Class Descriptions

• Adventures in Geo: What Google Brings to the Fight
• Agility Sign-Offs
• Aquatic Accidents: Crisis Intervention on Scene
• Back Country Packing
• Backcountry Mounted Equipment and Riding and Packing Safety
• Basic Mantacking
• Booby Trap Awareness and Recognition
• Boot Fitting
• California SAR, the Big Picture
• Cell Phones for Search Managers
• CHP Helicopter SAR Hoist Operations
• Class 3 Litter Management
• Confined Space Rescue
• Create a SAR Website
• Crush Injury / Syndrome & Harness Hang Syndrome
• Death and Decomposition; an Overview of Human Decomposition in the SAR Environment
• Don’t Contaminate the Scene: Backcountry CSI basics for SAR
• Emergency First Aid for Horses
• Environmental Emergencies
• Essentials of Artificial High Directionals
• Field Based Leadership
• Forensic Tracking
• Fostering Good Judgement in your all Volunteer SAR Unit
• Helicopter Safety and Operations
• Interview and Investigation – Techniques for Search and Rescue Responders.
• Introduction to Electronic Direction Finding
• Introduction to MapSAR
• Introduction to Search and Search Management in the Urban Environment
• Jeeping 101
• K9 Medic Essentials
• K9 Water Searching
• Knots, Knots, Knots
• Learn to use MapSAR
• Lost Person Behavior
• Mass Fatality Management
• Missing At Risk: Understanding and Managing the Search for the Missing At Risk Alzheimer's and Dementia Subject
• Navigation Basics for the GPS User
• Nutrition and Exertion for the Wilderness Worker
• Obedience Sign-Offs
• Offline Web Maps for SAR
• OHV (Quad) Safety Operations
• Overhead Transistions
• Patient Packaging
• Pick Off Rescue
• Rescue Belay Systems
• Rope Rescue Systems
• SAR Standards: What are they and why do they matter?
• Search and Rescue Air Operations
• Searching in the Age of Online Social Networks
• Surface Supplied Air in Public Safety Dive Missions: A workshop in the use of commercial dive equipment for first responders and SAR
• Tactical EMS
• The 3 Keys to Fundamental Obedience
• Tracking Dangerous Subjects
• Trailing Search Dogs:Trailing Characteristics/Trailing Behaviors
• Trails Course for SAR Horses
• Training Methodology and the SAR Dog
• Underwater Crime Scene Investigation Techniques
• Uses of a Local Urban Search and Rescue Resource
• VX-31 Search and Rescue Team Helicopter Rescue Demo
• What You Really Need to Know About Mechanical Advantage Systems
• Wilderness Medicine Case Review Summary
• Winching Basics
• Working With K9 Teams: How to Be a Good K9 Team Flanker