Demonstrating Your Fire Prevention Program's Worth (NFA)

Instructional Hours: 42.00

Course Objective: To provide students with the knowledge, skills and abilities to evaluate an organization's fire and injury prevention program.

Course Description: This course provides a systematic way to improve and account for evaluation actions by involving procedures that are useful, feasible, ethical and accurate. Course framework guides fire prevention professionals in their use of prevention program evaluation. It is a practical, nonprescriptive tool, designed to summarize and organize essential elements of prevention program evaluation. The emphasis is on the practical, ongoing evaluation strategies that involve all prevention stakeholders, not just evaluation experts. Major topics covered in this course include misconceptions regarding the purposes and methods of prevention evaluation, the essential elements of prevention program evaluation, the steps for conducting effective prevention program evaluation, and standards for effective program evaluation. Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion and classroom activities.

Successful Completion: Students must attend all class sessions and complete required classroom activities.

Prerequisites

Incident Command System (ICS)-100-level and ICS-200-level training available through NFA Online at www.usfa.fema.gov/training/nfa/courses/online.html. Chief's signature attests that the applicant has completed this required training. Note: There is a pre-course assignment, course homework, a student project and a course examination.