The EPRS Program is one of the three pathways offered as part of Winter Park's NJROTC Program. This program is designed to prepare students for a wide variety of emergency management, response, and recovery career fields, with a focus on emergency/ austere medical care. Over a four year period, our students become familiar with the roles, responsibilities, and capabilities of national, state, regional, and local emergency agencies during natural and man-made disasters.
So Others May Live
Throughout their time in the Emergency Planning and Response Studies Program our students learn life saving skills from CPR, Search and Rescue (SAR), to Community Emergency Response Team training. Our courses utilize nationally approved curriculum from some of the most respected industry entities such as the American Red Cross, the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians, the National Association for Search and Rescue, and more. Students can earn 17 industry related certificates in our program.
Program Progression
Freshmen
8602010 Introduction to Emergency Response
This course is designed to introduce emergency response and management careers and begin
to develop competencies in first responder skills such as basic emergency response, Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation, AED use, and an introduction to medical first aid.
Sophomore
8602020 Fundamentals of Emergency Response
This course is designed to develop students with the laws and ethics that are pertinent to
emergency responders and how those systems guide their actions. Students will also develop a deeper
understanding of the National Response Plan, the National Incident Management System, and the Critical
Infrastructure Protection process. During this course, students become familiar with the knowledge and
skills necessary to provide immediate lifesaving interventions while awaiting additional Emergency
Medical System resources to arrive and can earn their NREMT Emergency Medical Responder
certification.
Junior
8602030 Fundamentals of Emergency Response
This course is designed to introduce the concepts and basic technical skills for emergency
responders that participate in ground Search and Rescue (SAR) and how to effectively provide medical
aid to the ill and injured in wilderness and austere environments.
Senior
8602040 Search & Rescue Medical Technician Apprenticeship Program
This course is the final segment in the EPRS program and is designed as a capstone course
prior to a student’s entry into their chosen career field or post-secondary education. Students will be educated, trained, and evaluated for certification as a Search and Rescue Medical Technician (Ground). SRMT(G)'s provides SAR-specific medical capabilities for team members and rescues during ground
Search, Rescue, and recovery operations. All SRMT’s are Nationally Registered Emergency Medical
Responders, Search and Rescue Technician-II’s, and have successfully completed the EPRS and SRMT
apprenticeship programs. This certification meets or exceeds all requirements relating to resource typing
for both FEMA Land Search and Rescue Technician and FEMA Emergency Medical Technician.
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