Which program meets your needs?

Wilderness Remote First Aid

The main program is minimum 20 hours it runs 2 - 3 days with an overnight. Cost wise $195.00 per participant. (plus HST) (more about)

The second option is minimum 40 hrs and runs 4 days with an optional overnight or homework. It is an agency specific or leaders focused program and gets into more issues on the legal and professional responsibility end of things. Specifically, issues of trip planning, emergency routing and Critical Incident Stress, are covered besides covering all the FA in the main program. Cost wise it is $250.00 per participant. (plus HST) This option can also be designed to meet the 36-hour criteria for advanced FA that many organizations seek. (more about)

Wilderness and Remote First Responder

This session is 80 hrs and runs 8 days with an overnight near the end of the program. It is the most comprehensive training available before Para medicine. This level of training is becoming more desirable for anyone performing in a professional capacity or doing an expedition. Cost wise it is $525.00 per participant. (plus HST) (more about)

 Requirements:

We would need a minimum of 8 participants and an outdoor and indoor classroom very near by each other. If you get more than 12 committed we can start talking a 10% discount and making the course cheaper for all. Although we can take 24 with 2 instructors’, we like to cap it around 20.

We will require a $50.00 non – refund able deposit for WRFA, ( $150.00 for WRFResponder )at least one month (30 days) before the program per participant. Deposit is refundable if the student cancels up until one month before the course.

 How close would the "outdoor classroom" be from the indoor is a concern. It makes for a better flow if we can walk out of one and into the other. Examples of venues that meet requirements are church camps, wilderness lodges, rural halls, anywhere with a wilderness area on the property.

 Other thoughts and discussions are transportation, eating and sleeping arrangements/ costs for the Instructor(s). We would need appropriate boarding facilities. This would become the sponsoring organizations responsibility.

 We have begun doing trip format programs. If you believe your participants would benefit from having a portion of the program as a short trip to a campsite for an overnight, or the whole course as a trip. The timelines may vary from the base program hours. The more we can place the students in the environment the more effective the learning process.

 Summary of teaching materials needed / equipment needed:

Indoor classroom

Power Point or Overhead Projector (please check working status)

Whiteboard and/or chalkboard

Outdoor classroom - a wooded area very near by that we can do some minor tree cutting in.

Your field pack, see suggested equipment list

A list of F.A. concerns/ risk factors that you as a group have*****.

A variety of OLD/ disposable improvisation items to use (i.e. blankets/ tarps/ sleeping bags, old socks, plastic bottles, assorted rope, bandana's, safety pins, etc. anything that applies your setting)

 *** What you do not have available we can provide, but it may factor into transportation costs. ***

 About the program: 

70% or more of the program is outside, hands on and scenario based. We gear the course to meet the groups risk factors / concerns and environment.

 We find effective learning occurs when the student can be placed in situations that reflect their possible outdoor situations. We would ask that the student have on hand what they would normally carry with them in their outdoor wilderness pursuits. We will focus on how they could use it in an emergency. Remember: “Everything you have with you should have at least three uses, of which one should be first aid.”

We have done many courses for public/ SAR/ guides/ leaders. All groups have a particular focus/ interests given their experience. The program comes from Alberta and is used as apart of their Outdoor Leadership Program modules since 1980. Currently in N.S. we have been adopted as the Nova Scotia Outdoor Leadership Development Program’s WRFA module, as we offer certification.

 With all courses you receive:

  WRFA text and waterproof field guide.

  An experience quite unlike any First Aid you have ever taken....

 Completion of the course will give you a Wilderness and Remote First Aid certification and a Standard First Aid certification with level C CPR recognized in the workplace in Canada. WRFA exceeds the Standard F. A. requirement in the workplace. As far as international recognition goes, Red Cross is in 182 countries.  

You should inform and advertise for your program at least three months in advance. We will assist you in this if you inform us well in advance. We will assemble a handout you can use to ensure your students are prepared and well informed for their course. Experience has taught us that you must get deposits well in advance to ensure a participant is committed.

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