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Disaster Services
If a disaster occurs, volunteers will come. But how will
they know where to go and what to do? That's where a volunteer reception center
comes in.
Through an agreement with the Martin County Department of
Emergency Management, Martin Volunteers (formerly the Volunteer & Community
Resource Center) is responsible for the establishment of a volunteer
reception center in the event of a disaster. A Martin Volunteers representative will be
stationed at the Emergency Operations Center to relay requests for help to the
volunteer reception center.
At the volunteer reception center, unaffiliated volunteers would be interviewed, registered and assigned to volunteer
duties requested by agencies in Martin County.
In the wake of a disaster, county officials will designate
the location of the volunteer reception center. After the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005, the center was
established at the United Way of Martin County offices, 50 Kindred Street, Suite
207, Stuart.
Martin Volunteers is always looking for volunteers who would be willing to work at the
volunteer reception center in response to disaster.
For further information please contact:
Anne Lalley, project coordinator
E-mail:
alalley@martinvolunteers.org
Phone: (772) 220-4472, ext. 232
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Warm Hearts, Willing Hands |
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Through a project called “Warm
Hearts, Willing Hands,” VISTA member Walt Sawyer is
mobilizing volunteers and resources to help people in low- and
moderate-income 55+ communities.
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Past projects |
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OPERATION STEP UP
From 2002 through 2005, VCRC (now known as Martin Volunteers) earned Operation Step Up grants for local projects
aimed at lessening the effects of disaster and enhancing the community’s ability
to respond.
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CITIZEN CORPS
Martin Volunters (then VCRC) led the way in assembling key leaders in local
government and public health and safety to create a Citizen Corps Council.
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more >>
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