Advanced Professional Series (APS)
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This program, as well as the Professional Development Series program, are programs sponsored and recognized by FEMA. Each is designed for emergency management professionals across the career spectrum.
Students who complete the five required courses and any five of the 18 elective courses are eligible to receive the Emergency Management Institute’s Advanced Professional Series (APS) Certificate of Completion.
Upon completion of all training, the individual applicant must submit a request for their APS certificate through VDEM. Copies of all supporting certificates/ documentation must accompany the APS Request Form available here for download.
Required Courses
IS2200
Basic EOC Functions
G191
Incident Command System/Emergency Operations Center Interface, or E/L449 ICS Train the Trainer*
G557
Rapid Assessment Workshop
G205
Recovery from Disaster, the Local Government Role, or E210 Recovery from Disaster, the Local Government Role*
G393
Mitigation for Emergency Managers (or G318, below)
G318
Mitigation Planning for Local Governments, either Mitigation course will satisfy the APS requirements
Elective Courses (choose any 5)
G288
Local Volunteer and Donations Management
G364
Multi-Hazard Emergency Planning for Schools, or L363 Multi-Hazard Planning for Higher Education*
IS703.a
NIMS Resource Management, Independent Study (or IS703, below)
IS703
NIMS Resource Management, Independent Study
E/G202
Debris Management Planning for State, Local and Tribal Officials*
G361
Flood Fight Operations
IEMC
One of the IEMC courses E900*
G108
Community Mass Care and Emergency Assistance
G358
Evacuation and Re-entry Planning
G290
Basic Public Information Officers, or E388 Advanced Public Information Officer* or E/L952 All Hazards Public Information Officer, or E/L/K0105: Public Information and Warning
G271
Hazardous Weather and Flood Preparedness (or IS271, below)
IS271
Anticipating Hazardous Weather and Community Risk, (Independent Study) or, below,
G272
Warning Coordination
E/L/K 146
Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP)
G235
Emergency Planning or L0103: Planning: Emergency Operations
E/L/G 0141
Instructional Facilitation Skills or Instructional Presentation and Evaluation Skills
* All substitute E or L courses are subject to the Approval of the State Training Officer.
* Some equivalent or substitute courses are accepted for the APS certificate requests. All substitute E/L or G courses are subject to the approval of the VDEM State Training Officer.
Course descriptions, information regarding the original required courses and changes to course electives are available on FEMA’s website at https://training.fema.gov/programs/aps/
Upon completion of all training, the individual applicant must submit a request for their APS certificate through VDEM. Copies of all supporting certificates/ documentation must accompany the APS Request Form.