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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JOEL HARDIN PROFESSIONAL TRACKING SERVICES TRACKING COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT ALL TRACKERS WELCOME At Cleveland, New York
Date: September 23-25th 2005 Location: Vanderkamp Center, 337 Martin Rd., Cleveland, NY 13042, 315-675-3651 Time: 8:30 a.m., Friday, September 23rd – through – 2:00 p.m. Sunday, September 25th Tuition: $175.00 USD payable to NAVAC
Meals & Accommodations: Lodge accommodations are $30 per person for the weekend. There are only 10 rooms available in the lodge. Tenting is $45 per person for the weekend. The price for food for the weekend is $55. Please make payments out to NAVAC. There is no prerequisite for the BASIC TRACKER portion of this training presentation. This is a tracking course especially for Novice and Basic Tracker training level students and open to all interested persons. Previous tracking training or experience not required. This will be a certification course for all eligible students. APPRENTICE TRACKER students must have previously achieved Basic Tracker or comparable and accepted certification.
Course Content: This will be a 24-hour course beginning Friday, September 23rd at 8:30a.m. with registration and lecture including slide and video presentation to provide Novice and Basic tracker understanding of training methodology, techniques and procedures. The presentation supports field training by providing student understanding of step-by-step training methods, manner and objectives. “Tracking” is a first response primary search resource used to verify witness statements, establish the “PLS”, direction of subject travel and following the physical evidence to the missing person. Field training will allow “student tracking team” experimentation and “hands-on” practice of fundamental tracking techniques. Novice students will progress from initial identification of a print, to the “step-by-step” every track concept of following an identified sign line and practical tracking team response. This is also a “skill development” training program for Apprentice Tracker students. Students at this level have acquired Basic Tracker understanding and will be introduced to practical tracking techniques and applications necessary to become a viable resource for SAR missions. Students at all training levels will be individually challenged with additional advanced tracking concepts and techniques. Journeyman Tracker students will be provided advanced training objectives working with Novice and Apprentice students and separately in simulated actual SAR and law enforcement mission scenarios.
Student Needs Students should be physically fit and equipped for SAR field response. Field practice will continue during any inclement weather, students should be properly prepared with wet/dry, cold/hot weather gear. Students need to bring a pen/pencil, note pad, small measuring tape, 5/8 inch doweling or similar, 36 to 40 inches long, with three rubber bands to use as a tracking stick and a three cell flashlight.
Registration Students must pre-register for this course to provide for meal and lodging arrangements at the facility. Please contact Kathy Taddeo at NAVAC, PO Box 215 603 N. Main St. North Syracuse,13212, phone 315-458-7514 or email Kathy at: ktaddeo@navac.org. The deadline for registrations is August 15. Insufficient student pre-registrations prior to this date may result in cancellation of this course.
Sponsor Information This course is sponsored by Wilderness SAR of North Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps. (NAVAC), for additional logistical information or directions contact Kevin Porter at kporter@wsar.org – 315-626-6342
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