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IslandWalk CERT
July 2019 NewsletterMembership Roster - click the link. Send any updates to [email protected] - click the link to visit our website at http://iwcert.org
IWCERT Vision: “Do the greatest good for the greatest number of people” when a disasterstrikes our community.
IWCERT Mission: Promote hurricane awareness and preparation within the community,and respond to the community's needs in the hours following a major disaster by providingDamage Assessment, Search and Rescue, First Aid, and Communication with North PortEmergency services.
NEW LOOK, NEW SERVICEUnforeseen issue (server hacked) has forced me to once again switch
newsletter delivery method. Now using a Mail Chimp account to create andsend our newsletters. Please let me know of any problems you may have.
Next full team meeting is Tuesday,8/13/2019 at 10 am in Activity Room3 at the Events Center. Agenda:
Teach-back: to be determinedCounty Grant Proposal - StatusReport, PaulTable Top exercise on 8/15
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High Voltage PowerTransmission Line Hazards
MARK YOU CALENDAR EVENTSNote: Full Team Meetings are bi-monthly events on the 2nd Tuesday of each even numbered month and
always held in the Events Center07/09/19 - 10 am AR 3, Events Center ZoneLeader Meeting.
10/08/19 - 10 am Bi-monthly fullteam meeting
07/18/19 - 8 am to noon CERT LeadershipTraining Course
11/14/19 - 8 am to noon Team FieldExercise
08/13/19 - 10 am Bi-monthly full team meeting 12/20/19 - 10 am Bi-monthly fullteam meeting
08/15/19 - noon to 3 pm Team Desk TopExercise VIEW FULL CALENDAR
Fund Raising Event - Big SuccessOur first annual fund raising event was a huge success netting the team just over $1200 in donations. Tremendousthanks to Randy Sleet for working with our HOA to sponsor the June 30th community 4th of July BBQ event heldin the Events Center. Also a big thank you to the many CERT members that helped to make the event such agreat success. Randy is already planning something else for December!!
Mass Casualty Drill - Another Big SuccessOur CERT team was out in force on June 13th for a full fledged mass casualty drill. Greg Richmond led a 9
member search and rescue team while Lynn Serniuk and Bella Barrientos co-lead a 6 person traiage/medicaltreatment area. We had 18 victim volunteers from the IslandWalk and Gran Paradiso communities staged on the
event lawn behind the Events Center. Projected to last about 1 hour, the exercise was completed in only 45minutes in a most professional manner! We had representatives from the North Port Fire and Police departments
on hand to observe the drill, and we received very favorable comments from them for the sheer number ofparticipants we were able to field and the efficient manner in which we handled this simulated mass casualty
situation. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FOR A JOB VERY WELL DONE!
Team Members Advance Their TrainingOver a dozen IslandWalk and Gran ParadisoCERT members attended a Stop the Bleedtraining course offered by the North Port FireDepartment in June. This new and important
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nation-wide program is designed to teachaverage citizens how to save lives by controllingexcessive bleeding from an injury or wound. Theprogram is a reflection of lessons learned fromthe all too numerous mass shooting incidents thatare plaguing our country in recent years.
These same individuals also received a shorttraining course in the proper way to organize andconduct a grid search of large open areas. Thetraining was provided by the Peace River K-9 Search and Rescue Team.
This can be a valuable skill to learn in the eventof a Silver or Amber Alert in our community.Being able to organize an area search andconduct it efficiently and thoroughly is important!
Zone Leader, Paul Nienaber provided a shortteach-back presentation on CERTcommunications to team members at the bi-monthly team meeting on June 9th with specialemphasis on the communications SOP beingused at IslandWalk for disaster response.
Looks like Gran Paradiso will be implementing acompatible communications system of their own.The two CPs should be able to talk to each otherwithout any interference between IW and GPZone communications.
CERT "Tools for Leadership Success" CourseThursday, July 18th, 2019 in AR #2 at the Events Center from 9 am to 12 noon. (NOTE time change)
This FEMA developed course will be presented by Paul Nienaber to help team members and team leaders betterunderstand situational leadership skills and varying leadership styles. We recommend that all Team/Zone Leadersattend this training. The training is open to all IslandWalk and Gran Paradiso CERT members to attend as wellsince portions of the course discuss team member roles and responsibilities as well. Please download and printout the course participants manual to bring to the class:
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Course Purpose:
To train CERT members to be successful team leaders and team membersTo choose suitable team leaders during CERT activationsTo apply appropriate leadership styles to various situations
Additional Training Opportunities
The following are training programs that the IW-CERT are promoting, and are presented on an as needed bases.All those interested, please contact Joe Wyatt at 856-981-8509 or by e-mail to [email protected]
Stop the Bleed, Date To Be Determined, (class size 9)
CERT Basic Training, 1st quarter 2020, (class size 10 to 20)First Aid-CPR-AED Training, Date To Be Determined, (class size 9)NPOD (Neighborhood Point Of Distribution), Date To Be Determined, (class size 10 to 20)
Neighborhood Grant Initiative Input NeededWe will have an opportunity to apply for a grant of up to $10,000 from SarasotaCounty in September. We've had some great suggestions from the membership forsupplies and equipment to be purchased...thank you all! Keep in mind that this is amatching grant, so we will either need to raise half of the money asked for in thegrant, or we will need to perform some number of volunteer hours, valued at $20/hour,to qualify for the grant. So far, we have 205 expressions of support from thecommunity; but, we need more. This is a major scoring factor for our grant application.If you can canvass your street of social gathering for some more signatures that woudbe most appreciated. Download and use the form at right for this purpose, andremember that only one household is counted, not eveyone in that household.
If you have any suggestions for this grant request, please contact PaulNienaber at 941-468-3843 or by email to [email protected].
Keep current on your CERT training and expand your knowledge with FREE, online, EmergencyManagement Institute courses. Simply register to get your Student ID (SID) number, and then signup forthe courses you want to take. Once you have your Student ID, consider taking the CERT Basic Course
refresher training on line at: IS-317: Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams.
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