The offices’ of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense (GHS/OCD)’s Training and Education Division offers a wide variety of courses in four major areas. These areas include Community Emergency Response Team, Emergency Management, Multi-Hazard Safety Program for Schools and Weapons of Mass Destruction/Homeland Security. Within each of these areas are a wide range of courses that cover emergency planning, mitigation, awareness, operations, command and control in hazardous materials and domestic preparedness delivered both on and off-island. In the emergency management arena, we offer the Professional Development Series and Applied Practices Series certificate programs.

Courses, scheduled on a yearly basis and evaluated quarterly, are determined through federal, state, county and local requirements and requests. Courses will be considered outside of the calendar year if a specific need exists. A calendar of our scheduled courses is available on-line, and can be viewed and/or downloaded from the agency’s web site at:

http://www.guamhs.org

The budget is planned a year in advance. It will be necessary to determine if our staffing, schedules and budget will support additional course requests. We encourage those seeking to schedule courses to fill out our request form as a referral for planning the next year's events. GHS/OCD keeps a log of all requests to determine our future courses and funding.

If you have any questions on this process or the courses, please contact:

Lt. Eric D. Fisher, State Training & Exercise Coordinator for All-Hazards to include Terrorism/Weapons of Mass Destruction courses at 671.475.9600 / efisher@guamhs.org

Edilyn Terlaje, Training Coordinator for Community Emergency Response Team Training at 671.475.9600 / eterlaje@guamhs.org

Sgt. James Buccat, Coordinator for Citizens Corps/Volunteer Individuals in Police Services at 671.475.9600 / jbuccat@guamhs.org

Pilar Carbullido, Coordinator for Multi-Hazard School Safety Program at 671.475.9600 / pcarbullido@guamhs.org