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Community Awareness, Response and Education (C.A.R.E)
The C.A.R.E. Coalition emerged in October 2004 following
a meeting of representatives from the Health Department, Ste. Genevieve County Memorial
Hospital, Child Support Unit, the Sheriff’s Department and MO Extension. This coalition
has since grown into more of an emergency management coalition. Chaired by the county
emergency management director, the coalition consists of various representatives
from most first responder agencies in Ste. Genevieve County as well as local and
county government and clergy.
The coalition meets at 1:00 pm on the 3rd Monday of each month at the 911 office.
The initial purpose was to train our first responders either by locating resources
or providing the training locally and then begin educating and training our citizens
in preparing for emergencies and disasters.
Since then, many training hours have been provided to local responders.
The Ready In 3 preparedness program has been provided
to many of our residents and is ongoing.
Several tabletop exercises (earthquake, pandemic influenza, tornado) have been held
in the county and several more were attended in other locations.
Working together the coalition has been able to access homeland security funding
and is currently preparing to begin CERT Classes in the near future.
CERT (Community
Emergency Response Training) is a 40 hour class for members of the
community to better prepare them to take care of themselves as well as family, friends
and neighbors during an emergency or disaster. The course provides simple training
on subjects such as first aid, light search and rescue and fire safety.
Contact the trainers for more information:
Judy Schilly, Ste. Genevieve County Health Dept.
Kendall Shrum, Ste. Genevieve Ambulance District
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