WFL DRI Resilience Volunteer Youth Corps Training

This Work Group will design a 5 day curriculum, schedule, and programming in coordination with the various liaisons to professional groups and individuals that will be providing training.

The working draft of the current flyer, and the text below excerpted from the grant proposal should serve as guides for this Work Group.

Text from the proposal:

The partners in Lee and Collier counties will cooperate in contacting a stormwater manager, relevant Emergency Management Departments and Fire Departments, the American Red Cross, relevant Departments of Public Safety, Lee Health, people who worked served on the Rising Together outreach teams, elderly residents and their caregivers, the Collier County NAACP, and others.

Training will likely include: food handling, interacting with the elderly and with the common medical equipment they may have, storm drain awareness, flood safety, contaminated water, Know Your Flood Zone, volunteer procedures such as signing up as a volunteer, reporting to work after a hurricane or other disaster, using radios to communicate, how to protect your back when you lift,, family preparedness, navigators for registration for government services and ESE transportation. There will also be brief training that prepares volunteers and community members to use the West Florida Resilience System’s “We Have/We Need” Forum that matches resources to needs during disaster response. Hurricane supplies will be packaged for elderly residents, and volunteers will be trained to deliver them to elderly residents.  The 9th - 12th graders will be publicly acknowledged as volunteer leaders, will assist in supervising young volunteers who have not received training, and will be eligible to receive letters documenting community service hours and letters of recommendation after volunteer service has been completed.