Volunteer Opportunities

Typical Red Cross volunteer opportunities The following is a list of typical Red Cross volunteer opportunities for your consideration: * Office of Volunteers: Volunteers assist with writing volunteer job descriptions, setting up volunteer orientation courses, conduct volunteer screening interviews, help with volunteer placement, recruitment, record keeping, and recognition. * Disaster Services: Volunteers need to respond to local and national disasters. This is a very broad area, and inlcudes, but is not limited to:           * Mass Feeding, either at a stationary location (such as a shelter) or in an Emergency Response Vehicle (ERV).           * Shelter Operations Teams (this is includes a real need for people willing to serve as Shelter Managers).           * Health Services.           * Mental Health Services.           * Logistics.           * Caseworkers.           * Damage Assessment.           * Records and Reports.           * Foreign Language Translators (particularly Spanish and Vietnamese).           * Warehouse Work and Truck Drivers.           * Training. * Disaster Action Team (DAT): Volunteers need to respond to single-family fires with a disaster action team supervisor. * Disaster Clerical: Volunteers needed to assemble class packets, stamp brochures, and distribute disaster safety information in the neighborhood as necessary. * Youth Group Liaison: Volunteers serves as liaison with local youth groups that volunteer with the Red Cross. * Youth Volunteers/Programs: Students are encouraged to volunteer answering phones, doing office work, help with mailings, working with Health Fair, preparing materials for classes and computer data entry. * Community Outreach: Volunteers needed to distribute flyers and brochures and/or conduct presentations to small groups, such as churches, civic organizations, retirement homes, to encourage volunteerism, emergency preparedness and support of the Red Cross. * Health and Safety Instructor: Volunteers needed to teach community as well as preschool and elementary school classes in CPR, First Aid, water safety, aquatics and other youth safety presentations. * First Aid Team: Volunteers are needed to help staff special events throughout the year. Advanced medical training is helpful but not required. Advanced Red Cross First Aid and CPR skills are necessary. Training is available. * Armed Forces Caseworker: Volunteers work with local members of the military and their families ensuring the delivery of emergency communications. Armed Forces volunteers could also serve as liasons to Barksdale Air Force Base, Fort Humbug and military families in our area. * International Services: Volunteers set up and conduct classes on International Humanitarian Law or assist in international tracing for persons living overseas, in war-torn countries, who are looking for family members thought to living in our community. * Grant Researching/Writing: Volunteers needed to assist and work with the Fund Development Director in writing grants, etc. * Pinch-Hitter Volunteer: Volunteers available to help with unanticipated or irregular tasks as they arrive. * Clerical: Volunteers need to assist with bulk mailing (newsletters, Health Fairs), filing, answering phones, computer input, organizing and inventory etc. * Maintenance: Volunteers needed to help with routine maintenance duties. This could include lawn care, cleaning manikins, vehicle maintenance, working at the warehouse, etc.. * Friendly Visitor Program: Volunteers provide the gift of friendly visits to places such as the VA Hospital. * Special Projects/ Special Events: Volunteers needed to assist with various duties for fundraising and special events. These include the quarterly Health Fairs and the annual fundraiser Culinary Classic.