During this course, students will learn about the various forms of FEMA and HUD funding typically made available to California and other states following Presidentially Declared Disasters including FEMA Public Assistance (PA), FEMA Individual Assistance (IA), FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP), HUD Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Funding (CDBG-DR) and HUD CDBG Mitigation Funding (CDBG-MIT). Students will learn the ways these recovery and mitigation funds can be leveraged to maximize their impacts in recovering communities and ways they can be used to further long-term mitigation and resiliency efforts, such as through different planning and policy initiatives.
Course Code
506008