HCPHP Staff Prepare Trainers for Their Exercise Evaluation Training Program

February 4, 2010

Staff from the Heartland Center for Public Health Preparedness (HCPHP) presented the Train-the-Trainer component of their Exercise Evaluation Training Program (EETP) in Kentucky. The January event commenced the Train-the-Trainer program and HCPHP’s distribution of EETP materials to regional partners.

Public Health Preparedness leaders and workforce convened at the event in Frankfort, Kentucky. Participants included state and local preparedness planners, exercise coordinators, program specialists, regional trainers, and representatives from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and the Frankfort Office of Emergency Management, also co-sponsors of the event with the Kentucky Department of Health.

EETP and the EETP Train-the-Trainer Course are core components of public health and healthcare emergency management exercise evaluation and improvement planning. EETP builds a foundation for exercise evaluation concepts as identified in the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP). The points of focus in the EETP Train-the-Trainer program in Kentucky were to offer an overview of exercise evaluation frameworks and guidance, review exercise evaluation concepts, prepare trainers in the design basics of the one day Exercise Evaluation Course (EETP), and to teach participants related principles of adult learning.

As a result of this training program, the EETP Toolkit was successfully beta-tested in collaboration with HCPHP’s Kentucky public health partners, and plans have been made for national dissemination of the materials through the Centers for Public Health Preparedness (CPHP). The EETP Toolkit and EETP Train-the-Trainer materials will soon be available to order from the HCPHP website. Click here to visit the HCPHP site.