View our available online workshops. Or, if your company would like to schedule training for your employees, please call our office at (573) 986-6879.

Course Offerings:

• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training

Are You Prepared? Be CERTain with CERT! CERT is an intensive 20-hour training program designed to prepare a community for a major disaster. CERT is a positive and realistic approach to emergency and disaster situations where citizens will be initially on their own and their actions can make a difference.

The CERT course covers the following topics: Disaster Preparedness, Disaster Fire Suppression, Disaster Medical Operations, Light Search & Rescue Operations, Disaster Psychology & Team Organization, and Terrorism & CERT. The course concludes with a hands-on Disaster Simulation in which participants will practice the skills they have learned.

The next CERT course is scheduled for five (5) consecutive Wednesday mornings from 8 a.m. until noon Sept. 9, 16, 23, 30, and Oct. 7, 2009. Location is to be determined. (CERT Refreshers will be scheduled as needed.)

To register, log on to: www.semo.edu/training/cert.htm#Register or call (573) 986-6879. For additional information, contact Jim Watkins at the Cape Girardeau Fire Department at (573) 339-6799 or by e-mail at jwatkins@cityofcapegirardeau.org.

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