From left to right, back to front: Mark Gastring, Jack Davidoff, Bob Breese, Sue Chalupa-Breese, Ray Murray, Dave Kluge, Bill Sheahan, Ray Casper, Bill Joyce, Gwen Williams, Sharon Chiumento, Jacqueline Coates, SueAnn Burley, Evelyn Sklair, Elsie Glendenning Missing: Chloe Alexson, Scott Popowich, Sandra Salway-Beers

Our Mission
STEP's mission is to inform and educate the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) community and promote opportunities for the improvement of the EMS system.

STEP began these activities in 1967 and the Council of the Genesee Region was incorporated in 1977. The STEP Council of the Genesee Region, Inc. is a not-for-profit tax exempt 501(c)3 organization.

The Board of Directors consists of physicians, nurses, paramedics, EMTs, firefighters, security and law enforcement officers, county EMS coordinators, and community representatives who have an interest in EMS. There are no fixed office rent or salary expenses since all activities are carried out by volunteers.

Activities

• Training of emergency medical, fire and police personnel, nurses and physicians through the STEP EMS Conference. 2005 will mark the eleventh annual offering of this conference.
• Developing the EMS Archives and Historical Accounting of EMS in the region.
• Providing an Annual EMS Directory for Monroe and Livingston Counties, a Directory unique to this region. The 2004 (Twelfth Edition) will be available in August at the MCC Bookstore at 585-292-2505.
• STEP serves as a non-political facilitator for new EMS concepts and developments in this region of NYS and beyond. It funds EMS research and other EMS projects.
• A STEP Endowment Fund for improving, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in this region was established in 1996.