shakeout Webpage.
Pandemic Prevention Video: produced by The California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, Foothill-De Anza Community College District, and ToucanEd Click here.
The Disaster Resistant California Community College Task Force Held a Conference Call on April 29 to Collect Best Practices for Mitigating and Responding to H1N1/Swine Flu. Click here.
April 27 Memo From Chancellor Jack Scott Regarding the Swine Flu Outbreak Click here.
Federal Public Health Emergency Declared for Swine Flu The Chancellor's Office is closely monitoring the international outbreak of Swine Flu Influenza and is in communication with the Governor's Office, Department of Public Health, and the California Emerency Management Agency. For more information visit the toolbox tab above or http://www.hhs.gov/ and http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/default.aspx.
DRCCC Task Force Meeting on May 7, 2009 The Disaster Resistant California Community Colleges will meet on May 7, 2009 at the College of the Desert for the quarterly meeting. For the agenda, click here.
Action Guide for Emergency Management at Institutes of Higher Education- Newly Released The US Department of Education just released an Action Guide for Emergency Management. Tod Burnett and Kay Goss, two DRCCC charter members assisted in the creation of this document. Click here to view.
Emergency Notifications Seminar on February 18, 2009 The first California Community Colleges and California State Universities Emergency Notification System Seminar will take place from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. at Los Angeles City College. Emergency notification systems should be intregal components of college and university emergency procedures. For more information, click here.
CSTI Offers Free ICS 300-400 Training This course focuses on ICS activities during major incidents at the field level. The course curriculum is recognized by the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS), and the NIMS Integration Center. For more information and registration, click here.