It’s quite surprising the amount of people who expect to find free EMT training, judging by the amount of chatter I see online about it–or more appropriately, the number of unsuccessful requests.

After doing some research, I found a few volunteer organizations that offer some minimal first responder and CPR training, but certainly not anyone offering a full blown accredited NREMT preparedness training, or anything like that.

Some fire departments that require their personnel to be EMT-B certified are willing to pay for the education however, so you’ll have to call around to investigate whether that is the case in your community.

Additionally, there are scholarships available at some community colleges, and sometimes fire departments offer “paid intern” positions and pay for you to go through the program. Of course, you will become a firefighter or EMT and work for them after completion of the training. They often pay for additional training should you desire to become a paramedic or instructor.

Other than the above options, it’s pretty hard to find FREE EMT training. Most Junior and Community colleges offer very low cost ($500 or so) EMT-Basic programs that don’t take very long to complete. After finding a job, most likely your first paycheck will obviously pay for your schooling.

If you can’t take advantage of any of the above options, your best bet is to simply bite the bullet and put together the few hundred dollars required to get into a program somewhere.

I was able to find the below facility that formerly provided FREE EMT training, however, it looks like the program has been suspended according to this note that I found in a forum.

Greetings:

My name is Rohn Perdue Executive Asst. / Employment
Specialist at Met Council (Career Services Dept.)

Unfortunately our EMT Training Program has been temporally suspended. At this time are unable to say when we will be able to restart our EMT Training Program.

Our current situation is out of our immediate control, however we are hopeful that we will be able to continue our EMT Training Program sometime in the near future.

Be advised we do have other programs at this time including our PIN Nursing Program (for nurses of foreign countries seeking NCLEX training) and our Career Services Employment / Career Counseling program.

Please keep our contact information, feel free to contact us regarding these additional programs.
Thank you for your inquiry regarding our EMT Training Program here at Met Council. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

Respectfully,

Ronald Perdue
Executive Assistant
Employment Specialist
Metropolitan Council
80 Maiden Lane
New York, NY 10038
rperdue@metcouncil.org

This confirms my suspicions that there are very few programs offered for free. There really is no free lunch anymore unfortunately…

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