VOLUNTEER : Domestic Disaster Recovery
Bilingual volunteers needed!
Connect hurricane survivors with cleanup assistance!
Hurricane Fiona caused home damage across many municipios in Puerto Rico. Week of Compassion is seeking volunteers to work with our partner, Crisis Cleanup, to help staff a call center. Volunteers will receive calls from survivors through a web-based platform and enter their needs on an interactive map used to coordinate volunteer cleanup teams.
Volunteers need to be conversational in English and Spanish and have access to a computer with internet. The call center operates 7 days a week, 9am - 8pm EST. Crisis Cleanup does not require volunteers to fill quotas or work predetermined shifts, but the recommendation is for volunteers to aim for 5-8 hours per week. Self-paced training is available in English, and training in Spanish will be available soon.
For more information, email Week of Compassion. To sign up as a volunteer, register at Crisis Cleanup.
(Use volunteer@weekofcompassion.org as “existing user email”.)
Volunteers need to be conversational in English and Spanish and have access to a computer with internet. The call center operates 7 days a week, 9am - 8pm EST. Crisis Cleanup does not require volunteers to fill quotas or work predetermined shifts, but the recommendation is for volunteers to aim for 5-8 hours per week. Self-paced training is available in English, and training in Spanish will be available soon.
For more information, email Week of Compassion. To sign up as a volunteer, register at Crisis Cleanup.
(Use volunteer@weekofcompassion.org as “existing user email”.)
¡Necesitamos Voluntarios Bilingues!
¡Para conectar personas afectadas por el huracan
con asistencia de limpieza!
El huracán Fiona causó daños a hogares a través de muchos municipios en Puerto Rico. Week of Compassion está buscando voluntarios que junto a nuestros compañeros en Crisis Cleanup puedan ayudar virtualmente al Centro de Llamadas. Voluntarios recibirán llamadas de personas afectadas a través de una plataforma virtual y añadirán las necesidades en un mapa interactivo usado por voluntarios para coordinar la limpieza.
Los voluntarios deben sentirse cómodos conversando en Inglés y en Español y tener acceso a la computadora y al internet. El centro de llamadas opera 7 días a la semana de 9am a 8pm hora Este. Crisis Cleanup no requiere que los voluntarios cumplan con cuotas de llamada y los horarios son flexibles, pero recomendamos que los voluntarios estén disponibles de 5-8 horas por semana. La orientación para comenzar a tomar llamada está pre-grabada en Inglés y pronto estará disponible en Español.
Para mas informacion, envie un correo electrónico a Week of Compassion.
Para registrarse como voluntario, visite a Crisis Cleanup.
(Use volunteer@weekofcompassion.org en el primer espacio que pide “existing user email”.)
Los voluntarios deben sentirse cómodos conversando en Inglés y en Español y tener acceso a la computadora y al internet. El centro de llamadas opera 7 días a la semana de 9am a 8pm hora Este. Crisis Cleanup no requiere que los voluntarios cumplan con cuotas de llamada y los horarios son flexibles, pero recomendamos que los voluntarios estén disponibles de 5-8 horas por semana. La orientación para comenzar a tomar llamada está pre-grabada en Inglés y pronto estará disponible en Español.
Para mas informacion, envie un correo electrónico a Week of Compassion.
Para registrarse como voluntario, visite a Crisis Cleanup.
(Use volunteer@weekofcompassion.org en el primer espacio que pide “existing user email”.)
Volunteering in disaster-affected communities is a powerful way to help our neighbors recover and bring hope in the midst of struggle. We have seen Disciples make the greatest impact by volunteering where recovery efforts are ongoing, once the community has had a chance to identify their unmet needs and get organized. While there is often an abundance of donations and volunteers in the first days and weeks following a disaster, there is great need of willing hands for months and years as communities rebuild. Week of Compassion works to support local congregations to provide relief in the early days and to coordinate resources and volunteers from across the church for long-term recovery.
We continue working with our partners to mitigate the risks of COVID-19 for our volunteers and the communities we serve.
Week of Compassion requires all volunteers who are eligible to receive the vaccine do so before serving.
Each partner has site-specific protocols as well.
Week of Compassion requires all volunteers who are eligible to receive the vaccine do so before serving.
Each partner has site-specific protocols as well.
Current Volunteer OpportunitiesWe have active volunteer sites in Kentucky, Louisiana, and North Carolina. For more details and registration information see the map to the right or fill out a Volunteer Interest Form.
For information about other ongoing responses,
visit our Domestic Disaster Response page. Prepare for future mission opportunities by 1) becoming more disaster-ready as a household or congregation; 2) developing skills in home repair; and 3) advocating for local, state, and federal policies that promote adequate and equitable disaster recovery.
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Disaster Volunteering Map - active volunteer opportunity (COVID-19 protocol in place)
- volunteer opportunity in development For more information about volunteering, to register your group, or for help identifying disaster response opportunities in your area, click the Volunteer Interest Form above. |
Children's Disaster Services Volunteer Training
Children’s Disaster Services is a Church of the Brethren Disaster Ministry that involves volunteers from many faith communities who provide a calm, safe and reassuring presence in the midst of the chaos that follows disaster by setting up and operating special childcare centers in disaster locations. Parents are then able to apply for assistance and begin to put their lives back together, knowing their children are safe.
The training will allow you to understand and respond to children who have experienced a disaster, and the information learned at this training can be beneficial to anyone working with children.
CDS provides specialized training for all its volunteers. The CDS Volunteer Training is a comprehensive 25-hour event that uses applied, experiential activities to help the participants integrate their learning.
The training will allow you to understand and respond to children who have experienced a disaster, and the information learned at this training can be beneficial to anyone working with children.
CDS provides specialized training for all its volunteers. The CDS Volunteer Training is a comprehensive 25-hour event that uses applied, experiential activities to help the participants integrate their learning.
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Upcoming CDS Volunteer Trainings:October 21 - 22 Portland, Oregon information registration October 28 - 29 West Point, Nebraska information registration |
Give Time & Treasure
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Money is the best donation you can make following a disaster. The very thing that can make cash unsatisfying for the donor - that it lacks specificity - is what makes it useful for the affected communities! The vast majority of donations (up to two-thirds, according to some experts) come in during the first two months following a disaster, but needs continue for years as communities rebuild. Monetary donations can be put to use in the first few days of a disaster response, or they can be held to meet longer term needs.
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