In partnership, the National Emergency Number Association and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials-International are dedicated to the development of a nationally recognized certification program for telecommunicator mutual aid response in the aftermath of disasters, providing information as to operational deployment of Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce (TERT) programs and taking a leadership role in assisting governmental agencies in the development of TERT style programs at the regional, state and local levels.

Please continue to visit these pages for updates regarding the National Joint TERT Initiative. For further information, please visit the NJTI Updates page.

The National Joint TERT Initiative will host a Resource Room at the 74th Annual Conference & Exposition in Kansas City, Missouri. Available in the room will be copies of the Model Recommendations for TERT Deployment (MRTD), a demonstration of the new on-line Deployment Awareness and the Team Leader Training Programs, live classroom training and information about TERT & NJTI. For more detailed information about TERT and the NJTI, peruse this site or contact NJTIChairs@njti-tert.org.

The Resource Room will be located at the Kansas City Convention Center in 2503A.

The hours of the resource room will be:

Monday, August 4, 2008             1:30 PM – 4:00 PM
Tuesday, August 5, 20088          11:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Wednesday, August 6, 20088      1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

The NJTI will be presenting a session on Monday, August 4, 2008 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.

For more information about the conference, please visit www.apco2008.org.