Public Health Emergency Preparedness is the capability of the public health and human care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies. Public Health Emergency Preparedness includes: - Dispensing/vaccination clinics - Essential services such as isolation and quarantine - Mass care shelters and evacuation points coordination - Medical countermeasures - Volunteer management Human Service Emergency Preparedness includes: - Behavioral health services - Disaster food stamps to replace food destroyed by a disaster

Community Emergency Response Team - CERT: A training program that prepares people to help themselves, their families, friends, and their neighbors in the event of a disaster in their community. Citizens can learn about disaster preparedness and receive training in basic disaster response skills such as fire safety, light search and rescue, and disaster medical operations. Trained volunteers then support the community year-round by participating in community preparedness outreach activities and distributing materials on disaster preparedness and education. Click here for the website. Note: To start a CERT in the community, individuals should contact the HSEM Volunteer Resources for more information at [email protected] Fire Corps: Uses citizen advocates (volunteers) to support and augment the capacity of resource-constrained fire and emergency service departments at all levels. Click here for the website. Medical Reserve Corps - MRC: Organizes and utilizes public health, medical, and other volunteers who want to donate their time and expertise to prepare for and respond to emergencies. Volunteers supplement existing emergency and public health resources during local emergencies and other times of community need. Click here for the website. Volunteers in Police Service - VIPS: Provides a gateway to information for law enforcement agencies and citizens interested in law enforcement volunteer programs. Click here for the website.

- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives - Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building - Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching lifesaving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR. - Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals. - Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents. 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

- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives and take their temperature before they enter - Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building - Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching lifesaving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR. - Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals. - Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents. 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

- Assists with unmet needs for member organizations and government bodies in disaster situations - Helps create a long term recovery group for areas affected by disaster - Works with member agencies who actively assist disaster survivors in Minnesota and throughout the country through cooperation, communication, coordination, and collaboration in disaster response. - Utilizes volunteers in a number of capacities for disaster response. Provides training and speakers on disaster management

- 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

Assists the community by preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural and man-made disasters. Services include coordination with agencies to deliver critical support, such as emergency response and hazard mitigation, ensuring recovery and resilience, disaster prevention planning, public education, and training. Volunteer opportunities are available to help respond to disasters, provide public education, and offer recovery services.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness is the capability of the public health and human care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies. Public Health Emergency Preparedness includes: - Dispensing/vaccination clinics - Essential services such as isolation and quarantine - Mass care shelters and evacuation points coordination - Medical countermeasures - Volunteer management Human Service Emergency Preparedness includes: - Behavioral health services - Disaster food stamps to replace food destroyed by a disaster

- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives and take their temperature before they enter - Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building - Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching lifesaving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR. - Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals. - Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents. 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

Public Health Emergency Preparedness is the capability of the public health and human care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies. Public Health Emergency Preparedness includes: - Dispensing/vaccination clinics - Essential services such as isolation and quarantine - Mass care shelters and evacuation points coordination - Medical countermeasures - Volunteer management Human Service Emergency Preparedness includes: - Behavioral health services - Disaster food stamps to replace food destroyed by a disaster

- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives - Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building - Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching lifesaving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR. - Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals. - Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents. 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

- Blood Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to welcome visitors to Red Cross facilities or blood drives and take their temperature before they enter. - Facilities: Utilizes volunteers in a variety of roles, from groups who can assist with vehicle cleaning to individuals who help with front desk service or fix-it projects around the building. - Health and Safety: Volunteers are needed to be an integral part of teaching life saving skills. Volunteers teach hands-only CPR. - Service to the Armed Forces: Volunteers support military members and their families. Volunteers assist with outreach (such as briefing on Red Cross services at pre-deployment events, or sorting and delivering holiday cards for active and veteran military members) and help in a variety of capacities at VA hospitals. - Specialties: All departments at the Red Cross utilize volunteers. Professionals in the fields of photography, accounting, information technology and other specialized areas can contribute their talents. 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.

Public Health Emergency Preparedness is the capability of the public health and human care systems, communities, and individuals, to prevent, protect against, quickly respond to, and recover from health emergencies. Public Health Emergency Preparedness includes: - Dispensing/vaccination clinics - Essential services such as isolation and quarantine - Mass care shelters and evacuation points coordination - Medical countermeasures - Volunteer management Human Service Emergency Preparedness includes: - Behavioral health services - Disaster food stamps to replace food destroyed by a disaster