Our Vector Cares initiative formalizes how Vector Solutions stands with our team members, clients and their employees, families, and communities as they celebrate triumphs and overcome tragedies. Serving others has been, and will always be, a cornerstone of our organization.
Vector Cares focuses on areas where we can do the most good by combining the technology and capabilities of our online courses and learning platforms alongside our service to our communities. These selected initiatives promote social awareness and serve as a resource for individuals who want to learn more and make their organizations and communities a better place.
Complimentary Coronavirus (COVID-19) Video Resources
Vector has launched a complimentary coronavirus (COVID-19) video microcourse series to help you and your loved ones stay safe and healthy. We strongly encourage you to share these video resources with your family members, friends, and colleagues so that everyone can collectively take proactive steps to stay healthy and prevent the spread of the virus.
Vector will update the course content with the latest information about the virus as it becomes available.
Available Now: Coronavirus 102: Preparing Your Household
The intent of this course is to provide practical guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help you get your household ready for community transmission of the disease in the United States. By the end of this short course, you will be able to:
- Identify actions you should take before an outbreak occurs in your community
- Identify actions you should execute during an outbreak
- Identify actions you should take after an outbreak occurs
This first course in the series, Coronavirus 101: What You Need to Know, features critical information about the coronavirus, including:
- How coronavirus spreads
- How to recognize symptoms
- How to prevent and treat the virus
- What to do if you become sick with the virus
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These educational videos represent a small sample of the vast online learning and training resources in Vector Solutions’ 9,000+ course library. Upon completion of this registration form, all courses will be available for complimentary viewing.
COMPLIMENTARY RESOURCES
Vector Cares raises awareness about the issues that impact individuals and communities nationwide. That is why we are offering these six complimentary educational course videos to serve as resources for any individuals seeking information about everyday issues that impact their organizations or communities.
Knowing how to react in an active shooter situation can increase your chances of survival. This offering will describe active shooter and active threat profiles, identify ways to prepare for targeted violence situations, describe options for dealing with an active shooter or threat, and provide recommendations for interacting with first responders during targeted violence situations.
FBI statistics show that schools are the second most common location of an active shooter incident. This offering intends to prepare school personnel for active shooter situations by providing information on how they occur and how they may be more effectively prevented. Users will review facts and history, prevention strategies, preparedness, and what to do if an active shooter incident happens on campus.
PTSD is a largely overlooked issue within the fire service, but its impact can be understated. This offering features a video narrative of a first responder experiencing PTSD after losing a young patient and utilizes in-depth lessons and engaging interactions to educate learners on skills for coping with PTSD symptoms, signs of symptoms in peers who may be struggling emotionally, and ways to get help.
The convenience of web access makes it easy to forget that we need to protect and care for our information. This offering provides an overview of cybercrime and cybersecurity, including the basics of cybersecurity along with the effects of cybercrime, the types of cyber threats and how users are susceptible.
Recent reports show that as many as 17 percent of high school students have thought seriously about attempting suicide. This offering covers common risk factors related to youth suicide, successful strategies for youth suicide prevention, and the immediate steps a school staff members should take if they encounter a student who is threatening suicide, as well as best practices for intervention after a suicide.
As you may or may not know, the top four causes of construction fatalities are Falls, Struck-By, Caught-in/between, and Electrocutions. This offering will cover various safety topics and will explain how the lack of adherence to these standards are risk factors to the top four construction hazards.