Center for Special Operations Training & Education

The Center for Special Operations Training (CSOT) is a comprehensive center designed to train, prepare, and consult the community, firefighters, law enforcement, emergency medical services, public health, and medical personnel in an integrated approach to major emergencies. Recent terrorist attacks against the United States have increased awareness of the Nation’s vulnerability to terrorism. In today’s offerings of disaster based training, mass casualty incident response preparedness, is often ignored, yet, is a critical component of disaster planning for a safe community.

Emergency preparedness has taken on an increased importance. First responders must play a key role in coordinating efforts to better prepare for such disaster scenarios.

The Center For Special Operations Training at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network has become a major resource through various training and educational programs to prepare our communities for an all hazards disaster.

While utilizing a database of professional instructors, experts, and researchers, The Center coordinates and sponsors training programs for the targeted populations, while simultaneously supporting the needs of the regional counter terrorism task forces.

The Center for Special Operations Training (CSOT), established at the end of the Year 2003, came into being as a major resource to serve, guide, train, and consult with the community and the emergency personnel that serve our citizens, in the proper means to prepare ourselves to respond to an “all-hazards” disaster. Completely focused on our customer needs, we are dedicated to providing and maintaining highly responsive training, consultation, supply, maintenance and administrative support to our customers and health care providers for an all hazards disaster, whether, natural or a man made incident.

It was developed with a comprehensive approach to the threat of weapons of mass destruction that includes emergency response, research, preparedness, and training and education. CSOT will provide resources for all first responders, whether they are pre-hospital care personnel or hospital based professionals, as to the recommended response to disaster incidents and how to plan for and manage such events.

The proposed activities of the Center for Special Operations Training will include both training and educating emergency personnel, based on the specific needs of the client. The Center will be able to build training programs and drills, as well as emergency plans for various disaster related incidents while utilizing the guidelines of the Department of Homeland Security, CDC, OSHA, and/or JCAHO, and based on the needs of the client.

The following courses can be offered to your agency, on and off site, based on the specific needs of the emergency responders that serve in your company. Please note that CSOT personnel are qualified and credentialed to offer all the following programs.