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Executive Fire Officer Program

Overview

The Executive Fire Officer Program (EFOP) is an initiative of the United States Fire Administration/National Fire Academy designed to provide senior officers and others in key leadership roles with:

• An understanding of:
  1. the need to transform fire and emergency services organizations from being reactive to proactive; with an emphasis on leadership development, prevention, and risk-reduction;
  2. transforming fire and emergency services organizations to reflect the diversity of America's communities;
  3. the value of research and its application to the profession; and
  4. the value of lifelong learning.
• Enhanced executive-level knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead these transformations, conduct research, and engage in lifelong learning.

The officers enhance their professional development through a unique series of four graduate and upper-division-baccalaureate equivalent courses. The EFOP spans a 4-year period with 4 core courses. Each course is 2 weeks in length.

EFOP participant must complete an Applied Research Project (ARP) that relates to their organization within 6 months after the completion of each of the four courses. A certificate of completion for the entire EFOP is awarded only after the successful completion of the final research project.

NOTE: Completion of the ARP is a prerequisite for attending the next course in the sequence of the program.

Links of Interest

• Learning Resource Center Online Card Catalog
• EFOP Applied Research Project Resource Page