[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 101 (Thursday, June 12, 2025)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E572]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF THE ACADEMY FOR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER 
                              PREPAREDNESS

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                         HON. CARLOS A. GIMENEZ

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 12, 2025

  Mr. GIMENEZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize a decade of 
excellence at the Academy for International Disaster Preparedness at 
Florida International University.
  Over the past decade, AIDP has trained and graduated more than 500 
students in disaster preparedness, emergency management, and 
humanitarian response.
  These programs have successfully prepared students to work in local, 
tribal, state, and federal government as well as in Fortune 500 
companies and the private sector.
  AIDP's curriculum aligns with FEMA's Next Generation Core 
Competencies, focusing on four phases of emergency management: 
mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery.
  Through hands on training, students, along with experts in the field, 
use the frameworks of the Incident Command System and the National 
incident Management System to experience complex, real-world disaster 
environments.
  FIU and AIDP are setting the standard for the next generation of 
emergency management professionals, and I am proud to recognize their 
service and leadership today.

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