C-TECC is happy to announce that the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences has been awarded a $1.3 million Continuing Training Grant (CTG) from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to teach Tactical Emergency Casualty Care and escorted warm zone care to first care providers and first responders across the United States. The over-arching goal of GW’s training is to better prepare citizens and responders to provide care during events where there may be a delay in response due to operational challenges and barriers, and teach responders to work in environments that they have not traditionally worked in the past.
This is the second year in a row that TECC has been a feature of the CTG award. Last year's CTG awarded to the ALERRT training program from Texas State University included TECC training for patrol officers. In this year's award, TECC is a prominent focus of the training and is another milestone as the Committee works to solidify TECC as the civilian standard for high threat medical response.
For more information on this year's award, contact C-TECC Executive Committee member Geoff Shapiro at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or read more on the grant at http://smhs.gwu.edu/news/gw-awarded-13-million-train-first-responders-medical-readiness-and-immediate-victim-care-during