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How will you use your APCO scholarship? For APCO Institute training courses? The CPE or RPL program? Or, maybe for travel and housing expenses to attend  APCO 2019 in Baltimore? Don't miss the deadlines to apply!

Please anticipate a brief downtime between 8AM and 2PM ET while infrastructure maintenance is performed on PSConnect Saturday, January 26, 2019. We apologize for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

Join APCO’s senior staff for an intensive, one-day training event focused on Next Generation 9-1-1, cybersecurity and other challenges facing emergency communications centers with changes in technology. The interactive sessions will use a variety of scenarios and exercises to, as one attendee put it, provide "an outstanding look and deeper dive into a complicated problem that provides simple, easy to implement steps and procedures."

Want to attend APCO 2019 for free? Submit a call for papers for our Annual Conference & Expo taking place Aug. 11-14 in Baltimore. Deadline is Dec. 18, 2018.

The Emergency Communications Center Crisis (ECC) Response Task Force is charged with creating a best practices reference guide listing ECC responses to situations that were encountered and impacted ECC operations during and after a prolonged or large scale emergency event. 

Deadline to sign up: October 12

The next session of APCO’s Certified Public-Safety Executive Program begins in January 2019. Applications for the class will be accepted until October 15.

During the CPE Program, you will:

• Explore the differences between managing and leading
• Learn how to initiate and manage organizational change
• Participate in intensive study and self-exploration to identify your own unique leadership style
• Use case studies from esteemed colleges and universities to challenge your new leadership skills
• Develop a network of like-minded public safety executives all committed to leading our industry forward

Take a minute to learn more. Or contact us at cpe@apcointl.org.

APCO's Envision taking place September 20 in Anaheim and January 15 in Tampa.

Envision provides intensive training that will give emergency communications professionals the knowledge and strategies they need to manage issues such as cybersecurity and NG9-1-1.

Please anticipate a brief downtime between 11PM and 3AM ET while infrastructure maintenance is performed on PSConnect Saturday, July 14, 2018. We apologize for the disruption and appreciate your patience.

If you have a passion for training, at least five years’ experience in public safety communications and a minimum of two years’ experience as a public safety communications trainer/instructor, you may qualify to become an APCO Institute Adjunct Instructor.

Join us for this information session during APCO 2018 in Las Vegas to learn more. No registration required. Monday, August 6, 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. APCO Institute Resource Room, Venetian-Palazzo, Marco Polo 703-704, Level 1

Getting involved in the APCO's standards development process is an excellent way to take your professional game to the next level and contribute to producing standards for public safety communications. It may seem intimidating but it is not. And you will meet people from across the country who share common interests and goals in public safety communications. You do not need to be an expert to participate, you just need to be willing to contribute and use your skills to accomplish a common goal.

APCO is currently seeking members for the Standards Development Committee and three Subcommittees (Technical, Operational, and Training)

If you have been considering applying for the July 2018 session (Class 05) of APCO’s Certified Public-Safety Executive (CPE) Program, don’t wait to begin your application. The deadline to apply for class 05 of the CPE Program is May 15.

The six-month program consists of two online courses and a nine-day capstone seminar at APCO Headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida. Learn more from this brief video.

The program allows participants to explore topics that include:

• Management versus leadership
• Models/theories of leadership
• Leadership styles
• Public safety leadership issues
• Executing and managing change

The program is open to anyone who is a Registered Public-Safety Leader (RPL), possesses an associate’s degree or above or has a high school diploma and at least 10 years’ experience in public safety communications at the supervisor, manager or director level.

Apply now.

Please anticipate a brief downtime between 11PM and 3AM ET while infrastructure maintenance is performed on PSConnect Saturday, April 14.