The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program is a national program of volunteers trained in disaster preparedness and emergency response. Through Teen CERT, you can serve your community and help take care of your school and home.

Why Join

Would you know what to do if an emergency comes? After a disaster, professional responders will be needed everywhere. During an emergency, who could help until professional responders arrive? Who could be the first person on-the-scene to step up? The answer: You.

In most emergencies, a bystander or even the victim, provides the first immediate assistance. Join Teen CERT, and you will learn how to respond when others look to you for help.

What You’ll Do

We all have a role to play in keeping our communities safe. What role will you play? Once you complete your CERT training, you can participate in or lead a variety of activities.

During an emergency, your Teen CERT could organize volunteers, give assistance to survivors, provide damage assessment information, provide shelter support and assist with crowd control.

Teen CERTs can also help in their schools all year round. Your Teen CERT could participate in disaster drills and exercises, present fire safety education, assist in preparedness outreach (外展服务), provide peer mentoring (指导) and address safety issues in the school.

What You’ll Learn

It takes about 20 hours to complete the CERT training. During the training, you will learn to put out small fires, conduct light search and rescue, assist those who are injured, set up medical treatment areas, assist emergency responders, identify possible dangers and help reduce survivors’ stress.

You can also take the Introduction to the CERT training. This independent web-based study is interactive and will introduce you to CERT skills before you take the classroom training.

2024 Xiangshan Environmental Protection Public Welfare Tour

Provide outdoor emergency and environmental protection knowledge as well as practical guidance for the majority of volunteers, especially volunteer families. Through the project, volunteers can strengthen their health, master basic outdoor skills, and can effectively deal with emergencies. At the same time, let volunteers establish environmental protection concept, and make a contribution to our planet.

Details of the program

Departure: Sunday, July 7th, 08:30(please sign in 15 minutes in advance). Gather at the small square next to the gate of Xiangshan Post Office.

Time on the mountain: about 7 hours.

Distance: about 10km.

Task: Pick up garbage along the way, and do a good job in garbage classification to keep the road clean. As some sections of this line are dense bushes, hilly, non-leisure, anyone who signs up must take care. No fireworks and no alcohol.

Equipment requirements

Please wear comfortable clothing, hiking shoes or sneakers and gloves. Bring layers for changing weather and a raincoat in case it rains. Bring drinking water and food high in calorie according to your own needs.

Bring your own garbage bags(big bags like those in supermarkets are OK). If you have litter picker, that is an advantage. The team also provides necessary tools.

Attention: After the registration is approved, please enter the activity group — the administrator’s WeChat: 18801189401.

EVENTS

Long March exhibition

The Shanghai History Museum is putting on an exhibition to mark the 60th anniversary of the Long March. On show are more than 220 photos and 40 items that explain with pictures how the communist Red Army drew back from its besieged(被围困的) bases in Jiangxi Province and fought its way to northern Shanxi Province in the mid-1930s Explanations are all in Chinese. The show will end on November 20.

Time: 10: 00 am-4: 00 pm

Address: 1286 Hongqiao Road

Admission: 8 yuan for Chinese /15 yuan for foreigners

Thai elephants

Eight elephants from Thailand are entertaining visitors at Changfeng Park by riding bikes, playing basketball, balancing on a beam, dancing and blowing a mouthorgan. People are encouraged to have a tug-of-wa (拔河比赛) with the animals or lie on the ground and have the elephants walk over them. The elephants give three shows a day at: 9: 30 am, 3: 30 pm and 8:00 pm and there is an additional show at 1: 30 pm at weekends. The show will end on November 15.

Address: 189 Daduhe Road

Admission: 30-40 yuan

Dancing dolphins

Dolphins jumping from the water to touch a ball, swaying their bodies to music, kissing people and doing math by tapping their tails have made the dolphinarium (海豚馆) in Peace Park an attraction for children. Seals and seal ions also perform.

Hours: 10: 30 am, 4: 00 pm, and 7: 30 pm

Admission: 20 yuan for adults and 10 yuan for children