{"id":40898,"date":"2015-12-02T13:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=40898"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:41:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:41:05","slug":"west-oahu-students-part-of-first-community-emergency-response-campus-team-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/02\/west-oahu-students-part-of-first-community-emergency-response-campus-team-in-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Students form first campus community emergency team"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rCIp6p49Buk\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>&#8211;West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span><\/a> disaster preparedness and emergency management students recently went through training exercises to become certified as the first-ever University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> Community Emergency Response Team (<abbr>CERT<\/abbr>). These community-based teams are recognized by the City and County of Honolulu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honolulu.gov\/dem.html\">Department of Emergency Management<\/a> and other government agencies, and are made up of volunteers who assist first responders in affected communities immediately after a disaster. <abbr>CERT<\/abbr> members are trained in triage, damage assessment, evacuation and other important skills in emergency situations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal of <abbr>CERT<\/abbr> is to do the most good for the most number people,&rdquo; said <strong>Jason Levy<\/strong>, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> associate professor of disaster preparedness and emergency management.<\/p>\n<p>In the most recent training exercise, the <abbr>CERT<\/abbr> participants rotated between three training exercises that required an incident commander, triage, extraction and medical team. The remaining students played the roles of survivors.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> student <strong>Derek Walker<\/strong> explained, &ldquo;What we do is we come together as a community, a household member, and what we do is, we learn those certain skills.&rdquo; They then transfer those skills into the everyday real-world situations.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a first responder, I&#8217;ve never been able to get to the place I need to get to fast enough. But, as a citizen now, in my own neighborhood, I can respond as soon as I take care of my family and myself, I can assist my neighbors,&rdquo; added <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> student <strong>John Stewart<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To become certified, <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> student team members also had to complete 20 hours of coursework as part of the <abbr>PUBA<\/abbr> 461: Social Dimensions of Disaster Response class. <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> students who successfully completed training exercises participated in a <abbr>CERT<\/abbr> graduation ceremony at <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West <span aria-label=\"Oahu\">O&#699;ahu<\/span> and received certificates.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West O&#699;ahu offers a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-arts-in-public-administration\/\">bachelor of public administration<\/a> degree with a concentration in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-arts-in-public-administration\/disaster-preparedness-emergency-management\/\">disaster preparedness and emergency management<\/a>, and a certificate in disaster preparedness and emergency management. All courses meet the national standards as established by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency Higher Education Project.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> West O&#699;ahu <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhwo.hawaii.edu\/academics\/degrees-and-certificates\/bachelor-of-arts-in-public-administration\/disaster-preparedness-emergency-management\/\">disaster preparedness and emergency management webpage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/west-oahu-cert.jpg\" alt=\"emergency responder bending over a body\" width=\"620\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40957\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/west-oahu-cert.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/west-oahu-cert-260x156.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disaster preparedness and emergency management students are certified as first-ever <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> Community Emergency Response Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[1409,59],"class_list":["post-40898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-disaster-emergency","tag-uh-west-oahu","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40898"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143697,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40898\/revisions\/143697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}