Dedicated team to receive community spontaneous volunteers, record their information, match volunteer skills with community needs, assign members to volunteer jobs, provide safety briefings, and help coordinate transportation with the Emergency Operations Center. 95% of tasks are performed indoors.
The VRC Team works with other community volunteer organizations to establish, operate, and sustain a VRC following a major disaster.
Information: In a time of disaster and crisis, friends, neighbors, families will be enthusiastic to respond to needs in their local area. As the media plays and replays scenes of the disaster, many people will come forward to volunteer. Unaffiliated volunteers will show up, whether directed or not. Unaffiliated volunteers (also known as spontaneous volunteers) are those not associated with any recognized disaster response agency. However, they may have other training, skills and experience and appear at a disaster site to offer help. The VRC is used to manage and organize the unaffiliated volunteers during a disaster. These volunteers are processed at the VRC to determine their skill-set and then tasked with assignments where there skills can be utilized for the disaster relief effort.
