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A program about programs Darrell Greer Northern News Services Published Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The course was facilitated by Rita Paine and Barb Kidd of the Justice Institute of British Columbia. Paine said the program builds upon what the students learned in Level One training about six weeks ago. She said while they learned how to teach fire safety in their schools and community in the original course, now they've learned how to actually create a fire-safety program. "We've taken them through a process where they've learned to identify a problem," said Paine. "We gave them all kinds of statistics to analyze and they had to select a problem in their community. "Some chose children and fire play, others chose home inspections, smoke alarms and cooking safety. "They worked all week to learn how to budget for their program, as well as media and marketing, and how to form a network coalition in the community to bring agencies to the table." Paine said the firefighters also learned how to properly present their programs to people who make decisions. She said each group presented their entire program to Margaret Taylor of Community and Government Services. "This program is a very big deal because it's not just teaching in the classroom anymore. "It's creating a community-wide program to fix a problem. "Two of our groups chose programs on children playing with fire, which is a very big problem in Nunavut. "So, the first level taught them how to be teachers and this program taught them how to be managers." Paine said there are only about 18 other people in Canada who are trained as Level Three Fire and Life Safety Educators. She said that puts the Nunavut firefighters in some pretty exclusive company. "We're very much ahead of the curve in Nunavut, right now. "It's very exciting to know communities across the territory are going to have highly-skilled individuals who are accredited to Level Three. "There's only 32 now, so they're very unique."
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