Category: red cross

Empowering Kids to Make Their Families Safer

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After graduating from college I moved to Anchorage, Alaska for a year of post-graduate service through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps NW and AmeriCorps. I served as the Preparedness and Casework Specialist for the American Red Cross of Alaska. Though often overlooked, Alaska is the largest state in the country (more than twice as big as Read More >

September 5, 2017 by Sam Johnson, Red Cross Volunteer1 Comment

natural disasters, preparedness, Preparedness Month

#endhomefires, #NatlPrep, children, children’s preparedness, disaster, Emergency kit, home fire safety, national preparedness month, NPM2017, Pillowcase Project, ready, red cross, sound the alarm

Do 1 Thing: First Aid

By Cate Shockey This blog is part of a series, covering a preparedness topic each month from the Do 1 Thing Program . Join us this month to discuss first aid. We’ve all done it. Bumps and bruises are commonplace in every day life. Usually a band-aid and some antiseptic is the right treatment to Read More >

December 23, 2013 by Blog Administrator8 Comments

Do 1 Thing, General, natural disasters, preparedness

CDC, cpr, Do 1 Thing, first aid, red cross