Teams

Animal Response Team
Any volunteer having a background, interest or licensure in animal care is welcome to join the Franklin County & Columbus MRC Animal Response Team (ART). This team seeks to protect the health and respond to the needs of animals involved in a disaster. This may involve containment of animal diseases, animal sheltering and rescue, distribution of medicine to animals and a number of other responses.

Behavioral Health Team
We currently have 79 mental health volunteers, and have just recruited a number of school
counselors as auxiliary help. Our first agenda items include creating protocol sheets for responding volunteers.

POD Team
A POD, or Point of Dispensing, is a method of response in a public health crisis requiring the widespread distribution of medication. In the event of such an emergency, multiple PODs may be set up throughout the community to offer medication to many people. Clinical volunteers such as pharmacists, nurses, paramedics, mental health professionals and
physicians are encouraged to join as well as non-clinical members of the community with traffic control, computer, data entry, management, reception and other skills.

Techie Team
Do you have audio visual or computer talents? If you do, then the MRC needs your help with the Mobile Joint Information Center. The trailer has TVs, satellite dishes, computers, generators and other communications equipment and we are looking for a few good volunteers with the interest and skill to be a part of our Techie Team. This team may also serve other technological needs at a medication center during a disaster, and will help with Operation PIP in August of 2009.

Language Team
Are you fluent in another language in addition to English? Are you willing to volunteer to help with language capabilities during a disaster? We would love to have you serve on a language team! We are focusing on Spanish, American Sign Language and Somali at this point, but please let us know about any language capability you may have.

Advanced Care Shelter Team
Thanks to the generous support of the Central Ohio Trauma System, the Franklin County & Columbus Medical Reserve Corps can now respond to events with a mobile oxygen dispensing system to help support the oxygen needs of the public during a disaster. These trailers can support the oxygen needs of up to 90 people, and can be deployed throughout central Ohio. We are looking for a team of medical volunteers who are willing to be to be deployed with the resource to be trained on the use of this equipment. These trailers will most likely be deployed to a shelter setting.

Medical Reserve Corps Volunteer Handbook

Send an email to mrc@franklincountyohio.gov to join any of our teams.