Disaster Sheltering Team: Help in short term, emergency shelters when people are displaced by fires, hurricanes or other disasters

Due to disasters occurring across the country, the American Red Cross Texas Gulf Coast region is looking for volunteers to deploy locally or to our neighboring regions to assist with disaster relief. Complete a volunteer application today! Free online training will be provided as well as travel, meals, and lodging during deployment.

Volunteers will be asked to assist in shelters. Shelter duties may include:

• Working in reception, registration, feeding, dormitory, information, or other areas within a shelter
• Meeting disaster-caused sheltering needs of individuals, families, and communities
• Providing services with kindness and compassion that are accessible and equitable to all clients
• Maintaining clear communication and collaboration with supervisors and peers
• Ensuring accuracy in all assigned tasks
• Providing accurate reporting of sheltering activity as assigned

More on the Shelter Service Associate Volunteer:

The role of the Sheltering Service Associate - is to serve as a member of a temporary work unit on a disaster relief operation to successfully complete their assigned areas of responsibility on a disaster relief operation. They ensure safe sheltering at a single shelter throughout the cycle of the disaster.

Groups are welcome to train together and form a shelter team.Please complete the form in the link below if interested:

https://forms.office.com/r/d7dP48UJLg

For more information, please email [email protected].