Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) educates individuals about emergency preparedness and basic disaster response skills. CERTs may also assist professional responders during disaster situations, allowing them to focus on more complex tasks, as well as provide support to these professionals during planned community events.
Volunteer Tennessee provides administrative support and acts as a liaison to FEMA for locally-led CERT programs in Tennessee. CERT training teaches people about emergencies and disaster preparedness for themselves, their families, their neighbors, and their local communities.
If you are considering a local CERT program for your community, workplace, or organization and would like additional information about CERT emergency preparedness training, please contact Don Sowers at Volunteer Tennessee for guidance.
Tennessee Local CERT Programs
Email Contacts List
The following are locally based (Community) CERT programs, unless otherwise indicated. For more information about a specific CERT program in Tennessee, please contact them via their email link below. To search for a nearby CERT program by Zip code see: Find a CERT.
- 2Serve Disaster Preparedness - email
- Advent CERT & Disaster Services - email
- Arlington Fire Dept. CERT - email
- City of Bartlett CERT - email
- Civil Air Patrol - Millington Composite Squadron CERT - email
- Claiborne County EMA CERT - email
- Columbia Fire & Rescue CERT - email
- Crockett County EMA CERT - email
- Cumberland County CERT - email
- Elizabethton / Carter County CERT - email
- Fayette County EMA CERT - email
- Germantown CERT - email
- Greeneville / Greene County OEM - CERT - email
- Houston County EMA CERT - email
- Knoxville-Knox County EMA CERT - email
- Lebanon Public Safety CERT Team - email
- Lee University (Campus CERT) - email
- Mason Fire Dept. CERT - email
- Medical Support Command/National Disaster Response (Munford) - email
- Millington Fire Dept. CERT - email
- Monroe County EMA CERT - email
- Montgomery County EMA CERT - email
- Nashville / Davidson County OEM CERT - email
- New Hope (Roane County) - email
- Roane County EMA-OES CERT - email
- Sevier County EMA CERT - email
- Shelby County EMA CERT - email
- Spring Hill CERT - email
- Tennessee Disaster Response Team (Monterey Lions Club) - email
- VA - Tennessee Valley Healthcare System - EMRT - email
- Vanderbilt University OEM (Campus CERT) - email
- Washington County/Johnson City CERT - email
- Weakley County EMA CERT - email
- Williamson County EMA CERT - email
Volunteer Tennessee provides guidance and acts as a liaison to FEMA for locally led CERT programs in Tennessee. If your Tennessee CERT program is not listed above, please contact Don Sowers.
Useful Links
FEMA - Register a CERT Program
FEMA - Search CERT Programs by Zip Code
Tennessee Emergency Management Agency (TEMA)
U.S. Department of Homeland Security - Strengthen Preparedness and Resilience
Volunteer Tennessee - Disaster Services
Volunteer Tennessee - Resource Guide to Starting or Revitalizing a Local CERT Program in Tennessee