C-C.E.R.T.

What in the heck does this mean you may ask? It stands for Campus Community Emergency Response Team. This is a FREE program through Northwest Missouri State University. It is an opportunity for students & faculty to learn light search and rescue, you learn how to put out small fires, triage and first Aid! This is a hands on course that only takes a few days to do it is easy to do and looks GREAT on a resume NO matter what your major is. You never know when you can use these skills on the job here at school and this is something that you can take with you no matter where your education takes you! I HIGHLY recommend I have taken this when it was first offered a few years ago it is well worth your time! To help so many people and it only takes a few days to learn hands on!

http://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/

This course will be starting in February, 2010 is you are interested or wanting to more about it comment and I can get you more information to you. The course is taught here at Northwest and everything is provided for you at no extra cost.

Communication within a crisis

The way technology is today there are so many different ways of commutating such as tweeting with tweeting for updating a status through facebook. It take seconds to do and its our new way of communication. When the 7.0 earthquake hit a few weeks ago in Haiti. One of the ways of to finding trapped victims was when the victims would tweet or put on their facebook status of where they can be located. It was quick and easy to do from their very own cell phone! Check out this link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32645434

Lucky to live in the United States

As I am typing I am thinking about how we are lucky to live in the United States with the freedom that we have. And I reflect on what is happening in our world today crisis wise. With the victims of Haiti and the aid that they are getting not only from the United States but also from other countries as well. It is neat to see how people quickly reacted to the heroic event. There are so many ways to help out and next week I hear that here at Northwest we have opportunities to help out starting next week there will be fundraisers starting on campus and the donations will be sent to Haiti and help in the relief effort. I as a college student myself we don't have much money but if we have loose change laying around it could help wonders. It doesn't take much!

You never know......

Many may wandering what is a emergency manager? What might they do and why is there such a thing as a emergency manager?
These are some questions that I get every time when I tell someone what my minor is in college.
I going to answer these questions.

What a emergency manager is someone who deals with disasters, if a disaster of any kind strikes we are trained to start relief effort right away it may be along the lines of working with mental health or helping out with light search and rescue, also along the lines of medical care as well.

Reason I have chosen this career path and why this is so interesting to me is because not only to help people. I love the fast pass, not knowing what is going to happen and always being on the go kind of work. Because whenever a disaster strikes you never know when you will be called to help the relief effort.