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Calhoun County Citizen Corps engages citizens in hometown preparedness through public education and training. Our mission is to establish a pool of volunteers who will supplement first responders in the event of a disaster.
There are several programs available to get more involved:
A Volunteer Reception Center (VRC) is a vital part of organizing the numerous volunteers a county receives when a disaster occurs. It acts as a staging area to process and disseminate volunteers to affected disaster areas. Both spontaneous volunteers as well as pre-registered Citizen Corps Volunteers are processed through a Volunteer Reception Center. By having a Volunteer Reception Center a county is preparing itself by establishing a staff of trained, registered and assigned volunteers who are capable, upon activation by an approved authority, of setting up, of managing, staffing and operating a facility that will mobilize and deploy volunteers in an efficient and timely manner.
When a disaster occurs in a community volunteers come running to help. Sometimes hundreds or even thousands of them will arrive with the best intentions and with skills that are urgently needed but all too often these volunteers aren't associated with any recognized disaster response agency. Even volunteers that are linked to disaster response agency need to have a place to report in order to be assigned to an area that can use their particular skills. What volunteers do and how they are utilized has tremendous impact on how quickly and effectively a community recovers so efficient and organized deployment of all responding volunteers is crucial. Originally designed to incorporate spontaneous volunteers into the response for a natural or manmade disaster, we also process pre-registered, task-identified Calhoun County Citizen Corps volunteers, and pre-registered professional medical volunteers who are members of the Calhoun County Medical Reserve Corps.
A successful response to a natural or man-made disaster requires the effort and resources from a wide variety of agencies and organizations. A Volunteer Reception Center is one link in the chain of responses necessary for an organized disaster response.
Volunteer Reception Centers are typically established and managed by local Calhoun County Citizen Corps Council. You might consider volunteering the resources in your organization, business or church to create a Volunteer Reception Center? You will not be alone in this effort. The Calhoun County Citizen Corps Council will be available to train and assist with the planning and implementation.
Contact us at [email protected] for training or more information on how your organization could host a Volunteer Reception Center.
There are several programs available to get more involved:
A Volunteer Reception Center (VRC) is a vital part of organizing the numerous volunteers a county receives when a disaster occurs. It acts as a staging area to process and disseminate volunteers to affected disaster areas. Both spontaneous volunteers as well as pre-registered Citizen Corps Volunteers are processed through a Volunteer Reception Center. By having a Volunteer Reception Center a county is preparing itself by establishing a staff of trained, registered and assigned volunteers who are capable, upon activation by an approved authority, of setting up, of managing, staffing and operating a facility that will mobilize and deploy volunteers in an efficient and timely manner.
When a disaster occurs in a community volunteers come running to help. Sometimes hundreds or even thousands of them will arrive with the best intentions and with skills that are urgently needed but all too often these volunteers aren't associated with any recognized disaster response agency. Even volunteers that are linked to disaster response agency need to have a place to report in order to be assigned to an area that can use their particular skills. What volunteers do and how they are utilized has tremendous impact on how quickly and effectively a community recovers so efficient and organized deployment of all responding volunteers is crucial. Originally designed to incorporate spontaneous volunteers into the response for a natural or manmade disaster, we also process pre-registered, task-identified Calhoun County Citizen Corps volunteers, and pre-registered professional medical volunteers who are members of the Calhoun County Medical Reserve Corps.
A successful response to a natural or man-made disaster requires the effort and resources from a wide variety of agencies and organizations. A Volunteer Reception Center is one link in the chain of responses necessary for an organized disaster response.
Volunteer Reception Centers are typically established and managed by local Calhoun County Citizen Corps Council. You might consider volunteering the resources in your organization, business or church to create a Volunteer Reception Center? You will not be alone in this effort. The Calhoun County Citizen Corps Council will be available to train and assist with the planning and implementation.
Contact us at [email protected] for training or more information on how your organization could host a Volunteer Reception Center.