Evacuation and Emergency Sheltering

Program Description:
This awareness level course is designed to integrate the knowledge and shared resources of emergency operation and management level personnel who are responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing state and local emergency operations plans, with other key community personnel who have roles and responsibilities in emergency animal disaster planning in order to effectively develop a successful and cohesive response to disasters that incorporates household pets and service animals and helps to alleviate the panic of crisis and minimize the consequences of disasters that affect the household pet and service animal owning population in order to return the jurisdiction to normal as quickly as possible following a major disaster.