CERT is a training program that prepares you to help yourself, your family, and your neighbors in the event of a disaster. During an incident, emergency services personnel may not be able to reach everyone right away. By becoming a trained member of the Community Emergency Response Team, you will have the skills to help emergency responders save lives and protect property.

CERT training promotes a partnering effort between emergency services and the people that they serve. The goal is for emergency personnel to train members of neighborhoods, community organizations, or workplaces in basic response skills. If a disastrous event overwhelms or delays the community’s professional response, CERT members can assist their families and others by applying the basic response and organizational skills that they learned during training. These skills can help save and sustain lives following a disaster until help arrives. CERT skills also apply to daily emergencies.

CERT Training Class

Click here to see a photo gallery of the 2009 CERT training.

For more information, please contact the Emergency Management Coordinator, Roy Charvat, at 630-260-6000 ext. 5485 or roy_charvat@glendaleheights.org.