Course Date: April 8 - 9, 2025
Location: Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, (Executive Auditorium), One Partnership Circle, Abingdon, VA 24210
Cost: This course is grant-funded and open to all healthcare coalition partners and stakeholders from the Southwest Virginia Healthcare Coalition Region, at no cost. If you are unsure of your authorization to attend, please contact Course Coordinator Monica McCullough at: mmccullough@vaems.org
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this course, however, it is recommended that you take IS-100, which is a FEMA Independent Study course to learn about the Incident Command System: https://training.fema.gov/is/courseoverview.aspx?code=IS-100.c
Click to register: https://register3.ndlsf.org/course/view.php?id=3578
coursesearchCHECBasic
The CHEC Certification Program is a tiered certification process incorporating advancing course work as pre-requisites to three levels of certification using the CHEC Basic and Advanced courses as the foundation.
CHEC Basic: 2-day course; 13.5 CEU’s
- CHEC courses are customarily offered over 3 consecutive days.
- Single course enrollment is permitted.
- CHEC Basic is a pre-requisite to CHEC Advanced.
- CEUs are honored and accepted by The State Office of EMS and EMA to maintain certification.
- Students receive a handbook and electronic resource materials.