Line of Duty Death Preparation Classes

It's hard for a department to think about a line of duty death happening to one of their members, however not preparing for such an event can cause even more heartache and stress on everyone involved should a tragedy occur. The emergency services are good at preparing for disasters and emergencies of all kinds and preparing for a line of duty death or injury should be no exception. Having a plan in place will help ensure that caring for the family, department members, putting together a funeral, and caring for long term needs will run a bit smoother.

The TX LODD Task Force offers a three hour preparation course and a comprehensive eight hour course. The three hour course is geared more towards departments who would like to schedule classes for short day or evening trainings. The eight hour course is taylored more for larger departments, county schools, or multiple department training.

The three hour course features:

• basic planning information
• benefits overview
• caring for survivors
  
  

The eight hour course features:

• Texas fatality overview
• Preparing and writing guidelines for your department
• Caring for survivors- family and department
• Notification
• Benefits
• Psychological aspects
• Discussion/Group Scenerios
• Handouts/Materials
• Some classes have special presenters

This course has been taught at: Texas A&M weekend and summer municapl schools, Federation of Fire Chaplain's Annual Conference and weekend courses, county firefighter association schools and meetings, various fire, ems, and police departments around Texas.

For more information or to schedule this course please email us at wendy@firechaplains.org or call us at 832-647-6770.

 

 

Train the Trainer/Train the Responder

For those individuals who are interested in responding with the Task Force and/or would like to teach our LODD Preparation course, this class is what you need. The morning session will be for those who would like to join the team. We will discuss response procedures, family & department assistance, roles and jobs, benefits, information about the NFFF LAST. The afternoon session will be geared towards teaching the LODD Prep class. Discussions will be out topics to be covered in class, materials and hand outs, breakout sessions, dynamics of teaching this type of class.

For more information or to schedule this course please email us at wendy@firechaplains.org or call us at 832-647-6770.