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 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:

Diane Young, associate director
E-mail: dyoung@martinvolunteers.org
Phone: (772) 220-4472, ext. 228