CONTENT

Overview of Sessions

Disaster READY Training will help kids to build skills through listening and learning, and acting and doing. Topics include:

• 72-hour Kits
• First Aid
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Basics of Search & Rescue
• Weather Spotting
• Why Preparedness?
• Resilience & Psychological First Aid
• Psychological Consequences of Disasters
• Disaster Simulation Training
• Terrorism & Cyber Awareness
• Fire Suppression

Career Exploration

Disaster READY Training also gives students a chance to meet and hear from people who are currently working in different careers in emergency management. Career visitors from the following organizations are planned:

• FEMA Region VIII National Preparedness Division
• Colorado State University Weather Spotters
• American Red Cross
• Colorado State Patrol
• Colorado Department of Emergency Management
• Veterinary Medical Foundation
• Colorado Department of Human Services
• Children’s Hospital
• National Earthquake Information Center
• Colorado Search and Rescue
• Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
• Denver Police Department Crime Lab