American Red Cross
Serving all of Delaware County
Main Office:Delaware County Chapter
5 W. Winter Street
Delaware, OH 43015
740.362.2021 or 740.548.7300
Satellite Office: Powell-Liberty Road Service Center
Powell, OH 43065

The Delaware County Chapter’s Disaster Action Team (DAT) assists the City of Delaware Fire Department at a house fire in Delaware. Red Cross volunteers included DAT Captain Phil Packard, assisted by DAT members Allen Baldwin, Tom Jones, Jim Jacquimen and Trish Jacquimen. Services provided included canteen and water to the exhausted fire fighters and victims.

DISASTER SERVICES TRAINING Each year, the American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 67,000 disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, transportation accidents, explosions, and other natural and man-made disasters.

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The Good News Is That We Can Help

Although the American Red Cross is not a government agency, its authority to provide disaster relief was formalized when, in 1905, the Red Cross was chartered by Congress to "carry on a system of national and international relief in time of peace and apply the same in mitigating the sufferings caused by pestilence, famine, fire, floods, and other great national calamities, and to devise and carry on measures for preventing the same." The Charter is not only a grant of power, but also an imposition of duties and obligations to the nation, to disaster victims, and to the people who generously support its work with their donations.
Red Cross disaster relief focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs. When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter, food, and health and mental health services to address basic human needs. In addition to these services, the core of Red Cross disaster relief is the assistance given to individuals and families affected by disaster to enable them to resume their normal daily activities independently.

The Red Cross also feeds emergency workers, handles inquiries from concerned family members outside the disaster area, provides blood and blood products to disaster victims, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources.

Get Involved with your Delaware County Chapter Disaster Team

Become trained as part of the American Red Cross Local Disaster Team and/or National Disaster Services Human Resource Team.

VOLUNTEER FORM

 

Course	Description
INTRO-Introduciton to Disaster Services	Learn what the Red Cross can do to help victims of disaster in a variety of settings. Prerequisite for all other disaster training.
MCO-Mass Care-An Overview	Learn mass care sheltering, preparing food, mobile feeding, and bulk distribution. Workers describe what they do & the skills they use on mass care operations.
SOP-Shelter Operations	Learn how the American Red Cross houses people displaced by disasters. Prerequisite for Shelter Simulation class.
S SIM-Shelter Similation	Practice the knowledge gained in Shelters Operations class.
LOG-Logistics	Learn to acquire, assemble, control & issue expendable and non-expendable items or property for use in a disaster operation, and learn to negotiate for the donation, loan, rental and/or purchase of supplies & equipment.
DAT- Disaster Action Team	Learn how members of the disaster team respond to disasters in Delaware County.
PA-Public Affairs	This function is activated when a Level II or above disaster occurs, learn how the Public Affairs officer is responsible for working with the fundraising official to provide information about services available during a disaster, to act as a liaison with media & to give general information support.
DWI-Disaster Welfare Inquiry	Learn to help locate victims & provide information concerning their health & welfare to concerned relatives.
PEA-Providing Emergency Assistance	Covers basic casework skills used to deliver emergency assistance to people affected by disaster.
WMD-Weapons of Mass Destruction	The purpose of this training is to familiarize participants with WMD threats and characteristics, the Red Cross role and responsibilities in WMD incidents, and basic safety and security issues unique to WMD relief operations.
EOC-Emergency Operations Center	The purpose of this course is to prepare Red Cross paid and volunteer staff to serve as a liason to represent the Red Cross at an Emergency Operations Center and support the information and coordination process with all response agencies.
WTD-Working with Total Diversity	This Diversity Course focuses on concepts that will improve understanding of people's behavior based on individual backgrounds and various cultures.
CRAD-Chapter Response to Aviation Disaster	Course explains the Red Cross role and preparedness responsibilities with regards to aviation incidents.
DHSO-Disaster Health Services Overview	Participants will learn more about what various knowledge, skills, and abilities are needed by Disaster Health Services paid and volunteer staff as well as how they can get involved in their local chapter. Prerequisite: Intro to Disaster