Goodman and Associates (GA) was founded by Rick Goodman 35 years ago. The company was started under the company name of Clue Finders International (CFI) teaching Missing Aircraft Location, Basic SAR Skills, and Management SAR training courses. Today the company has taught courses or conducted seminars in 19 states, 6 Canadian Provinces and the United Kingdom.

Rick has help develop or been ask to edit 6 training manuals. Such as Search Management for the Initial Response Incident Commander, Search Management Systems (SMS), Survival Sense for Pilots and passengers, Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT/PLB) location, FEMA Wide Area Search, and the 2009 Lost Person Behavior Guide, among others.

His work on locating ELT beacons has been highlighted in publication such as Smithsonian and Reader Digest magazines.

Rick has also been used as an Expert Witness in search and rescue matters.

Having participated in thousand of search and rescue emergency response incidents, he is well qualified to management and teach emergency response training courses.

Goodman and Associates has instructors available in the US, Canada, and the UK that are qualified to teach wilderness, urban search and rescue, emergency response, and incident command courses. All instructors have presented papers at various conferences throughout the US, Canada and the UK. Two of the current instructors served as search and rescue “Subject Matter Experts” for Texas A & M University Engineering Extension Service helping develop the new FEMA “Wide Area Search” course. Over 36 of these courses will be taught this year alone. These courses are sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security.

Goodman and Associates prides its self in hand picking its instructors. Selecting only those that have an operational history in the subjects are asked to teach. All management course instructors have served as ICS command and general staff positions including Incident Commanders.

All courses taught by Goodman and Associates have been developed and/or edited by GA instructors.

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Initial Response Notebook

Upcoming Courses

August 14-15, 2010

August 21, 2010

August 20-22, 2010

September 24-26, 2010

November 5-7, 2010

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Plan for the 2010 spring and summer.  Get the dates you want, that will best meet YOUR schedule.  Rick at Search and Rescue Training is available to work with you on dates, course cost etc. 

For planning purposes, typical cost for the “Search Management Systems (SMS)” workshop, updated June 2009, is approximately $130.00 per student plus a $40.00 charge for the a 300 page SMS workbook.  Cost includes all instructor travel, fees etc.  Training will be advertised on this website if your wish course to personnel outside of your area. 

Cost for the New “SMS Practicum” 8 hour course is fixed at of $650.00 per class; includes Field Handbook and all handouts plus instructor expenses – transportation, motel, food etc., to and from class location.  Training will be advertised on this website if your wish course to personnel outside of your area. 

“The planning process works! Once we get people trained under this new system things will run much smoother.”

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