Disaster Action Team (DAT) Specialist: Most of the 65,000 emergencies that the Red Cross responds to each year are local, personal disasters like home fires. Disaster Action Team volunteers are ready to respond to these emergencies, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to ensure families don’t have to face tough times alone. Disaster Action Team volunteers do this by providing immediate emotional support, financial assistance, and information to help families begin the process of recovery.
Duty Officer (DO): Remotely triage aid requests and investigate if Red Cross response is required. If the Duty Officer determines that someone qualifies for a response, they dispatch Disaster Action Team volunteers to the scene. Duty Officers also work with on-scene Disaster Action Team volunteers to provide virtual support and technical guidance.
Shelter Service Associate: Support the day-to-day activities withing a shelter, which may include working in reception, registration, feeding, dormitory, information, or other areas. Shelter volunteers work directly with residents to ensure their basic needs are met as well as help them access additional services.
Preparedness Presenter: Go out into your local community and teach people how to reduce the risk of disaster, prepare to response effectively, and cope with disasters when they happen. The skills you learn will enable you to help your own home and family, while you also help your community be more prepared and resilient. Become a presenter for our Prepare with Pedro (Grades K through 2nd), Be Red Cross Ready, and/or Hands-Only CPR classes. Or install free smoke alarms and teach people fire safety education in their residencies through the Home Fire Campaign.
Disaster Health Services (DHS) Service Associate: Use your professional skills as a licensed healthcare professional to provide hands-on care, health education, health assessments, and additional health-related support in shelters. You can also remotely help disaster-affected clients replace medical items that were lost in disaster. Shelter and remote positions available.
- Current, active, and unencumbered licensure or certification for the healthcare professions, including RN, LPN, LVN, EMT, Paramedic, MD, DO, PA, NP, APRN.
- Click here for Disaster Health Services Eligibility Criteria
Disaster Mental Health (DMH) Service Associate: Use your professional skills as a licensed mental health professional to meet the emotional needs of disaster clients, communities, and other Red Cross disaster workers in disasters of all sizes. They identify individuals who need additional support, provide short-term disaster mental health interventions, and refer individuals to local resources as necessary. Shelter and remote positions available.
Disaster Spiritual Care (DCS) Service Associate: Assist disaster-affected clients to utilize their own spiritual resources, values and faith in the midst of crisis, regardless of one's faith tradition. Facilitate long-term recovery for clients by providing spiritual and emotional support, and connection to local resources.
- Must meet one of the following criteria:
- A disaster spiritual care provider in good standing in a National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) member organization
- A Board-certified chaplain
- A professional chaplain (paid or volunteer) and is endorsed by that organization
- An endorsed leader of a local faith community or organization
Client Care Program Service Associate: Remotely meet the disaster-caused needs of individuals and families with casework and recovery planning by matching Red Cross resources and assistance to these needs. Provide financial assistance to qualified clients, provide internal/community referrals. Assistance is provided in a consistent, scalable, and repeatable manner so that all our clients receive similar services.