Volunteer

Medical Reserve Corps - MRC

The Cowley County MRC is a partnership with the City-Cowley County Health Dept, Cowley County Emergency Management and the Local Emergency Planning Committee.

The Cowley County MRC unit is community- based and functions to locally organize and utilize medical volunteers. When a public health emergency occurs, the need for volunteers will be tremendous. Cowley County MRC will be used to supplement existing emergency services when a disaster is of a magnitude that overwhelms those existing resources. Further, Cowley County MRC volunteers can provide relief for overworked workers in the event of an emergency.

Visit Cowley County Emergency Management for more information and to fill out an application.

Community Emergency Response Team - CERT

The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) concept was developed and implemented by the City of Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) in 1985. They recognized that citizens would very likely be on their own during the early stages of a catastrophic disaster. The LAFD decided that some basic training in disaster survival and rescue skills would improve the ability of citizens to survive until first responders or other assistance could arrive.

The training program that the LAFD initiated proved to be so beneficial that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) felt that the concept and the program should be available to communities nationwide. In 1994, the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) expanded the CERT materials to make them applicable to all hazards.

Visit Cowley County Emergency Management for more information and to fill out an application.

Volunteer Registry

Become a Public Health Emergency volunteer with the State of Kansas Volunteer Registry.