Disaster Management at Justice Institute of British Columbia at New Westminster

The Post Baccalaureate Diploma in Disaster Management (PBDDM) provides students with a unique combination of theoretical knowledge and applied skills, preparing them to deal with issues from climate change and natural disasters to pandemics and other public safety threats.

This program gives students the opportunity to study at a dynamic campus where public safety professionals train – including emergency managers and other first responders. Students learn from instructors who have worked in emergency management, business continuity, infrastructure security and crisis communications.

This program provides a unique combination of theoretical knowledge and applied capabilities centered around four key theme areas:

• Emergency and disaster management contexts and skills;
• Leadership, management, and organizational awareness;
• Systems thinking and business practices;
• Communication and information management. 

Through active engagement with challenges and problems drawn from real world practice, graduates will:

• Gain a foundation in the core concepts, issues, trends, and practices that inform emergency and disaster management in Canadian and international contexts;
• Analyze and apply the appropriate communications tools to interact effectively with multiple stakeholders in complex, stressful, and ambiguous situations; and
• Manage all components of an emergency program, such as planning, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery.