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Utah: Local Resources

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Every other state’s resources page in this section introduces its own agencies and programs as “the direct analog to Be Ready Utah, USU Extension, and Utah’s CERT network.” This page is the source those comparisons point back to.

Be Ready Utah

The state’s own household preparedness campaign, published by the Utah Division of Emergency Management, and the source of the two-week household self-sufficiency target this manual’s own Tier 1 aligns with. It’s referenced throughout the manual and addenda: winter storm and power outage guidance, pet evacuation checklists, and access-and-functional-needs planning built around the CMIST framework.

Where to find it: beready.utah.gov.

USU Extension: Master Gardener and other skill-building programs

Utah State University Extension runs the land-grant-university skill-building programs referenced throughout the addenda, most directly the Master Gardener program covered as Stage 3–4 content in the Water & Food addendum.

What the training actually involves

USU’s Master Gardener program runs roughly 13 weeks of classroom and hands-on instruction (about 40 hours total), taught by USU Extension specialists and faculty, offered at 13 locations across the state. Certification requires completing the course and returning a minimum of 40 hours of volunteer service afterward, the same “learn it, then teach it” progression this site describes for other states’ equivalent programs.

Where to find it: extension.usu.edu/mastergardener; individual county Extension offices handle registration and scheduling.

CERT: county-run, not a single statewide program

Community Emergency Response Team training in Utah is organized at the county level, not through one statewide office, the same decentralized structure this site’s Texas and Florida pages describe for their own states. The Medical Care chapter already points to county-run CERT training as a faster path to Tier 4 (community-level readiness) than building an equivalent skill-sharing network from scratch.

Where to find it: contact your own county’s emergency management office directly; Salt Lake County, Utah County, and Davis County each run their own regularly scheduled CERT courses along the Wasatch Front.

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