Flood Plain Manager

[TimNY]

Anybody done any training or gotten the CFM certification?

I am trying to find some local training.. which doesn't seem to exist anywhere in my region.

I see FEMA has a 1-week course in Maryland; anybody taken this?

 

[cboboggs]

Tim,

Does your state emergency management agency provide any training? In Missouri, our state emergency management agency has partnered with FEMA and ASFPM and provides very thorough training and preparation for the CFM exam. The ASFPM is the organization responsible for the certification.

 

[Coder]

CFM

I took a one day crash course and then the test the next day. Passed by the hair on my chin. Not too bad if you study the FEMA 480 Floodplain Managers Guide. http://www.floods.org/index.asp?menuID=215&firstlevelmenuID=180&siteID=1

The CEU requirements are a PITA. IMO:banghd

 

[gbhammer]

Tim,Does your state emergency management agency provide any training? In Missouri, our state emergency management agency has partnered with FEMA and ASFPM and provides very thorough training and preparation for the CFM exam. The ASFPM is the organization responsible for the certification.

A great couple day seminar for CFM training was down in the Ozarks at Port Arrow Head. I went down spent a few days and then found out on the last day that the department secretary forgot to pay for the test and they only had me on the roster for training. No CFM for me, and now the County won't send me back, no money in the budget for the last three years. They just want me to have the knowledge they could care less about the paper. Sigh, paper looks good on the resume.

 

[BSSTG]

Greetings,

Here in Tx FEMA does the training in conjunction with the Tx Floodplain Management ***. I went throught the process a couple of years ago. The course is a 4 day course with the test administered on the 5th day. When I took it there were 32 out of 42 passed as I recall. I passed as well. It was fairly intense. Fortuanately I had gone through some previous training which really helped. I don't know recall how much it cost. So if your in Tx or fairly close that might be an option.

This might help. If nothing else they might direct you in the right direction.

http://www.tfma.org/

BS

 

[Bryan Holland]

In additional to the "live" or "classroom" courses available from FEMA, FEMA - EMI has several "independent study program" courses that are available which relate to the CFM program.

Go Here: http://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.asp?page=all

(SEE IS-271, IS-279, IS-386, IS-393.a)