NFA Demonstrating your Community Risk Reduction Program's Worth

This 6-day course provides students with the tools and skills to be able to evaluate their organization’s fire and injury prevention programs. The course provides a systematic way to improve and account for evaluation actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical and accurate.

Course framework guides fire prevention professionals in their use of prevention program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of prevention program evaluation. The emphasis is on the practical, ongoing evaluation strategies that involve all prevention stakeholders, not just evaluation experts. The main themes of the course include:

• Misconceptions regarding the purposes and methods of prevention evaluation.
• The essential elements of prevention program evaluation.
• The steps for conducting effective prevention program evaluation.
• Review standards for effective program evaluation.

*Students must have substantial involvement in fire prevention and control, emergency medical services, fire-related emergency management activities or aligned professions.*

For more information: https://apps.usfa.fema.gov/nfacourses/catalog/details/10751

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training, 4190 Aumsville Highway Southeast, Salem, United States