800!!!!
Another milestone for the California Emergency Dispatcher Association – we just added our 800th friend on Facebook.
According to POST, this is about 10 percent of the 8,000 Public Safety Dispatchers in California. We hope this number continues to grow, as the word gets out about the new Association, the classes and the events.
CAL-EDA has made some great strides in our few short months of existence. We set a very aggressive timeline to switch from CTDA to CAL-EDA within 8 months, and we met that goal. We held our first class in Los Angeles last week which was well received by everyone who attended. LAPD doesn’t usually open their doors to outside agencies to host a training class there – so we were honored that our first one was at LAPD!
We have our first fun event coming up in a couple of weeks, we are taking a group to see a taping of The Price is Right! Should be a very fun time for everyone.
We have worked with different companies who are willing to offer our membership discounts on goods and services – and we continue to work on adding to that list.
Our next class is Friday, March 19th in Santa Cruz, in our Central Region. The class is ‘Dispatcher Cannabalism – Why We Eat Our Young”. The class is taught by Joy Willis from Shascom – who is a dynamic, energetic instructor and we are lucky she will be helping us out.
Our membership continues to grow, and thanks to those of you who keep spreading the word. We have many more great classes and fun events planned throughout the year and are working on adding others. If you would like to help the Association, please let any board member know.
On behalf of the Executive Board of CAL-EDA, I want to thank you again for your professionalism and dedication to all of those we serve. Dispatchers are truly the first – first responders and set the tone for how an incident will play out. We are lucky in California we have the best trained, empathetic and professional dispatchers anywhere.
Thank you for the service you provide on a daily basis. Whether you know it or not, you affect peoples lives by doing the right thing.
Keep spreading the word – and we hope to see you at a CAL-EDA event soon! Join CAL-EDA today – the only statewide professional Association for Public Safety Dispatchers in the Country!
Kurt
President
