We are in short supply of volunteers who can give up 3 nights a month or one Saturday a month to teach a community class. Daytime or Evening. The volunteers in this position are responsible for helping to share what the Red Cross offers in Health and Safety classes to the public. We like to hold small table displays wherever we can, usually once a month, in different locations. These displays offer pamphlets and a person customers can talk to or ask questions of.
Displays can be for any number of hours depending on what the volunteer can work.
The main thing is to get the word out that we're here. The other responsibility of the Public Awareness volunteers would be to go into businesses to promote our workplace programs, schools to promote our school education programs, and meetings such as PTO's, PTA's, Jaycee's, Veterans, and other local meetings to let them know what we offer. We respond to between 3 and 6 home fires a month. When we respond, we speak with the victims and make the decision on what kind of aid we can give them in the immediate situation to make the disaster event a bit easier on the victim. This may include putting them in a hotel for the night, arranging for meals, and in some cases, clothes to wear.