About ICPS
The Institute for Corporate and Public Safety
(ICPS), a department of NorthWest Arkansas Community College,
is a comprehensive education, training, and research institute
tasked with preparing both the public and private sectors regarding
methodologies and best practices for a crisis event. A crisis
event covers the entire gambit of mass casualty events such
as an act of terrorism, a natural disaster, or a biological
pandemic. It is the belief of ICPS that it is essential for
communities to pre-plan for crisis events to mitigate the effects,
lessening the long-term effects on the community. This can only
be done through collaboration of both the public and private
sectors, utilizing all available resources.
ICPS Goal:
To bridge the training gap between private security and public
safety sectors, while enhancing safety and addressing America’s
rural preparedness challenges.
ICPS Strategies:
1) To provide essential training to the public
and private sectors utilizing current online and instructor-led
courses free to participants.
2) To enhance the knowledge-base of course participants
through continuous review of relevant literature and through
meetings and discussions with first responder and preparedness
professionals currently employed in various departments at
NorthWest Arkansas Community College (Fire Sciences, Emergency
Medical Services, Criminal Justice, Homeland Security/Emergency
Management).
3) To fill research gaps within the literature
of homeland security, community preparedness, business continuity,
and crisis intervention and mitigation through articles and
publications in academic and professional journals and other
publications.
4) To support the academic efforts of the newly
approved Associate of Applied Science in Homeland Security/Emergency
Management degree program at NorthWest Arkansas Community
College through advisement of curriculum and updates regarding
advances in preparedness technologies and methodologies.
click here for description of all ICPS courses
For questions/comments on this content, please contact jmalone4@nwacc.edu
This page was last updated on: August 12, 2010 @ 1:50 pm
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