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Disaster Services
Serving
Montgomery, Stewart, Houston Counties, Fort Campbell, and
Land Between The Lakes
Date of last Response: 17 Feb 08 in Mont. County. By Team # 4 FY Responses to date: 91
The Clarksville-Montgomery County Chapter provides emergency disaster relief 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, through the dedication of our Disaster Action Team (DAT) volunteers. Disaster calls range from single-family house fires, tornados, earthquakes, floods, transportation incidents or wildfires to name a few.
Typically, Red Cross services are designed to start the recovery process by assisting affected families with disaster-related needs such as:
Food
Shelter
Clothing
Health services (prescription medications and replacing eyeglasses lost in disaster)
Disaster mental health services
Military Messages
All Red Cross disaster assistance is free, made possible by donations from the communities we serve.
Additionally we can place Disaster Welfare Inquiries (DWI) about relatives living in areas impacted by natural or man-made disasters, war or civil unrest, either in the United States or another country.
Our Safe and Well website is a 24 hrs a day service that provides a way to search for or post inquiries for family members displaced during a disaster. This site also allows anyone involved in a disaster to list themselves as "safe and well"..
Disaster Action Teams (DAT) A DAT is the first redcross personnel to respond to any incident which emergency services personnel require our assistance. These teams are activated through our local 911 systems.
The services they provide range from helping the affected families start the recovery process, to providing rehabilitation services for an incidents emergency services personnel, to opening an emergency shelter, or operating a 1st Aid / cooling station at major community events. DAT training is free and offered year round (class times can be viewed here).
The Chapter provides these teams the specialized training and the equipment necessary to complete their tasks. These Red Cross Disaster Volunteers come from all walks of life and all segments of the community. The major thing they have in common is the willingness to serve and the desire to help those in need.
Currently our chapter is looking for additional volunteers who want to join their local Disaster Action Team. To become a DAT trainee, you simply request to join a team, you must be in good health, complete enough training to be a Mass Care associate and plan on completing the additional required training in the next 12 months.
DAT Training includes:
Fulfilling our Mission
Mass Care Services
Shelter Operations
Client Caseworker (family services)
CPR, AED and First Aid for the professional
Emergency Response Vehicle training
Introduction to Incident Command System (FEMA)
Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment
Public Affairs in a Disaster
AARP Defensive Driving.
(Class times and dates can be viewed here.)
FREE online Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) courses of interest.
These can be found on the FEMA training WEB site.
Introduction to Incident Command System, I-100
National Incident Management System (NIMS): An Introduction - IS-700
There are other courses that you might find helpful on this site as well. These courses are free of charge and offer training in many areas.
Below are descriptions of some of the basic Disaster Services courses offered here. There are other courses offered from time to time at the ARC Nashville or other ARC units.
Introduction to Disaster Services
Course Length : approximately 45 minutes
Prerequisite : none
Description : This online course provides an overview of our history, mission, values, key services, organization structure, our commitments and other valuable information to give you background knowledge and understanding of the organization. This self-study course will introduce American Red Cross Disaster Services and allow you to discover how volunteers support this critical mission and to explore ways they can become involved in a local chapter.
Click here to take the online course: Introduction To Dissaster Services
Fulfilling Our Mission
Course Length: 3 hours
Prerequisite: none but recommend Introduction to Disaster Services (online Course)
Description: Participants will be able to assess how to use their skills and abilities to strengthen the capacity of both the community and the Red Cross to better serve people affected by disaster. They will understand the mission of the Red Cross, the principles and values that support the mission, and the expected behaviors of Red Cross volunteers and employees as they conduct the mission. This course essentially functions as a disaster services introduction.
Mass Care
Course Length : 3 hours
Prerequisite : Fulfilling Our Mission
Description : Prepares participants to provide immediate and identifiable feeding and sheltering activities on a chapter-administered relief operation and to initiate those activities on larger relief operations.
Shelter Operations
Course Length : 4 hours
Prerequisite : Fulfilling Our Mission, Mass Care
Description : Prepares Red Cross and other agencies' staff to effectively and sensitively manage shelter operations as a team to meet the needs of people displaced as a result of disaster.
Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment
Course Length : 4 hours + 3 hour online component
Prerequisite : Fulfilling Our Mission, Disaster Assessment Online Component
Description : Provides an overview of the new and revised concepts, procedures, tools and resources contained in the recently released Disaster Assessment document. This course in conjunction with the online portion will enable chapter disaster leadership and Disaster Assessment workers to begin to incorporate these concepts into planning, training and response activities.
Client Casework: Providing Emergency Assistance (formerly Family Services)
Course Length: 7 hours
Prerequisite: Fulfilling Our Mission, Mass Care and Shelter Operations,
Description: This course helps participants to develop interviewing skills, knowledge, attitudes, and relationships necessary to meet the disaster caused needs of individuals and their families. It will enable you to explain and provide Red Cross emergency disaster assistance to clients, use the basic forms and tools needed to assist clients, demonstrate the skills needed to perform a quality interview with a client, demonstrate appropriate use of resources and referrals, and describe the assignment setting in which emergency assistance interviews are performed.
Logistics: An Overview
Course Length : 3 hours
Prerequisite : Fulfilling Our Mission, Mass Care and Shelter Operations.
Description : The purpose of this course is to provide basic information about the activities and processes of Material Support Services activities in support of an American Red Cross disaster relief operation which include providing facilities, vehicles, and supplies. Participants will learn about the skills, abilities, and knowledge needed by Material Support Services workers and how they can get started in their local chapter.
ERV: Ready, Set, Roll (Emergency Response Vehicle Driver Training)
Prerequisites : Fulfilling Our Mission, Mass Care, valid driver's license with clean driving record, capacity to lift 50 pounds, minimum age 21, and a Defensive Drivers Course.
Description : The purpose of this course is to introduce participants to the exterior and interior operating parts of the Emergency Response Vehicle and will certify them to be ERV crew members upon successful completion of the road test. Enrollment is limited.
AARP Defensive Driving Course (online)
This course is designed to help you tune up your driving skills and update your knowledge of the rules of the road. Completion
can help reduce your traffic violations, crashes or chances of inhuries. Many insurance companies give some insurance premium reduction or discount for completion of this course.
Click here to take the online course: AARP Defensive Driving
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