Greenville County SC CERT

09/22/2025

💚🚨 Celebrating Our CERT Volunteers 🚨💚

Last week was National CERT Week (Sept 14–20), and we wrapped it up with a special appreciation dinner on Saturday night to honor the incredible work of our Greenville County CERT members.

In the past year, this team has:
✅ Welcomed 35 new trained members
✅ Supported 2 major activations during Hurricane Helene and the Table Rock wildfire, staffing the community information line to help citizens with shelter, resource, safety questions, evacuation information and more
✅ Completed Red Cross shelter training
✅ Played a huge role in Get Ready Greenville – running their booth, assisting in various roles to help make the event a success

We are so proud of everything this team has accomplished, and we are grateful for their dedication to keeping Greenville County prepared and resilient. 💪💚

Thank you, CERT volunteers, for showing up for our community again and again.

09/16/2025

CERT members are trained volunteers - ordinary citizens with extraordinary dedication-who assist during emergencies and support their communities year-round.

Whether it’s responding to natural disasters, helping manage large public events, or educating neighbors on preparedness, CERT volunteers step up when it matters most. They may not wear capes, but they do carry first aid kits, radios, and a strong sense of duty.

How can you get involved?

✅Take the Training: Many CERT programs offer free training in disaster response, to include Light Search and Rescue, Light Fire Suppression, First Aid, Disaster
Psychology, and much more.
✅Apply to be a part of the Advanced CERT program in Greenville County. To start
your journey, visit www.GCEOC.com/Teams/CERT. Classes are forming now!
✅Be the HERO your community can count on, because every neighborhood, every town, every community needs a CERTain kind of hero.

Learn more at: https://gceoc.com/teams/cert/

09/14/2025

🎉CERT Week is here! 🎉
We are proud to celebrate our volunteers who are training to serve and ready to respond.

The National CERT Association (NCA) has proclaimed the week of September 14-20, 2025, as National CERT Week, a time to honor the everyday heroes who make our communities safer, stronger, and more prepared. This year’s theme, “Every Community Needs a CERTain Kind of Hero”, shines a spotlight on the unique and vital role CERT volunteers play across the country

❓What is CERT?
It's neighbors helping neighbors before, during and after disasters.

📖Learn more about Greenville County, SC CERT Team at https://gceoc.com/teams/cert/

09/13/2025

Come visit us at Get Ready Greenville County! We will be out here until 1:00pm! We would love to tell you about what we do and how to become apart of our team!

08/15/2025

📢 The Greenville County CERT Team is excited to join Get Ready Greenville! 🎉

We’ll have a booth at the event where you can meet our team, learn about the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program, and discover how our training helps prepare neighbors to assist during emergencies. 💪

Stop by, say hello, and find out how YOU can get involved in making our community safer and stronger. 🟢

📍 Location: 225 S Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville, SC 29607
📅 Date: Saturday, September 13, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Greenville County Emergency Management

🚨 Mark Your Calendars! 🚨

GET READY GREENVILLE COUNTY!

📅 Saturday, September 13, 2025
🕙 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 225 S. Pleasantburg Dr., Greenville, SC 29601

September is National Emergency Preparedness Month, and Greenville County Emergency Management is kicking it off with Get Ready Greenville County!

✅ Meet our preparedness & response partners
✅ Touch-a-Truck and meet emergency responders
✅ Sign up for OnSolve CodeRED emergency notifications
✅ Kona Ice 🍧 and One Armed Smoker 🍖 will be onsite
✅ Fun giveaways for the whole family

Come learn how to prepare for emergencies, enjoy great food, and connect with your community. Let’s get ready, Greenville County! 💪

07/16/2025

🎉 This past weekend, we proudly welcomed 11 new members to the Greenville County SC CERT family! 🎓Congratulations and thank you to our new CERT members!

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) is made up of dedicated volunteers trained to help their neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces prepare for and respond to emergencies. From basic first aid and light fire suppression to search and rescue, CERT members learn valuable skills to support their community when it matters most.

Want to be part of the team and make a real difference? Learn more and sign up at 👉 www.GCEOC.com/teams/cert

06/19/2025

🚨 Calling all CERT Volunteers! 🚨

Get ready for the 2025 National CERT Conference — your chance to connect, learn, and grow with fellow CERT members from across the nation!

📅 Preconference Training Begins: August 4, 2025

📅 Main Conference: August 6, 2025

Don’t miss this opportunity to build your skills, meet other CERT teams, and hear from national experts in community emergency response.

🎧 Want a sneak peek?
Listen to the National CERT Conference Preview Webinar here:
🔗 https://tinyurl.com/yymsxwn3
🔐 Password: 7N9L+Zty

Secure your spot, and let's strengthen our communities—together! 💪🌎

03/07/2025

FREE ONLINE TRAINING AVAILABLE NOW

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is a FREE community training program offered to adults and teens 14 years of age and older to empower our community to prepare and overcome the effects of emergencies or disasters that disrupt our day-to-day lives. Training is conducted in a hybrid format. Students must complete all online training prior to attending in-person training in April!

02/18/2025

FREE TRAINING

Not IF.. but WHEN disaster strikes, will you be ready?

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training is a FREE emergency training program offered to adults and teens 14 years of age and older to empower our community to prepare and overcome the effects of emergencies or disasters that disrupt our day-to-day lives.

Learn how to prepare for emergencies and disasters, develop skills such as light search and rescue, fire safety, first aid, and more.
Students must complete the online training portion before attending the in-person training, scheduled for April 5th and April 12th.

To register for the Spring CERT Training or for more information, visit www.GCEOC.com/CERT today!

01/23/2025

On Tuesday night, we recognized our CERT volunteers who answered nearly 400 phone calls from September 29th to October 9th from citizens in our call center in aftermath of Hurricane Helene. They helped provide information, alerted us to critical issues in the county, and were a calming voice in a time of crisis. We cannot thank them enough for volunteering their time to help our fellow neighbors!

More information on CERT: https://gceoc.com/teams/cert/

08/28/2024

Registration is open for our 2024 Fall Basic Training Class!

This is a hybrid style class where the classroom work is done online, followed by 2 in-person sessions in October!

This training is free to those who live, work, or worship in Greenville County. For more information, email Mike Jankowski at [email protected] or visit our CERT page: https://gceoc.com/teams/cert/

04/03/2024

Greenville County invites you to a public meeting to learn more about the County’s Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Update. The County is seeking public input to help guide the County’s risk assessment and mitigation strategies in response to natural disasters that have the potential to affect the County such as flooding, wildfires, winter storms, and other hazards. The meeting will be an “open house” format in the lobby of the Pavilion.

The County’s 2020 plan can be found here:
https://www.greenvillecounty.org/FloodplainAdministration/pdf/multijuridictional_hazard_mit_plan.pdf

Date: April 18, 2024
Time: 5-7 PM
Location: The Pavilion – Greenville County Recreation Complex
Address: 400 Scottswood Road, Taylors, SC, 29687