Nevada Union High school students train to assist in the face of an emergency ~ Jacob Dalton

Nevada Union high school students have started training to prevent and contain emergencies in their high school, anything from a minor cut all the way up to a broken wrist Patti Carter, the EPP coordinator for Nevada County showed students how to splint a broken wrist with a textbook and a tee shirt. The Idea is to show them a couple of basic things so if they ever find themselves in a Medical Emergency they can provide care and support before EMT's arrive. I personally agree with the idea of training high school students in basic medical care and attaching them to a CERT ( community Emergency Response Team ) and all the times I have worked with CERT I have had nothing but pleasant encounters with them! In Nevada county it must be different from cook county because here you must be 18 with a high school degree in your hand to apply for the CERT if not for that I would have applied when I first met them in the summer of 2016. I would love to see a program similar to this implemented IN Evanston Township High school and I would be the first to put my name on the list to apply, I fully support and will continue to support any program which take some of the stress off of the first responders of America