Emergency Response Pathway
La Habra High School CTE
La Habra High School - Fire Tech 101 - 102
Mission Statements
NOCROP
The North Orange County Regional Occupational Program's (ROP) mission is to prepare students for careers through career technical education. The ROP's vision is to be the top provider of career technical education in California.
La Habra High School
La Habra High School's mission statement is to prepare students for success in a global economy through academic excellence, communication, technology, and personal responsibility. The school's vision statement is to be a school of choice for its instructional excellence.
NOCROP Fire Technology 101/102
Our mission is to empower students with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary for success in both career and academic pathways. Through high-quality career technical education, academic excellence, and the integration of communication, technology, and personal responsibility, we prepare students for thriving careers and leadership in a global economy. Our vision is to be the premier choice for instructional and career education excellence in California.
One Year
The immediate objective of the North Orange County ROP FPFA Program is to grow our Skills USA style school competitions that was closed down because of COVID. We also plan to build on our industry certifications
Three Year
The three year objective is to Build on our area Explorer and cadet programs. We have students that are connected with La Habra Heights Explore's as well as LA County Fire Explore's
Long Term
The long term objective for the North Orange County ROP FPFA program to continue with it's high quality instruction. To build more opportunity for our students to explore the career of Fire Fighter, with our surrounding departments. Through future ride alongs and cadet programs.
1 year Goal: Our immediate goal is to continue to promote our program throughout our middle schools, local community, and our community college. We’re also pursuing a Program of Excellence certification through the Law and Public Safety Education Network (LAPSEN) in order to increase our networking with other distinguished LAPSEN programs that align with our program's standards and vision in order to better serve our students. Our goal is to also establish a credible skills aspect (SkillsUSA) to our program.
3 year Goal: In the next three years, our goal is to expand our educational and work based learning partnerships. To branch out to more of our local community colleges to establish articulation agreements with more community colleges that offer Fire and Emergency Medical courses so our students can receive college credits for taking our course in high school. In regard to work based learning, our goal is to increase the number of industry partners our students can utilize for work based learning, which often leads to employment opportunities after the students complete our program.
Long Term Goal: Our long-term goal is to establish our high school EMT course as a premier, nationally recognized model for excellence in CTE emergency medical training. With continued innovative industry-aligned curriculum, state-of-the-art training methodologies, and strong partnerships with healthcare and emergency response organizations, we aim to equip students with the skills, knowledge, and experience needed to excel in the field. By setting high standards for education, professional development, and real-world impact, our program will serve as a benchmark for other institutions, ensuring our graduates are highly sought after and prepared to make a meaningful difference in their communities
Academic & Career Advising: Los Alamitos and NOCROP have a great relationship and our counselors play a vital role in supporting our students and the CTE instructors. Counselors are regularly invited to come observe our skills and didactic encounters so they can better help support not only our students but our program.
Pathway Promotion & Enrollment: Los Alamitos High School actively works with our two feeder middle schools to promote our CTE program to the incoming freshman. This is accomplished most often through our Middle School Elective Fair and our Skills Trades Fair. These are mainly lead by current active students in the Emergency Response Pathway.
Industry Exposure & Work Based Learning: I work together with the College & Career Center counselor, Marianne Schaeffer and our Work Based Learning Specialist Alyssa Portillo, who help facilitate at the campus level the industry expert guest speakers and handle the administrative aspects of our Work Based Learning internships.
Individualized Student Planning: I work directly with our counselors to help students with IEPs and 504 who are interested in the Emergency Response pathway, and ensure the education plan aligns with our CTE course offerings.
Promoting Industry Certifications & Articulation with Local Colleges: I work with our counselors both at Los Al and NOCROP to ensure we offer Articulation credits to Santa Ana College for our Fire Tech and EMT programs. We also monitor students and analyze data to help enhance our post graduation employability and educational advancement. opportunities.
Lead Instructor (LHHS FPFA) Jeff Bernier keeps track of and orders Fire Tech supplies for our program. NOCROP and FPFA Administrator keeps track our program budget.
Our budget is comprised from various grants and educational funding programs.
LHHS FPFA) is responsible for tracking and ordering supplies for the EMT program, this is done by bi monthly monitoring supply spread sheets that the instructors are required to keep current.
Should a need arise, instructors are advised to contact director for high value immediate needs. Program Director reports directly to Instructional Administrator the equipment needs of the program.