CREST Courses

CREST offers the following courses. The menu on the left provides more information about each of these.  To register for a course, click on Upcoming Events. 

The face-to-face courses ATC, NDLS and AHLS are offered at different times during the year. Go to 'upcoming events' to see an up-to-date list of all course offerings and dates/locations.

  • Answering the Call (ATC): A four-hour introductory awareness-level domestic preparedness course focusing on emergency response and preparedness needs in New Mexico and Arizona. The courses are separated into one focusing on NM and the other on AZ. The AZ course can be presented as individual or a combination of 1-hr modules. Available in face-to-face, online and CD formats
  • National Disaster Life Support® (NDLS): 1-3 day basic and advanced training courses to recognize and manage threats of all hazards.
  • Advanced Hazmat Life Support (AHLS): 2-3 day (Provider/Instructor) and 4 to 5-hr. Chemical Burn/Toxic Terrorism courses to develop skills to rapidly assess and manage patients with chemical exposures.
The free online courses are available to take anytime at your convenience. Click on 'upcoming events' to register for the courses.
  • Online courses include:
    • ATC Online Modules
    • NIMS courses IS 100, 200, 700, 800B and 808 from FEMA
    • EM 140 NIMS: Incident Command Systems (ICS) for Health Care with NIMS
    • EM 103 NIMS: Introduction to Emergency Management with NIMS
    • EM 201 :Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians
    • IS10 and IS11 Animal Preparedness from FEMA
    • Resource Allocations in Crises

The face-to-face courses are presented by qualified health professionals with special training and knowledge in this area. Courses can vary in length and can be adapted to meetings, conferences and other venues.