Organizational Awards Submission

NCEMSF offers four awards for organizations/squads. Those four awards are:

• Organization of the Year
  This award recognizes an EMS organization that has demonstrated outstanding service to its campus. This award is frequently a result of marked improvements in staffing, equipment, or level of service provided. Commonly, these groups hold the NCEMSF MERIT Recognition or Striving for Excellence verification. This award can be self-nominated from within the group, or can be the result of an NCEMSF officer's experience interacting with a particular group (especially during a site visit or outreach program). Either way, as with all NCEMSF awards, supporting documentation and references are needed from the school's administration (advisor, dean, or other school official). All nomination letters should be merged into a single PDF file.
• Collegiate EMS Week Celebration of the Year
  Held annually the second full week in November, Collegiate EMS Week is a week-long recognition and celebration of campus based EMS and provides an annual opportunity for campus-based EMS organizations to highlight their activities and educate their communities. National Collegiate CPR Day kicks off Collegiate EMS Week each year and is designed to educate as many college students as possible in the basic principles of CPR on a single day. NCEMSF receives reports of creative activities celebrating the week, but wants to hear more. Share what your group did to celebrate Campus EMS Week and your organization could win bragging rights. There is no faking it; verifiable documentation of what your group did to honor this special week is needed. Send your press releases, news articles, pictures, public service announcements, and other related materials. Submissions are judged on the basis of activity creativity, appropriateness, and positive exposure generated. All supporting materials should be contained within a single PDF file. 
• Collegiate EMS Community Engagement Program of the Year
  This award recognizes efforts by the campus EMS group who had the most creative, effective, and/or innovative program or initiative for engaging with their community. The activity can encompass a variety of outreach methods, including social media, PSAs, websites, or other activities. Judging will be based on the creativity of the messaging, production quality, accuracy of information, and relevance of the topic area to collegiate EMS. For the nomination, please include the following in a single PDF file:
  • Link(s) to the applicable web content, or attachments of copies of non-web content.
  • Information on the effectiveness of the campaign, if available. This can include statistics from social media, websites, or videos. It can also include practical outcomes (for example, in a campaign to register people for emergency alerts, the increase in alert subscribers after the campaign).
  • A written self-evaluation of the campaign, to include strengths, weaknesses, lessons learned, and specific actions to take with future campaigns to improve them.
• Collegiate EMS Video of the Year
  Collegiate EMS Video of the Year acknowledges the video that best embodies the spirit of collegiate EMS and the NCEMSF mission. The rules are simple: The video must be wholly created by members of a campus-based EMS organization. The content of the video must embody the goals, traditions, and spirit of collegiate EMS. Embarrassing, unsafe, indecent and illegal content is prohibited.  The video should be no longer than three minutes including intro/pre-roll and credits. Only one entry is allowed per campus EMS organization per year. The video should be DVD quality or higher and should not require special codecs to play. Videos will be featured during annual conference activities. To submit a video, provide a link to a high-resolution copy available for download or online viewing (cannot require a password or login to access).

Please note that self-evaluative programs (MERIT Recognition, HEARTSafe Campus, and EMS Ready Campus) should all be submitted to the program email address listed on each program's page. Most Individual Awards are handled on their own form. Other individual recognitions, including the Vomacka Student Speaker Competition, CPR Save Recognitions, and the NCEMSF Best Practice program likewise have their own separate application forms and requirements. 

In order to be eligible for organizational awards, the squad must be a paid Institutional member of NCEMSF. To pay your dues, please log in to the NCEMSF website with your group's Institutional Website Account (the same account used to purchase Tokens for Conference) and then visit the My Membership item in the Membership menu. For questions on dues or for assistance in determining your group's Institutional Website Account, please contact your Regional Coordinator. For questions on the awards requirements or submission process, or if you encounter difficulties when submitting using the online form, please email awards@ncemsf.org. 

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