Join your EMC colleagues from around the state at this highly-interactive session, and hear informative presentations from local and state emergency management personnel and hear the latest news and information from PEMA and TEMA. Additional presentations will address in-depth and practical ways to ensure the development and maintenance of an effective and efficient emergency operation program, and will highlight township exercise practices.

This intensive three-hour course is designed to provide municipal police officials with practical knowledge and sample policies that are necessary to operate a lawful and efficient police department. The presenters are attorneys with decades of experience in representing police officials in connection with civil rights lawsuits, labor & employment disputes, policy drafting & training. A primary goal of the training is to arm the attendees with practical guidance on how to conduct a meaningful assessment of their departments to ensure compliance with federal and state law.

One of the most important matters a township supervisor needs to become familiar with is the status of their Emergency Operations Plan (EOP). The EOP specifies activities to be taken by the township and other community officials to protect the lives and property of citizens in the event of a natural or human-caused emergency or disaster. The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Services Code directs and authorizes townships to prepare, maintain, and keep current a disaster EOP for the prevention and minimization of injury and damage of its citizens. This webinar will review the requirements of what needs to be in your EOP and will detail the additional actions your township should take to effectively implement your EOP and keep it current.

This intensive three-hour course is designed to provide municipal police officials with practical knowledge and sample policies that are necessary to operate a lawful and efficient police department. The presenters are attorneys with decades of experience in representing police officials in connection with civil rights lawsuits, labor & employment disputes, policy drafting & training. A primary goal of the training is to arm the attendees with practical guidance on how to conduct a meaningful assessment of their departments to ensure compliance with federal and state law.

This webinar will share case studies of what works and does not work when recruiting volunteer firefighters and, more importantly, discuss the changes that are necessary to keep people volunteering within your communities. The same principles discussed here can also be used when seeking volunteers for boards and commissions.

This full-day, virtual class is designed for everyone responsible for your municipality’s emergency management program, including elected officials, municipal managers, road crew/public works personnel, and, most importantly, local emergency management coordinators (EMCs).

In this webinar, representatives from Splashwire will review the 3Ps necessary to best protect your township – Process, Policy, and Procedures – against the ever-increasing number of cyber threats, whether those are malware or phishing attacks or other sinister efforts to access, take, or freeze your township’s data. They will also review the tools and ongoing management standards laid out by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and how they can be applied to your township.

If your township has a police department, contracts with another department for police services, or is part of a regional police department, you will want to attend this webinar to get caught up on all of the recent laws, as well as proposed legislation, affecting municipal police departments. You will also learn about what changes your townships and departments may need to make as a result of these new laws and legislation.

In this webinar, Chad Bruckner of Intercounty Investigations & Solutions and Chris Gerber of Siana Law will review what constitutes a proper employee background screening process, the problems that arise if you don’t conduct proper background screening, and the benefits of a quality screening process, including how it positively impacts your municipality’s culture and performance. They will also review examples of successes and failures from municipalities around the state and review best practices, including when selecting third-party screeners.

Tom Hughes, PEMA’s State Hazard Mitigation Officer, will discuss numerous funding opportunities through FEMA, including the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, which assists with hazard mitigation projects. He will also address grants available through the Flood Mitigation Assistance program, which can be used for projects that reduce or eliminate the risk of repetitive flood damage to buildings insured by the National Flood Insurance Program.