Disaster Services
Disaster
Action Team (DAT)
Learn how to
respond to disasters in your community as part of the Disaster Action
Team (DAT) After training, you will be able to assist local residents
with food, shelter and clothing needs following such events as house
fires, flooding and snow storms. We also provide food to the fire
fighters involved in these events including search and rescue
operations.
Disaster
Services Human Resource System (DSHR)
For those
willing and able to travel to other communities and states, you may
want to join the Disaster Services Human Resource System (DSHR). This
is a network of volunteers who are free to travel for up to three
weeks at a time and who can be called up with 24 hours notice to help
people across the country. The Red Cross flies or drives you to the
disaster area expenses paid, This could be the most exciting job you
never got paid for in cash, but you will come back a much richer
person inside.
Disaster Classes
All classes will take place at
the Transylvania County Chapter. There is no charge. Registration is
required to assure adequate participants. Classes will be canceled if
there are an inadequate number of registrants.
Contact
Sandra Whitmore at 884-4530 or
sanwhitrn@yahoo.com
Disaster
Services Class Descriptions
Introduction
to Disaster Services – This video-based course provides fundamental
information about disasters, the community response and the role of
the Red Cross Disaster Services volunteer. Available online at
www.redcross.org No
prerequisites. Length: 45
minutes
Fulfilling Our
Mission: Translating Your Compassion Into Community Action - NEW
This course is the pre-requisite for all other disaster courses. This
is a basic, entry-level course that introduces potential disaster
volunteers and members of other local agencies to the role of the Red
Cross in the community's actions in preparing for, responding to and
recovering from emergencies and disasters. Pre-requisite: none but
Introduction to Disaster Services is recommended.. Length: 3.5 hours.
Mass Care
Overview – Mass Care is the feeding and sheltering of those
affected by disaster. Participants learn the various roles and
responsibilities of Mass Care volunteers as the skills and abilities
needed for this function. Available as a self-study take-home course.
Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission. Length: 1 hour.
Shelter
Operations - Prepares volunteers to effectively and sensitively
manage shelter operations as a team while meeting the needs of people
displaced as a result of disaster. Pre-requisite: Mass Care Overview.
Length: 3 hours.
Shelter
Simulation - Provides participants with an opportunity to practice
the knowledge, skills and abilities required to open, operate and
close a shelter operation. Pre-requisite: Shelter Operations. Length:
3 hours.
Disaster Health Services
Response Workshop - The purpose of this workshop is to prepare
licensed or certified health professionals to either work in their
local chapter or be deployed to a Red Cross disaster relief operation
to provide assessment, referral and basic first aid in shelters and on
outreach. Pre- requisites: Fulfilling Our Mission.Length: 8 hours.
Client Casework:
Providing Emergency Assistance - Trains Red Cross caseworkers how
to conduct effective client interviews and provide appropriate
assistance to help meet a client's immediate disaster-caused or
disaster-aggravated needs. Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission.
Length: 9 hours. Eligible for 5 contact hours through ICET
Weapons of Mass
Destruction/Terrorism - This course creates an awareness of the
complex response issues and concerns associated with a Weapons of Mass
Destruction/Terrorism incident. Pre-requisite: none but Fulfilling Our
Mission is recommended. Length: 3.5 hours.
Psychological
First Aid: Helping Others in Times of Stress - Provides a
framework for understanding the factors that affect stress responses
in disaster relief workers and the clients they serve. Pre-requisites:
none but Fulfilling Our Mission & Working with Total Diversity is
recommended,. Length: 4 hours.
Fundamentals of
Disaster Assessment - This is a blended learning course consisting
of an online and instructor-led portion. This course introduces the
role of disaster assessment, explores related preparedness tasks,
teaches how to collect and communicate disaster assessment information
an how it supports management and service delivery decisions.
Pre-requisite: Introduction to Disaster Services (online) and/or
Fulfilling Our Mission are recommended. Length:
Online portion: 3:5 hours; Instructor-Led portion: 4 hours.
Financial and
Statistical Information Management (FSI) - prepares volunteers to
assign and account for the usage of Client Assistance Cards and
Disbursing Orders and manage the confidential master case files of Red
Cross clients. Pre-requisite: Client Casework. Can also be taken as a
home study course.
Disaster
Frontline Supervisor - provides disaster relief operations
supervisors with tools that support their success. Required for
promotion to supervisor in the DSHR system.
Disaster
Frontline Supervisor Simulation - provides participants an
opportunity to practice key supervisory skills. Required for promotion
to supervisor in the DSHR system.
Mass Casualty
Disasters
- an instructor-led and video-supported course designed to prepare
employees and volunteers to plan for and respond to mass casualty
disasters. This course combines a series of presentations and class
discussions which use real-world examples to explore the four types
of mass casualty disasters and the planning and response role of the
Red Cross as part of an overall community response. This interactive
learning experience culminates in a thought-provoking simulation of
a mass casualty event where participants form teams, representing a
Red Cross chapter, and must make decisions during the first 24 hours
following the disaster event. Note: This course is not required for
any DSHR activity but contains helpful information about mass
casualty disasters.
Disaster Assessment Basics
is an instructor-led, basic level course. The course encompasses
the tasks and responsibilities of the Disaster Assessment activity on
a disaster relief operation. The course includes a section on local
disaster incidents. This course replaces the LMS online course
Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment for those working at the service
associate level on local disasters.
Learning Management System (LMS)
The following
courses are available online through the Red Cross Learning Management
System (LMS). Contact Sandra Whitmore for help in obtaining a user
name and password.
Staff Health: An
Overview - Provides employees and volunteers of the Red Cross with
knowledge of the role and activities of staff health. Pre-requisites:
none. Length: 80 minutes.
Staff Health:
Working on Disaster Relief Operations - Provides RN's and
Physicians with the knowledge, information and resources needed to
understand the role of the Staff Health Activity on disaster relief
operations. Pre-requisite: none. Length: 45 minutes.
Fundamentals of
Staff Services - Provides an introduction to the Staff Services
group which consists of Staff Relations, Workforce Planning and
Acquisition, Staff Support and Training. Pre-requisites: none.
Fulfilling Our Mission is recommended. Length: 1 hour
Community Disaster Education
Be Red Cross Ready - Discusses the 3 actions everyone can
take to be prepared for disasters and other emergencies: 1) Get a kit,
2) Make a plan 3) Be informed. Pre-requisites:
none. Length: 1 hour
Wednesday, February
13th, from 1pm to 2pm at the
Transylvania County
Chapter.
Speaker’s Bureau:
Our Community Disaster Education speakers are available to speak to
any group in the community, small or large. The presentations are
free. Call Sandra Whitmore at 884-4530 to arrange a Be Red Cross Ready
presentation.
BELOW: Local volunteer, Jerry Bailey (R), worked on a Sysco feeding
kitchen in Oklahoma, 2007
