DoD Only: Quality Improvement for the Fire and Emergency Services Workshop

Naval Support Activity Souda Bay Fire & Emergency Services, Crete, Greece

April 22 – 24, 2025

This course is for Department of Defense personnel only. This course features three full days of instruction to help agencies prepare for accreditation under the 10th edition of the CFAI® model. It covers the development of the three key documents, the Community Risk Assessment/Standards of Cover, Strategic Plan, and Self-Assessment Manual.

WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE:

• The Quality Improvement for the Fire and Emergency Services Publication & student workbook.
• 24 hours of instruction from experienced accreditation instructors.
• In-class exercises to reinforce key points of instruction.
• Introduction to online resources that will support your department’s accreditation efforts.
• Multiple opportunities to engage and network with your peers.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:

• The steps in the self-assessment process, from building a team to becoming an accredited agency.
• The key elements of the accreditation process:
  1. Creating planning zones for your response area.
  2. Establishing a risk assessment process.
  3. Applying the risk assessment process to your response area.
  4. Developing a critical tasking process.
  5. Determine needed resources for fire and non-fire risks.
  6. Assess current deployment practices and establish target performance goals.
  7. Develop response performance data.
  8. Key elements of a Strategic Plan.
  9. How to create a self-assessment manual.

COST:

Paid by the DoD contract. If you are not a DoD employee, do not register for this course. 

*Onsite registration is not permitted*

Registration closes April 11.

To register, you must have a CPSE Portal account. Go here to create an account.

To register a group, contact university@cpse.org. 

WORKSHOP TIME: 0800-1700 Daily

ATTIRE: Business Casual

WORKSHOP LOCATION: 

NSA Souda Bay F&ES Fire Station, Bldg. 93

Mouzouras Rd.

Chania, Crete

73100

Greece

AIRPORT LOCATION:

Chania, Crete, Greece (CHQ)

HOST RECOMMENDED HOTEL INFORMATION:  

Navy Gateway Inns and Suites

NSA Souda Bay Bldg. 49

Chania 

Crete, Greece 73100

Website: Click here 

Royal Sun Hotel 

731 34 Ioannou Paizi 36 

Chania 

Crete, Greece 73133

Website: Click here 

HOST AGENCY CONTACT INFORMATION:

NSA Souda Bay Fire & Emergency Services

PRIMARY CONTACT:

Timothy Dias, Fire Chief

(O) 011-30-28210-21380

timothy.l.dias.civ@us.navy.mil

SECONDARY CONTACT:

Logan Rodgers, Training Chief

(O) 011-30-28210-21196

logan.p.rodgers.civ@us.navy.mil 

All registration cancellation requests must be submitted via email to university@cpse.org no later than two weeks prior to the start of the class. Telephone cancellations will not be accepted. 

A substitution of your full registration is permitted up to three days prior to the start of the class. After this time, NO substitutions are allowed. Requests for substitution must be submitted via email to university@cpse.org. 

For questions, contact the CPSE office at university@cpse.org or 703-691-4620.