CMC 101 - Communication Essentials: This course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to be an effective communicator. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of communication. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to communicate verbal and non-verbal messages and your ability to effectively listen. Format: Onsite

CMC 102 - Conflict Management: This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage conflict situations. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will be able to identify conflict and conflict behaviors, and understand how to prevent, de-escalate and resolve conflict. Format: Onsite

CMC 201 - Verbal Techniques for Aggression Management: This four-hour course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage verbal aggression. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of aggression management. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to acknowledge, understand, and de-escalate verbal aggression. This course is also available in a lecture only format. Format: Onsite

CMC 202 - Physical Control Techniques for Aggression Management: This course is only offered to persons working in the healthcare environment. This two-hour course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement physical control techniques to manage aggression in a safe manner. Through our lecture, discussion, behavior-based activities, and instructor feedback, you will obtain a better understanding of aggression management. Participants will have the opportunity to improve your ability to acknowledge, understand, and de-escalate verbal aggression. Format: Onsite

CMC 301 - PPCT Defensive Tactics*: This 24-hour course is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal, and medical research. Participants will learn a system that addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, and simple use of force continuum, which clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Format: Onsite

CMC 301/i - PPCT - Defensive Tactics Instructor*: This 40-hour course is the first subject control system developed through tactical, legal, and medical research. Participants will learn to teach a system that addresses the most common types of resistance officers encounter, and simple use of force continuum, which clarifies the appropriate force level for every level of resistance. Medical research was conducted on every PPCT technique to refine technique efficiency and to ensure the medical implications were proportional to the level of resistance. Format: Onsite

CMC 302 - Ground Avoidance/Ground Escape (GAGE)*: The eight-hour course is designed to teach students how to avoid being taken to the ground and how to effectively escape if they do find themselves there. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments, reviews the four most common ground positions and escapes, and refines the student's physical technique. Format: Onsite

CMC 302/i - Ground Avoidance/Ground Escape (GAGE) Instructor*: This 24-hour course is designed to teach students how to train students in GAGE techniques. It reviews tactics for both open and narrow environments, reviews the four most common ground positions and escapes, refines the student's physical technique; and presents instructional methods for teaching survival skills. Format: Onsite

*Note: 300 Level courses are for security and law enforcement personnel only.

CMC 401 - Self Defense: CEMA offers customized self-defense programs to meet our customer’s needs. Contact CEMA@cema.biz to find out more information about our self-defense programs. Format: Onsite

CMC 501 - Behavior-Based Aggression Management Training: This customized training program that involves role-play scenarios provides participants the opportunity to implement knowledge and skills learned from other Conflict Management ContinuumSM programs. The program may be implemented to focus on low-level conflict, or verbal aggression, physical aggression. Our trained role players provide realistic simulation and immediate feedback to facilitate learning. Format: Onsite

Topics:
Fire Triad
Phases of Fire
Types and Uses of Extinguishers (A,B,C and K)
Five Considerations
Using Your Extinguisher (PASS)
After the Fire
Home Fire Safety

Topics:
The Fire Triangle
Phases of Fire
Fire Prevention Issues
Fire Alarm & Response
Home Fire Safety

HBDP 101 – CBRNE/WMD Awareness: This Awareness-Level Hospital Based Decontamination Program (HBDP) course consists lecture sessions, representing approximately four hours of instruction. The course provides participants with the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to understand how to recognize and response to CBRNE/WMD incidents as an employee or associate of a hospital.

HBDP 201 – Hospital Based Decontamination Program Operations Level Training: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires hospitals to provide First Receiver Operations Level training to personnel who are expected to decontaminate victims or handle them before they are thoroughly decontaminated. The standard applies to staff designated to provide treatment, triage, decontamination, and other related services as well as personnel who may reasonably be expected to come in contact with those individuals arriving at the hospital. This comprehensive eight-hour Operations Level Training program prepares hospital staff to quickly and efficiently recognize, receive, and manage exposed and contaminated patients. The program includes lecture and practical skills application.

HBDP 202 – Hospital Mass Casuality Decontamination Setup: A four-hour instructional program providing basic information for hospital first receivers who participate on a hospital decontamination setup team for mass decontamination events. The program includes Awareness level training and a hands-on operational review of your facility’s mass decontamination equipment including deployment, termination and the recovery process.

HBDP 301 – Hospital Decon Group Supervisor/Safety Officer: A sixteen-hour instructional program that provide participants with the knowledge and skills to oversee hospital decontamination operations as either the Decon Group Supervisor or Decon Safety Officer. The program includes lecture, practical skills application, and tabletop exercises.

*CEMA Hospital Based Decontamination Programs exceed OSHA Best Practices guidelines for Hospital-Based First Receivers and JCAHO's accreditation standards for decontamination and emergency planning.

IMP 101 – Introduction to Preparedness: This half-day course covers a wide range of topics, including regional emergency preparedness grants, the Incident Command and Multi-Agency Coordination Systems, the tiered approach to disaster response, various disaster resources available, and disaster exercises. It is for staff with little or no prior knowledge of such emergency management concepts.

IMP 102 – Introduction to Incident Management: This half-day course is intended for members of your organization's Incident Management Team (IMT) and others with a role in managing the organization's emergency response and recovery activities. Basic information on the Incident Command System, related staff roles, initial incident actions, and incident action planning are covered.

IMP 201 – Incident Management Team Leadership: This course focuses on the eight ICS Command and General Staff Section Chief positions. Instructors utilize large-group and breakout training sessions to educate IMT members on concepts, activities, and ICS tools that apply to all these IMT leadership positions as well as position-specific duties and responsibilities. The course concludes with a tabletop exercise to talk through IMT activities in response to an emergency scenario. This may be run as a full-day or half-day course.

IMP 202 – Essentials of Action Planning: This half-day course addresses how to gather incident information, create strategic and tactical objectives, and compose an Incident Action Plan - an essential but often overlooked process. In addition to course lectures, a tabletop exercise allows participants to develop an IAP in response to an emergency scenario.

WV 100 – Recognizing and Preventing Workplace Violence: Recognizing and preventing workplace violence is every employee's responsibility. All employees must become mindful, not fearful, of "Behaviors of Concern" that lead to workplace violence and learn that everyone is a stakeholder in the safety and security of their workplace. This interactive workshop facilitated by a seasoned, law-enforcement professional will share the latest information from experience and respected sources about conditions and behaviors of concern, and offer tips and techniques to improve workplace plans for such events. A one-hour presentation.

WV 201 - Active Shooter Survival Techniques: Active violence (active shooter) incidents are unique in that the goal of the perpetrator(s) is to take as many lives as possible. Additionally, the perpetrator often has an expectation that they will die in the incident. For these reasons, incidents of active violence are different from other types of workplace violence and require planning and training that are unique as well. Even though the general probability of an active shooter in your workplace may be remote, the consequences are so potentially catastrophic that prudence requires we plan and train for such events. This lecture based, interactive workshop will share the latest information about active violence from professional, respected sources. We will discuss workplace planning and the personal mindset and tools that have been found to be most effective at maximizing your chances of surviving such an incident. A two-hour presentation.

WV 202 – Hostage Incident Survival Techniques: Hostage incidents have unique characteristics making them different from other types of workplace violence. In a hostage incident, the perpetrator typically intends to survive the incident and loses leverage if the hostage(s) die. These characteristics offer opportunities that require the planning and training for such incidents is unique as well. This interactive workshop conducted by a seasoned expert with decades of real-world experience will look at the conditions that might be a precursor to such events and then focus on the individual behaviors that have been shown to best increase chances of survival. Finally, we will discuss what to expect from the law enforcement response to a hostage incident. A two-hour presentation.