Program Overview

Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) Online Certificate Course

Overview

The Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) Online Certificate Course is designed to enhance emergency preparedness skills. This course helps individuals make their own emergency plan and facilitates preparedness with others. P-CEP enables people to self-assess their preparedness, capabilities, and support needs, developing a personal emergency plan for managing support needs in emergencies and acting together with their support network before, during, and after a disaster.

Course Details

• Course type: Short course
• Duration: 5 weeks
• Delivery mode: Online, self-paced
• Start date: 3rd November - 8th December 2025

What You'll Learn

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Apply the 4 P-CEP action steps to strengthen your own emergency preparedness
• Develop knowledge, skills, and confidence to enable P-CEP with others
• Connect and learn together with other stakeholders to advance P-CEP in your role and community context

Course Content

The course consists of 6 modules:

1. Introduction to Disability, Disasters and Person-Centred Emergency and Preparedness: Understand the issues faced by people with disabilities in disasters and the importance of person-centred approaches.
2. Step 1: Understanding Everyday Strengths and Support Needs: Learn to self-assess capabilities and support needs using the Capability Wheel.
3. Step 2: Self-Assessing Level of Preparedness and Learning about Disaster Risk: Understand the roles and levels of responsibility of individuals, organisations, and governments before, during, and after emergencies.
4. Step 3: Making a Plan to Manage in an Emergency: Enable tailored emergency preparedness planning matched to support needs.
5. Step 4: Communicating the Plan to the Support Network and Addressing Gaps Through Collaboration: Identify key features of effective plans and the critical importance of communicating the plan with the individual’s support network.
6. Implementing P-CEP in the Community: Guide you in integrating P-CEP into your role, organisation, and community effectively.

Who is this Course For?

This course is suitable for:

• Service providers who provide services and support to people with disability, chronic health conditions, and other people at greater disaster risk
• Disability representatives and advocates
• Emergency services staff and volunteers
• Council community engagement and emergency management staff
• People with disability and carers interested in learning more about P-CEP

Accessibility

The course is designed to be accessible, with features such as:

• Immersive reader function in Canvas to read written content aloud
• Compatibility with screen readers
• Closed captions and transcripts available for all video content
• Accommodations can be made for individuals with specific needs

Materials and Technology

• Course materials will be accessed online following enrolment
• You will need access to your own device with a strong internet connection
• The course is managed through a Learning Management System (Canvas)