2-3 Hours 20 Student Max Level: Beginner to Intermediate Price: $35
Emergency Preparedness for modern urban disruptions. How to prepare for and handle personal, local and broader emergencies. Whether it's an unexpected interruption in your life, local services or a global event, it helps to
have strategies that make sense to get you through it.
Learn what simple, practical things will help, how to do them, use them, and what to prioritize for your personal situation. The easy (and affordable) preparations you can do today that are essential in a crisis as well as the
more involved things that can help you long-term.
Understand the modern internationally recognized strategies from agencies including FEMA and the Red Cross, as well as other proven modern techniques and traditional living ways (that are just as viable today as they were when our ancestors used them). We boil it down with an easy-to-follow, common-sense approach.
Nowadays, food, water, cooling, warmth, and safety are all at the touch of a button... until they're not. Like toilet paper during a pandemic, we've all seen how fragile this system of conveniences actually is. Having a few basic supplies and skills can make all the difference and give you the calm confidence needed in an emergency. But where do you start? The information out there can be confusing and often feels like you're chasing zombies down rabbit holes.
This course breaks it down into simple terms with detailed information and visuals, demos, Q&A, printed checklists, and a practical approach. You CAN simply and effectively, start a plan and take actions of your own on any
budget, and it doesn't involve bunkers and zombies. No fanning the flames of doomsday panic here. On the contrary, you will be relieved to know it is possible and easier than you think because you are already a prepper. We are
just taking the idea of being ready to a logical line of progression given the information we have.
Jonathan Mincks is a Wilderness First Responder, Naturalist and instructor of wilderness self-reliance at AHS Rescue & The Arizona Hiking Shack. He teaches modern wilderness survival, outdoor recreation, and emergency preparedness to those who work or play in the backcountry. His educational programs have garnered him praise from new enthusiasts and seasoned professionals alike.
Holding multiple certifications and distinctions in industry standards; e.g., Wilderness First Responder, Community Emergency Response Team training, Outfitting and Nature studies, Mincks is also a boondocks scholar* who has been exploring the backcountry since he was in diapers. His practical approach & experience are only rivaled by his infectious passion, broad knowledge and witty perspective on self-reliance that confounds the important nature of the subject. He turns survival into "serious fun" for those who work or play in the backcountry because, "in the end, it is a positive attitude that will prevail."
Mincks is also a go-to consultant on national and regional TV, news and media concerning outdoor recreation and safety and is renowned for his dynamic presentations. He has worked in the outdoor industry for over 20 years on trail crews, as a guide, outfitter, medic, educator, and outreach specialist.
*Boondocks Scholar. adjective. Possessing an outlook of being on a perpetual field trip. A lifelong student of the outdoors. One who continuously studies and practices what it takes to thrive in the backcountry.
"You teach is PSAR, Preventative Search and Rescue"
Members of the Central Arizona Mountain Rescue Association (CAMRA) Search and Rescue team after watching Mincks in action.
