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Wilderness First Aid (WFA) is one of the most popular medical courses for beginners and advanced users alike.  It creates a solid foundation in the basics of backcountry medical care and when taken in secession skills are reinforced.

Wilderness First Aid is designed to meet the needs of first-aid training for anyone who works, travels, or spends time in rural or wilderness areas. This 16-hour course examines the role of outdoor professionals in wilderness medicine and the response, care and rescue of outdoor participants in non-urban environments. It provides intensive, in-depth training in the areas of patient assessment system, environmental injuries/ conditions, anaphylaxis, lifting/moving/extrication, patient carries, and backcountry medicine. The curriculum covers standards of care for trauma and medical patients for urban situations with additional protocols for remote situations. Emphasis is placed on prevention and decision-making.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

Certifications upon completion include: Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) Wilderness First Aid. To stay current, you must repeat this course every two years. CPR is a separate component that is necessary for a WFA certification to be valid.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is recognized as the industry standard for those who work as backcountry trip leaders, camp counselors, mountain guides, river guides, and ski patrollers. This 16-hour module is designed for anyone re-certifying their current WFR certification.The curriculum covers standards of care for urban situations with additional protocols for remote situations. Special topics include, but are not limited to: CPR considerations (when not to start and when to stop), wilderness wound and burn management, clearing patients of spine and head trauma, athletic injuries, realigning fractures and dislocations, improvised splinting techniques, patient monitoring and long-term management problems, up-to-date information on all environmental emergencies, common simple medical problems, plus advice on drug therapies. Emphasis is placed on prevention and decision-making.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

Certifications: Upon completion include: Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) Wilderness First Responder. To stay current, you must repeat this course every three years. Additionally a current CPR certification is required for a WFR certification to be valid.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

This is the equivalent of a full in-person course and meets all workforce requirements for CPR/AED. Upon successful completion participants will receive a 2 year certification in Adult CPR/AED and Child CPR.

As an American Red Cross Licensed Provider, we offer CPR/AED as a Blended Learning course that is designed to meet OSHA workforce regulations for CPR/AED. This is an online module followed by an in-person skills check.

This course teaches Adult CPR/AED and Child CPR skills such as performing a head-tilt chin lift, giving compressions, breaths and alerting emergency services (911). It provides a training for designated first responders, individuals needing credentialed training for job or regulatory requirements, or an entire workplace.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous systems intuitive and emotional workings and the importance to living a heart centered approach to life.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

As an American Red Cross Licensed Provider we offer CPR.  This course teaches Adult CPR/AED and Child basic CPR skills such as performing a head tilt-chin lift, giving compressions and breaths, and calling your emergency response number (or 911). It provides a training for designated first responders, individuals needing credentialed training for job or regulatory requirements, or an entire workplace.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

This is a three and a half hour course and meets all workforce requirements for CPR.

Certifications: Upon completion students receive a 2-year certification in Adult CPR/AED and Child CPR

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

Wilderness First Aid (WFA) is one of the most popular medical courses for beginners and advanced users alike.  It creates a solid foundation in the basics of backcountry medical care and when taken in secession skills are reinforced.

Wilderness First Aid is designed to meet the needs of first-aid training for anyone who works, travels, or spends time in rural or wilderness areas. This 16-hour course examines the role of outdoor professionals in wilderness medicine and the response, care and rescue of outdoor participants in non-urban environments. It provides intensive, in-depth training in the areas of patient assessment system, environmental injuries/ conditions, anaphylaxis, lifting/moving/extrication, patient carries, and backcountry medicine. The curriculum covers standards of care for trauma and medical patients for urban situations with additional protocols for remote situations. Emphasis is placed on prevention and decision-making.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

Certifications upon completion include: Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) Wilderness First Aid. To stay current, you must repeat this course every two years. CPR is a separate component that is necessary for a WFA certification to be valid.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is recognized as the industry standard for those who work as backcountry trip leaders, camp counselors, mountain guides, river guides, and ski patrollers. This 16-hour module is designed for anyone re-certifying their current WFR certification.The curriculum covers standards of care for urban situations with additional protocols for remote situations. Special topics include, but are not limited to: CPR considerations (when not to start and when to stop), wilderness wound and burn management, clearing patients of spine and head trauma, athletic injuries, realigning fractures and dislocations, improvised splinting techniques, patient monitoring and long-term management problems, up-to-date information on all environmental emergencies, common simple medical problems, plus advice on drug therapies. Emphasis is placed on prevention and decision-making.

As with all of our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

Certifications: Upon completion include: Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO) Wilderness First Responder. To stay current, you must repeat this course every three years. Additionally a current CPR certification is required for a WFR certification to be valid.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

The Jackson Hole Outdoor Leadership Institute’s Level 1 is a 4-Day, 30-hour introduction to travel in avalanche terrain and avalanche hazard management. This course included pre-course assignments, classroom sessions and field experiences: 40% Classroom, 60% Field.

The course is expected to:

1. Provide a biological and cognitive framework for decision making, team building and partner selection while developing mindset and intention for interaction with the backcountry environment
2. Describe how, when and why avalanches occur.
3. Identify and describe avalanche terrain in the field
4. Describe and implement a framework for decision making and risk management in avalanche terrain.
5. Have had an opportunity to practice companion rescue with feedback and understand the framework and importance for continued practice of companion rescue skills.

Students can expect to learn to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip in and around avalanche terrain, introduced to risk management tools and mentored in basic decision making while in the field and an introduction and practice of rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person.

A final debrief includes a lesson learned summary and opportunities to gain additional education and mentorship. Students are encouraged and counseled on how to apply the skills learned and told that no course can fully guarantee safety, either during or after course completion. A link is made to a future JHOLI Avalanche Level 2 course.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

The Avalanche Rescue Course is an 8-hour course focused on leadership, decision-making and the actions necessary to be taken during an avalanche rescue. This course goes beyond the basics and prepares participants to assume leadership a leadership position during an avalanche burial and subsequent rescue.

This course can be taken as a stand-alone course and is also a prerequisite for enrollment in Avalanche Level 2 or Pro 1.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

The Level 2 Course with Avalanche Rescue is a 4-Day 30-hour program that provides backcountry leaders the opportunity to advance their avalanche knowledge and decision making skills while developing leadership skills in avalanche rescue. This course included pre-course assignments, classroom sessions and field experiences: 40% Classroom, 60% Field.

The course is expected to:

1. Provide a biological and cognitive framework for decision making, team building and partner selection while developing mindset and intention for interaction with the backcountry environment.
2. Provide the basis for a philosophical understanding of risk management and acceptance of risk.
3. Gather and prioritize information relevant for describing how seasonal weather has affected the snowpack process and current snowpack structure.
4. Create an avalanche hazard assessment without a local bulletin.
5. Describe, create and implement a framework for planning, decision making and risk management in consideration of leading a group in avalanche terrain.
6. Practice travel and terrain mitigation techniques under supervision with feedback in a variety of avalanche terrain situations.

The Level 2 builds from the introductory avalanche hazard management model introduced in the Level 1 and adds to it the evaluation of factors critical to mindset, risk management, stability evaluation, group management and terrain selection.

A final debrief includes a lesson learned summary and opportunities to gain additional education and mentorship. Students are encouraged and counseled on how to apply the skills learned and told that no course can fully guarantee safety, either during or after course completion. A link is made to a future future professional level trainings.

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

The Level 1 Avalanche Refresher Course is for person who have successfully completed a formal Level 1 course and 20 days of backcountry touring since your course or have a minimum of 3 years of backcountry touring experience.

This 2 day, 13-hour continuing education module focuses on review of the avalanche bulletin, terrain selection, group management and leadership techniques used in and around avalanche terrain.

Students can expect:

1. Deeper understandings on how to read the avalanche bulletin
2. Deeper understandings of application of the bulletin to terrain
3. Deeper understandings of the strategies involved in group management
4. Deeper understandings of how to use terrain analytics to manage risk

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY

The Level 1 Avalanche Refresher Course is for person who have successfully completed a formal Level 1 course and 20 days of backcountry touring since your course or have a minimum of 3 years of backcountry touring experience.

This 2 day, 13-hour continuing education module focuses on review of the avalanche bulletin, terrain selection, group management and leadership techniques used in and around avalanche terrain.

Students can expect:

1. Deeper understandings on how to read the avalanche bulletin
2. Deeper understandings of application of the bulletin to terrain
3. Deeper understandings of the strategies involved in group management
4. Deeper understandings of how to use terrain analytics to manage risk

Central Wyoming College – Jackson Outreach
240 S. Glenwood St. #124, Jackson, WY