- The American Red Cross
As a right now the American Red Cross is in need of volunteers because of COVID. Volunteers can help by supporting blood donations at blood drives. The Red Cross has a high need for people to transport blood and deliver it to different communities in need. Volunteers can also fill a leadership role which will help contribute to their local communities and increase effectiveness in the American Red Cross. Additionally, volunteers could help during a crisis, support the armed forces, assist with fundraising, and provide office support.
What is their purpose / mission?
The American Red Cross mission is to help people that are suffering in emergencies by volunteering and giving generous donations. The Red Cross wants to help people affects across the world and give them access to safety, blood, shelter, and hope.
What services does the partner provide?
The American Red Cross has community partners that help provide additional assistance. They partner with Costco, Amazon, google, Walmart and many others. The NAACP and the Meals on meals are examples of other partners that are connected to the Red Cross that help them. The NAACP has been alongside with them since1981 and has volunteered in natural disasters to help with relief efforts. Meals on wheels also partners with the American Red Cross and delivers meals and checks on people in different communities.
What needs of the community do they address?
The Red Cross provides emotional support, shelters, and food to community of natural disasters. It also supplies blood and shows communities how’s to save lives.
Why is this organization important to the community?
The Red Cross is important to the community because no matter what they are going to take pride in helping out the community whenever they can no matter the location, ethnicity, or religion. They are mainly a humanitarian group that focuses on needs of the people.
After reflecting on the organization’s goals and mission, have your values, opinions, and/or beliefs about the importance of health changed or grown?
My values on health have grown because just to see how one organization can be so humanitarian and care so much about people it makes me just want to start my career quicker. I always have had a passion to help people and just to see that volunteering with the Red Cross gives you that opportunity to help people in crisis or even if it is just given blood at the end of the day you helped someone. So, I feel like my values on health have grown just because the Red Cross has shown me that I can do things now to help people and impact their lives and that I don’t have to wait until nursing to change lives.
Thinking about the community partner: How do these services relate to your intended career field?
Some of these community partners relate to my intended career field of nursing because the community partners donate medical care, equipment, and food to people that have been affected by natural disasters. It’s similar to nursing because nurses help people that are hurt by providing them with medical care and using the medical equipment need to help them. They also provide them with food in the hospitals and take care just try to get them relief from whatever injuries they have.
What Degree Program (other than your current major) could it relate to?
It could relate to being a Meteorologist because most of these community partners are helping with people that have been affected from Hurricanes and natural disasters. Becoming a meteorologist could help the Red Cross because it would tell them what area they would most likely need to send help and supplies to.
Would you choose to pursue that major as your parallel major?
I would not choose to pursue becoming a meteorologist because I am not interested in the weather. I don’t think I would be interesting in studying the atmosphere and how the atmosphere effects the outcomes on what type of weather we have.