Great Lakes Wilderness Emergency Readiness Training
Great Lakes Wilderness Emergency Readiness Training
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Are You Prepared?
Are You Prepared?
No ambulance. No hospital. No helicopter. Miles from the nearest road. Hours, perhaps days away from help. No rescue is coming. What are you going to do?
Who Are Our Classes For?
Who Are Our Classes For?
Avid campers, anglers, hunters, boaters, hikers, Boy Scout leaders, Park Rangers, people involved in missionary work, or anyone who wants to prepare for time in the wilderness.
Wilderness First Aid
Wilderness First Aid
Wilderness First Aid (WFA) is a 16-hour course that teaches basic information about caring for a sick or injured person in the backcountry. This is a SOLO course with a national certification that lasts two years. These courses are presented at the Rockford Ambulance Training Center.
Course scheduled in 2027
March 6 & 7, 2027 (Saturday & Sunday), Rockford Ambulance
April 9 & 10, 2027 (Friday and Saturday), at Adventure Point
May 8 & 9, 2026 (Saturday & Sunday), at Adventure Point
May 15 & 16, 2027 (Saturday & Sunday) at Camp Henry
May 22 & 23, 2027 (Saturday & Sunday) at Patriot Farm ($300.00)
Cost – $275.00
Cost – $275.00
Wilderness First Responder
Wilderness First Responder
The Wilderness First Responder Course (WFR) is a SOLO certification course. This certification is often required for outdoor guide companies, the National Park Service, summer camps, and a wide range of businesses in the outdoor industry. Our course begins with an online component that is the same one used by Great Lakes EMS Academy in their Medical First Responder Course. Students will click through lectures and take quizzes on JB Learning every week. This part of the course includes some classroom time for short discussions and skills training.
Students will take the wilderness component with the Wilderness EMT students during the class. To be clear, this course will not allow you to be a licensed MFR in Michigan. We only schedule one a year.
The hybrid WFR course for 2027 will start in January with online course work completed on Google Classroom. Then the students meet at Rockford Ambulance Training Center on the following dates
February 27 & 28 (Saturday & Sunday)
March 26, 27, & 28 (Friday - Sunday)
Cost – $1,350.00
Wilderness EMT Module
Wilderness EMT Module
The Wilderness EMT (WEMT) module is a 40-hour course for people who are already MFRs, EMTs, or Paramedics. They could also be currently taking an EMS course.
Successful participants will be certified as WFRs or WEMTs, the premier certification for those who want to work in the backcountry.
We do not have a WEMT course scheduled in 2027
Cost – $900.00
Cost – $900.00
Mountain Bike Trauma Care
Mountain Bike Trauma Care
Great Lakes Wilderness Response Training has created a one-day wilderness medicine course covering the care of traumatic injuries associated with mountain biking. To learn more about these courses, click on the tab at the top of the page.
Off-Site Wilderness First Aid
Off-Site Wilderness First Aid
We have WFA courses scheduled at some colleges that have a registration process through the school.
North Central Michigan College
North Central Michigan College
Petoskey, MI
April 17th & 18th 2027
Saturday and Sunday, 9 – 5p
Great Lakes Wilderness Emergency Response Training teaches its courses at various locations throughout Kent and Ottawa County. We may spend our day inside at a local ambulance company or college. If the weather cooperates, we like to go outside and spend time in the woods or an area park. Participants will know the location of the course far before the course date.
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