What does the Red Cross do in Brookings County?
The Red Cross in Brookings has a long and rich history of meeting the needs of the Brookings County Community.The Red Cross provides Disaster Response Services:
Red Cross disaster relief
focuses on meeting people's immediate emergency disaster-caused needs.
When a disaster threatens or strikes, the Red Cross provides shelter,
food, and health and mental health services to address basic human
needs. In addition to these services, the core of Red Cross disaster
relief is the assistance given to individuals and families affected by
disaster to enable them to resume their normal daily activities
independently.
The Red Cross provides CPR Training:
The Brookings Red Cross has
long been on the front lines in providing CPR, and first aid
instruction. Red Cross Preparedness programs in CPR are
available for any age and can be tailored to the needs of specific
groups and individuals. Whether you work with children, want training
for employees, are a professional rescuer, or simply want to know how
to help someone in an emergency, the American Red Cross has a program
for you.
The Red Cross provides water safety instruction:
Nearly 2 million people learn to swim each year with American Red Cross programs, and the American Red Cross trains more than 170,000 lifeguards each year.The American Red Cross can provide the best training and tips on how to be safe in, on, and around the water!
The Red Cross provides Contact Assistance for members of the Armed Services:
Both active duty and community-based military can count on the Red Cross to provide emergency communications that link them with their families back home, access to financial assistance, counseling and assistance to veterans. Red Cross Armed Forces Emergency Services personnel work in nearly 800 chapters in the United States, on 62 military installations around the world and with our troops in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq.