Crisis Communications, Incident Command System (ICS) training and the Crisis Management Essentials Certificate are available for open enrolment. Gain the leadership skills you need to address the needs of a complex organization before, during and after a crisis.
Through education, knowledge transfer and outreach, CADEM continues to work closely with key Emergency Management stakeholders to grow the Centre and its mandate. CADEM's Advisory Council ensures all programming adheres to relevant regulations, standards, and protocols, and reflects the needs of industry, government, and professional bodies to improve individual, organizational, and community resilience. CADEM uses the Incident Command System of training to ensure our course material is relevant, up-to-date, and highly effective.
Active Courses
ICS Canada Training
CDEM192 - ICS- I-402, Incident Command System for Executives
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NAIT ICS Training
Delivery Options: Online, Day
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Under the Incident Command System (ICS) model the Logistics Section is responsible for all support requirements.
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Delivery Options: Day, Online
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Under the Incident Command System (ICS) model, the Finance and Administration (Fin/Admin) Section is responsible for incident-specific finance support and other administrative support services.
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Delivery Options: Online, Evening, Day
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Under the Incident Command System (ICS) model the (Public) Information Officer is responsible for communicating to internal and external stakeholders details of an incident, as well as keeping the...
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Crisis Management Essentials Certificate
Delivery Options: Day, Online
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Discover how you can address potential, impending or unfolding crises.
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Delivery Options: Day, Online
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
In times of crisis, teams look to leaders for balance and direction. Discover how you can strengthen the foundation of your personal resilience and support those closest to you.
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Delivery Options: Day, Online
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Rebound and prosper after a crisis disrupts your business.
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Delivery Options: Online, Day
Hours: 7
Fees: $285
Flourish and persist in the face of evolving disaster risk. Every day, new challenges face our communities. For example, changing climate is creating new hazards and exacerbating existing ones.
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Certificates
- We have recently launched our Crisis Communications certificate.
- Complete five core courses and be ready with a communications plan when disaster strikes.
Business Continuity Certificate & Micro-credentials
Workshops
Comprehensive Emergency Management Program Development
Discover how to build and deliver a compliant emergency management program specific to the needs of your community or organization.
Course dates coming soon. Contact cadem@nait.ca for any questions.
Partners

CADEM's exercises are supported by Response Ready™.
Training exercises provide an opportunity to test plans and processes in a learning-focused environment. Leveraging CADEM’s Emergency Coordination Centre Simulation Lab and faculty expertise, CADEM is uniquely positioned to design, facilitate, and evaluate training exercises to ensure client compliance with professional body requirements and provincial and federal regulations. CADEM supports the spectrum of discussion-based and operation-based exercises using full simulation in our Lab, in classroom settings on Campus, and through custom exercise delivery at the client’s site. CADEM follows the industry-leading Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) for the development, facilitation, and evaluation of its exercises. All exercises include a full debrief with participants.
Tabletop Exercises (TTX)
A TTX is typically held in an informal setting intended to generate discussion of various issues regarding a hypothetical, simulated emergency. TTXs can be used to enhance general awareness, validate plans and procedures, rehearse concepts, and/or assess the types of systems needed to guide the prevention of, protection from, mitigation of, response to, and recovery from a defined incident. Generally, TTXs are aimed at facilitating conceptual understanding, identifying strengths and areas for improvement, and/or achieving changes in attitudes.
Games
A game is a simulation of operations that often involves two or more teams, usually in a competitive environment, using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or hypothetic situation. Games explore the consequences of player decisions and actions and are therefore excellent tools to use when validating or reinforcing plans and procedures or evaluating resource requirements.
Functional Exercises
Functional exercises are designed to validate and evaluate capabilities, multiple functions and/or sub-functions, or interdependent groups of functions. Functional exercises are typically focused on exercising plans, policies, procedures, and staff members involved in management, direction, command, and control functions. In functional exercises, events are projected through an exercise scenario with event updates that drive activity at the management level. A functional exercise is conducted in a realistic, real-time environment; however, movement of personnel and equipment is usually simulated.
Meeting Regulatory Requirements
CADEM’s team works directly with clients to ensure that all of our exercises are designed to meet regulatory requirements applicable to each client’s unique situation. CADEM will also provide a lessons-identified report delivered to the client upon request.
To arrange a consultation, please contact CADEM@nait.ca.
CADEM specializes in advancing the disaster and emergency management profession through collaboration, networking, and training. In addition to our education, training, and exercise offerings, we are proud to host annual events and conferences to bring together the emergency management community and promote best-practices and continuous learning.
CADEM has created a Facility Re-entry Guide that is available for download. The guide is designed to assist organizations with restarting their operations amid the COVID-19 challenge.
Download Facility Re-Entry Guide (pdf)
Emergency Management Stakeholder Summit
NAIT’s Centre for Applied Disaster and Emergency Management (CADEM) hosted the 2021 Emergency Management Stakeholder Summit virtually. Please save the date for this year's summit on November 29 - 30, 2022.
2020 EMSS
EPIC podcast provided an amazing review of the 2020 conference. Listen to the podcast:
Additionally, several speakers from the 2020 Emergency Management Stakeholder Summit (EMSS) have provided their presentations for download.
Download EMSS Speaker Presentations (zip)
Covid-19 Evacuation Guidebook
CADEM has written a guidebook for evacuation planning during a pandemic. The document is written to help organizations manage emergency social services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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