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IT'S WHAT WE DO.

HOPE I COMPASSION I COMFORT I PEACE OF MIND

Join the 10,000. Hope is giving thousands of Tennesseans the knowledge that during a disaster, your Red Cross will have a force of 10,000 volunteers to provide immediate emergency assistance. Through our “Join the 10,000” campaign, your Nashville Area Chapter, American Red Cross is diligently working to recruit and train the 10,000 volunteers needed to respond to a catastrophic disaster. In doing so, we will make our region the safest and most prepared region in the country. Since its launch in April 2007, the chapter has recruited approximately 5,000 volunteers and trained approximately 2,500 to respond to disasters.

Local Disaster Relief.  Compassion is having Red Cross volunteers on-call 24 hours a day, seven days a week to respond to disasters, even at 2:00am. Imagine losing everything you’ve ever owned to a home fire. The Nashville Area Chapter Disaster Action Team responds to approximately 300 residential fires in Middle Tennessee each year. Our dedicated volunteers help clients get back on their feet by offering mental health counseling, social service referrals, and financial assistance to meet their immediate basic needs.

National Disaster Relief. The Nashville Area Red Cross also trains volunteers to respond to a national disaster, such as a tornado, here in Middle Tennessee, or to be deployed to help across the nation when disaster strikes. For more information, call (615) 250. 4295.

CPR/First Aid/AED.  Comfort is knowing that the Nashville Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is training your neighbors to respond when help can’t wait. In addition to helping neighbors in Middle Tennessee, around the country and around the world recover from major hurricanes, floods and other national disasters, our local volunteers teach community, faith-based, and corporate groups how to prevent and prepare for emergencies, offer life-saving training classes, including Adult and infant CPR, First AID, babysitting training, Automated External Defibrillator classes and lifeguard classes, as well as perform hearing and sight screenings for every first, third, and fifth grader in Nashville area schools.

Armed Forces Emergency Services. Peace of mind is knowing you can you communicate with your husband, wife, brother, sister, mother, or father serving in the armed forces overseas in case of an emergency. From helping you communicate an illness, emergency, death or birth, to helping service members and their families deal with the emotional turmoil of deployment by providing mental health counseling and “Get to Know us Before You Need Us” briefings to offering worldwide, 24-hour access to timely and reliable emergency communications, case management services, and emergency financial assistance on behalf of the military aid societies the American Red Cross provides services to our armed forces each and every day. Get to Know us Before You Need Us by calling 1(877) 253-4334.

Response Center Enterprise (RCE). We operate a 24-hour national emergency contact center, providing relevant information, referrals and relief support to individuals and American Red Cross units affected by disasters and community emergencies.   Volunteer for the RCE today by calling (615) 250.4295.