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Teen CERT Class Overview

Teen CERT Class Overview. Community Emergency Response Team. Disaster – when professional emergency response is delayed or unavailable Empowers teens with lifelong emergency preparedness and response skills. Purpose. CERT GOAL Help Yourself Help Your Family Help Your Neighbor. Goals.

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Teen CERT Class Overview

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  1. Teen CERT Class Overview Community Emergency Response Team

  2. Disaster – when professional emergency response is delayed or unavailable Empowers teens with lifelong emergency preparedness and response skills Purpose

  3. CERT GOAL Help Yourself Help Your Family Help Your Neighbor Goals TEEN CERT GOAL • Help Yourself • Help Your Classmates • Help Your School

  4. Safety Buddy System Work in pairs Gear-check Look out for each others’ safety Accountability Priorities

  5. Hazards & Threats to Our Area Identify & Reduce Hazards at Home & School Utility Shut-offProcedures Home Disaster Kit & Plan Disaster Preparedness

  6. Fire Chemistry Extinguish Small Fires Hazardous Materials Fire Safety 4/18/19

  7. Identify & Treat the “3 Killers” Disaster Medical

  8. Triage = Sort Disaster Medical Immediate Delayed Minor Dead Medical Treatment Area ASSESSMENT & DECISION-MAKING

  9. Proper Hygiene Treat Minor Injuries Splinting Wound Care Fractures, Sprains Burns Hypothermia Disaster Medical First-Aid Skills

  10. Assess: Assess the Situation Gather Facts Assess Damage Consider Probabilities Assess Your Situation Plan: Make a Plan Establish Priorities Make Decisions Develop Plan of Action Act: Take Action Light Search & Rescue Size-Up Process Size-up is a continual process

  11. Damage assessment Search methods Remove survivors Lifts, Drags, Carries Light Search & Rescue

  12. Rescue those who are trapped Safely lift objects out of the way Cribbing Leverage Light Search & Rescue

  13. Leadership & Management Structure Incident Command System (ICS) Documentation CERT Organization

  14. Reduce your stress & the survivors’ stress Listening & empathizing Psychological & physiological symptoms Disaster Psychology

  15. Terrorism • Terrorist Weapons • Environmental & Physical Indicators • Home Preparedness

  16. Skills Certification • Gear Check • Gas Meter • Fire Extinguisher • Airway • Bleeding • Shock • Glove Removal

  17. Realistic Scenario Actors: Survivors & Victims Practice new skills under simulated pressure Final Exercise/Drill All-School Earthquake Drill

  18. Final Exercise/Drill

  19. Dignitaries Shake Hands Photos Certificates Graduation A Job Well Done!

  20. Keys to Success • Team-Building • Leader • Follower • Buddy • Team Member • School Ownership • Consistency (teach each year) • Positive Impression • Believes it adds Value

  21. Earth Sciences (natural disasters) Chemistry(fire & hazmat) Health Sciences(medical) Physics(cribbing, leveraging, building assessments) Psychology Organizational Skills& Teamwork(search methods, documenting, ICS, triage, buddy system) Relates to Other Classes

  22. Benefits to Students • Safety • Personal Protection • Emergency Prep at Home • Life-Saving Skills • Citizenship • Responsibility, Accountability • Organizational Skills • Teamwork, Leadership, Followership • Personal Growth • Analytic & Evaluative Skills • Improved Self-Image • Greater Self-Awareness Satisfaction from helping others “I can make a difference”

  23. Benefits to Students Credibility & Recognition • Scholarship Applications • College Applications • Job Applications Career Options • Emergency Management • Medical • Fire & Rescue • Law Enforcement • Public Works • Disaster Management • Health & Human Services 4/18/19

  24. Benefits to Schools • Daily Benefits • Improved school safety and security • Reduction in school violence • Peer role models • Disaster Benefits • Additional resources in case of an emergency • Trained team of first responders for major disaster TEEN CERTS are NOTreplacements for professional responders.

  25. What is possible for your students?

  26. LCSD Website Resources:https://lincoln.k12.or.us/resources/family/safety/

  27. Empowering School Staff & Students with the Mindset, Skills, & Resources to Respond to Disasters Susan Graves, M.A. Security Studies Lincoln County School District Comprehensive Safe Schools Coordinator Susan.graves@Lincoln.k12.or.us 541-265-4442 https://lincoln.k12.or.us/resources/family/safety/ April 18, 2019

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