Our Facility

Owner and Director of Training, Alvin Askew, founded PREPARE Emergency Training Services in 1986. Mr. Askew started the business after his Vietnam era Army 17-years long experience as a medic and a U.S. ARMY Reserve school instructor. He successfully worked as a paramedic after holding a Bachelor’s degree in Health Education and Safety from the University of New Mexico.

Alvin developed a passion to provide a necessary training service to foster a greater awareness level for individual emergency response. The idea was to make CPR and First Aid along with Disaster Preparedness training available from professional certified instructors, to raise the awareness level of lay people, allowing them opportunity that they could make a difference also.

Since the need grew greater for a way to promote PREPARE and showcase products, in June of 1991, Alvin opened a storefront at 3882 Crenshaw Square in Los Angeles, across the street from a historic landmark, Angelus Funeral Home to save lives.

PREPARE Emergency Training Services training was complimented by adding related product lines from distribution relationships with local suppliers of first aid and, survival emergency food and water with five year shelf life.

Lawren, Alvin’s wife, is a registered nurse who holds a Master of Science in Nursing and a public health nurse certificate in the state of California. Lawren has successfully served over 40 years with a diverse background in maternal-child and community health. Her passion and expertise, that she has cultivated for over 30 years, is serving vulnerable population with young children, inclusive of promoting the health of expectant and post-partum women, infant/children, who have been prenatally exposed, training foster/resource parents on managing health issues and supporting all caregivers of children with unmet special health needs. Lawren is available for consultation.