HERricane HERnando June 23 – 27, 2025
(Brooksville, FL) – Hernando County Emergency Management will host HERricane HERnando on June 23-27, 2025, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hernando County Emergency Operations Center, located at 18900 Cortez Blvd. in Brooksville. HERricane HERnando is a five-day summer camp for young women ages 13-17 to learn about emergency management as a career, the importance of preparedness, how to perform CPR, learn about public safety, and how to build a disaster supply kit.
The program aims to grow and support tomorrow’s emergency managers, healthcare workers, meteorologists, and other public servants so that they can be prepared to handle hurricanes, wildfires, or public health emergencies. “We are proud to bring back HERricane HERnando to the young women of Hernando County for the fourth annual landfall!” said Hernando County’s Emergency Management Director, Erin Thomas. “Emergency Management and adjacent public safety careers are truly a labor of love, authenticity, and passion, and we cannot wait to share all of that passion with our future leaders!”
- Vision: HERricane HERnando is a “key to success” for women exploring and pursuing careers in emergency management.
- Mission: To develop and elevate women as leaders in emergency management, while expanding the image of emergency management profession as a positive force for improving public safety and government.
- Values: HERricane HERnando promotes the following values:
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- Synergy. Recognize the value and importance of uniting a group of diverse individuals into a single power force. We seek to provide pro-social professional connection and an environment of collegiality.
- Grit. We believe in the distinct combination of passion, resilience, determination, and focus that allows a person to maintain discipline and optimism as a key to success in any career, as well as for any organization.
- Adventure, Creativity, and Open-Mindedness: We utilize and promote ingenuity in our programming as a means to foster this quality in our membership and organization. Emergency management as a discipline, as well as career, is notoriously complicated, atypical, and non-traditional - requiring resourcefulness, positivity, and inventiveness.
- Professional Excellence: Excellence is not perfection; rather the confident pursuit of high quality and persistent integrity. We seek this for our participants as well as for our program.
HERricane HERnando applications are available at www.HernandoCounty.us/EM. Applications are due by June 9, 2024.
Hernando County Emergency Management is a proud recipient of the Duke Energy Foundation Grant and thank them for their generous support in funding the HERricane HERnando summer camp and #HernandoPrepares public education campaign each year since 2022.
For more information, please call (352) 754-4083 or visit www.HernandoCounty.us/EM.
