| The following organizations have reviewed and approved the awareness and response training program for emergency responders developed by the AgPreparedness Center: |
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Homeland Security
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp/welcome.html |
| Coursework developed through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office for Domestic Preparedness. |
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APHIS
http://www.aphis.usda.gov |
| The course materials for "Foreign Animal Disease Response: Training for Emergency Responders" have been reviewed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. These materials are in compliance with existing National Animal Health Emergency Management System (NAHEMS) Guidelines, which were established by APHIS for emergency response personnel in the event of a major animal health emergency (August 2005). |
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FAZD Center
http://fazd.tamu.edu |
| The course materials for "Foreign Animal Disease Response: Training for Emergency Responders" have been reviewed by the National Center for Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense Education Section (August 2005). |
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Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship
http://www.agriculture.state.ia.us |
| The course materials for "Foreign Animal Disease Response: Training for Emergency Responders" have been reviewed by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. This material has been designated as the training curriculum for the training of local government agencies and industry for response to a foreign animal disease outbreak in Iowa (September 2005). |
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Iowa State University Center for Food Security and Public Health
http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/ |
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AgrowKnowledge
http://www.agrowknowledge.org |
| The AgrowKnowledge Center is a National Science Foundation funded national center for Agriculture Technical Education. The Center and its network of community college, high school, and university partners across America will play a key role in instruction using the course materials developed by the AgPreparedness Center. |
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Kirkwood
http://www.kirkwood.edu |
| One of America's leading community colleges, Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, houses and supports The Community Training and Response Center, The National Mass Fatalities Institute, Hazardous Materials Training and Research Institute, and the AgPreparedness Center. |
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WIFSS
http://wifss.ucdavis.edu |
| The mission of the Western Insititute for Food Safety and Security is to conduct research and deliver services that will enhance food safety in all sectors of the food systems' continuum from environment to consumer. The Institute is a leading resource for scientific information that; facilitates innovations and new practices against international harmful acts directed at the food system, enhances economic stability of the food industry, and overall, leads to improved human health and welfare. The AgPreparedness Center worked with WIFSS in the development, review and piloting of this FADR program. The Institute endorses this program. |
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For more information about the AgPreparedness Center and its relationship with the above or other prominent government and education entities, please contact Patti Thompson, patti.thompson@kirkwood.edu,
at 1-800-464-6874 or 319-398-5899 x 5049 |
