Event Detail
Working in a POD
When: By arrangement with trainers
Type of Event: In-Person Training
Where: At Your Facility
Target Audience : Medical Reserve Corps Volunteers, Public Health Department Personnel, First Responders
About This Event:
Presenters:
Kevin O’Hara, Instructor, Vocational Education and Extension Board of Nassau County (VEEB)
Overview:
Working in a Point of Dispensing (POD) provides you with an understanding of what a Point of Dispensing is, how it operates, and what functional roles you may be assigned as a volunteer serving in a POD.
After completing this course, you will be able to describe:
- The purpose of a POD
- The general process flow of a public health POD
- How POD operations function within the National Incident Management System (NIMS) structure and Incident Command System (ICS) chain of command
- How public health POD operations will function in collaboration with other community-based agencies utilizing the ICS structure
- How public health POD operations will be activated
- Emergency response functional roles within a typical public health POD operation
How to Register:
For information about in person training contact Frank Chester fchester@veeb.org or Kevin O’Hara kohara@veeb.org