Welcome to the Carver County MN American Red Cross Chapter

The Carver County Red Cross 2008 Spring Newsletter is now available on-line Spring 2008 Newsletter.pdf

Are YOU Ready to Save a Life !! June 1-7, 2008 marks the first National CPR/AED Awareness Week Learn the skills that could save the life of a friend, family member or co-worker. American Red Cross training can give you the vital knowledge and skills to respond to a life-threatening situation with confidence. Red Cross CPR/AED training will teach you to: Care for conscious and unconscious choking victims Perform CPR Use an automated external defibrillator (AED) on a victim of sudden cardiac arrest Mark your calendar today for our CPR/AED Awareness Week events: June 03, 2008 CPR/AED-Adult 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. June 05, 2008 CPR/AED-Infant/Child 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. June 07, 2008 CPR/AED-Adult/Infant/Child 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (Drawing at each class for First Aid & CPR for Everyone Kit) All Classes held at Chapter Office, Norwood Young America Call: 952-467-4449 or Email: lavonne@carvercountyredcross.org

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ReadyCarver !! Want to Know More about Emergency Preparedness in Carver County ReadyCarver is working to create a culture of preparedness right here in Carver County. ReadyCarver is a partnership between: Carver County Red Cross(ARC), Waconia Area Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Carver County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Their purpose is keep you informed, prepared and connected before and during a disaster. Find out more about ReadyCarver and how it can help you and your family. Click here to visit the ReadyCarver web site ReadyCarver

If You Would Like to HELP US

If you have had the feeling that you would like to become more involved in helping your friends and neighbors in the Carver County community we would welcome your help. Your talents and interests can be matched up with needs in our Local Chapter. Volunteers work on disaster relief like single family house fires, or assistance at bloodmobiles, or teaching community Health and Safety Classes, or Armed Forces Emergency calls. What ever your interest, we will help you find a place. We also need leaders and Chapter Board of Directors members to provide guidance for our Chapters activity.

The American Red Cross as we know it would not exist if it weren't for volunteers. The Carver County Chapter is fortunate to have many caring, dedicated, volunteers who are willing to freely give their time and talents to the Red Cross programs. Nationwide the Red Cross depends on 1.6 million volunteers. Locally we also rely heavily on our volunteers. We can always use more volunteers from our community.

All Red Cross disaster services are FREE. This help is given to people regardless of income, race, religion, or any other personal factors. In order to provide these services we rely heavily on voluntary gifts of time and money from the local community.

Local Carver County Red Cross Chapter Needs:

• Carver Red Cross Board and Committees need members, Finance, Service Delivery, and Human Resources.
• Special Fund raising Projects, staffing of booths at Fire Station and Fair open houses.
• Disaster Volunteers for local emergencies, Fires, Drowning, Support for Disaster workers, Education, Liaison to local Government agencies, etc.
• Public Relations, Logistics, Communications, Mass Care, Nursing, Mental Health.