Prince George's County CERT Basic Training (10/24 - 10/25)

CERT training promotes a partnership between professional emergency services and the people that they serve. The goal is for emergency personnel to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations, and workplaces in basic emergency response skills. CERT trained members enhance the emergency response capability for their area.

If a disastrous event overwhelms or delays the community’s professional response capabilities, CERT members can assist themselves, their families and others, by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned during training. Following a disaster, these skills can help save and sustain lives until help arrives. CERT skills also apply to smaller scale daily emergencies.

Training topics include disaster preparedness, fire extinguisher usage, basic first aid, patient assessment, disaster psychology, and terrorism.