NOVFA Fire School 2023

Is your Volunteer fire department struggling to maintain relevance in our changing
society? Does your current service delivery model meet the needs and expectations of
your community? Are you struggling to recruit, train, and retain members? Each day, it
seems that the news feeds contain a story about a volunteer department closing its doors,
in financial trouble, or even worse legal trouble. There seems to be a nationwide panic
about the critical shortage of volunteers. Does it have to be this way? In this class we
will: examine how industry and society trends impact today's volunteer fire service, take
a hard look at the way we've always done it, as well as share and develop alternative
ways to recruit, market, lead, train and manage our departments and members.