Student ICS: Growing Leadership in Our Youth

Student ICS (Incident Command System) is an interactive instruction program that compliments leadership training of a group or organization. The design of Student ICS is to take professional organizational skills and demonstrate the application to the students’ daily lives. The focus of the training is to build a practical structure of organization where each task is handled by one of five basic functions. Any project can use ICS to achieve an effective, efficient, and safe approach to a situation.

Jim Funk is a graduate forester, University of Missouri, 1970. He has been involved with Incident Command System through his work in wildland fire management in Kentucky and assignments with the USFS. He is currently active as a Fire Prevention and Education Team Leader doing national prevention assignments and training. His interest is helping youth prepare for the workplace by understanding principles of ICS and their application to daily life.