Brooklyn-based Center for Allied Health Education teaches preventative crisis care in Inwood

Achiezer, in collaboration with Center for Allied Health Education, are preparing parents for emergency situations.

On March 6, the two organizations joined forces for a two-hour Safety Training and Awareness Program in the Oasis Ballroom of Bais Tefila of Inwood.

“The staff at Achiezer spends their days and nights helping people with all sorts of issues, particularly health and medical related,” Rabbi Boruch Ber Bender, president of Achiezer said. “It is events like this that we are eager to reach the community with, to bring awareness and emergency preparedness to parents and caregivers. If we even save one life in the future, than the entire event would have been worth it.”

Achiezer, based out of 334 Central Ave. in Lawrence and 144 Beach 9th Street in Far Rockaway, provides those in medical, financial or emotional crisis with resources and rapid response supplementing other local entities, organizations and tools.

The organization has a 24-hour emergency hotline, a financial management program, a hospital food program, a health insurance program and a mental health program among others.

Jerry Rozenberg, president and CEO of Brooklyn-based CAHE, spoke at the event where choking, allergic reaction, head trauma and respiratory conditions in children were discussed.

“Over the 30 years of my involvement in emergency medicine, perhaps the most frustrating feeling is not when a patient dies, because sometimes patients die and that’s the cycle of life,” Rozenberg said. “But it’s when you see patients die, or get a severe illness that didn’t need to, simply because there was a lack of common sense, there was just a lack of knowledge and awareness. How we could set up our homes, our schools, our lives in a way that is so simple, that’s so protective, so that we don’t so that you never have to see me in your house?”

Elina Beyn, vice president for enrollment at CAHE handed out water bottles and first aid kits at the event.

“We offer exclusively health care training programs, one to two year programs and the only focus is on health care,” Beyn said.

The education center offers EMT, paramedic, radiation therapy and surgical technology training along with the programs offered to groups like Achiezer.

Daniel Goldfeder, director of operations at Achiezer helped coordinate the March 6 event.

“We realized that it’s a big, I don’t want to say problem, but it’s definitely a struggle people have,” Goldfeder said, of local parents’ crisis response with children. “They are thrown into the world of being young, married, having a kid and now they have all of these things they’re not prepared for, so we got together and realized its something that we want to be able to get over and be able to teach people.”

Debra Rosenthal, a mother of two in the Five Towns learned of the event in a WhatsApp group chat, she said.

“It’s better to be informed, better safe than sorry,” Rosenthal said.

For more information on Achiezer, visit Achiezer.org.

Go to Cahe.edu for more on Center for Allied Health Education.