J3OP-US1256 Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) (9.5 hrs)

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance's (CFE-DM) Humanitarian Assistance Response Training (HART) course prepares United States military commanders and their staffs to respond more effectively during civilian-led humanitarian assistance and foreign disaster response missions. This nine and a half hour course is an operational-level training course focused on applying military planning and decision-making process to the unique circumstances associated with a Foreign Humanitarian Assistance (FHA) operation in response to a natural disaster. The course program utilizes theory grounded by U.S. Department of Defense joint doctrine, guidance from the U.S. Agency for International Development Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, and generally accepted international norms on humanitarian assistance and civil-military coordination.