Riverhead Volunteer Ambulance Corps’ district manager Albert Gehres Jr. has graduated from FEMA’s National Emergency Management Executive Academy at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Maryland.
Gehres completed the full curriculum that supports the advancement of the emergency management profession at strategic policy and executive leadership levels, according to a FEMA press release.
“The executive academy instills emergency management leaders with a deeper understanding of contemporary and emerging emergency management issues, debates, and public policy. It provides insights, theories, tools and resources that enable decision-makers to think and act more strategically and to build capacity to protect against, prepare for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate all types of disasters,” FEMA said in the press release.
FEMA’s National Emergency Management Executive Academy is for senior executives at the pinnacle of their careers, FEMA said. It’s the final phase of FEMA’s Emergency Management Professional Program.
“This is quite an accomplishment and Al worked hard at it,” RVAC Chief Rod Richardson said. “We are very proud of him.”
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