What is a volunteer reception center?
When a disaster occurs in a community volunteers come running to help. Sometimes hundreds or even thousands of them will arrive with the best intentions and with skills that are urgently needed but all too often these volunteers aren’t associated with any recognized disaster response agency. Even volunteers that are linked to disaster response agency need to have a place to report in order to be assigned to an area that can use their particular skills. What volunteers do and how they are utilized has tremendous impact on how quickly and effectively a community recovers so efficient and organized deployment of all responding volunteers is crucial Read aticle by: Kathy Lehr Originally designed to incorporate spontaneous volunteers into the response for a natural or manmade disaster, we also process pre-registered, task-identified Ohio Citizen Corps volunteers, pre-registered professional medical volunteers who are members of the Ohio Medical Reserve Corps, and, where possible, through ri
