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Originally Posted by alanmcdonald
Is there a program in Pinellas?
We are part timers right now and won't be full timers until September 2015 but if I can contribute to my neighborhood program I want to do so, but need to know how.
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Find out from your neighbors if a neighborhood AED program has been started. If not, you'd need a person (preferably a nurse, dr., or paramedic/EMT) to organize and meet to get neighbors involved; make contact with fire dept. about training, dispatch procedures, etc.; get neighbors trained; make a sustainable budget and develop ways of funding it thru homeowner donations, fundraiser events, raffles, or a combination of those; develop a schedule of who's on call in the neighborhood during what months, in light of snowbirds gone for summer etc.
It can be done. All neighborhoods here have people with lots of experience managing a business, volunteer corps, etc. TV is actually a goldmine of people with managerial experience and ambition to help others.