Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Series

Course# TD1506

Note: This series is capped at 50 participants.

Categories: Safety

Level: Fundamental

Type: All Inclusive Series
To maximize the collaborative learning, please review your calendar before registering to ensure you can attend all sessions.

Total Series Time: 21 Hours (seven 3- hour sessions)

Make-Ups: There will be no make-up sessions available for this series.

Pre-requisites: None

Target Audience: Individuals interested in learning how to become "disaster resistant".

Series Description: The CERT series consists of basic skills training in disaster preparedness and mitigation, fire and life safety, terrorism preparedness, and crime prevention. The series will consist of seven 3-hour sessions.

Presented by: Captain Arthur Miller and Lieutenant Wanda Willis of the Harrisonburg Fire Department and Chief Robert Symons and Lieutenant Karen Will of the Rockingham County Department of Fire and Rescue.

Session Information:
Fridays, March 23, 30  AND April 13, 20 & 27 AND May 11, 18, 2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
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OR

Tuesdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26  AND July 10, 17, 24, 2012
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
nTelos Room - ISAT/CS 259   Just added!  Please note the location of these sessions. 

Session 1: Introduction to Disasters, Disaster Mitigation and Disaster Preparedness
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe types of hazards that most affect their home and community.
  • Describe functions of CERTs and their role in immediate response.
  • Identify steps to prepare for emergencies.

Session 2: Fire Safety
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Explain the role that CERTs play in fire safety.
  • Identify and reduce potential fire risks in the home and workplace.
  • Conduct a basic sizeup for a fire emergency.
  • Understand minimum safety precautions (safety equipment, utility control, buddy system, back-up teams).
  • Identify locations of hazardous materials in community and home, learn to reduce risk in home.
  • Extinguish small fires using a fire extinguisher.

Session 3: First Aid, Part I
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Identify the "killers".
  • Apply techniques for opening the airway, controlling bleeding, and treating for shock.

Session 4: Emergency First Aid, Part II
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Take appropriate sanitation measures to protect public health.
  • Perform head-to-toe assessments.
  • Establish treatment.
  • Apply splints to suspected fractures and sprains, and employ basic treatments for other wounds.

Session 5: Terrorism Preparedness and Crime Prevention
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define terrorism.
  • Identify potential targets in the community.
  • Identify CERT operating procedures for a terrorist incident.
  • Describe the actions to take following a suspected terrorist incident.

Session 6: Disaster Psychology, Disasters & Special Populations, and Animals & Disaster
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Provide techniques for individuals to manage their personal situation thus enabling them to help others.
  • Describe the disaster and post-disaster emotional environment.
  • Describe the steps that rescuers can take to relieve their own stress and those of disaster survivors.

Session 7: Course Review, Disaster Simulation, CERT Organization and Completion Ceremony
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Describe the CERT organization.
  • Identify how CERTs interrelate with Incident Command Systems.
  • Explain CERT documentation requirements.

*Current schedule subject to change based on instructor availability.

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