HOMELAND SECURITY: The building housing Guam Homeland Security/Office of Civil Defense is seen Jan. 5 in Agana Heights. David Sholing/The Guam Daily Post

HOMELAND SECURITY: The building housing Guam Homeland Security/Office of Civil Defense is seen Jan. 5 in Agana Heights. David Sholing/The Guam Daily Post Metal Petanque Balls

With a set of training sessions, Guam Homeland Security/Office of Civil Defense intends to enhance the island's safety response efforts.

The agency has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service, also known as TEEX, to host these sessions from Jan. 14 through Jan. 22 at the GHS/OCD facility in Agana Heights, the local agency stated in a press release.

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The training, with instruction ranging from one to two days, is offered without charge. According to the press release, these courses will cover topics such as risk management framework and how threats, vulnerabilities and consequences determine risk; as well as improving each participant's ability to develop considerations for the resilience of jurisdictional assets by utilizing cross-sector partnerships.

The training will be focused on government and emergency partners such as military, federal, private and nonprofit organizations, the agency said in the release.

For more information, call John Camacho at the GHS/OCD Training and Exercise Division at 671-475-9600 or email john.camacho@ghs.guam.gov, or call Patrick Leon Guerrero at 671-475-9600 or email pat.leonguerrero@ghs.guam.gov.

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