The California Public Officials Initiative
With the support of the California Emergency Management Agency, IGCC trains public officials in best practices for communcating in a crisis. The program provides public officials with crisis communications and disaster preparedness training through short workshops and full-day seminars.
Now in its fourth year, the joint program hosted by IGCC and the California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) conducted training for more than 300 California public officials representing communities across the state of California in 2010. The program expanded its outreach to include many California cities and counties as first-time participants. Highlights include successful county-wide workshops for San Diego, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Tulare counties, and workshops for senior elected city officials in San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Long Beach, and Carpenteria.
Notable public officials who have attended trainings included Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster, and mayors, council members, and staff from other large and small cities. CPOI also held a full-day workshop at UCLA for regional public officials, which featured Dr. Vincent Covello, director of the Center for Risk Communication.
For more information or to schedule a training, please contact Michael Kleeman.
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