What’s CEMA?
Founded in 2003, CEMA is a full-spectrum emergency preparedness consulting firm that fully encompasses emergency planning, training, and exercises. Headquartered in the Midwest, CEMA provides solutions throughout the nation. Our various products and services have been refined over time using the best practices and lessons learned from the industry, and are customized to meet your specific needs. Our services can be provided at your place of business or, leveraging several technologies, they can be provided at a distance for greater efficiency and often a reduced cost.
When you hire CEMA, you’re hiring a team – a dedicated lineup of numerous experienced professionals with expertise and credentials in a variety of disciplines. In our recruitment efforts, CEMA is exceptionally selective; only the most highly qualified professionals, with unwavering standards of excellence, are chosen. As a company and as individuals, the CEMA team strives to instill two core values into every effort that we undertake: quality and integrity.
Since its inception, CEMA has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to help prepare communities and organizations for potential emergencies. As CEMA has grown to become a nationwide service provider, we have carefully guarded our foundational values of quality and integrity while ensuring a level of personalized service usually found only in smaller organizations. The multidisciplinary CEMA team consists of a network of over 100 accomplished professionals with expertise and credentials in a number of disciplines. Team members assigned to the projects we undertake always include experts with extensive real-world professional experience, certifications, and accomplishments in relevant areas.
CEMA’s Mission
CEMA’s mission is to offer its clients and communities the highest standards of quality when meeting their emergency preparedness needs. At CEMA and within our hand-selected network of qualified consultants, we hold integrity in high regard. Client feedback fuels our vision of being increasingly recognized as a vital emergency preparedness partner that always provides innovative planning, training, and exercise services using industry best practices and real-world experience. Whether you’re trying to meet regulatory, grant, or accreditation requirements, develop an emergency plan, or simply in need of training or an exercise on any scale, CEMA does it, and we put our best foot forward while meeting your needs.
There’s no doubt that education is the foundation of preparedness. Our philosophy is to leverage our expertise, building confident and competent teams within our clients’ organizations. We’d love the opportunity to welcome you to the CEMA family. Take a look at our existing clients and navigate our site for further qualifying information. We’re always excited to hear from clients, new and old, so don’t hesitate to pick up the phone to make inquiries, schedule services, or simply introduce yourself.
Rarely do you attend a class where the material and the instructors are both top-notch [CEMA’s Incident Management Program IMP-201]. Usually one is lacking. The CEMA class was excellent and their instructors were excellent! I would recommend them to anyone who was looking for training. The break-out sessions were extremely beneficial. Our staff is still talking about how nice the training was.
CEMA’s attention to detail, concern for quality, subject matter knowledge and expertise far exceeded our expectations. It was a distinct pleasure to work with such a fine group of professionals. They came highly recommended to us and now, after working with them for almost a year, we can likewise highly recommend them to any agency seeking professional emergency management / homeland security services.
Our Region [Region 3 Healthcare Preparedness Network] has been working with CEMA on various projects for a number of years and have ALWAYS found them to be professional with the highest standards. We now know that if we have CEMA involved in a project, it will be done right, completely and with great attention to detail. Their staff are a pleasure to deal with and come with the level of knowledge and decorum that will bring success to every project.
I am writing this letter to say thank you to the CEMA team for your outstanding commitment to the Airport Disaster Exercise … Thank you for your organization, attention to detail, and professionalism … The team continually impressed me with their knowledge, skill and dedication to work. [Your work was] truly above and beyond what I expected.
With whom does CEMA work?
Our team has assisted a wide variety of industries and disciplines over the years, including local and state agencies, tribal nations, statewide associations, regional coalitions, colleges and universities, K-12 school systems, hospitals and clinics, long-term care centers, public health agencies, airports, private corporations, and many others. Because of our successful business model, our large network of consultants can accommodate most any need, in almost any location, for most any type of organization.
Here are some of the clients with whom we have worked in recent years:
