Committees
Professional Development
The Professional Development Committee supports EDEN’s mission by providing training and learning opportunities that build disaster education skills and capacity for EDEN delegates and Cooperative Extension professionals. The committee helps ensure members have access to timely, research-based professional development to strengthen preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation work.
Committee focus areas include:
Producing 6–8 webinars annually on disaster education topics relevant to Extension professionals
Coordinating professional development sessions and recommending trainings that enhance disaster education skills
Supporting the Annual Meeting by naming peer reviewers and providing a post-session workshop
Encouraging ongoing professional growth in disaster education best practices and emerging needs
The Professional Development Committee Recommend Trainings for All Delegates
- FEMA ICS-100 (IS-100.C: Introduction to the Incident Command System)
- FEMA ICS-200 (IS-200.C: Basic Incident Command System for Initial Response)
- FEMA ICS-700 (IS-700.B: An Introduction to the National Incident Management System)
- FEMA ICS-800 (IS-800.D: National Response Framework, An Introduction)
Committee Leadership Roles and responsibilities
Chair
- Plan and conduct monthly committee calls
- Send out communications to committee members and delegates as needed
- Coordinate committee produced webinars in partnership with the EDEN Support Team
- Representative of Professional Development Committee on the EDEN Executive committee
- Attend EDEN Executive committee monthly call (third Thursday, 3 pm Est.)
- Attend EDEN Executive Committee Mid-Winter Board Meeting (February or March in-person)
- Attend EDEN Executive Committee Meeting at Annual Meeting
Vice Chair
- The vice-chair shall assume the duties of the chair in the chair’s absence
- Send out communications to committee members and delegate as needed
- Representative of Professional Development committee on the EDEN Annual Meeting committee
- Attend Annual Meeting committee monthly calls (Fourth Friday, 12:00 pm Est.)
- Name one reviewer to the Annual Meeting review panel
- Determine and coordinate the Annual Meeting post-session workshop in partnership with Purdue staff
- Coordinate other projects as needed
- Attend the Annual Meeting
- Elected to a one-year term
- May be elected as chair-elect if the chair is beginning a third consecutive term or planning to step down at the end of their next term
- If elected as chair-elect, the committee will only hold a vice-chair election in June. The chair-elect will automatically assume the chair at the next Annual Meeting.
