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Apr 27, 2024
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HSEM 220 Developing and Managing Volunteer Resources (2 credits)
Prerequisite HSEM 102 or HSEM 105 with at least a 2.0 grade
Course Description
This course will focus on methods and procedures for involving volunteers in emergency management programs, with the goal of maximizing the effectiveness of volunteer resources.
Course Content
A. Different Types of Volunteers and Volunteer Programs
B. Benefits and Challenges of Involving Volunteers
C. Develop and maintain a Volunteer Program
D. Working with Voluntary and community-based organizations.
E. Voluntary/Community Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD/COAD)
F. Identifying Needs of Volunteers and How to Meet Them
G. Special Issues in Volunteer Management
Student Outcomes
Correlate the skills and knowledge required of volunteers in emergency management programs.
Describe how volunteers can be used most beneficially to meet an agency's needs.
Analyze the steps in developing a volunteer program
Develop a volunteer policy and job description.
Outline strategies for recruiting, retaining, assigning, training, supervising, and evaluating volunteers.
Analyze the role of volunteers and voluntary agencies in providing emergency assistance.
Describe methods that will ensure cultural humility and equity in managing volunteers in a diverse community.
Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities Outcomes
Critical, Creative and Reflective Thinking:
Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Program Outcome:
Graduates apply a solid foundation of knowledge and skills to assume leadership roles in emergency management, homeland security, and/or public policy.
Develop agency/organization specific tools to evaluate domestic security challenges for the 21st Century that face the United States and other industrialized nations.
Lecture Contact Hours 20
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 20
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