Thank you for your consideration to joining the Burlington County’s Training Officer Association. Our non-association was officially created in September 2012, after conducting several interest meetings around the county, beginning in February 2012. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Since that time, we have adopted association by-laws and elected an Executive Board of Officers. We have modeled our self after other successful county associations including the Burlington County Fire Chiefs Association, Fire Marshals Association, Firefighters Association and Burlington County First Aid Council.
Our mission is to provide a forum for Fire, EMS and Emergency Management educators to share ideas and improve training for first responders in Burlington County. We will accomplish this by conducting ourselves in a professional manner, sharing training resources among association members, encouraging training between mutual-aid departments, identifying changes and trends in Fire-EMS education, supporting attendance to Burlington County Emergency Services Training Center courses, and coordinating the attendance of association members to training conferences and seminars. We are a non-profit, professional association that is funded primarily by the dues of its members. We meet quarterly during the year in January, April, July and October, utilizing a formal meeting agenda and overseen by our elected Board of Association Officers. Plans for 2013 include creating our own website and Facebook page, creating an award for Emergency Service Instructor of the Year, hosting of a conference quality educational seminar and awarding scholarships to Fire 1 and Basic EMT graduates to pursue further education.