CPHEMS
CENTER FOR PREHOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
In Association with
Emergency Health Management Systems &
Aemstec Consultant & Technical Services Inc.
Saint Lucia - SINCE 2001
CONTACT THE PROGRAM SUPPORT COMMITTEE CHAIR
Tel: 758-452-7019
Fax: 758-458-2448
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Castries, Saint Lucia, West Indies
CRAIG HERMAN
FOUNDER/DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS
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SUPPORT
ACTS CEMSE FUND RAISING
Our projoct, program and services was started back in 2001 as a phelanthropic endeavour bebefit a very wide cross section of our society especially the young school graduates seeking to find meaningful jobs. We are proud of what we have accomplished over the years and hope to continue doing so for the betterment of our society, country, region and certainly ensuring improved standards of service quality to our many visitors to our shore in their tmies of emergency need.
We chose to be here because we care about the value of human life. Help us help you as we strive to build local capacity and sustain our very existence through the delivery of highly specialized skills and services outside the hospital setting and with improved EMS education as our bench mark and foundation for growth.
In a continued effort to assist in the development and introduction of International Standards in Emergency Medical Services Education and the Emergency Medical Services in Saint Lucia and the wider region, we solicite and will accept any financial, technical or other beneficial help you, your company and organization is will to provide can provide towards our project and venture.
We have accomplished much international with any external financial assistance, we will continue to do so thpough the process may take longer with your help but with your contributions we will be able to achieve much more in a shorter space of time thus ensuring our ability to focus the additional time on additional meaningful endeavours.
MAKE A GIFT
CAPITAL AND ENDOWMENT GIVING
While founder’s contributions revenue generated from our training center’s American Safety and Health Institute (ASHI) Community Emergency Care Training Programs help to cover the center’s yearly operating expenses, AEMSTEC/CEMSE relies on leadership gifts to capital initiatives and the endowment in order to fund larger needs.
Capital gifts will help to fund capacity building service and advance emergency medical technology service projects. For example, the development and implementation of a Remote Emergency Alert Notification System/Service, the development of a Saint Lucia based aeromedical or Air Emergency Medical Flight Service and/or an independent ground ambulance service providing advance level services. Contributions will also assist our project and program in helping to renovate classrooms and facilities at the school and institution where our program and courses are based.
Endowment gifts will help to secure the training center’s long-term financial stability—and to fund current priority projects through ongoing interest.
Faculty Development and Support, Students and Programs
By establishing an endowed fund or contributing to an existing fund, you can support our programs in several ways:
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A scholarship fund helps to make a EMS education possible for deserving students
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An endowed fund can be designated to support a department, equipment, services, or faculty enrichment
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An endowed faculty supports a teacher in her/his work with students and encourages professional development and personal growth
You can choose to name a new fund in honor or in memory of a beloved family member or teacher, creating an enduring legacy.
Priority Initiatives for Financial Aid, Equipment and International Clinical Internship Program
AEMSTEC (CEMSE) is raising funds for several priorities:
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Co-Curricular Activities International Clinical Internship Fund implemented to give students an opportunity to experience international internship opportunities, special field training, and a broad range of co-curricular activities.
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Equipment Fund Established to make significant upgrades to practical skills labs (Psychomotor skills) and hardware as well as to support professional development for teaching faculty to integrate advance medical technology with their curriculum.
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International Technical Assistance Fund Established to strengthen CEMSE’s international program affiliations, accreditation, and international certification examinations i.e. United States National Registry (NREMT), including faculty professional development and funding to develop new courses, arrange co-curricular trips and bring in distinguished program facilitators for advanced training programs i.e. Advance Medical Life Support (AMLS). International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) programs.
We are always will to accept whatever form of assist that you are willing to provide and we seek to develop this sector. Your consideration for capital and/or endowment giving is also acceptable and would be appreciated.
PLANNED GIVING
Why Give
When you give you are helping us better prepare our professsionals towards helping you, your loved ones or friends by providing the highest possible quality of prehospital emergency care prior to the arrival at a hospital or when getting them there in their critical state is delayed. We put your needs first for it is because of you and them we seek to make that difference and bring about that change.
his project was started in Saint Lucia in 2001 when the founder recognized the need for service improvement, when his father had a medical emergency (Siezure) in 1994 and subsiquently went into cardiac arrest and died partly due to the fact that up until recently pre-hospital emergency medical expertise was almost non-existent in St. Lucia and first responders had little, if any, training beyond basic life support and to some extent still remain today.
Sadly, help got the founder's father to late and help was no more than an ambulance ride to the hospital which unfortunately was not even provided to the victim and tragically he died. The founder eventually in 1997 left Saint Lucia to pursue advanced studies in prehospital emergency medicine at the State University of New York, Erie Community College and eventually become a registered certified Emergency Medical Service Educator with the American National Association of EMS Educators (NAEMSE).
Upon his return home he embarked on lobbying the relevant governemnt agencies to improve on the state of the emergency medical services which today remains a challenge for him. He eventually sort approval, approval, recognition and endorsement from the governmental agencies to allow hom as a Public Service Officer to commence this AEMTEC-CEMSE project to introduce EMS Education and training to the the island with the hope of indirectly improving the standards, system and services.
It took him manys to obtain this approval etc. and in 2004 he was eventually granted the permission he so pains takingly seeked. To date he has trained many Saint Lucians, some now working with the very agency which responded to provide his father with assistance many years ago, while others have moved on to the United States to pursue advanced studies in Paramedicine, others have gone on to become medical doctors and even moved on to the United Kingdom armed forces.
Since in implementation in Saint Lucia the project and program attained numerous international recognition milestones including being featured in one of the United States Award Winning Medical Magazines "SYNAPSE"
At the Any discussion about giving begins and ends with values, your personal values and our shared community values. Some gifts require careful planning over time to fully address your needs and your wish to benefit ACTS-CEMSE.
This section of our Center's Web site is meant to be a resource and to inspire consideration of such "planned gifts."
The decision to make a gift to ACTS-CEMSE is personal. Remembering ACTS-CEMSE in your momemnts of reflection is the simplest and most common type of planned gift.
Of course, there are many approaches to giving and you can see how various gift options would allow you to help ACTS-CEMSE and preserve resources for yourself or your your loved ones are they may very well become benificiaries of our services in some form or at some time.
As you review the information, please consider the personal values that connect you to ACTS-CEMSE
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Thank you for your consideration and for your generous support.
