Training & Materials
This section includes all of the curriculum developed for
the CERT program, and features instructor guides, participant manuals, and
slide decks for conducting the CERT training. In addition to the basic CERT
training, materials are also available for the CERT Train-the-Trainer and
Program Manager Courses, as well as the CERT supplemental modules, which are
intended to provide additional training in specific areas to participants who
have already completed the basic course.
Course Overview
The CERT Basic Course
is delivered in the community by a team of first responders, and other
qualified volunteers. The organization and timing of
training and meeting varies from program to program.
It is often broken up into two to
four hour blocks over a series of evenings or weekends.
- · Disaster Preparedness: Addresses hazards specific to the community. Materials cover actions that participants and their families take before, during and after a disaster as well as an overview of CERT and local laws governing volunteers.
- · Fire Suppression: Covers fire chemistry, hazardous materials, fire hazards and fire suppression strategies. However, the thrust of this session is the safe use of fire extinguishers, controlling utilities and extinguishing a small fire.
- · Medical Operations Part I: Participants practice diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding and shock by using simple triage and rapid treatment techniques.
- · Medical Operations Part II: Covers evaluating patients by doing a head to toe assessment, establishing a medical treatment area and performing basic first aid.
- · Light Search and Rescue Operations: Participants learn about search and rescue planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques and rescuer safety.
- · Psychology and Team Organization: Covers signs and symptoms that might be experienced by the disaster victim and workers, and addresses CERT organization and management.
- · Course Review and Disaster Simulation: Participants review and practice the skills that they have learned during the previous six sessions in a disaster activity.
During each session participants are required to bring
safety equipment (gloves, goggles, mask) and disaster supplies (bandages,
flashlight, dressings) which will be used during the session. By doing this for each session, participants
are building a disaster response kit of items that they will need during a
disaster.
FEMA IS-317: Introduction to
CERT (Online)
"Introduction
to Community Emergency Response Teams," IS-317, is an independent
study course that serves as an introduction to CERT for those wanting to
complete training or as a refresher for current team members. It takes between
six and eight hours to complete the course. Those who successfully finish it
will receive a certificate of completion. It has six modules with topics that
include:
- · Introduction to CERT
- · Fire Safety
- · Hazardous Material and Terrorist Incidents
- · Disaster Medical Operations
- · Search
- · Rescue
IS-317 can be taken by anyone interested in CERT. However,
to become a CERT volunteer, one must complete the classroom training offered by
a local government agency such as the emergency management agency, fire or
police department. Contact your local emergency manager to learn about the
local education and training opportunities available to you. Let this person
know about your interest in taking CERT training.
CERT Basic Training Course
Materials
English CERT materials
Spanish CERT materials
CERT Train-the-Trainer
Course Materials
CERT Program Manager Course
Materials
CERT Supplemental Training
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CERT Exercise
Swaps
CERT Light Search and Rescue (CERT Basic Training Unit 5 - Light Search and Rescue).
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CERT Light Search and Rescue (CERT Basic Training Unit 5 - Light Search and Rescue).
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Video Materials
This section includes the eight downloadable CERT Training Videos for the CERT basic training
and the CERT Train-the-Trainer courses, as well as the CERT in Action Video.
All videos include closed captioning, and transcripts are available for each.
This section also includes links to the Teen CERT videos.
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Unit 2: Fire Safety: The
CERT Member's Role
This training video covers the basics of
fire size up, use of extinguishers and fire safety. Fires are dangerous and can
change quickly. As in all CERT operations, the CERT members safety is always
the number one priority. Safety measures presented in the video include use of
protective gear and the proper equipment to extinguish small fires, working
with a buddy and a team, planning for safe entry and exit, maintaining a safe
distance and position from a fire and using the P.A.S.S. procedure to operate
fire extinguishers.
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Unit 3: CERT Triage:
Handling Mass Casualty Situations
Disaster Medical Operations Part 1. CERT
trainers will be able to use the material presented in the video to start a
dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face. Medical triage is the key to doing the most
good for the most people whenever there are more victims than rescuers,
resources are limited and time is critical. This training video provides an
overview of the medical triage process and portrays the steps that CERT members
need to follow to provide victims the most effective lifesaving support
available until professional responders arrive on scene. This video will
support the materials presented in the CERT Basic Training course.
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Unit 5: Safety in the
After-Disaster Environment
Light Search and Rescue Operations. CERT
trainers will be able to use the materials presented in this video to start a
dialogue about the potential challenges CERT members may face.
CERT members can prepare to work in a
post-disaster area by understanding more about the potential hazards, by
preparing their own safety kit and by wearing the right gear. The purpose of
this training video is to prepare the CERT members for the kinds of hazards
they may experience after a disaster and to help them stay safe as they work in
the disaster area. This video will support the materials presented in the CERT
Basic Training course
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Unit 6: CERT in Action
CERT trainers will be able to use the video
to start a dialogue about CERTs use of ICS and other critical features of
successful team operations.
In CERT in Action, a fierce storm has
struck the local community. CERT members activate in their neighborhood, set up
an Incident Command Post and assess damage throughout the area. They use their
CERT skills to respond to damage and injured victims in the local community
center, managing the situation until professional responders are able to arrive.
This video provides a useful introduction to the CERT concept for new program
participants and others who may be interested in the program.
·
Demonstrating Victim Carries
Lt. Gregg Karl of the Arlington County,
Virginia, Fire Department demonstrates three different types of victim carries
to a class of CERT trainees. This video is recommended for use in the CERT
Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for
teaching victim carries.
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Demonstrating Head-to-Toe
Assessment
Lt. Byron Dixon of the Arlington County,
Virginia, Fire Department demonstrates a head-to-toe assessment for a class of
CERT trainees. This video is recommended for use in the CERT Train-the-Trainer
course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for teaching head-to-toe
assessments.
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Coaching Hands-On Practice -
Victim Extrication
Lt. Gregg Karl of the Arlington County,
Virginia, Fire Department walks a group of CERT trainees through a cribbing and
leveraging exercise. This video is recommended for use in the CERT
Train-the-Trainer course to demonstrate effective instructional techniques for
teaching victim extrication.
·
CERT Training: Disaster
Psychology
CERT participants, trained to support the
first responders during a disaster, will be challenged in many ways during and
after response operations. However, if CERT members are prepared for the
stress, they will be more successful and helpful during the event and more able
to rebound when the crisis is over. This training video provides an overview of
stress reactions and strategies for dealing with people under stress during a
disaster, including the needs of disaster workers themselves.
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Drills and Exercises
Drills are excellent opportunities for CERT
programs to practice, assess and improve emergency response plans and
on-the-ground operations while engaging their volunteers and refreshing the
concepts and skills learned in CERT training.
These exercises were developed according to
national guidance and principles outlined by the Homeland Security Exercise and
Evaluation Program. It is important that CERT programs tailor their exercises
to reflect realistic events that may impact their community to practice skills
they need to test or practice most.
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