FEMA Puts Y2K Course Online.(Brief Article)

Claims, August, 1999

With the goal of providing the emergency management community with information and tools that will allow them to prepare for the year 2000 conversion, FEMA has developed an online Y2K course for local and state emergency managers.

"Getting Ready for Y2K" consists of five lessons: Understanding the Y2K Challenge, Assessing Y2K Readiness, Developing Y2K Contingency Plans, Promoting Y2K Public Awareness, and Exercising Y2K Plans. The course also includes a toolkit containing actual documents to be used in Y2K preparedness activities, links to other Y2K resources and a glossary of terms.