Strategic Preparedness Planning

The Heartland Centers (HC) is able to provide a full range of bioterrorism and all hazard preparedness technical advisory services and activities to:

• State, local, and federal public health agencies
• Emergency management and law enforcement agencies
• Hospitals and businesses
• Community based preparedness organizations/groups

The HC has expertise in the following areas:

• Bioterrorism and all hazard preparedness education and training
• On-site exercise and/or technology mediated simulation training design, development, facilitation and evaluation
• Strategic preparedness planning
• Crisis leadership development
• NIMS/ICS
• Mass casualty/high consequence management
• School health preparedness
• Food safety and biosecurity
• Pandemic flu preparednesss
• Preparedness distant learning offerings through the Heartland Centers Learning Management System (LMS)

HC has the capacity and expertise to design, develop and produce technology mediated preparedness education and training programs/courses (online, CD ROM, DVD) on numerous topics for a variety of audiences. Some programs previously developed and currently in distribution include:

• Public health nursing
• NIMS/ICS
• Risk/crisis communication
• Exercise design and development
• Pandemic influenza immunization

All evaluations are competency-based with individual and organizational impact performance measurements.

For more information, please contact Mike Thomas at thomasmw@slu.edu or 314-977-4350.