This two-day training integrates FEMA's foundational principles with procurement compliance, explicitly designed for local government staff responsible for purchasing or working with suppliers, as well as their local emergency managers. Participants will learn best practices on how to establish, operate, and manage an Emergency Operations Center (EOC), ensuring alignment with FEMA’s Incident Command System (ICS) and federal procurement standards. This training will provide hands-on experience and actionable strategies to strengthen emergency preparedness while maintaining compliance with FEMA’s procurement requirements.

This is a specialized training on both practical and legal considerations of Minnesota’s Open Meeting Law and Data Practices requirements. Participants will gain an understanding of these complicated laws, gain an understanding of updated regulations, learn how to access appropriate resources, and leave with practical knowledge for working within the laws’ parameters.

This is a specialized training on both practical and legal considerations of Minnesota’s Open Meeting Law and Data Practices requirements. Participants will gain an understanding of these complicated laws, gain an understanding of updated regulations, learn how to access appropriate resources, and leave with practical knowledge for working within the laws’ parameters.

Crosslake Fire Hall Address:
37028 County Road 66
Crosslake, MN 56442

In this one-day workshop participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and comunity provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery. 

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Morning Session: Skills for Transforming Conflict 

Conflict is a constant in our world. It is a common and inevitable aspect of work inside our organizations and with the public. With intentionality, conflict can be a powerful opportunity for growth and change. Equip yourself with the mindsets, communications skills, and practices to manage conflict productively. In this session, you will experience plenty of peer-to-peer discussion and learn practical strategies you can use as soon as you leave the room.

Afternoon session: Designing collaborative processes for reaching agreement 

Collaborative problem-solving is a systematic approach for finding workable shared solutions to complex challenges for parties with different views and interests. In this session, you will use the Office of Collaboration and Dispute Resolution’s five-step collaborative problem-solving model to design a conflict resolution process that meets the unique needs of a challenge you are facing and get helpful feedback from OCDR trainers and other participants in the room.