Recent Posts Tagged With citizen corps

• Trailer Leads Way to Expand CERT Training

  Posted on Wednesday March 3rd, 2010 at 04:37 am in grants volunteer dhs cert fairfax county

  Pictured above, at the Capital Home Show, are Jack and Suzy Ledgerwood and Andrew Levy, Volunteer CERT instructors, during the public release of the Fairfax County CERT Trailer. The trailer was purchased with the assistance of a DHS grant.With Fairf...

• Crowds at Capital Home Show Prepared for Next Disaster

  Posted on Saturday February 27th, 2010 at 03:38 pm in disaster fairfax cert citizen corps capital home and garden

  Fairfax County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) had a display and demonstrations at the Capital Home Show.How can you get people to come over to your booth, when the focus was not on selling home products? Take the child of one of the volunt...

• VDEM Offers CERT Train-the-Trainer Courses

  Posted on Tuesday February 23rd, 2010 at 03:46 pm in registration cert citizen corps train-the-trainer vdem

  Are you looking for a course that will train you to teach CERT?The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) is offering the CERT Train-the-trainer course. Registration is now open."This course is designed to prepare participants to institu...

• Fairfax County CERT Featured at Capital Home and Garden Show

  Posted on Friday February 19th, 2010 at 09:15 am in cert dulles fairfax county citizen corps capital home and garden

  The Fairfax County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) was "given a unique opportunity-placing a CERT display and doing extrication demonstration drills at the Capital Home & Garden Show running February 25-28th at the Dulles Expo Center" (C...

• American Red Cross Urges "Shelter in Place"

  Posted on Thursday February 11th, 2010 at 01:41 am in preparedness volunteers ncr fairfax american red cross

  Working with Local Jurisdictions as Partners in Preparedness Fairfax, VA, 10 Feb 2010 – The American Red Cross in the National Capital Region continues to provide disaster (volunteer) workers to support emergency operations throughout the area. Fol...

• Citizen Corps Volunteers Respond to Blizzard 2010

  Posted on Tuesday February 9th, 2010 at 06:27 am in blizzard 2010 opa fairfax citizen corps

  Members of the Fairfax County Citizen Corps Council and Volunteer Fairfax's Volunteers for Change volunteered, along side employees from the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs, at the County Government Emergency Hotline to help setup and answer ...

• Citizen Corps Volunteers - Get Your Voice Heard

  Posted on Monday February 8th, 2010 at 02:57 pm in web Barack Obama Government open dhs

  Secretary Napolitano Launches Public Engagement WebsiteRelease Date: February 8, 2010For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryContact: 202-282-8010Web tool will increase transparency, collaboration as part of Open Government InitiativeDepart...

• Citizen Corps Volunteers Needed To Help Those Without Power

  Posted on Saturday February 6th, 2010 at 02:08 pm in 4x4 2010 fairfax oem citizen corps

  Local Citizen Corps Council receives request from Office of Emergency Management (OEM) to gather a list of volunteers with 4x4 vehicles that are able to transport individuals that are without power. They would like to make a list of available volunt...

• Citizen Corps Volunteers Deploy to Haiti

  Posted on Sunday January 24th, 2010 at 07:45 am in arc haiti ncr american red cross nca

  The stories over the past week have focused on the amazing response from the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Teams and how every day volunteers from Citizen Corps programs help the USAR teams prepare for deployment.Did you know that local American Red...

• CERT (indirectly) Plays Role In Haiti Disaster Response

  Posted on Friday January 15th, 2010 at 12:57 pm in Earthquake red cross haiti american red cross dhs

  Neighbors Helping Neighbors thanks and wishes the Urban Search and Rescue Teams safe travels as they respond to the disaster in Haiti.But where does the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) fit in?Ever wonder where these teams train and where the...

• Join the New Citizen Corps Facebook Group

  Posted on Sunday January 10th, 2010 at 01:10 pm in vips fema red cross american red cross mrc

  Joing the new Citizen Corps/Neighbors Helping Neighbors Group on Facebook.http://www.facebook.com/pages/Citizen-Corps/244273467113?ref=mf ...

• Local CERTs Work Together with Support from Red Cross

  Posted on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 07:58 am in pentagon red cross cert citizen corps force protection

  On Saturday July 11, local area Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT) from Arlington, Alexandra, Fairfax and others participated as victims in the Pentagon Force Protection Decontamination drill/test.The local American Red Cross also provided sup...

• Join Multiple Citizen Corps Organizations To Make A Bigger Difference

  Posted on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 07:01 am in volunteers fairfax mrc cert citizen corps

  H1N1 ClinicsFairfax County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)We Train. We Exercise. We Do. Several folks from other Citizen Corps programs have inquired how they can join others and help out with the Fairfax County Health Department H1N1 Vaccination Clinics...

• No Cost Outreach - Volunteer Police Programs in Washington Post

  Posted on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 06:22 am in Free Advertising grants vips Washington Post

  Another option to saving taxpayer and grant dollars for advertising volunteer programs is to have them featured in a story in the local newspaper.The Fairfax County volunteer police programs were featured in the Washington Post Metro Section and also...

• Fairfax H1N1 Mass Clinics Also Featured in NY Times

  Posted on Saturday January 9th, 2010 at 06:09 am in new york times ny times fairfax citizen corps h1n1

  The Fairfax County H1N1 Mass Clinics were also featured in the New York Times, H1N1 Widespread in 46 States as Vaccines Lag". "In Fairfax County, Va., officials had planned to have swine flu clinics at 10 different locations on Saturday. But the coun...

• Want Fireworks? Go To A Public Showing

  Posted on Thursday July 2nd, 2009 at 11:42 am in Barack Obama fireworks michael jackson pepsi july 4

  You may remember seeing the Pepsi Commercial where Michael Jackson caught on fire, yet you still insist on doing your own fireworks display at home.Checkout the following video. It should make you think twice. Caution the video is not for children....

• Fairfax County CERT Takes on DC Metro - And Is Prepared

  Posted on Monday June 22nd, 2009 at 05:36 pm in accident crash metro cert citizen corps

  Members of Fairfax County CERT completed WMATA training and became members of the Metro Citizen Corps.The program consisted of three modules:Module I – Program Orientation / Terrorist Activity Recognition and Reaction TrainingModule II – Passeng...

• DHS Answering President Obama’s call to service

  Posted on Friday June 19th, 2009 at 01:21 pm in Barack Obama fugate napolitano dhs cert

  Release Date: June 19, 2009For Immediate ReleaseOffice of the Press SecretaryContact: 202-282-8010Answering President Obama’s call to service, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will be joined by Deputy Secretary Jane ...

• Local CERT Teams Volunteer For Inauguration

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 03:28 am in maryland cert citizen corps citizencorps volunteer coordinator

  In partnership with local agencies, members of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) will be stationing multiple volunteer teams for inauguration.For additional information on CERT, please visit:http://www.citizenc...

• DC Citizen Corps and ServeDC needs your help during Inauguration Week

  Posted on Tuesday January 6th, 2009 at 11:00 am in dc lutheran inauguration citizen corps servedc

  Disaster Response Volunteers,If you are unable to attend the Red Cross training, but still want to help out, there are other volunteer opportunities for inauguration.DC Citizens' Corps is asking for volunteers to assist with sheltering, traffic, and ...

• Red Cross NCR looking for partner support with Mass Care Volunteers

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 01:56 pm in training american red cross inauguration cert citizen corps

  Dear Volunteers,Here is YOUR opportunity to volunteer during Inauguration!The Red Cross of the National Capital Region has been asked to perform a number of essential roles during Inauguration Week (1/15/09 through 1/22/09), including sheltering loca...

• What is your RQ?

  Posted on Tuesday December 30th, 2008 at 04:30 am in ready american red cross rq citizen corps whats your rq

  In our previous discussion, we talked about "Resolve to be Ready". But how do you really know if you are ready?What's Your Readiness Quotient?"In recent years, the American people have been urged to “get ready” and to prepare for emergencies – ...

• Another Look Back (1995) and Looking Forward

  Posted on Wednesday December 3rd, 2008 at 08:13 am in doctor obama president bush Senate fema

  In 1995, "Obama Introduces Bill to Create National Emergency Volunteer Corps"http://obama.senate.gov/press/050908-obama_introduce_1/index.php"... Unfortunately, my office has received numerous complaints from volunteer doctors that the Federal Emerge...

• What is Fire Corps?

  Posted on Sunday October 26th, 2008 at 05:35 pm in Virginia fire volunteer outreach red cross

  For more information visit http://www.firecorps.org...

• What's Your Connection? Newspaper Partners

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 05:30 am in Free Police newspaper connection fairfax

  Recently we have been included in discussions about outreach and getting citizens aware of Citizen Corps programs. Our community partner discussions fit perfectly to this conversation.What's Your When asked, how did I get involved locally with disas...

• Local Citizen Corps Council Video Now Available

  Posted on Wednesday September 17th, 2008 at 05:00 am in cable disaster channel 16 cert citizen corps

  One of the main activities of local Citizen Corps Councils is to increase awareness in the community to help citizens become better prepared and trained to help their fellow neighbors in a major emergency or disaster.This an example of some of the ou...

• American Red Cross, Citizen Corps, and IBM Volunteer Programs Recognized by President Bush

  Posted on Monday September 15th, 2008 at 02:51 pm in president bush White House ibm red cross csc

  The following speech from President of the United States, George Bush, mentioned many of the volunteer programs highlighted in the Neighbors Helping Neighbors blog, including American Red Cross, Citizen Corps, and IBM Corporate Service Corps.THE PRES...

• CPTV special underscores need for emergency services volunteers

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 08:00 am in connecticut Homeland Security state public health cptv

  This underscores the essential need for community volunteers, such as CERT provides.CPTV's On Watch: Connecticut's Emergency Service Volunteers (http://www.cpbn.org/onwatch)Ric SkinnerMore info:From Big Medicine (http://www.bigmedicine.ca/americas.ht...

• Good Morning from Showcase Ontario - Downtown Toronto

  Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 12:08 pm in global emo toronto emergency ics

  Thank you everyone who attended the "Stop! We Have An Emergency! Lessons Learned from a Global Citizen" featured presentation this morning at Showcase Ontario. Please send an email if you are interested in receiving a copy of the presentation. Commu...

• Outside Looking In, Lessons Learned Before A Disaster

  Posted on Sunday August 31st, 2008 at 07:43 am in Virginia volunteer hurricane national governor

  During the summer, we had the opportunity to take a step back from local emergency preparedness and response, to observe other organizations in other countries. This provided an opportunity to take a step back and view things as an observer to local ...