AMSUS Thought Leadership Forums are special events featuring a panel of Executive Advisory Council (EAC)/federal health leaders and subject matter experts from our Executive Advisory Board (EAB). These events focus on a single, important health issue affecting military, public, and Veterans health. Description: The increase in opioid-related mortality continues to escalate resulting in a worsening of the national crisis. Deaths due to prescrip...

PER-211 - Medical Management of Chemical Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Events This course provides a strong emphasis in developing a multi-discipline, whole-community team approach to planning, preparing, responding, managing and recovering from an event involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE) agents, a coordinated complex terrorist attack (CCTA), or an active shooter/hostile event (...

AWR-147 – Rail Car & Pipeline Training Rail Car Incident Response for Crude, Ethanol, and Other Flammable Liquids training course for the U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (DOT PHMSA) to educate emergency responders on freight rail car incidents involving hazardous materials, specifically crude oil, ethanol, and other flammable liquids. As more and more rail traffic transports ca...

PER-211 - Medical Management of Chemical Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) Events This course provides a strong emphasis in developing a multi-discipline, whole-community team approach to planning, preparing, responding, managing and recovering from an event involving Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear or Explosive (CBRNE) agents, a coordinated complex terrorist attack (CCTA), or an active shooter/hostile event (...

PER-340-1 - Active Threat Integrated Response Course (ATIRC) - Train the Trainer The Active Threat Integrated Response Course (ATIRC) is a 24-hour performance level direct delivery course designed to improve integration between law enforcement, fire, and emergency medical services (EMS) in active shooter events. The course provides law enforcement officers with key medical skills based on tactical emergency casualty care (TECC) guidelines whic...

MGT-404 – Sport and Special Event Incident Management This course emphasizes the unique aspects of response to an incident occurring during a sports/special event, including considerations for business continuity and after-action activities. You will learn the skills necessary to effectively manage and incident by applying and implementing a multi-disciplinary management team approach as described in the National Incident Management Syst...

Traditionally, by the time a family becomes known to a child welfare agency, they are already in crisis. The Family First Prevention Services Act, was a good start in allowing funding for prevention services to be provided to a family in need, but it is not enough. Preventing crisis requires cross programmatic service delivery models that include a vast array of programs, providers and other community partners in health and human services. It...

Does adverting a school attack ensure that the threat of violence has been mitigated? In 2018 a youth at Michigan High School was arrested after his mother uncovered a school shooting plot. Although the school shooting was averted, the subject of concern went on to conduct a tragic act of violence after his release from juvenile detention three years later. Researchers from the National Policing Institute and Michigan State University, Departm...

Texas Health and Human Services (HHS) — which includes the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) — has hundreds of programs and services that help more than 7 million Texans a month with food, health care, safety, and disaster services. As the CIO for HHSC, the largest state agency in Texas with an annual budget of over $39 billion, Ricardo Blanco oversees the tec...

MGT-310 – Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA) and Stakeholder Preparedness Review (SPR) This course introduces the six-step THIRA/SPR process which includes identifying threats and hazards that stress a community’s capabilities, giving context to those threats and hazards and identifying associated impacts consistent with specific factors, identifying community-specific capability targets, assessing current...