Maintaining Membership

Recertification of Active Status
In order to have a functioning and well-trained team of volunteers, active participation is required. It is important that staff get to know you as individuals as well as teams and therefore your active participation is sought throughout the year. Members whose certification expires will move from an active status to an inactive status and may not be activated by the Emergency Management and Preparedness Division or the Emergency Operations Center as a Disaster Service Worker. You may, however, be contacted to participate in training and or events until you regain active status. After a period of 2 years of inactivity, the member will be removed completely as a volunteer at which point a member may need to re-apply to become a volunteer in order to regain active status.

Annual Recertification Requirements
Volunteers are expected to participate in annual offerings of meetings, trainings, exercises and actual activations. Volunteers should attend as much as their schedule and service commitments will allow, however, we ask that you at minimum attend the following each year:

While our office will do our best to track activity based on sign-in rosters, monthly timecard reports and activation sign-in sheets, it is up to each volunteer member to track their activity to ensure they are meeting the annual recertification requirements.

[1] We will make special accommodations for those individuals who may have religious, job, illness or other specific conflicts and are unable to attend on Saturdays.

Online Training Classes
A Citizen?s Guide to Disaster Assistance
Animals in Disaster, Module A
Animals in Disaster, Module B
Are You Ready, An In Depth Guide to Citizen Preparedness
Guide to Points of Distribution
ICS 100 ? Introduction to the Incident Command System
ICS 100 for Schools
Special Needs Planning for Emergency Management
Special Needs Planning Considerations for Service Providers
Leadership and Influence
Decision Making and Problem Solving
Effective Communication
Introduction to Community Emergency Response Teams
Continuity of Operations Plan Awareness Course
Introduction to Continuity of Operations
IS 700 ? NIMS an Introduction
Emergency Support Function Communications
ICS-200: ICS for Single Resources
ICS-800.b: National Response Framework

Email copy of certification to: cert@anaheim.net for recertification credit.

*Independent study courses are designed for the adult learner and provide participants the ability to work at their own pace. Average course completion time is 10-12 hours. There are no enrollment fees or charges. Enroll at www.training.fema.gov/EMIweb/IS. Libraries materials rot the independent study courses are available from the Anaheim CERT Program Manager.