Announcing our 2025 Monthly Meetup Series !

We want to encourage our community of CERTs to continue to learn new skills as well as get to know each other and practice to be prepared. To that end we are excited to let you know that we are starting in 2025, to have a monthly meetup, which will be brief (1 to max 2 hours) and allow presentation and discussion of a range of WPV-CERT relevant topics.

Some meetings will be on Zoom, some by their nature in person. All meetings are optional, but we encourage all CERTs to join whenever they can and want to !

We will record the Zoom meetings and post them on our Youtube channel for people that are interested but cannot attend.

Announcements and follow up discussions for these meetings will be on Slack / groups.io as usual - they will also be in our CERT calendar which you can subscribe to in your Google, Apple and Outlook calendars.

For the rest of the year, we have a variety of additional monthly meeting topics planned, and will want to get your input on what is most interesting / useful:

• 1.CERT activation and ICP setup - prep (zoom) Jan 28

• 2.CERT activation and ICP setup - exercise (in person) Feb 8

• Tech Tips for your Mobile Devices (zoom)

• Maps for CERTs (zoom)

• Activating ? What gear to bring (zoom)

• The WPV-CERT Trailers (in person)

• Radio & Comms Review (zoom)

• CERT Search & Rescue (zoom)

• Fire Fighter Rehab (in person at station 19)

• First Aid / CPR / AED review (zoom)

• Animal Rescue & Welfare Issues (zoom)

• Windshield Surveys (zoom)

• ICS Review & Mapping to WPV (zoom)

• Medical station & mobile kits - in WPV context (in person)

• Hurricane Helene: early disaster response lessons learned (zoom)

• Exercise Scenarios (in person)

• Advanced Radio and Comms topics (zoom)

• Updated Medical Bag Organization (zoom)

Let's get started !