Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)

The purpose of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is to provide residents with basic disaster knowledge to assist themselves, their family, and neighbors in the initial phases of a disaster. Charleston County provides two CERT Basic and CERT Train-the-Trainer (Instructor) classes per year, typically late spring and winter unless otherwise noted. CCEMD does not conduct additional classes past these two.

The CERT program is administered and managed at the most local level, through community groups, homeowner’s associations, municipalities, and other recognized groups. CCEMD encourages participation in the CERT Instructor course to be able to provide the program to your local community in addition to the bi-yearly classes provided by the CCEMD.