About Us
Who Are We?
How Can We Help?
How Can We Help?
Ellen Yarborough is a 25+ year educator in public and private, secondary and tertiary schooling in the US and Europe. In her current role as a psychology/history teacher, she has opportunity to serve as the liaison for 3 fire companies (2 departments) that serve her school district. She is a nine-year firefighter who was most recently the
Ellen Yarborough is a 25+ year educator in public and private, secondary and tertiary schooling in the US and Europe. In her current role as a psychology/history teacher, she has opportunity to serve as the liaison for 3 fire companies (2 departments) that serve her school district. She is a nine-year firefighter who was most recently the Deputy Chief of an all volunteer fire company (within a two company department) that serves a population of 13,000 in 5 square miles.
Since 2018, Chief Yarborough has worked to ensure that students receive recognition for their community service, ultimately creating a credit bearing course that enable students to earn academic credit for the work they provide to fire departments in the form of responding to emergencies, attending trainings/fire academy, and providing public education. All of that is outside of the school and independent of the school district.
Since 2020, Chief Yarborough has volunteered time to assist fire departments in connecting with school officials, and has educated both entities on best practices for recruitment and retention of junior firefighters.
Chief Yarborough holds ProBoard Certification in Instructor 2, Officer 2, and Firefighter 2. She holds VRT and Water Rescue Technician Certification, and is an NREMT
How Can We Help?
How Can We Help?
How Can We Help?
Schoolhouse to Firehouse is a consulting service for fire companies who need help in connecting with area secondary schools in order to better recruit and retain high quality junior firefighters.
Chief Yarborough has
- Presented at the NFA's EFO and Leadership Symposium on Generation Z and the Fire Service
- Been featured in an award winning pod
Schoolhouse to Firehouse is a consulting service for fire companies who need help in connecting with area secondary schools in order to better recruit and retain high quality junior firefighters.
Chief Yarborough has
- Presented at the NFA's EFO and Leadership Symposium on Generation Z and the Fire Service
- Been featured in an award winning podcast An Army of Normal Folks
- Edited recruitment manuals for the National Volunteer Fire Council
- Published in Firehouse Magazine and for FireRescue1
- Testified to the PA Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs and Emergency Services regarding the state of volunteerism
- Presented at Firehouse Expo
- Instructed Leadership classes at the National Fire Academy
Feel free to reach out via email, or LinkedIn, to discuss opportunities for working with your fire department or local school officials on best practices to ensure that motivated, hard working, engaged, and capable teens have access to their local fire departments and are, in turn, rewarded for their commitment at the school level.
What Comes Next?
How Can We Help?
What Comes Next?
See Events for a sampling of what Chief Yarborough and/or her current group of high school volunteer firefighters are up to.
See Events for a sampling of what Chief Yarborough and/or her current group of high school volunteer firefighters are up to.
Get ideas for your own juniors, or suggestions for how to engage your local high school officials so that they see the value of having junior firefighters in their halls and classrooms, and on their playing fields.
The pipeline to emergency services, be it in a volunteer capacity or as a career option will continue to be robust as long as departments recruit for strong character and work ethic. Chief Yarborough can help make that happen.
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