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Red Cross
Mass Care Boot Camp
for New Disaster Volunteers
(September 18, 2017) —This year's Hurricane season has packed a
ferocious two-pronged punch with Harvey and Irma, and the season is
long from over this year. Meanwhile there are residents of both
Florida and Texas that are still without power, without homes, without
livelihood and will have many weeks, perhaps even months before them
before life begins a semblance of normal again. For the American Red
Cross, this means providing food and shelter for thousands of people
forced to evacuate both states during the hurricanes, and then months
of providing assistance as order is restored and lives are
reassembled. In the last three weeks, the Red Cross and community
partners have provided more than 934,000 overnight stays in emergency
shelters due to hurricanes. Shelters were opened in 8 states, Puerto
Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Red Cross has served more
than 3 million meals and snacks to people in need. More than
6,400 Red Cross disaster workers and almost 300 emergency response
vehicles are on the ground right now, helping thousands of people
affected by these storms.
But more volunteers are needed, both to deploy to affected areas and
locally. While Red Cross volunteers are amazingly dedicated and devoted
to helping others during these times of crisis, more help is always
needed. These two classes will ready both current and new
volunteers in skills needed on disaster operations.
Mass Care Boot Camp includes:
Disaster Cycle Services: An Overview,
Everyone is Welcome meeting the needs of those with disabilities or
access needs),
Deployment Fundamentals
Mass Care Fundamentals.
Being offered in Troy ARC office, 1314 Barnhart Rd from
1:00-4:00 No pre-registration is needed.
Disaster Assessment Fundamentals includes:
Course introduces the tasks and responsibilities of Disaster Assessment
responders on a disaster relief operation.
How Disaster Assessment Workers access and install the RC Collect app
How to use it to record detailed damage assessment data in the field:
Collect: Detailed Damage Assessment
Being offered in Troy ARC office, 1314 Barnhart Road from 9:00-1:00 No
pre-registration is needed.
In addition to disaster volunteers, the Red Cross offers a wide variety
of volunteer opportunities. To learn more about volunteering with the
Red Cross, visit redcross.org/volunteer or you can attend a Volunteer
Orientation Sept 19 from 12:15-12:45 (fitting just inside your lunch
hour) the Troy Chapter office.
Training and all disaster-related services provided by the Red Cross
are free. The Red Cross is not a governmental agency, though, so the
costs to provide these services comes from donations provided by the
generosity of the American public. Anyone wishing to make a donation to
support families suffering as a result of disasters such as Hurricane
Harvey are encouraged to do so. To make a gift, go to RedCross.org,
call 1-800-REDCROSS or text REDCROSS to 90999.
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