[Imc] MEDIC TRAINING TOUR!!!ablehealth] notes and contact info (fwd)

Wed Jul 17 00:01:12 UTC 2002

Hi everyone, I am in Maine at my mom's house. This is a tour put on by
great medics. I was trained by them and recommned that y'all contact them
to do a training in Urbana if it interests you. Take care, Becca

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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 03:06:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: rachel szego <rachelszego at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sustainablehealth at yahoogroups.com
To: sustainablehealth at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [sustainablehealth] notes and contact info

 ~~~ Street Medics Tour 2002 ~~~~~~

 What is it? 

Well, Ace and Bounce, 2 experienced Street Medics, would like to set up a fall tour of trainings, skills sharing and networking. We will be on the road starting now!

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Because this email is long, here’s an outline...

- Trainings offered

- Why we want to go on tour

- Who we are

- Logistics 

- Cost

- Contact info.

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WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING TRAININGS:

(While these are our the outlines we generally work with, we are open to modifying our trainings, within the scope of our knowledge, to meet the needs of your group or region.)

** Health and Safety at Mass Demonstrations AKA "Get Yer Ass in Gear" **

(3 hours)  

This 3-hour workshop provides practical information on taking care of yourself and your friends if you plan to attend protest events. While the focus will be on street protests (in cities), much of the material may also be applicable to backwoods situations. We cover: preparing for actions, personal care, affinity group safety considerations, weather-related hazards, chemical weapons exposure, managing and treating stress, detox and aftercare, and your questions. Includes a 16 page guide.

** Affinity Group Medic Training **

(8+ hours: 1 whole day or two 4 hour sessions). 

Space is limited to 20 people. 

Street Medics can't be everywhere all the time. Affinity Group Medics (AGMs) are so very needed in this movement of break away snake marches and midnight direct actions.

Affinity groups should consider having at least two people go through this training. Knowing how to treat people you know when they are hurt and being treated in the streets by someone you know is an awesome form of direct action. In this training we teach the *basic* skills and knowledge to work in the streets as AGMs, including: basic first aid (from scrapes to broken bones and calling 911 for emergencies), weather-related injuries, chemical weapons treatments, affinity group structure, AGM field tactics, health and safety, and more! We use LOTS of role plays and practical scenarios. This is a hands-on workshop with lots of information, very important for ALL affinity groups.  

(NOTE: The AGM training is *not* a Street Medic training - that takes twice as long, but *basic* is where everybody needs to start).

** Basic Street Medic Training ** 

(20-24hrs: two days at least, 3 preferred) 

Space is limited to 20 people.

This training is for folks considering participating at demos as marked Street Medics – or for folks who just want basic skills for use in your daily lives and communities. The format is highly interactive, including presentation of information, practice scenarios and role plays. We cover Basic Street First Aid (from treating bleeding wounds to splinting sprains and breaks to calling 911 for emergencies), Weather-Related Injuries, Street Operations Tactics, Initial Patient Assessment, Psychological First Aid, Chemical Weapons Treatments and Aftercare, and Stress Management and Treatment. We can also provide Skills Evaluations for folks who want them.

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These trainings have been developed in accordance with protocols used by NorthEast Action Medics Association (NEAMA), the Black Cross Healthcare Collective, and Colorado Street Medics. Our outlines have been developed with feedback from trainers with and members of these groups. We can provide references from these groups if you want to have folks vouch for us in terms of our training, skills and experience. 

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? 

We are medic geeks! Which means that we love to talk about first aid and health-related issues – and are constantly trying to soak up information about this from other people.

We see basic first aid and health & safety skills as necessary to strengthening movements for social justice and sustaining radical communities. It’s amazing to learn skills and information to take healthcare into our own hands and have more knowledge of what to do in the case of emergencies (even if that’s just recognizing an emergency and acting by calling 911). We would love even just to sit down with y’all and help you start up a local medical group, and talk about how to set up medical for an event, demonstration, gear to wear, where we found our snazzy outfits, supplies, etc.

In addition to our medic mania, our experiences on the streets have led us to seek better connections with other folks providing infrastructural support to the movement and with what folks are doing in their daily lives in their communities. We hope that through our ongoing conversations with activists at gatherings and hopefully at a medic training in your town/region we can work to strengthen and sustain the work that we're all doing! 

There's a focus in these three trainings on street and mass actions. And that is because it's what we know well - not what we necessarily see as the most important aspects of current movements. We have worked to build networks among medics through creating NEAMA, being part of Action Medical and ongoing conversations with medics from around the US and Canada. We want to bridge that work and have more sustainable, alternative health care for activists and for communities on the local level. And we want to be a part of building better, more effective organizing in general. 

For these reasons, we see the trainings we provide as only one part of what we hope to see happen when we come to your town. We also look forward to meeting folks, hearing what y’all are doing, continuing conversations about problems and sticking points folks are experiencing in our organizing, and seeing the sights!!

WHO ARE WE? 

Adrianne Ace Allen and Rachel Szego (aka Ace and Bounce) are two medics from the NorthEast Action Medics Association (NEAMA). We are street medics, trainers, (new to being) conference clinicians, and Action-Medical organizers. Both Ace and Bounce have extensive experience in organizing and facilitation.

Ace is a community organizer/activist from the eastside of Syracuse, NY, has over two years of experience as a street medic at demonstrations and gatherings, is Red Cross First Aid Certified, and recently completed a course on Critical Incident Stress Management and Individual and Peer Support. She has attended, assisted and co-facilitated countless street medic (basic and intermediate) and trainings (by Pavlos, Doc Rosen, Michael Gregor, James Creedon, Mo, Brian Dominick, Catherine Dardaris). She has also been to some herbal trainings by Famous.  

Bounce is a certified NY State EMT-D (that's EMT-Basic in most places) who's been living in Ithaca, NY. She started training in January 2001 and has been a street medic since April 2001. She has participated in a number of street medic trainings (taught by Brian Dominick, Pavlos, James Creedon, Mo, and Delyla) and has assisted Brian Dominick in both Basic and Intermediate trainings.

WHEN? WHERE? HOW?  

We will be on the road starting in late August through the fall. There are many dates that you could book us to come to your city to do workshops and trainings. We are willing to hitchhike anywhere you want to host us.

What would you have to do? 

Contact us and start planning! Start by finding out what interest there is locally or regionally for these particular workshops. Please make sure we have at 1 or 2 specific people to contact (rather than a listserve of folks), as this will make it a lot less confusing all around in terms of confirming what’s been done and what needs to be done. Finding a space, advertising the workshop, taking pre-registration and finalizing logistics is gonna take a little work, but it’s worth it. 

** Please note: We STRONGLY encourage folks NOT to organize these trainings right before big demos. We know this is the way things have been done in the past, but it’s just too much to absorb all of the information, get supplies and gear together, figure out who folks are going to work with, and be ready to go out on the streets in such a short amount of time. We hope that if folks in your region are preparing for a large demonstration coming up you will schedule a medic training a month or two in advance – or even when no actions are being planned. **

If we can't come, then we’ll do what we can to find a trainer who could. 

HOW MUCH DOES IT COST? 

Can you put a price on love? Certainly not! Hitchhiking is cheap, cheap, cheap, so we save there. But we need our other expenses covered, such as photocopies, training supplies and other transportation costs. Additionally, we will need housing and some vegan food while we are there. We do request alcohol and drug-free sleeping spaces, and prefer alcohol and drug-free events. We work hard and don't take up too much space.

HOW TO CONTACT US: 

Call or email us at:

Ace 

ace at rootmedia.org or vickveggie315 at yahoo.com 

cell phone: 315-884-1071

203 Bassett St, Syracuse, NY 13210

Bounce 

bouncepower at yahoo.com.

cell phone: 607 339-1725

We look forward to seeing you!!

Ace and Bounce

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