Wentzville Has Opportunity to Take Preparedness Training

The Wentzville Fire Protection District and City of Wentzville are hosting an adult and TEEN CERT emergency preparedness training course, taught through the Mid America Teen Community Emergency Response Team program.

The class will be conducted the weekend of November 9–November 11, 2018 at Wentzville Fire Protection District Station #3, located at 1146 Clinton Prinster Memorial Drive in Foristell. This course is sponsored by the WG Bushkraft (wgbushkraft.com) Task Force, and is open to residents of Wentzville and surrounding communities, schools and service groups or organizations, such as HOSA, NHS, Boy/Girl Scouts, 4-H, etc.

The Mid America TEEN CERT program, trains on average seven to eight classes a year. Throughout the 22-hour training, students learn how to handle medical emergencies, extinguish live fires and perform extensive student searches. Most importantly, students learn to manage stress, assist with peers and people with special and functional physical needs, and recognize signs and symptoms of disaster-related psychological issues. The class culminates with a full-scale, real-time, life-like simulated disaster exercise that will showcase the newly learned emergency skills of the students.

The City of Wentzville collaborated with the Mid America TEEN CERT program a few years ago, in an effort to offer the community more options for citizen awareness and emergency preparation training. It was the hopes of Mayor Nick Guccione, that by the City partnering with Mid America TEEN CERT, both teen and adult citizens could take this important training, along with the Wentzville Police Department CERT; the ultimate goal being to strengthen Wentzville’s overall community preparedness.

Mid America TEEN CERT educates both teen and adult students how to assist in the event of an emergency or natural disaster; in fact, almost half of the programs’ 1780+ graduates are adults.

For more information about this class, CERT and TEEN CERT classes, please contact Mark Rosenblum at Mark.Rosenblum@outlook.com, or the Wentzville Police at (636) 327-5105. Additionally, you can visit Mid America TEEN CERT on Facebook at Facebook.com/groups/MIDAMERICATEENCERT/ for more information.