Since we started there have been various changes and the most important one is when
an individual is lost calling the Vermont State Police at 911, letting their dispatchers know they are wearing a Care
Trak bracelet. The Vermont State Police Search and Rescue will coordinate the searches and call in the appropriate agencies
to aid in their searches.
WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS SINCE 1999 HELPING INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE A TENDENCY TO WANDER.
Clint Gray, is
a retired Lt. from the Vermont State Police after 30 years in the Department of Public Service. When he retired, he
still wanted to help people that had a tendency to wander.
Clint and Mary started this business by placing bracelets/transmitters
on individuals that wander because there was a need to help the vulnerable.
How we started!
We
were trained by Greg Pratt of Stokes County Mountain Rescue in May of 1999. Stokes County Mountain Rescue was the original
Care Trak Program. Chesapeake Virginia was the 2nd pilot program, and Vermont was the 3rd Pilot Program
in the United States.
Vermont was the first state in the United States to be fully phased in with the emergency
locator receivers and responders.
The Vermont Legislature appropriated a one time funding to the Vermont
Sheriff's to have one Care Trak receiver per county so they may respond to lost individuals wearing a transmitter/bracelet.
Cheshire County, New Hampshire is the 1st county in New Hampshire to have the Care Trak equipment to respond to individuals
that have wandered away wearing a transmitter/bracelet. This was a donation from a local family in the Keene, New Hampshire
area. Sheriff Richard Foote was delighted that a family was able to donate the emergency locator to his department
for the special needs community.
Carroll County New Hampshire is the second
county phasing in the Care Trak program for their county. Sheriff Jon Hebert just jumped at the chance to help his special
needs community along with the Effingham Chief of Police Joseph M. Collins and various officers of their community.
This was also a donation from the same family in the Keene, NH area.
Once the law enforcement
agencies arrive on the scene with the receivers tuned to the specific frequency and they receive a signal they are able
to walked right over to the individual wearing the transmitter/bracelet.
Clint and Mary have trained
all the Vermont Sheriff's Departments and the Vermont State Police Search and Rescue Team, headed by LT. Josh Stohl and also
Cheshire County Sheriff's Department in New Hampshire.
Nationally, using the Care Trak equipment, there have been
over 4,000 individuals that have been lost and been found in an average time of 30 minutes, wearing the Care Trak transmitter/bracelet.
