National Incidents Management Systems (NIMS) is a system that has been created by the Federal Office of Homeland Security to provide a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, and Local governments to work together in times of natural and/or man made disasters. NIMS training provides a core set of principles, concepts and terminology to allow agencies to better coordinate efforts in preparing, responding and recovering from domestic incidents- regardless of size, cause or complexity.
Over 200 Schenectady County Employees along with Schenectady County elected officials received training in a wide range of courses. In order to coordinate efforts from every department, employees and elected officials attended training to understand their perspective roles and how each department can best work together.

NIMS training covered topics for the front line workers such as Department of Public Works and maintenance employees to County employees with supervisory roles. Elected officials were made aware of the best practice models for their areas.

NIMS Training for Schenectady County employees and elected officials brought Schenectady County into compliance with the Federal Government Regulations and in doing so made Schenectady County eligible to apply for Federal grants through the Office of Homeland Security and other Federal agencies.