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 that serve the school district. She is also the Deputy Chief of an all volunteer fire company that serve
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 that serve the school district. She is also the Deputy Chief of an all volunteer fire company that serves a population of 13,000 in 5 square miles, with an annual call volume of 400.
Beginning in 2018, Chief Yarborough has worked to ensure that students receive school wide recognition for their community service, ultimately creating a credit bearing course that enables high school students to earn academic credit for the work they provide to companies in the form of responding to emergencies, attending trainings/fire academy, and providing public education.
Since 2020, Chief Yarborough has volunteered time to assist fire companies in connecting with school officials, and has educated both entities on best practices for recruitment and retention of junior firefighters.
A State Local Level Instructor, Chief Yarborough holds ProBoard Certification in Instructor 2, Officer 2, and Firefighter 2. She earned her VRT and Water Rescue Technician Certification, and is an NREMT-B
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 state level in webinars
- Taught NFA Leadership in Supervision classes to state firefighters
- Presented at an out
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 state level in webinars
- Taught NFA Leadership in Supervision classes to state firefighters
- Presented at an out of state Recruitment and Retention Bootcamp
- Published in Firehouse Magazine
- Testified to the PA Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs and Emergency Services regarding the state of volunteerism
- Been selected to present at Firehouse Expo in 2022
Feel free to reach out via email, or LinkedIn, to discuss opportunities for working with your fire company or local school officials on best practices to ensure that motivated, hard working, engaged, and capable teens have access to their local fire company 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 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.
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