[Community-service] emergency and disaster volunteers

Denise Shaible denise.shaible at att.net
Wed Jul 24 02:28:59 UTC 2013


I have taken training with the American Red Cross when I lived in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.  I took a class which prepares people for work in shelters when there are hurricanes.  Unfortunately, my biggest hurdle was he attitude about working there and I never got to actually use the trainning.  I did, however, take a class in first aid and in CPR.  the trainer did not believe that I as a blind person could do some tasks such as bandaging a wound but, I had no difficulty.  In fact, I had to use this skill on my own thumb when I cut it with a knife.  I would like to take CPR again because I’m aware that there is a new way of doing it.  I also took a class in HIV and AIDS.  for this, I had to pass an exam and I had a reader to help me.  I forgot to say that in all of the hands on classes, the instructor described the technique and put his or her hands on mine to teach me when necessary.  I hope this helps.  As I said, the biggest problem was the negative attitudes toward blind persons.  I think, though, that I showed them a thing or two about blind persons.

One more thing, I volunteered for the American Red Cross in Emergency and Military Services.  I used my Braillenote to take down all of the information I needed to contact the Emergency Teams and Military Personnel.  On one occasion, we had a big fire and I was involved in receiving calls and letting people know about where to donate tings and whom to contact to learn about survivors of the fire.

Regards,

Denise 

From: Ashley Bramlett 
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 4:59 PM
To: Community Service Discussion List 
Subject: [Community-service] emergency and disaster volunteers

Hi Everyone,

I’ve considered taking some type of emergency response training.
There are several training opportunities through my county, fairfax county.

Has anyone taken training like this and used it? If so, what parts were difficult to do with limited or no vision? I would guess that  searching for people would be hard to do. What accomodations did you have?

I’m talking about experiences to train for natural disasters, helping victims, or any medical work. 
For instance working in a fire department, medical reserve core, or community emergency response team. I don’t think we can be parametics because you have to read the screens of medical equipment such as the electrocardiogram, but we could provide first aid or cpr or maybe help in some other way.

I’m going to also ask around if anyone in our chapter has taken CERT training or worked for the volunteer fire department in the office or helped the police. 

Thanks.

Ashley


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