Knoxville Area Chapter Red Cross

Course Descriptions:

Introduction to Disaster Services provides an overview of Red Cross disaster activity. This course is available online at http://www.redcross.org.

ERV: Ready, Set, Roll certifies students to drive the Emergency Response Vehicle. Half-day in class, the other half is road test. Prerequisites: Mass Care: An Overview, Bring copy of following day of course: copy of driving record and  Defensive Driving certificate (available on-line at safetyserve.com/redcross). Must have valid driver’s license and 21 or older.

Fulfilling Our Mission is required for all volunteers and provides the foundation of service delivery standards for the American Red Cross by considering the Fundamental Principles and Values of the Red Cross and how they apply throughout the disaster cycle (prepare, respond and recover).

Financial & Statistical Information teaches students for the basic functions of reporting, tracking expenditures, and processing financial paperwork.  Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission 

Client Casework provides students to initiate client casework and provide emergency financial assistance on a national disaster. Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission

DAT 101 prepares students to be local disaster responders. This course introduces students to the local emergency system and how to respond to disaster victims while on –call.

Shelter Operations prepares students to manage and operate a shelter in a team environment to meet the needs of people affected by a disaster. Prerequisites: Intro to Disaster and Mass Care

Logistics teaches students for the basic functions of managing supplies, facilities, and vehicles.   Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission

Collaborating to Ensure Effective Service Delivery teaches students basic principles on forming community partnerships to enhance and increase service delivery.  Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission  Recommended: FEMA IS-100, 200, 700, 800

Frontline Supervisor teaches principals of supervising other volunteers and how to handle volunteer human resource issues on disaster assignments.  Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission 

Disaster Kitchen Class teaches student how to prepare disaster relief meals using a mobile kitchen. The Spirit of America kitchen is scheduled to come from Roanoake, VA. This is the first time our chapter has offered this course! Prerequisites: Basic Food Safety (available online)

Disaster Kitchen Supervision teaches students how to manage, organize, and supervise the disaster relief kitchen. Prerequisites:  Disaster Kitchen, Logistics, Logistics Simulation, ERV: Ready, Set, Roll, and Shelter Operations 

Mass Casualty in Disaster prepares students with the knowledge necessary to respond to disasters involving a large number of deaths. Prerequisites: Fulfilling Our Mission 

ONLINE COURSES

The following classes are available at https://learningctr.redcross.org/elms/pws/portal.do?siteID=42196%5fResponse. You will need high speed internet access. If you do not have it available at home, computers are available at the Red Cross Chapter or at your local library.

Client Assistance Cards: Caseworkers Course (DSCLS200C)

Client Assistance Cards: Financial and Statistical Information (DSCLS201C)

Fundamental of Staff Services (DSSSS200C)

Fundamentals of Disaster Assessment (Part 1 of 2)

Logistics During Weapons of Mass Destruction/Terrorism Incident (DSMSS200C)

Preparing for and Managing a Spontaneous Volunteer Workforce (DSSSS201C)

Serving People with Disabilities Following a Disaster (DSPSS200B) (PART 1 of 2)

Client Assistance System: Basics

Client Assistance System: Create a Client Case

Client Assistance System: Needs & Assistance

Client Assistance System: Supervisor Functions

Client Assistance System: Chapter Disaster Operations

Client Assistance System: Reports

WebI: Reports

FEMA Courses are available at http://www.fema.gov

Courses are Independent Study 100, 200, 700, 800

Instructions for Red Cross online courses

If you have never taken any Red Cross online courses then...

    1) Click on the self register button.

    2) You will be given a student identification number. Write the id # and your password down and keep it forever!

    3) Once you register and login

    4) Click on Catalog (on left side of screen)

    5) Under course category find Disaster Courses

    6) Hit Search

    7) A list of all the disaster classes available online will appear. Scroll through the screens to find the course you want to take.

    8) When you find the course you want Add to Cart

    9)  Update quantities

    10) You can return to the catalog to add more classes or Checkout

    11) Once you check out, click on the Place Order button

To begin the class you have ordered

     1) Go to DEVELOPMENT PLAN (on left side of screen)

     2) Click BEGIN/TAKE Course

IF YOU HAVE ANY TROUBLE WITH THE ONLINE SYSTEM, CALL RED CROSS USER SUPPORT:  1-888-778-7762. You must be using Internet Explorer or Firefox browsers.