Emergency Management - Niagara County Community College

Emergency Management from Niagara County Community College is a Campus Associate Emergency Management degree that prepares you for a Human Services career. The Career Emergency Management expertise is valuable to first responders, employed or volunteer; police; fire fighters; emergency medical workers or safety/security officials. The majority of emergency managers began as first responders and through intensive training advanced to their current positions. In offering the Emergency Management degree , NCCC is fulfilling its responsibility to educate students in a field that promises employment or provides the opportunity for advancement as well as offering a program that is important to homeland security. The NCCC Approach Emergency Management is an important national priority. As demonstrated during floods, forest fires and terrorist events, the ability to draw emergency management teams?all trained to one national standard from wherever available to wherever needed?is critical to the welfare and safety of our citizens and the security of our nation. The Emergency Management degree program will provide students with the knowledge and experience necessary to respond in a unified manner to natural or man-made emergency situations. Students will be trained to coordinate and evaluate the resources and operations dealing with emergency situations and their aftermaths. The program is designed specifically to attract and prepare area fire fighters, police, emergency medical workers and private safety/security professionals as part of a statewide effort to establish standardized emergency management degree programs in community colleges in New York State. NCCC has structured the learning environment by participating in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Emergency Management Higher Education Project. The degree incorporates emergency management courses of study offered through the FEMA Emergency Management Higher Education Project, state and local courses and nationally recognized courses in the incident command system. View more details on Niagara County Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Emergency Management courses.