Halifax’s Sample Agenda
Pre-camp Day – Sunday – Canadian Coast Guard – 10 Hudson’s Way, Dartmouth
08:00-09:30 Welcome, house rules, introduce selves and briefly talk about essays, past campers discuss their camp experience and their successes
09:30-11:00 Goal setting and life skills with Andrea Speranza
11:00-12:30 Try on gear & take sponsor pictures
12:30-01:30 Lunch with guest speaker Dietician, Kelley Hiltz
01:30-02:30 Continued goal setting and life skills
02:30-4:00 Round robin & ice breaker activities
04:00-05:00 Fitness
Paramedic Day – Monday – Medavie Healthed – 50 Eileen Stubbs Ave, Unit 154, Dartmouth
08:00-08:30 Welcome & house rules
08:30-09:15 Krista Lane “Diversity”
09:15-10:00 Jodi Lambert “Life of EHS”
10:00-10:30 Life Flight with Carrie Bent
10:30-12:00 Skill stations-“staying alive CPR dance”
12:00-01:00 Lunch
01:00-01:30 Group pictures with ambulance
01:30-02:00 ABC relay game
02:00-03:30 Skill stations (ambulance orientation, airways, BP’s, CPR…)
03:45-04:00 Clean-up
04:00-05:00 Fitness-Crossfit
Paramedic Day – Tuesday, Medavie Healthed – 50 Eileen Stubbs Ave, Unit 154, Dartmouth
08:00-08:30 Donna Reid “A Paramedic Story”
09:00-10:00 Radio work and Game “yarn game”
10:00-12:00 Paramedic skills stations – cardiac arrest lab (defib & CPR), obstetrics lab, trauma, airway, IV’s, needles, glucometer, backboard/KED/splints…
12:00-01:00 Lunch
01:00-02:30 Paramedic skills stations continued
02:30-04:00 Nadya Paré, “Respect & Inclusion”
04:00-05:00 Fitness obstacle course with Doug Danike
Police Day – Wednesday – 2 Chapman Street, Dartmouth
08:00-08:30 Introduction & logistics
08:30-10:00 Drill
10:00-11:45 K9 & Mounted Unit
11:45-12:15 Lunch with Police Chief Dan Kinsella
12:15-12:45 RCMP Recruiting
12:45-05:00 Use of force/self-defence with RCMP & HRP training members
Police Day – Thursday – 89 Cutler Avenue, Dartmouth
08:00-09:00 HRPD Ident
09:00-10:00 Drill
10:00-11:45 Tact with Rob (shooting evolutions)
11:45-12:15 Lunch
12:15-12:45 HRP how to become a police officer – different options
12:45-04:30 scenarios with RCMP & HRP training members
04:30-5:00 drill refresher
Fire Day – Friday – Fire Station #7, 45 Knightsridge Avenue in Halifax
08:00-9:00 Breathing apparatus familiarization-everyone together
09:00-4:00 1.confidence trailer 2.lead fire attack 3.hold/advance hose into structure 4.ropes and knots 5.roll hose 6.hose maneuvers-hit target, move balls 7.hazmat suit up-lego 8.high rise hose 9.self-rescue-tiny town(40 minute evolutions)
04:00-05:00 Firefighter’s Combat Challenge fitness training/fun relay
Fire Day – Saturday – Fire Station #7, 45 Knightsridge Avenue in Halifax
08:00-9:00 Practice scenario, skits and introduction to VX
09:00-12:00 1.hose up tower 2.search and rescue evolution (40 minute evolutions) 3.repelling 4.radio ops 5.ladder climb 6.zip line
02:00-04:00 Vehicle extrication (cutting up cars)
04:00-05:00 Firefighter’s Combat Challenge fitness training/fun relay
Filler activities-don PPE, tool familiarization, truck familiarization, knots with tools, bumps to pumps, BA trans fill, skip vs Reilly breathing
Graduation – Sunday – 3MP Regiment 255 Damascus Drives, Bedford
09:00-10:30 Goal Board presentations – 2-3 minute presentation per camper
10:30-12:30 Practice scenarios
12:30-1:30 Lunch and do thank-you cards
01:30-03:00 Graduation demonstrations
03:00-04:00 Graduation ceremony
- this is a sample schedule, always subject to change, you will received official agenda once accepted
- campers arrive by 7:45 am instructors arrive earlier : )
- lunch is generally between 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm
- there will be a morning and afternoon break : )