American Legion CERT Class

On October 26-29, Bob George Citizen Corps Program Manager and Marny McLee Citizen Corps Training and Outreach Coordinator and the State CERT Instructor team with assistance from the Wilmington OEM taught a CERT Class for the American Legion at the Middletown Post #25. Citizen Corps and the American Legion are National Affiliates, and at the National Level have an MOU signed. Delaware is in the final stages of having a MOU at the state level, signed and approved. Currently Citizen Corps and American Legion are now working at the local level in order to get all posts in DE and surrounding communities CERT Trained. Don White Jr, Past Adjunct for the American Legion was instrumental in coordinating the scheduling of the class. Citizen Corps will be scheduling a Train-the-Trainer class in the near future with the Legion so they can go throughout the State and their Legions to teach the course.

CERT at Child Support Services

The State Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) supported by the Wilmington Office of Emergency Management returned to the Division of Child Support Services to teach Part II of the CERT Awareness Course. Part I of the CERT Awareness course was taught in Jun 06 to the Divisions Crisis Response Team, many of the same members attended plus 10 additional.

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CERT Training at DSU

Bob George; Citizen Corps Program Manager, Marny McLee; Citizen Corps Training and Outreach Coordinator, and The State Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) with assistance from the Wilmington OEM taught a CERT Class at Delaware State University. The class was made up of 20 New Castle, Kent, and Sussex County residents, which consist of Day Care Providers, DSU Cadets, a Veterinarian, Delaware Animals in Disaster (DADS) Team Members, State and other individual students. This class was scheduled due to the backlog of individuals wanting to be CERT trained. Special thanks to DSU Police Chief James Overton for again opening up his campus to Citizen Corps for training.

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CERT Arrives in Milton

On September 28 and 29 the state CERT team conducted training in the town of Milton. Led by Corporal Rockwell from the local Police Department and their Neighborhood Watch POC Mike McNamara, 23 dedicated citizens received two days of intense preparedness training. The training was well received and all seem motivated to go home and “develop an emergency plan” and make an “Emergency kit” in preparation for any disaster that may occur. Click the slideshow above to view all the photos from the event.

Wilmington CERT Training

On September 12, and 13, 2007, the State CERT Team once again partnered with the Wilmington Citizen Corps Council to deliver CERT Training to the License and Inspections Team from the City of Wilmington. The training was comprised of a terrific class of professionals who brought their day to day expertise to the classroom. This made for a terrific interaction between Instructors and Students.

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RSVP & Citizen Corps: Partners in Preparedness

We at Citizen Corps would like to recognize the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) for their efforts, hard work and dedication to the citizens of Delaware. RSVP was instrumental in recruiting and coordinating the efforts to establish a Citizen Corps Council at the County level.

RSVP has been a terrific partner with Citizen Corps, DEMA, Red Cross and many other organizations. They have developed a preparedness presentation and utilize their volunteers, to take the “make a Plan”, “make a Kit” message to the citizen of Delaware. Currently RSVP and specially Maryann Hook, and April Wiley have reached out to many volunteer organizations, business, emergency responders and citizens in an effort to assist and make a difference.

• RSVP is a member on the State Citizen Corps council
• RSVP is an active member of the Disaster Preparedness Coalition (developed to provide consistency of message with regard to Preparedness
• RSVP is also a member of our Family Emergency Preparedness Planning Committee (An Event held every year.)

For more information and to learn how to volunteer with RSVP please go their web site at http://www.dhss.delaware.gov/dhss/dssc/sov/ and click on RSVP

Mary Ann Hook and April Willey of Delaware RSVP

September Citizen Corps Newsletter is available!

The September edition of the Community Preparedness Newsletter is now
posted:
http://www.citizencorps.gov/pdf/newsletter/cc-newsletter-september2007.pdf