Southwest Panhandle Search and Rescue K-9/EFA Team

2005-2011

Southwest Panhandle Search and Rescue

K-9 /Emotional First Aid Team

"Leaving No Stone Unturned"

"Special search for missing Coast Guardsmen"-(click here)

01-31-12 - Thursday, November 10, 2011

SWPANSAR WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE THEIR NEWEST MEMBER:

"Message" is a Australian Shepherd puppy and has just started his training to become a Human remains detection dog. He shows great promise and we are sure he will make us proud. He got to go to his first seminar and really excelled. Stay tuned on his progress.

To read about all of our recent team activities, go to our: K-9 & Team News Corner

"K-9 Guardians

of the

Heart"

"Comfort, Compassion, and Unconditional Love" – these are the cornerstones of a unique program sponsored by Southwest Panhandle Search and Rescue Team. This team is more than just a search and rescue team. They have an Emotional First Aid component that provides support and love via their therapy K-9s, Zeus, Shiloh and Zerelda

These K-9s take time to sit and love-on the elderly, those afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease, young children with terminal illnesses, persons in assisted living facilities, family and friends of the missing and of course our wounded warriors. They are truly guardians of those frail hearts that they come in contact with.

Kids survival program - Thursday, November 03, 2011

"Watch, Whistle & Wait"

Featuring...

"Lost... But Found, Safe and Sound"

What we are doing for your Community:

This 12-minute, professionally produced video is designed to show children, ages 4-12, what to do if they become lost in remote areas such as parks or forests. It follows the actions and thinking of 7-year-old Kelly, who sets out on a long-awaited hike on a beautiful day in the woods with her parents and brother. She runs ahead, gets separated from the rest of the family and becomes lost.

Kelly initially panics and runs aimlessly looking for her family. She then realizes she is lost, and she begins to recall the time a park ranger came to her school and explained what to do in this kind of situation. Gradually, as day turns to night, Kelly takes the appropriate actions and spends the night alone in her "nest" in the woods.

The next morning she is found safe and sound by Leni the search dog and his handlers, Brooke Holt and Marion Hardy. Although she is cold, Kelly is just fine because she remembered what to do.

We also teach K-9 introduction and how to properly approach a dog, survival ideas, what to do with your pet in disasters and it also has a parent component.

Anyone who would like for SWPANSAR to come out , bring our K9s and show video to your class or group of kids, please contact

Cindy at 850-393-8107 or email us at postmaster@swpansar.com

Title	Modified Date	Size (Kb)
Alzheimer/Dementia Study Letter	9/30/2009	67.58	Download
Alzheimer/Dementia Questionnaire	9/30/2009	251.90	Download

Welcome to the Southwest Panhandle Search and Rescue K-9/EFA Team website!

Our team was formed in January 2008 when the members came together to provide a regional K-9 unit. We added the emotional first aid team to help families deal with the emotional stress and grief processes that are associated with having a loved one go missing. We are a diverse group of individuals with hundreds of hours of experience that include nationally certified searchers, certified emotional first aid responders, skilled search planners, and K-9 units trained in the following three disciplines:

Air Scenting (or Area Search)

Trailing

Tracking

Human Remains detection on land and water

Human Remains, Air Scenting & Trailing Human Remains puppy in training

Human Remains Human Remains

Emotional First Aid Emotional First Aid

We train and certify our K-9's to the highest national standards for search and rescue. We require our members to be nationally certified as Search and Rescue Technicians. We study missing persons behavior, scent theory, crime scene preservation and cross train in search management to make our team a valuable professional asset on any search.

We make ourselves available to law enforcement as well as fire departments. We are also a recognized resource by many Emergency Management Agencies along the Gulf Coast to respond to searches and humanitarian relief efforts in the case of a disaster or hurricane. We can and do work with other search and rescue teams where we can provide unique K-9's and/or emotional first aid responders or to supplement their exisitng team with our search capabilities. All of our services are offered at NO CHARGE.

Our callouts are always a team effort between the agencies involved. We have also assisted law enforcement in many cold cases (no case is too old to work).

"Our K-9 teams are a priceless resource when the unthinkable happens and a loved one goes missing."

We are a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization and we are totally reliant on contributions from the public, corporations, and foundations. We receive no funding from United Way nor any governmental agencies. We are available 24/7 and 365 days a year. For help or questions, please call one of the following numbers:

850-712-6862

251-605-0505

Sincerely,
Jen Morgan
President of SWPANSAR

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