To view the Cert Week Toolkit, click: CERT_Week_Toolkit__2025

Join the National CERT Association (NCA) as we relaunch National CERT Week! A week-long event, National CERT Week highlights and celebrates the accomplishments of all CERT programs across the country. Each year there will be a theme—2025’s theme is “Every Community Needs a CERTain Kind of Hero”—and the NCA will provide suggestions and a digital toolkit that teams can use to help raise awareness of CERT and the important work you do in your community. National CERT Week will be held annually on the third week of September, in conjunction with National Preparedness Month. In 2025, National CERT Week will be held September 14 - 20.

This year’s toolkit includes:
Media Materials
Key Messages
Sample Press Release
Proclamation Request Process
Social Media
Sample Post
Language
Sharable Images
Web Banners
Other
Outreach Ideas
Additional Resources

 This year’s theme is, “Every Community Needs a CERTain Kind of Hero” and celebrates the thousands of everyday heroes trained to do extraordinary things when a disaster strikes. There are over 3,200 CERT programs nationwide and we hope you’ll join us and make this year’s CERT Week a huge success!