The Federal Emergency Management Agency is getting a new team of workers through AmeriCorps.

On Monday, 220 of AmeriCorps’ first FEMA Corps workers arrived at the AmeriCorps Southern Region center at 2715 Confederate Ave., to begin four weeks of training that will include programs taught by FEMA officials, said AmeriCorps’ community relations specialist, Erika Roberts.

“This is a new program,” Roberts said. “It’s a joint effort between AmeriCorps and FEMA.”

She said the members of the FEMA Corps will learn to handle different jobs than those learned by the members of the National Civilian Community Corps.

“They will work in a variety of disaster-response and recovery projects,” she said. “They’ll work directly with disaster survivors, assist in disaster recovery centers and share disaster response and mitigation information with the public.”

The workers also will do inventories of FEMA supplies at disaster recovery centers and warehouses and handle logistics and data base management.

“These are more technical projects than NCCC,” she said.

Roberts said once the FEMA teams leave Vicksburg, they will go to a FEMA center in Anniston, Ala., for two additional weeks of training.

“After that they will be assigned to disaster areas to help people get aid,” she said.