Through a network of local chapters, supported by state lead units and national headquarters, the Red Cross provides a nationwide disaster services program of planning, preparedness, and response to disasters, and participates with other national Red Cross societies in international relief operations. The Badger Chapter regularly recruits and trains volunteers in the 23 disaster response functions. These individuals provide disaster services in our local community and, when needed, throughout the country. The Badger Chapter communicates hundreds of emergency messages each year to keep local military families in touch about important matters. Whether it's news about the birth of a baby, or the serious illness or death of a loved one, the local Red Cross ensures that area families stay connected to their members of the United States military stationed around the world.
Caseworkers also provide referral services to military families in our communities.
The mission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is to relieve human suffering, wherever it may be found, to protect life and health, to ensure respect for the human being - particularly in times of armed conflict and natural disaster, to help prevent disease, to promote health and social welfare and to encourage voluntary service. The Badger Chapter supports the international mission by proving international tracing services through a comprehensive global communications network. Through the network, the Red Cross helps locate, reunite and exchange messages between people separated from their loved ones because of war, civil disturbance, natural disaster or other changing world conditions. The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center, a specialized unit of the American Red Cross International Social Services, opened in1990.