A Fairfax County CERT Volunteer is someone who has graduated from our comprehensive 28-Hour CERT Basic Training Course. This course includes classes which are held once or twice a week, for about three and a half hours a night, until completion. You must complete and graduate from this course in order to become a CERT Volunteer. If you come to the county with CERT credentials from another program, you may become a Fairfax County CERT member after an interview with and approval from the Fairfax County CERT Volunteer Lead, Program Manager, or their designated representative.

As a CERT Volunteer, you will be allowed the many opportunities to give back to our community such as: you can take our many CERT continuing education classes, sign up for Community Outreach events, join a CERT Division, support our local first responders as victim actors, serve on a canteen crew providing hydration and nutrition to first responders on incident scenes, and much more.