Instructions
As the chief of your department, you understand the importance of having your organization accredited and your officer staff credentialed. You have decided to pursue accreditation for your department and to get all your officer staff individually credentialed through the Center for Public Safety Excellence. Officer credentials sought will be based on their job description. For example, and where applicable, training officers will earn the Chief Training Officer designation, risk reduction specialist will earn the Fire Marshal designation, and company officers will earn the Fire Officer designation.
Knowing this will take a significant financial commitment, you must develop a presentation for the stakeholders (e.g., mayor, city council) justifying the cost. This presentation will be based upon your research of accreditation and credentialing and must explain how your organization will benefit from pursuing such a goal.
The title of your presentation is Accreditation & Credentialing and their Value to our Department.
Your presentation must accomplish the following items listed below.
- Start with an introduction outlining the purpose of the presentation.
- Explain what accreditation is and why it is important.
- Briefly outline the accreditation process (steps, players, timeline).
- Identify at least one other department that is accredited that you can use as a benchmark.
- Explain the return on investment (for your organization and community) of becoming accredited.
- Explain what credentialing is and why it is important.
- Outline specific credentials your department will seek.
- Explain the return on investment for your officer staff obtaining credentials.
- Explain how networking through this process can positively impact your departments ability to improve.
Your presentation must be a minimum of 10 content slides, not counting the title and reference slides. Each content slide must have at least 30 seconds of recorded audio narration per slide. You can review the if you need assistance with this PowerPoint feature.
You must use at least two sources other than your textbook to support your presentation. All sources used must have citations and references properly formatted in APA style. APA formatting is otherwise not required.