Training and Education The CDC is charged with leading a nationwide preparedness training and education program for state and local health care providers, first responders, and governments (to include federal officials, governors' offices, state/local health departments, and emergency management agencies). This training not only explains the CDC's mission and operations, it alerts state and local emergency response officials to the important issues they must plan for in order to receive, secure, and distribute SNS assets. To conduct this outreach and training, the CDC Program staff are currently working with HHS agencies, Regional Emergency Response Coordinators at all ten US Public Health Service regional offices as well as state and local departments of health, state emergency management offices, and the Metro Medical Response System, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, and the Department of Defense.