# Presentation: 236762

## State University

**State University**

**  ****North Dakota**

**Notes:**
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, my name is Kent Theurer. I am a masters student in the Emergency Management program at North Dakota State University. I am responsible under the aid and supervision of Dr. Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel for the development and implementation of a collegiate CERT for North Dakota State University. This idea was first discussed in a paper on Community Emergency Response Teams that I developed for a course last fall. At that time we recognized the value of developing a collegiate CERT at our university. 

## Collegiate CERT

- In partnership with
-  North Dakota State University
- the North Dakota Division of
-  Emergency Management
- and in collaboration with
- North Dakota League of Cities

**Notes:**
With strong support from North Dakota State University and the North Dakota Division of Emergency Management we began collaboration with the North Dakota League of Cities, which is the agency coordinating CERT for the state of North Dakota. The support and ideas of these agencies are essential pieces to the development of our collegiate CERT. Community Emergency Response Teams ensure a basic understanding of personal safety, security, and preparedness skills. The CERT concept is a natural fit in a university setting providing additional resources for augmenting preparedness and response activities on university campuses. Throughout the country many universities lack response functions specific to that university, for example fire or after hours medical services. CERT helps to ensure that students, staff and faculty are aware of hazards and prepared to deal with events such as fires, floods and other natural or manmade disasters. 

## Objective

- To serve and enrich North Dakota State University and the Fargo/Moorhead metropolitan area through community-based educational program with the purpose of increasing the community's ability to prepare for and cope with emergencies and disasters.

**Notes:**
Our objective is to serve and enrich the university and the surrounding metropolitan area through community-based educational programs. These educational programs are presented with the purpose of increasing the ability of our community to prepare for and cope with emergencies and disasters both manmade and natural.

## Goal

- Utilize Emergency Management Program faculty and students within the university settings to increase awareness of personal safety, first aid, security, fire prevention .storm readiness and hazard mitigation

**Notes:**
Our goal is the effective utilization and integration of the expertise of emergency management program faculty and students at all levels within the university and community settings. This integration will lead to increased community awareness of personal safety, first aid, security, fire prevention, storm readiness, hazard mitigation and other important skills. 

## Vision

- Have a campus-wide program in which each college, department, program and center has CERT personnel trained to prepare  for and respond to an emergency or disaster.

**Notes:**
Our vision for the colligate CERT can only be fulfilled through a program, in which each college, department, program and center has CERT members trained to prepare for and respond to an emergency or disaster. This is important for two reasons; first students, faculty and staff will be safer having additional knowledge in times of disaster, second property will be protected through increased involvement of student, faculty and staff. This involvement will decrease the impact of emergencies and disasters on facilities through the implementation of mitigation strategies and additional pre-disaster planning.

## Students

-  Approximately 12,000 students
**Faculty**
-  Approximately 500 faculty
**Support Personnel**
-  Nearly 1,000 support personnel
**Metropolitan Community**
-  Nearly 140,000

**Notes:**
North Dakota State University has approximately 12,000 students, 500 faculty and 1,000 support personnel nestled in the Fargo/Moorhead metro area of approximately 140,000. The implementation of a collegiate CERT may potentially have a profound effect beyond the university through the use of community outreach programs coordinated by NDSU Students Additional members of the community will include CERT member’s families, friends and other interested community members.

## Colleges and Majors

- North Dakota State University has eight colleges including;
-  Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
-  Science and Math
-  Architecture and Engineering
-  Human Development and Education
-  Business Administration
-  Pharmacy
-  Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources
- These colleges combined offer over
-                            **100** different majors.

**Notes:**
North Dakota State University includes eight colleges Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Science and Math, Architecture and Engineering, Human Development and Education, Business Administration, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources Management. These eight colleges offer over 100 majors at the university.  

## Emergency Management Program

- Degrees offered:
- Minor
- Bachelors
- Masters
- Doctorate
- NDSU Emergency Management Student
- 					Association

**Notes:**
The cornerstone of collegiate CERT at NDSU is the Emergency Management Program, which offers degrees in Emergency Management including minor, bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees. The collegiate CERT will also be facilitated by NDSU Emergency Management Student Association or NDSU-EMSA, the student academic club at North Dakota State University, CERT will be facilitated though opportunities for students and club members in training, development and implementation of the organizational support structure.

## EmergencyManagementStudent Benefits

- First hand knowledge of planning and exercising
- Ability to acquire and share practical skills
- Enhanced in-field abilities

**Notes:**
Involvement in the CERT organization and teams will provide first-hand knowledge for students of planning and exercising in emergencies and disaster as well as providing a venue for the acquisition and sharing of practical emergency management skills through practical field experience, which will increase their range of abilities.

## Emergency ManagementStudent Benefits

- Integration of theoretical and practical
- Enhanced job placement
- Community participation

**Notes:**
CERT provides a venue for Emergency management students to participate in the integration of theoretical models and practical experiences to improve standard operating procedures, in planning, response and mitigation. These skills and experiences will help alumni from the program to develop networks in the community, county, state, nation and internationally. These relationships will result in increased job placement for graduating students and opportunities for additional resources for the collegiate CERT.

## Goals for Collegiate CERT

- Train NDSU faculty and staff
- Train approximately 12,000 NDSU students
- Provide information and education to students, faculty and staff in all phases of emergencies and disasters
- Help develop individual and
- 	family emergency planning

**Notes:**
CERT training at the NDSU will begin with faculty/staff in the first phase and continue with students soon after. This training will bring an increased knowledge of all phases of emergencies and disasters, as well as facilitating increased individual and family planning throughout the university. The Fargo/Moorhead community has been affected by numerous disasters including summer storms/tornados, floods and winter storms. Students have played a crucial role in the most recent disasters including the floods of 1997, 2000 and 2001. Although historically, our university students have aided the community in times of disasters, it has been difficult to ensure that those volunteers were properly trained. The collegiate CERT through training and education provides the framework to ensure that these volunteers can work safely and effectively.

## Training for Collegiate CERT

- Implement basic CERT curricula
- Utilize additional curricula concentrations
- Based on specific risks or hazards each major or college is vulnerable to.

**Notes:**
We will implement the basic CERT curricula to ensure that a standard basic level of training is provided to all volunteers utilizing additional curricula concentrations as needed for specific vulnerabilities associated with each college or major.

## Training Goals for Collegiate CERT

- Personal safety
- Fire safety
- Fire suppression
- First aid and CPR
- Lab safety
- Animal/crop safety
- Storm Readiness
- Hazard Mitigation

**Notes:**
Specific areas will include the following; personal safety, fire safety, fire suppression, first aid and CPR, lab safety, animal/crop handling and safety, storm readiness and hazard mitigation. Although these are very specific areas, many others could be included depending on the functions performed within the colleges or majors. This specific training could be included with additional responsibilities for staff/faculty members and students who work in buildings that are vulnerable to these and other specific hazards. 

## Research projects
CERT organizational development
Recruiting materials
Training programs
Exercise development and implementation

- CERT organizational development
- Recruiting materials
- Training programs
- Exercise development and implementation

**Emergency Management ****Student Opportunities**

**Notes:**
The development of a campus CERT provides the basis for a variety of research projects that will contribute to the body of knowledge as well as provide practical feedback on the development of CERT. CERT requires an immense amount of administrative/organizational attention. The development of teams on campus would allow students to attain and develop these skills in an academic and practical environment. The development of CERT also provides valuable experience in communications and public relations including the development and production of recruiting and training materials for CERT members and the general public as well as providing an opportunity for increased understanding of the steps and components of disaster exercise development and implementation.

## University Benefits

- Reduced vulnerability through
- Specialists in relevant areas in all departments on the university campus
- Increased awareness of safety and security concerns
- Increased performance
- Lower medical costs

**Notes:**
A collegiate CERT will help to reduce the vulnerabilities to both natural and manmade emergencies and disaster via, the training of specialists in relevant areas in all departments on the university campus. These specialists will help to facilitate a safer and more secure environment for students, faculty and staff, which in turn will increase performance and reduce medical costs both before, during and after disasters or emergencies strike.

## Community Benefits

- Augment city and county resources for readiness and emergency operations
- Aid in the development of further integrated Fargo/NDSU response teams
- Integration of university activities with community

**Notes:**
A collegiate CERT allows the university to give back to the community through volunteerism and augmentation of the city and county resources for preparedness and response. This relationship will also aid in future integration and cooperation of Fargo/Moorhead and NDSU response teams and other community activities.

## State Benefits

- Enhance state’s capability for readiness
- Increase efficiency of North Dakota’s volunteer pool through training
- Increase Citizen Corps participation throughout state, via social dissemination from current and former collegiate CERT members.

**Notes:**
Implementing a collegiate CERT will enhance the states response and preparedness capabilities while increasing the efficiency of our rural states volunteer pools through increased training and exercise. Implementing a CERT at one of the states largest public universities will raise awareness and increase participation in Citizens Corp programs in the state of North Dakota, via social dissemination from current and former collegiate CERT members.

## Thank you for your kind attention.

- Arthur Oyola-Yemaiel, Ph.D.
- Emergency Management Program Director
- Arthur.Oyolayemaiel@nsdsu.nodak.edu
- Kent Theurer
- NDSU-EMSA President
- Emergency Management Graduate Student
- Kent.Theurer@ndsu.nodak.edu

**Notes:**
Thank you very much for your kind attention.

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