The subsequent blog post: Maricopa County Information & Recruitment Session was initially found on ICSAVE.org website
ICSAVE belongs to YOU! Our organization was founded on the core belief that every citizen, when provided with appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities, can protect his or her communities from preventable injury and death. We are actively recruiting public safety and health services professionals, military personnel and educators throughout Maricopa County to become part of our team. We will be conducting two information and recruitment sessions on Thursday, September 28th and Friday, September 29th at the Mesa Public Safety Training Facility. The address is 3260 North 40th St, Mesa, AZ 85211 and each session will run from 10AM to 12PM. The following topics will be discussed:
Trajarvis McMurry tried to fashion a makeshift tourniquet from his friend's shirt, but he was too weak to tighten it enough to stop the bleeding coming from his own arm. McMurry was riding in a truck that rolled over in the predawn darkness in June near Houghton Road on Interstate 10. Bystanders stopped to help. The 23-year-old U.S. Army veteran asked if anyone had a tourniquet. No one did. Moments later, two U.S. Border Patrol agents happened on the chaotic scene. Agent Joseph Tukovits came upon McMurry, who was lying on the ground, still bleeding. Tukovits applied a tourniquet to McMurry's upper right arm. Veteran agent Adam Alessi tightened it. The bleeding subsided, and McMurry was transported to the Level 1 trauma center at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson, where he was met by the trauma team. Although the tourniquet has been used since antiquity, especially in military settings, it fell out of favor because of concerns over complications such as tissue damage, limb loss and ineffective hemorrhagic control, says Dr. Andrew Tang, associate professor of surgery and trauma medical director at Banner University Medical Center – Tucson. But lately, because of improved technology and better training, the tourniquet is making a comeback — and making the difference between life and death. 
Immediate Responder Training for Educators[/caption] Date: Friday, August 4th, 2017 Time: 1130 AM -1200 PM Part 1: Innovative Bleeding Control Practices and Solutions - Fire Chief Tom Tucker, Tucson International Airport Fire Department Part 2: Immediate Responder Training for Educators - Fire Chief Mark Savage, Fry Fire District Part 3: Integrated Community Solutions to Active Violence Events - CJ Higgins, ICSAVE Director The 28th Annual Southwest Trauma Conference has been organized under the leadership of the Division of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery at the Banner-University Medical Center and the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Be part of the conversation and help solve the greatest silent epidemic of modern society. Join us! 
Over the past few years, the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO), Fry Fire District (FFD) and Integrated Community Solutions to Active Violence Events (ICSAVE) have had the opportunity to train hundreds of local school teachers, administrative and support staff, and nurses regarding basic trauma care. Personnel were provided with training on compression-only CPR and how to identify and control life-threatening bleeding. In 2015, CCSO and FFD partnered with Barbara Moshier, the lead representative for the Sierra Vista Unified Public Schools’ School Health Advisory Committee. Since then, those three organizations have jointly pursued local funding and grants through the Arizona Department of Education, that have supported the development and deployment of trauma aid bags for all of the Sierra Vista Public Schools. In order to qualify for these bags, school personnel had to participate in training built around the national Stop the Bleed curriculum. These trauma supplies and training allow school personnel to provide immediate care at the point of wounding to injured students. The initial training is being augmented by additional Stop the Bleed training courses that provide additional hands on training for participants as well as first-aid kits that teachers will have access to in their classrooms. Not to be outdone, recently several Buena High School CTEC EMT students also participated in the training and are now helping train their teachers! The next Cochise County Stop the Bleed courses will be conducted at various educational facilities throughout the month of July. CCSO, FFD, the Sierra Vista Public Schools’ Health Advisory Committee and ICSAVE are lead-turning efforts to prepare all of our educators, administrators and students to become Immediate Responders!