Introduction to Disaster Services (ARC 3066)

Prerequisite to ALL disaster courses. A video-based course which provides fundamental information about disasters, the community response, and the role of Red Cross Disaster Services.
Training Objectives
 

• Describe what disasters are and how they affect people and their communities.
   
• Identify how the community - including the Red Cross, other voluntary organizations, government, business, and labor-works together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.
   
• Identifying Red Cross activities in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters.
   
• Describe the services the Red Cross provides to people affected by disaster.
   
• Identify how the Red Cross is organized to provide these services.
   
• Describe the roles people perform in Red Cross Disaster Services.
   
• Identify the skills and abilities they have that they would like to apply as a volunteer with Disaster Services.
   

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