Young adults with backgrounds in the juvenile justice or child welfare systems have a new opportunity to launch a career in emergency medical services.
The County’s Fire and Emergency Medical Services are recruiting applicants ages 18 to 26 for the San Diego Emergency Medical Services Corps—a five-month, hands-on training program that prepares participants to become emergency medical technicians. Almost 40 prospective applicants attended a County Fire hosted in-person outreach event Tuesday at the County Health and Human Services Agency’s South Region facility in Chula Vista.
In partnership with Southwestern College and American Medical Response, the event gave prospective applicants a chance to meet working EMTs and paramedics, learn about the field and try out lifesaving skills such as compression-only CPR and bleeding control.
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