As a dovetail to the Emergency Preparedness Plan, I would recommend that the club offer all Race Directors and any interested members/volunteers the opportunity to become CPR certified. We could hire and/or solicit a CPR instructor to offer training at both our annual meeting/BOD Meeting. We might even consider offering a Wilderness First Aid Training workshop. I wouldn't think that hiring a CPR instructor to provide CPR training would be prohibitively expensive. We could also explore potentially sponsoring any Race Directors/Volunteers who might be interested in becoming Wilderness First Aid Certified. The American Red Cross offers courses.  

https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/cpr/wilderness-sports#wilderness-remote-first-aid

I'm all in favor of this. Coordinating a class for Rds may be an obstacle but it's worth a shot.  I'd like for us to also offer to reimburse any RD who pays for their own course after they have been certified.

I'm in favor of the wilderness first aid course too.  If it means traveling to the course then we can discuss an allowance up to the full amount for the course and travel.  It's well worth it to be prepared for a potentially life threatening event. Offering it to Rds, co Rds and bod members would be in order.

Experience Learning, formerly The Mountain Institute, on Spruce Knob offers a 3 day Wilderness First Aid Class. There are other certifications that are more intensive; Wilderness First Responder and Wilderness EMT are the ones I'm familiar with.

This is a great idea, but I imagine in reality it will be too costly and impractical to schedule such a class.  I believe it would be a good first step if we simply, as a board, recommend/suggest that RD's be CPR certified.  Mandating such a designation would be probably be impossible to keep up with.  

Reimbursing RD's for such training isn't a bad idea, but I fear we could be going down a slippery slope.  

This is a tough position and I'm not sure what the best course of action is.

Most day jobs require CPR training. Most RDs have day jobs too, but if not those who do not get paid CPR classes via work could take available classes in their area and we can post the certification card online so runners and racers can see we have RDs who want the best possible outcome of every runner who comes to their start line. 

CPR certifications are offered online too for $12.95.  I think we should recommend it and reimburse or have each RD add it to their race expense.  It's a small price to pay for the benefit of having the training and for the liability coverage.

https://www.nationalcprfoundation.com/

We should explore the cost of sponsoring a course prior to making any motion.

From the National CPR Foundation:

• Basic, two-hour CPR training: $35-$45 per person. $280-$320 minimum fee for a class of 8 trainees.
• Four-hour CPR training that includes emergency response strategies: $45-$55 per person. $360-$400 minimum fee for a class of 8 trainees.

Add $200 room rental and the cost is reasonable.

It wouldn't be a financial stretch to offer a CPR course to  our RDs and interested volunteers.

The EL's Widerness First Aid course is ~$300 for a 2 day course with food and lodging.  Add $40 for a two hour CPR course in the evening.

I would be open to offering a couple scholarships to EL's Wilderness First Aid if the recipient committed to volunteering at at 3 of our ultra length races with in 12 months of receiving the training.

CPR is cheap and easy to get so requiring it shouldn’t be a big deal 

The EL course is a great course, lots of info and practical skills. 

I’ve had WFA for the last 15 or so years from my rafting job, but I would love to take the EL class

The better trained we are, the better safety we can provide.

I think a discussion on what amount of funds to earmark for training, if any at all, would be good. 

I'm going to agree with Dan Todd's points and suggest we offer all RD's and any interested volunteer the opportunity to become CPR certified. I'm sure we could get someone to come to the camp run weekend and offer certification for a large group.

also I like his idea "I would be open to offering a couple scholarships to EL's Wilderness First Aid if the recipient committed to volunteering at at 3 of our ultra length races with in 12 months of receiving the training."

we could pay for a few people to become wilderness certified if they agree to volunteer at two or three events per year. that is a good idea and good deal for anyone who is interested. hell yeah.

Don't we support the Mountain Institutes Running Camp weekend? maybe we could work a deal to have people get Wilderness certified during that weekend?

I'd suggest also paying for any RD and BOD member that wants it since most of us either run or volunteer at 3 or more of our races.  We have the money and it's a worthy use of it for RDs and BOD.