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Cert Name Student Emergency Response Team Region Name Grants Pass, Oregon Cert Type Local Street Address Street Address Cont. City State OR Zip Code Phone Number Not Provided Status Approved Cert Web Site Not Available Cert Description Samuel Johnson once said, "Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." Where the Student Emergency Response Team is concerned, I know the subject, but others have nowhere to get information on it. This is why I did my senior project on getting the information out into the public, and I wish to give you some information on the team as well. The team started by having too much time to teach very little material in the Grants Pass High School Emergency Care class. It is a semester class that, until a year ago, taught only Adult/ Infant CPR and First Aid. Due to the lack of material, Jeannie Kinyon thought up a plan to teach Search and Rescue Techniques. Of course it would have to be approved by the board of directors and administrators. She got the okay and then contacted the emergency technicians in our community. They told her about how they train the Community Emergency Response Teams, and who to contact. She then got the material for the students to study, and ask for help from the EMT's and also the fire department personnel. Our city administrator, Al Rhodes, also was a great help in getting the team started. Once she had the material, being able to teach emergency care was nothing new to her. She let the EMT's and fire department help her teach the students anything she wasn't familiar with. In my class, (the guinea pigs), the community personnel came into the class room to give us tests as well as movies and presentations of past disasters they have dealt with. In a matter of five months we learned: 1. Adult CPR 2. Infant CPR 3. First Aid 4. Search and Rescue Techniques Mrs. Kinyon contacted the media and got the communities support. The city gave us hard hats and vests with our name (SERT) on them. She also got the school to finally accept the idea and to hold a crisis simulation. We called it "Earthquake 2000" and it was a great success. They set up 2 rooms in one of my high schools buildings. Our tasks were accessing the building, reporting casualties, and setting up triage before even going into the rooms with the victims in them. The other emergency care classes became the victims for our simulation, and were very cooperative. We learned about initial interview, and making our own safety the number one priority. The exercise taught us to cooperate with our team leaders and fellow members, and actually experience the rescue madness. Once the school saw what kinds of things we were being trained to do, the questions on liability started arising. These questions were simply answered by the knowledge that we are trained, and are much safer with the training then we are by just standing around in an emergency. Being a member myself for a year now, let me be the one to reassure you of how professional and dedicated we are to the jobs bestowed upon us. It is a task that the 20 members are well aware of and are ready to accomplish. This is the first team like it in the nation, and as it is, the only one. I hope to help other teams get started and see them progress into a team like I am involved in today. It is an honor to me to be apart of, and I am happy to pass on the information to you. We have 150 students go through the training to be on the team, yet only five were accepted this year. It is hard work and very tough to beat the competition. You have to be the best of the best, and only the most dedicated are able to take part in this wonderful program.
Areas Served
4 items found, displaying all items. Jurisdiction Type Jurisdiction A zip code within the U.S. 97526 (Grants Pass,Hugo) 97527 (Grants Pass) 97528 (Grants Pass) 97543 (Grants Pass,Wilderville)
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Sponsoring Organization n/a First Name Middle Initial Last Name Title n/a Street Address n/a Street Address Cont. City n/a State OR Zip Code 00000 Phone Number 541-474-5710 Email Colie_j02@yahoo.com