Volunteer Services - American Red Cross - Twin Cities Chapter
- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives and take their temperature before they enter - Blood Transportation Specialist: ?Volunteer Transportation Specialists deliver life-saving blood products from Red Cross distribution facilities to hospitals, using a Red Cross-owned vehicle. - Disaster Action Team: Volunteers help comfort and support people in your community by meeting any immediate needs such as food, shelter, clothing, or supplies and connecting them to long-term recovery services. -Disaster Health Services Team: During large disasters, volunteers use their professional skills as a licensed healthcare provider to deliver hands on care and education to shelter residents. - Shelter Service Associate: ?During large disasters, volunteers support the day-to-day activities within a shelter which may include working in reception, registration, feeding, dormitory, information, or other areas within a shelter. Disaster Services Helps individuals, families, and communities prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters including: - Prepare: Volunteers are needed to support programming such as conducting workshops on the importance of preparedness, presenting at community events, participating in the Home Fire Campaign to educate around and install smoke alarms, and teaching youth coping skills and tools when faced with emergencies through the Pillowcase Project. Volunteers fluent in other languages (Hmong, Oromo, Somali and Spanish in particular) are needed in an effort to reach all community members. - Respond: Volunteers are needed to respond in-person, coordinate efforts behind-the-scenes (on-call disaster dispatchers for dispatching volunteer responders in a community), provide medical expertise, provide mental health expertise and provide public affairs expertise (press releases to media outlets). Most of these roles require on-call hours and that volunteers be at least ages 18 and older, commit to at least 1 year of service and attend approximately 20 hours of prerequisite training. - Recover: Volunteers are needed to assist clients with resources after a disaster has occurred
Categories
Last assured
03/04/2024
Physical Address
1201 West River Parkway, Minneapolis, MN 55454
Hours
- Office: 8 am - 4:30 pm Monday - Friday; open evenings and weekends as needed; phone answered 24 hours/7 days a week - Volunteer Opportunities: Vary
Voice
Application process
Call; email; visit website
Fee
Donations accepted
Eligibility
Residents of Anoka, Carver, Chisago, Dakota, Hennepin, Isanti, Ramsey, Scott, and Washington counties
Service area
Anoka County, MN Carver County, MN Chisago County, MN Dakota County, MN Hennepin County, MN Isanti County, MN Ramsey County, MN Scott County, MN Washington County, MN
Agency info
American Red Cross - Twin Cities Chapter
Community-based humanitarian organization which prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing volunteers and donors