WELCOME
TO GO-FIRST – the Global Online First Responder Student
Training Foundation, developed and directed by a global team of
public safety and education leaders dedicated to preparing young
people for the Mission of Life by connecting, inspiring and energizing
them with the values, skills, sciences, technologies and sports
of First Responders around the world.
Our
programs help kids grow up safe, strong and smart – and ready
to lead and serve.
We
developed GO-FIRST in the wake of September 11th , 2001, to build
upon the public’s renewed respect for First Responders as
important role models. We bring together students and First Responder
mentors from multiple disciplines and duty stations in special camps
that combine hands-on training in safety, health and security with
character, career and service learning.
Our
camps, international missions and multimedia are based on the planet’s
most popular adventure learning program in public safety, health
and fitness: Global Junior Lifeguards, where kids from 8 to18 learn
“Life Lessons” in multiple disciplines from open water
First Responders who, in addition to being exemplary role models,
are also top teachers in their school systems and senior training
officers in their departments.
Borrowing
the best from this platform, we add multiple First Responder services
spanning the world and all terrains to deliver a high energy, global
action-classroom program, integrating onsite and online educational
units in the Big 5 Curriculum of Rescue, Safety, Health, Service
and Cool Water (aka the Environment). The applied sciences and technologies
employed by the featured First Responders are also central to GO-FIRST’s
learning strategies as students discover both the adventure learning
and life-and-death problem-solving values of these scientific disciplines
and high-tech tools.
The
GO-FIRST roster of First Responder services include Fire, EMS, Marine
Safety and Search and Rescue; U.S. Coast Guard; National Guard;
State Troopers, Sheriffs and Police; Trauma Center Nurses and Physicians;
and Global Disaster Response and Relief programs, such as Project
HOPE. We are also pioneering student use of the Global Earth Observation
System of Systems (GEOSS), the worldwide monitoring program that
tracks major health, weather and environmental trends and is managed
by the top federal agencies in science and technology, including
NOAA, EPA and NASA.
We
hope you will join us after reviewing the following Executive Summary
and the other sections on our website.
National
Governing Council and Board of Directors
GO-FIRST FOUNDATION, Washington, DC
Senator John Breaux, Founding Chairman
Hon. William Cobey, National Chair
Noel Gould, Esq., Cofounder and President |
