Please refer to the Course Descriptions for further details and times of the sessions listed below.
Thursday and Friday, February 21-22, 2013
- Command Overload: DELEGATE!
Thursday, February 21, 2013
o Company Officer Symposium (Day 1) : Facing Leadership Reality
o Shaker’s Forum
o NFPA 1031 Fire Inspector Recertification
o Department of Defense (DOD) Day: Everyone Goes Home: Courage to be Safe!
o Is Your Revenue Recovery Program Working for You? Documentation Procedures for Optimizing Your Revenue Efforts
o Certification versus Training: Is there really a difference?
Friday, February 22, 2013
o Company Officer Symposium (Day 2) : Facing Leadership Reality
o Administrative Professionals: Team Building for Greatness
o NFPA 1033 Fire Investigator Recertification
o Traffic Incident Management and Responder Safety Workshop
o Everyone Goes Home: Courage to be Safe!
o Effective Pumper and Aerial Apparatus Positioning and Operations
o Volunteer Chief Officer Mini-Academy
o Communication: The Link for Increasing Firefighter Engagement and
Defining Your Personal Leadership Brand
o Volunteer and Combination Fire Department Management Academy
o Virginia Dept of Forestry: An Overview of the Firewise Virginia Program & Wildland
Fire Case Studies
o Virginia Office of EMS
>What Does It All Mean: Impact on EMS Education and Certification with
Implantation of the New EMS Regulations and Transitioning to National Registry
>Self Proclaimed Experts! A Review of the Newly Implemented EMS Regulations
o Is Your Revenue Recovery Program Working for You? Documentation Procedures for Optimizing Your Revenue Efforts
o Chief Officer Leadership Seminar: Leaders versus Losers: A Strategizing Roundtable
Saturday, February 23, 2013: AFTERNOON SESSIONS
IMPORTANT NOTE: All Saturday courses (except where noted otherwise) will be offered twice.
(SESSION 1: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM and SESSION 2: 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM.)
- This Might Be Nothing, but ……” An Overview of the Virginia Fusion Center
- Firefighter Survivability and SCBA Training: “Don’t Wait to Make a Plan”
- Company Officer: It's Not Just a Badge!
- "You Got My Back?" How leaders and followers help each other!
- Cancer in Firefighters: From a 30,000 Foot View
- Lessons Learned from the VA Local Assistance State Team While Managing LODDs
- Responding to and Managing Incidents Involving Fire Protection System During Prolonged Power Outages
- Time for a Change… Learning to Communicate Fire Safety to College Students
- Size-Up and Command Presence: Are You Part of the Solution or the Problem?
- Responding to School Bus Accidents
- The 15 Behaviors that can hurt the volunteer fire service!
- Billing for Fire Services: Don't Leave Money on the Table!
- The First 15 Minutes: Survival Strategies for Roadway Incidents
- Help! My Department Needs Volunteers
Saturday, February 23, 2013: OPENING GENERAL SESSION
Reinvent This! Change Your Strategy; Change Your Results!
Presenter: Jim Mathis, The Mathis Group, LLC
Sunday, February 24, 2013: Breakfast and CLOSING GENERAL SESSION
Final Report on the Phase I VFCA Volunteer Workforce Solutions Program (VWS) and an Introduction of the VWS Phase II Program
CASE STUDY: Lessons Learned from the FA-18D Crash into Virginia Beach Apartment Complex
