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Enhanced EMS and Emergency Public Health and Safety Training Program

Emergency Public Health is a concept recognizing the opportunities provided by emergencies for prevention, intervention

and preparedness.

Help make your community a safer place
Replicate Role and success of Fire Prevention
Build EMS Career Ladder
Community Engagement
Hazard and Risk Analysis
Take advantage of sentinel role of emergency providers
- Motor Vehicle Safety
- Link with other Emergency
  Public Health Needs

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One of the great successes in prevention and intervention in our communities is fire prevention. Through multidimensional efforts culminating in local fire prevention and fire response we have achieved a dramatic reduction in fire deaths.

At the same time, fire losses and fire calls have decreased, we have placed increased EMS, emergency response and preparedness demands on our EMS and Fire services.

Imagine the opportunities if the same success could be brought to the many medical and community crisis that EMS and Fire experience first hand!

The Enhanced EMS and Emergency Public Health Training Program aims to help develop the skills, resources and experience to make this possible. Traffic Safety as the most common issue faced by EMS and Fire forms the first module. Later modules link to other Emergency Public Health Opportunities.

Motor vehicle crashes and injuries are the number one threat that EMS and Fire respond to in New Hampshire as in most areas. These threats provide everyday opportunity for intervention similar to fire prevention.

A unique and key aspect of this training is the linkage to the development and implementation of a program in your community. Education and training is based on building a portfolio of skills to assist you in developing your project. Faculty will serve to consult and assist the project completion.

Key Skills that will be presented:

Highway Safety and Injury Prevention overview
Risk and Threat Analysis
Leadership
Project Development and Management
Communication
Marketing
Advocacy and Policy
Evaluation
Data Sources and Analysis
Grant writing
Networking and Resource Identification
Integration into other Emergency Public Health issues

Exposure to key traffic safety skills and opportunities:
- Impaired Driving
- Mechanism of Injury
- Crash Investigation
- Occupant Protection
- Safe Communities
- Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety
- Issues related to young and older drivers
  And much more

The program is designed for 9 months with the front end of the training compressed to assist the skill set needed for project development over a 6 week period. The remainder of the program is structured to support the success of local project development.

To learn more or apply contact Dr. Sabato at 603-537-1903 or e-mail jsabatoj@ix.netcom.com

Or send the application below to Keene State College c/o Bob Baker at Continuing Education

Enhanced EMS, Emergency Public Health Program

OSHA Education Center

Keene State College

175 Ammon Drive

Manchester, NH 03103-3308

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Course is free for the first module, college credits may be available and purchased separately.

Developed and sponsored by the Intersections Project, Keene State College and the Safety and Health Council of New Hampshire and supported by a grant from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration