Continuing Your Development
What will you do to continue your professional development?
Image shows an arrow pointing from the Awareness level of training illustrated in a pyramid to the Mastery level. Within the pyramid, from bottom up, are a listing of courses which take a student from Awareness to Master. They are PIO Awareness (IS-29), Basic PIO (G0290), JIS/JIC Planning for PIOs (G0291), Advanced PIO (E/L 0388), PIO Masters Course (E389/E393/E394).

You can continue your professional development by progressing through the Public Information Training Series curriculum, including:

  • G0290: Basic Public Information Officer
  • G0291: JIS/JIC Planning for PIOs
  • E0388: Advanced PIO
  • E0389/393/394: Master Public Information Officer Program

For additional training opportunities, check out the Emergency Management Institute Public Information Officer page: https://training.fema.gov/programs/pio/

You can also expand your knowledge of public information and emergency management by completing FEMA Independent Study (IS) courses (www.training.fema.gov/is). IS courses are free. Here is a sample list of the courses available:

  • IS-100.c: Introduction to Incident Command System (or ICS course for specific specialty: healthcare, public works, etc.)
  • IS-702.a: NIMS Public Information Systems
  • IS-909: Community Preparedness: Implementing Simple Activities for Everyone
  • IS-0042 Social Media in Emergency Management
  • IS-200.c ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents (or discipline specific course)
  • IS-201 Forms Used for the Development of the Incident Action Plan (Waived if ICS-300 completed)
  • IS-251 Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) for Alerting Authorities
  • IS-700.b National Incident Management System (NIMS), an Introduction
  • IS-800.c National Response Framework, An Introduction