Hi there! Going to Russell tomorrow to help them with their team! I'm so proud of all of our CARTs! Check out the Kingman/Pratt Area Animal Response Team http://kingmanleader-courier.com/ and the Capital Area Animal Response Team

http://www.ksnt.com/mediacenter/local.aspx Good work everyone!

Hi everyone! Hope to see you September 18 and 19th for the 2nd Annual Kansas SART conference! We have a great line up of speakers for you and some time to get to talk to other people in the State working on animal disaster response! Hope you join us! You can download a registration pamphlet at www.kssart.org and register online at www.ks.train.org

See you there!

Christen

Hi everyone!  Our Kansas Veterinary Medical Reserve Corp meeting went very well in Manhattan on the 10th!  We had 100 vets and vet techs attend and Dr. Goemann provided lots of information concerning triage, personal preparedness and disaster response!  Stay tuned for more veterinary specific training!

Hi there!  The next tabletop exercise will be held on July 18, 2009 at  MG County Judicial Center Basement, 300 Main Street, Independence Kansas.  This exercise will be for residents of the Southeast region only, including Greenwood, Elk, Chautaqua, Woodson, Montgomery, Wilson, Crawford, Bourbon, Labette, Cherokee, Allen and Neosho counties.  Emergency Managers, Red Cross, vets/techs, shelter workers/humane society personnel, etc are encouraged to attend!  This will be available on kstrain soon and more details will follow!

The CART leader meeting yesterday went great!  We had 30 people, including vets, EMs, ACOs, police, fire, etc. attend.  I think (hope) that we'll have a CART in Johnson County very soon!  It will be nice to have that part of Kansas covered!  Thanks to everyone for working so hard to make this happen!

May 9 is the next CART leader meeting in Johnson County, KS.  KS SART is requiring all CART leaders to attend at least one of these meetings per year in order to maintain association with KS SART.  Please go to www.ks.train.org if you'd like to sign up. put in course number 1017200.  You'll have to obtain an account, but it's really easy.  If you have trouble, email me at clskaer@aol.com and we'll help you!

Christen

Welcome

Hi all.  This is a forum where we can all get to know other people across the state of Kansas who are creating County Animal Response Teams.  Feel free to voice frustrations, questions, share stories and advice and get to know everyone.  

We look forward to the process of getting a group of trained volunteers from around Kansas who can respond to animal needs during disasters!

Don't forget about our training on July 26 and 27 in Wichita!! See you there.

Christen