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Agricultural Preparedness Training (APT) for Emergency Response Personnel
Emmanuel Okolo, Shannon Parish, William Norris, Marshal Wilson, Tom Dean, Tim Hanosh, Dennis Giever, Jessie Williams, and Lacey Roberts-Hill
Summary
The purpose of the Agricultural Preparedness Training (APT) is to train individuals involved in the “whole-of-community” response efforts for an agricultural emergency, which include Extension personnel, law enforcement, emergency managers, agricultural producers, agricultural educators, veterinarians, and others. This project aims to employ a multi-faceted approach to developing and delivering training and exercises for animal agriculture sector responders, including efforts to support outreach and educational efforts on animal disease prevention, preparedness, and response.
Past training and subsequent incidents have shown those who have trained and exercised together are better prepared for handling an emergency. New Mexico has a long history of working with partners to prepare for agricultural emergencies and does so by acknowledging that preparedness is a continuum in perpetual need of maintenance. As a result, it provides the target population for this project.
The APT project leverages three project objectives to guide enhance the agricultural industry’s preparedness posture against foreign animals’ diseases—O1: develop and revise curriculum and materials for the training; O2: host trainings and engage collaborators with training content by focusing on the law enforcement community; and O3: evaluate the workshop training materials and make curriculum available to external entities to expand animal disease preparedness curriculum. This was accomplished by working closely with an interdisciplinary cohort of subject matter experts who have previous experience in this exact topic and can provide a valuable risk management model for other extension personnel, agricultural producers, and individuals in the emergency response sector.
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Details
| Conference | 2026 Extension Risk Management Education National Conference |
| Presentation Type | Poster |