CERT Workshop - Disaster Response

CERT Disaster Response Workshop

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

8am to 4pm

University Club of Pasadena

175 North Oakland Ave

Pasadena, CA 91101

This event is sponsored by SoCal Gas and is being planned in partnership with Cal OES, LAFD CERT and Long Beach CERT.

This workshop is designed to teach CERT Programs how to create a CERT Volunteer Cadre for Disaster Response. Topics discussed include:

• Recent CERT and Listos disaster deployments

• Training classes beyond CERT Basic to prepare CERT Volunteers for deployment

• Background Checks

• Strategies and procedures for CERT Volunteer Callouts

• Presentation by Vance Taylor of Cal OES on training your CERT volunteers to engage disaster survivors that may have Access and Functional Needs and/or Disabilities

• Presentation by Anita Chant and Kathryn Chin of Cal OES on the Disaster Service Worker Volunteer Program