[philmont] Wilderness First Aid IS REQUIRED in 2008 and beyond

I strongly echo Coop's comments. Last year (2006), I had 10 of my 12 man
crew trained in ARC WFA. ("Recommended, but not required.")

How'd we do it? A local Scouter also volunteers extensively with the Red
Cross. (When I teach Outdoor Leader Skills in the Fall, he's often off
working with the Red Cross on a hurricane disaster....)

He helped to bring WFA to the local area, as the Red Cross as an
organization didn't see the need. When we got our crew slot, I called him
and set up a time. We used our Council Service center as a venue and held a
class for 15 (extended the invitation to crew parents and a few other
Scouters).

Cost was $25 per person. Mostly Red Cross registration & certificate fees,
some consumable supplies.

We all took CPR from a local Fire Department for free!

(Philmont was impressed with those pages of certification cards...:-)

As Scouters, we are the present day "Radar O'Reilly"s. We figure out how to
get the job done within bureaucracies (BSA & American Red Cross, for
example). Most of the time this means working with a particular SOMEONE,
not with the "official face" of the bureaucracy.

Want Wilderness 1st Aid? Find a Red Cross volunteer within Scouting, have
them train to teach WFA, and take the course with them. Depending on what
courses they're already certified to teach, WFA certification may be very
straight forward.

/Neal
(Philmont '76 & '06)

On 4/15/07, CoopWright@aol.com <CoopWright@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Now is the time to get your council's health and safety committee busy in
> working with the American Red Cross to get WFA courses in your area. If
> there are scouters in your council, who are willing to be certified as ARC
> WFA instructors, you can get a much better rate then the going price for the
> training. Our Venturing Crew contacted SOLO and sponsored WFA courses in
> our area before our local ARC had qualified instructors. We were able to
> negotiate a price with SOLO since we were the sponsoring organization. If
> BSA shows the ARC that there is a demand for this courses, they will add
> them to their curriculum.
>
> Cooper Wright
> Co-editor of the Philmont Advisor's Guide
>
>

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Received on Sun Apr 15 12:41:20 2007