PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning on Wednesday announced a $1.7-million grant from the New Hampshire Department of Justice to install a statewide first responder training and communication network, “Homeland One.”

The network will be deployed at 607 sites across the state of New Hampshire. The sites were selected by the New Hampshire Department of Justice and include law enforcement, fire and emergency medical services agencies.

“Through this effort we hope to enhance the level of training across New Hampshire and, at the same time, lessen the burden that training often carries with it for the first responder,” said New Hampshire Attorney General Peter W. Heed. “This is especially true in the northern regions of New Hampshire, where training content is often limited and traveling to access it can be both time consuming and costly.”

Modeled on National Interagency Incident Management Systems, Homeland One’s customizable training modules are based on the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Domestic Preparedness First Responder Training Guidelines and Standardized Emergency Management System standards. “PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning is the only company to have taken the guidelines provided by the ODP and turned them into a complete Weapons of Mass Destruction curriculum that is being provided to the state of New Hampshire through Homeland One,” said Bryan Mossey, vice president of Homeland One.

In addition to receiving state-of-the art modular Homeland Security training, the Homeland One First Responder Network will be used to brief first responders in times of emergency. New Hampshire receives four hours of broadcast time over the network each month that can be used for incident response, command briefing or to coordinate resources across the state. New Hampshire is also the first state in the nation to be able to receive statewide secure communications directly from the Department of Homeland Security, which launched a similar network with PRIMEDIA more than five years ago through Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“Governor Craig Benson and U.S. Senator Jud Gregg are to be commended for their outstanding leadership and homeland security vision for protecting the state and establishing a training and communications network that meets federal guidelines,” said Mossey.

“For more than a decade, we have invested heavily in a secure, content-rich training and communications platform. Since 2000, we have been integrating our capabilities to create a solution that now enables New Hampshire to interconnect and consistently train all first responders in a way that will save lives,” said Dave Ellett, CEO of PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning.
     
Homeland One Quick Facts
Core Curriculum

• Fully integrated curriculum, already training and communicating with more than two million of our nation’s first responders in various disciplines;

• Based on Office for Domestic Preparedness Guidelines and National Interagency Incident Management System;Blends Weapons of Mass Destruction and Incident Command System Training into Seamless Solution;

• Three Levels: Awareness (Cold Zone), Preparedness Level A (Warm Zone), Preparedness Level B (Hot Zone); Tailored for fire, EMS and law enforcement
  

Communications & Technology

• Reliable and secure delivery platforms including satellite; 

• Communications technology delivers custom content for immediate access by frontline responders; 

• Has produced more than 140,000 hours of custom training content; 5,000 existing satellite communication links; and

• Learning Management System centralizes, tracks, records and reports on the preparedness of first responders.

Fire & EMS Training

• Official Training and communications network of the International Association of Fire Chiefs;

• Meets certification requirements (including NFPA standards and CECBEMS reviews); and

• Access to our nation’s leading subject-matter experts.
  

• Produces more than 350 new programs every year;

• Draws upon a network of approximately 400 experts in various health-care fields;Accredited provider of continuing education;

• Since 1992, Centers for Disease Control has relied on PRIMEDIA as the partner of choice in extending its expertise to healthcare in acute-care settings nationwide.

For more information about Homeland One, call Lorri Allen, 972-309-4344, e-mail LorriA@pwpl.com or visit www.homelandone.com

About PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning
PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, a PRIMEDIA company, is the leading provider of Integrated Learning Solutions for more than 8 million professionals in the industrial, healthcare, banking, automotive, fire and emergency, government and law, and security markets.  PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning's unique offerings include the world's largest satellite-delivered distance learning services; CD-ROM, Web-based and video training programs; and an Internet-enabled learning management system, which better enables corporations and government agencies to manage, track and measure their in-house training efforts.  This unparalleled combination of content, custom solutions, technology and "any time/anywhere" delivery represents the state of the art in the fast-growing business-to-business training market.  For more details on PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning, visit www.pwpl.com.