The District of Columbia Mass Care Taskforce (MCTF) is a rapidly deployable cadre of more than 100 trained employee-volunteers from across District agencies who serves as emergency personnel to support mass care activities during response and recovery phases of incidents in the District. Perses Consulting developed four MCTF training courses and produced two MCTF training videos as follows:
MCTF Fundamentals online, asynchronous course
MCTF Fundamentals classroom course, synchronous course
MCTF Supervisory online, asynchronous course
MCTF Supervisory classroom course, synchronous course
MCTF Fundamentals classroom video
MCTF Supervisory webinar video
The fundamentals course provides the Mass Care Taskforce (MCTF) employees-volunteers with the following:
General understanding and provisions of the District’s Mass Care Services.
Guidance on the roles and responsibilities in support of mass care services for the District.
Planning considerations for mass care services operations including protective measures in a pandemic environment.
The supervisory course provides the Mass Care Task Force (MCTF) supervisors a more in-depth training that complements the Mass Care Task Force Fundamentals course and focuses on the following:
General understanding of the programs, processes, and documents that make up the District’s Emergency Management Preparedness System and Framework (DEMPS).
Understanding the basics of an Incident Command System (ICS) and how it's used in the MCTF.
Understanding the essential mass care functions for manager and supervisor roles.
Other considerations for establishing a mass care facility.
The videos provide DHS with an alternative delivery method for both the fundamentals and supervisory synchronous courses. Often, employee-volunteers or traditional volunteers arrive to a mass care facility with minimal to no training and require further just-in-time training. These videos provide staff will the same in-depth training materials as the traditional synchronous or asynchronous courses but provides DHS the flexibility to rapidly train a MCTF cohort of individuals without having to schedule a classroom space and instructor.
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