The Mid America TEEN CERT program is designed to teach students how to identify the types of disasters and hazards most likely to affect their homes, schools and communities. Young adults ages 12 years and older, including adults, are trained to assist in the event of an emergency and or natural disaster, and to be prepared to assist their families and emergency services. The goal of Mid America TEEN CERT is to better prepare the community at an earlier age and offer positive extracurricular activities to youth.
Teen Community Emergency Response Team (TEEN CERT) is a National Homeland Security initiative directed at making our schools and communities safer by having educated/trained youth capable of preparing and responding to disasters and emergencies. The program is an integral part of Citizen Corps, the grass-roots movement that actively involves everyone in making our communities and our nation safer, stronger, and better prepared. Many schools are utilizing trained TEEN CERT members to enhance their school response plan.
In January 2011, FEMA recognized the Mid America TEEN CERT program as one of the top three CERT programs in the country for productivity and initiative. More recently, the program made national CERT news when one of its' young graduates saved an elderly neighbor from a house fire.
TEEN CERT training helps students learn to respond to an emergency situation effectively and efficiently, and without placing themselves in unnecessary danger. In the basic training, you will learn such things as how to manage utilities and put out small fires, treat the three medical killers and provide basic medical aid, search for and rescue victims safely, and collect disaster intelligence to support first responder efforts.
For more information about the TEEN CERT program, please email program director Mark Rosenblum at mark.rosenblum@outlook.com.
Mid America TEEN CERT is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable youth organization, EIN 27-1623014.
No matter where you live, no matter who you are, no matter your age, we all have a role in hometown preparedness.