Search Management for the Lost Alzheimer Patient
With Search Strategies and K9 Search Applications
Dates: August 30 & 31, 2008 CME available
Sponsored by K9 SAR CERT and co sponsored by SPCA
Workshop Location
Suffolk County Police Academy
502 Wicks Road
Brentwood, NY 11717
Workshops Objectives
- To understand the Alzheimer/dementia patient
- Learn historical statistics and data
- Understand why they wander and where they go
- Learn proper interviewing techniques and questions geared toward the Alzheimer/dementia patient
- Learn search management tactics
- Learn Search Strategies for the k9 handler
- Table top exercises
Instructor Bio
Bart Wilson is a certified and experienced Incident Commander and Search Manager with 20 years experience searching for lost or missing people and has served Local, Regional, State, and Federal Government entities on Search And Rescue Events.
As an Incident Commander, Task Force Leader, or Handler, he has worked missing person’s cases, Tornado & Hurricane disaster events, as well as both water and land cadaver cases. Bart has managed small and large scale multi-agency searches with as many as 30 K-9s and over 100 human searchers throughout Florida. During his career he has been asked to manage searches for most of the volunteer SAR teams in the state, and in so doing has worked with some of the most dedicated SAR responders in Florida. He has managed searches for city, and county agencies as well as the FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement) and the FBI.
Bart’s SAR career consists of 20 years as a handler, 15 years as a trainer and 9 years as a seminar instructor. Bart is a motivational lecturer, author and speaker who brings a humorous magic to every presentation.
Dates
Labor Day Weekend
Dates: August 30 & 31
Saturday 8 AM - 6 PM Didactic interactive class
Sunday 8 AM - 4PM Table top Exercises
This workshop is open to volunteer search and rescue team members, EMS, Fire and police personnel.. CME has been approved (for EMS this will represent 3 hr non-core mandatory session on geriatrics)
Current and valid picture ID’s are required for entrance into the academy. Please dress to code for the agency you are representing.
Cost
This 2 day workshop is limited to a maximum of 56 students and pre-registration is required (pdf). This is a no cost workshop and Lunch will be provided on Saturday. No k9’s at this session.
Special Recognition
- Workshop Coordinator: Val Mokides
- Logistics: Stephen Laton
- Medical officer: Harry Pfister
Team Coordination
This workshop was made possible by donations from:
- Suffolk County SPCA
- Suffolk Police Academy
- Healthy Kids
