Note: There will be pre-course work due before attending this course. Students must bring a laptop capable of accessing Google Drive and other online platforms, tablets and cell phones can be used as secondary devices but not a primary device.

The Advanced Public Information Officer Course provides participants the knowledge and skills to establish, manage and work within a joint information center (JIC) through multimedia lectures and individual and group activities. The training allows participants the opportunity to apply advanced public information skills during a multi-day functional exercise (FE) designed to test the participants’ abilities to analyze, coordinate, process and create information in a fast-paced, realistic environment.
Through a tabletop exercise (TTX), participants evaluate their processes to help them generate new ideas, products, or ways of viewing challenges or situations as well as improve their processes ensuring every action has a measurable relevance for each identified audience, including senior leadership.

Students will not receive credit if they do not attend all 40 hours of the course. 

Please send all prerequisites to the POC listed, including a resume showing at least two years of public information experience. 

Prerequisites: 

Students must submit a resume showing at least two years of experience in public information. 

E/L/K 0105 - Public Information Basics Certificate (G290 is no longer accepted for the Advanced PIO course) 

1 - IS-29: Public Information Officer Awareness

2 - IS-42: Social Media in Emergency Management

3 - IS-100: Introduction to Incident Command System (ICS)

4 - IS-200: ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents

5 - IS-247: Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) (or either IS-248 Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) for the American Public

6 - IS-700: National Incident Management System (NIMS)

7 - IS-800: National Response Framework 

8 - IS-2900 National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) Overview 

FEMA Indendent Study (IS Courses) transcript or Certificates are accepted.