Emergency Services
Each year, nationwide, Red Cross paid staff and volunteers respond to more than 60,000 disasters, ranging from single-family house fires to events such as hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. The Red Cross helps hundres of thousands of their neighbors by providing shelter and other basic and emergency needs free of charge. In addition, Red Cross chapters are involved long before disasters occur, educating the community on how to stay safe should a disaster strike.
In Frederick County, volunteers and staff provide assistance on disaster scenes ranging from house fires to floods and large-scale disasters. Emergency Services volunteers train to provide quality service to those who have suffered a loss due to a disaster. Additionally, volunteers from the chapter respond with the National Red Cross to disasters throughout the country.
At parades, community events, churches, schools and other organizations, Emergency Services volunteers also provide information to the community on preparing for disasters.
If you'd like to join us as a volunteer, click here for a list of volunteer opportunities.
Emergency Services Training Schedule
A chapter volunteer orientation and background check must be completed before enrolling in disaster training. Please read course descriptions and consider thir pre-requisites before enrolling. NOTE: Fulfilling Our Missions is a requirement for all disaster training.
Pre-registration (at least one week in advance) is required for all emergency services training. To register for a course, click here or call 301-662-5131. If you are within the one-week deadline and can't make a future date, please call the chapter. We occasionally have cancellations and may be able to fit you in. All training will be held at the chapter in Walkersville unless announced otherwise.
Fulfilling Our Mission
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| Thurs., February 25, 2010 |
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm |
Client Casework: Providing Emergency Assistance
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Disaster Assessment Local
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Disaster Frontline Supervision
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| No class currently scheduled |
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EOC/Liaison
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| w/ Collaboration (both days) |
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| Fri., March 9, 2010 |
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm |
| Sat., March 10, 2010 |
8:30 am - 5:00 pm |
Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment
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Health Services Response Workshop
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Mass Care Overview
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Material Support Services (Logisitcs) Overview
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Public Affairs: Local Response
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Psychological First Aid
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| No class currently scheduled |
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Shelter Operations/Shelter Simulation
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Emergency Services Courses
Client Casework: Providing Emergency Assistance
Describes assignment and settings and provides knowledge, skills and tools needed to conduct a quality interview and provide effective client service, including direct assistance and referrals. Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission
Disaster Assessment Local
The course encompasses the tasks and responsibilities of the Disaster Assessment activity on a disaster relief operation and includes a section on local disaster incidents, which may be customized by the instructor for a local disaster program. The Disaster Assessment Basics course is not a replacement for the Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment course; it is a complementary course developed for a different audience. This new course is designed for local community volunteers, primarily Disaster Action Team (DAT) members.
Disaster Frontline Supervision
The purpose of this course is to prepare supervisors to lead a team of disaster workes to deliver high quality client service and to create a climate that promotes worker sastisfaction.
Fulfilling Our Mission: Translating Your Compassion Into Community Action
Introduced 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. It provides the foundation of service delivery standards for the American Red Cross by considering the Fundamental Principles and Values of the Red Cross and how they would apply throughout the disaster cycle (prepare, respond and recover).
Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment
The online training component of the course (Part 1) resides on the Red Cross Learning Management System (LMS). It provides an overview of the Disaster Assessment activity and its related tasks. The instructor-led component of the course (Part 2) will reinforce and build upon content presented in the online component while providing participants with the opportunity to apply their knowledge and develop skills in Disaster Assessment through applied learning activities.
Health Services Response Workshop
This workshop is to prepare licensed or certified health professionals to either work in their local chapter jurisdiction or be deployed to a Red Cross disaster relief operation and function as health professional within the Health Services Protocols. Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission
Mass Care Overview
An introduction to the basic Mass Care Services provided by the Red Cross involving feeding and sheltering of disaster clients. Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission
Material Support Services (Logisitcs) Overview
Participants will learn about the skills, abilities, and knowledge needed by MSS orkers and how they can get started in their local chapter.
Shelter Operations/Shelter Simulation
Shelter Operations provides participant information on procedures for opening/closing Red Cross shelters. It discusses needs for, assessment for and provides a docuemnt for further use by participant. Simulation provides 'hands on' implementation of opening/closing a shelter. Shetler Operations must be completed to enroll in Shelter Simulation. Pre-requisite: Fulfilling Our Mission
In addition to the courses that are offered fairly regularly at the chapter, the following courses are available locally on occasion, but can usually be taken at surrounding chapters.
- Collaborating to Ensure Effective Sevice Delivery
- Disaster Fundraising: Preparing and Responding to Disasters
- Disaster Kitchen Training
- Disaster Public Affairs Overview
- Emergency Operations Center/Incident Command Liaison
- ERVs: Ready, Set, Roll
- Financial and Statistical Information Management
- Foundations of Disaster Mental Health
- Fundamentals of Chapter Disaster Operations Management
- Fundamentals of Disaster Public Affairs: The Local Response
- Fundamentals of Disaster Public Affairs: The National Response
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