The National Incident Management System (NIMS) provides a systematic, proactive approach to guide departments and agencies at all levels of government, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to work seamlessly to prevent, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of incidents, regardless of cause, size, location, or complexity, in order to reduce the loss of life and property and harm to the environment. NIMS works hand in hand with the National Response Framework (NRF). NIMS provides the template for the management of incidents, while the NRF provides the structure and mechanisms for national-level policy for incident management.
View the FEMA National Incident Management System website.
Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS-300) and Advanced Incident Command System (ICS-400) courses are classroom courses offered by Kansas Emergency Management. For a calendar of upcoming courses go to our Training Schedule Page. If you would like host a 300 or 400 course, please complete the Course Request Application.
For additional Independent Study courses visits the FEMA Independent Study site.