Virtual Tabletop Exercise Programs Available at Emergency Management Institute

FEMA’s Emergency Management Institute (EMI) offers a variety of Virtual Tabletop Exercise (VTTX) programs that are designed for a community based group of at least ten or more personnel from state, local, tribal, or territorial emergency management organizations with representatives from other disciplines such as public safety, public works, public health, health care, government, administrative, communications, military, private sector, non-governmental, and other whole community partners. Participants must have an appropriate site equipped with video teleconference capability that can access FEMA. 

EMI will conduct VTTX programs between June and September 2015 on a variety of subjects:

- July 7-9:  Long-term Power Outage

- July 28-30:  Psychology of Disaster: Long-term Mental Health Recovery

- August 25-27:  Building Collapse Focused

- September 1-3:  Public Health Infectious Disease (written and hosted by the CDC)

A complete listing of all the 2015 VVTX dates and scenarios can be found online.