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COMMUNITY SERVICES
Disaster & Emergency Services: Changing Lives
The trained volunteers on our Disaster Action Team (DAT) are on call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and three hundred sixty-five days a year. In the past year, our DAT volunteers have responded to over 300 fires, helping 1,435 clients get back on their feet by offering mental health counseling, social service referrals, and financial assistance to meet immediate basic needs. We have distributed over $450,000 in the past year to our neighbors affected by disasters, largely residential fires.
During major hurricanes, floods and other national disasters, Middle Tennessee is a major resource of volunteers for National Red Cross relief operations. A cadre of our volunteers is regularly deployed for three weeks assignments, often in adverse conditions, to provide aid to devastated communities.
In addition to helping neighbors in Middle Tennessee, around the country and around the world recover from disasters, our local volunteers teach community, faith-based, and corporate groups how to prevent and prepare for emergencies. This corps of extraordinary humanitarians is committed to the Red Cross mission of helping people prevent, prepare and respond to disasters.
Click here to register for a "Join the 10,000" orientation and begin volunteering for the Red Cross.
Health & Safety: Saving Lives
The Nashville Area Red Cross offers life-saving training classes, including Adult and infant CPR, First AID, babysitting training, Automated External Defibrillator classes and lifeguard classes. Our trained volunteers and staff come to your business, church or school and give you the tools necessary to save a life. Volunteers also reach the children in our community. They perform hearing and sight screenings for every first, third, and fifth grader in METRO Nashville schools.
Click here to register for a CPR, AED, or other lifsaving class.
International Programs: Restoring Vital Links
Using the latest in computer and telecommunications technology, the Red Cross sends communications on behalf of family members who are facing a serious illness or death of a family member or a birth of a child to members of the U.S. Armed Forces serving all over the world. These communications are delivered around-the-clock.
As part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the American Red Cross collaborates to restore family links of locate loved ones who are missing due to war, natural disaster, or civil unrest and to send Red Cross messages between separated family members. The American Red Cross also runs the Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center, a national clearinghouse for U.S. residents seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Contact Wendy Vermeulen at 615.250.4295 or vermeulenw@usa.redcross.org for more information.