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Celebrating 13 Years of ICS & Consequence Management Training and Exercise

We are proud to be able to say that one of our earliest students in ICS has ascended to the position of FEMA administrator. In our virtual offerings we have been able to expand our student body to an international audience with students from the UK, UAE, Greece, Hong Kong, Canada, Liberia and across the Caribbean. Our virtual training courses have really taken off since we fully partnered again with our home State of Colorado/Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management.  We have re-established an equally unique NGO / private partnership of service delivery with the Colorado Wildland Fire and Incident Management Academy. In 2019 we were surprised and honored to find one of the first intellectual products that we ever created, our All-Hazard complexity analysis, is now included in the new ICS position specific training curriculum at the Federal level. 
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Getting the Most Out of ICS Training - Industry Centric Courses

Although the curriculum of ICS is controlled and standardized nationally, discussions and activities can be tailored to the audience. With our large instructor cadre, The Blue Cell regularly leverages instructors with specific backgrounds to deliver industry focused classes. This maximizes student participation and retention by discussing situations the participants are most likely to face. 
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