St. Clair County Community College announces its Institute of Homeland Security Training, which stands out as one of Michigan’s first such community college efforts. SC4 will offer online and classroom curriculums meeting specific needs of first responders and the public.

SC4 developed the institute with assistance from the community college’s Homeland Security Advisory Committee. The committee includes Lambton College in Sarnia; hospital, EMS, police, fire and emergency management representing St. Clair and Sanilac counties and the city of Port Huron; and representatives from school districts, U.S. Department of Labor, environmental agencies, CN Railroad, business and industry, and Sarnia Police Service.

The institute will work to address the most immediate training gaps and grow as partners identify additional training priorities. Individual classroom seminars for this fall will be offered for first responders, health-care providers, families, and business and industry and their employees. Online offerings this fall will examine issues including the history and evolution of homeland security and the role of government agencies in the war on terrorism.

In addition, SC4 will offer approved federally funded Homeland Security-Office of Domestic Preparedness curriculums to first responders. Curriculum also will include sessions for students and seminars for the public. The college also plans to incorporate homeland security curriculum into existing college credit programs and courses as well.

For details or to register for homeland security classes being offered this fall, call John Jeffries, coordinator of the Institute of Homeland Security Training, at (810) 989-5753 or visit www.sc4.edu/homelandsecurity.