PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

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Emergency Services

For many years, the Coles and Clark County Branch Office has been proud to serve as East Central Illinois’ most crucial, non-governmental provider of Emergency Services, including Disaster Relief and Armed Forces Emergency Services.

Disaster Relief

The top priority of the American Red Cross is to provide disaster relief to individuals, families and communities who have been affected by various forms of disaster.

During disasters, we seek to minimize loss, comfort victims, and help them restart their lives by providing basic necessities
including:

• Food, clothing, temporary shelter, first aid, and mental-health counseling.
  
  
• The Red Cross also assists emergency responders through mobile feeding, handles inquiries from concerned family members outside the disaster area, and helps those affected by disaster to access other available resources, if necessary

On average, the Red Cross, Coles & Clark County, IL Branch Office responds to a disaster every three days and provides nearly $25,000 in direct financial assistance to hundreds of individuals and families each year.

Red Cross disaster assistance is available to all residents in the Coles & Clark County, IL Branch Office’s jurisdiction (Coles and Clark counties) who have been affected by disaster and the responding emergency workers.

• Families that are highest at risk for disasters are the members of the community who are low-income and/or suffer other disadvantages.
  
  
• American Red Cross assistance allows affected families to stay intact and afloat until they are able to recover, so as not to force them into a state of homelessness or devastation from which they may not recover.

Armed Forces
Emergency Services

The Red Cross is chartered by the United States Congress to act as a communications medium between military personnel and their families. However, it receives no governmental funding for the program.

The United States Armed Forces recognizes American Red Cross emergency messages as the verifying source of an individual crisis in a military member’s family.

• This information enables commanders to make informed decisions regarding emergency leave when a military family faces crises such as death, critical illness, financial problems or birth. The American Red Cross is the ONLY agency that can provide emergency communications for military members and their families.

To reach a Service to the Armed Forces caseworker or for Service to the Armed Forces-related assistance, please call (877) 272-7337.

Health & Safety Services
For more than a century, the American Red Cross has been saving lives with health and safety education programs. The Coles & Clark County, IL Branch Office of the American Red Cross offers a variety of Health and Safety services, including training such as First Aid, CPR, Lifeguard Training, AED (Automated External Defibrillation), HIV/AIDS, and Babysitters Training. American Red Cross programs help people live safer and healthier lives. The Red Cross constantly strives to respond to the health and safety concerns of Americans at home, in school and in the workplace.

Community Health & Safety

• Training & Educational Opportuinites: First-Aid
• CPR (Adult, Infant/Child, and Professional Rescuer)
• Automated External Defibrillation (AED)
• Lifeguard Training
• Babysitter’s Training
• Sport Safety Training
• Volunteer Instructor Training Courses
• First-Aid Stations
• Health Fairs

Corporate Health & Safety

• Full Service Training - Available any time, any place you choose!
• AP-Instructor Training - Train your own in-house instructor!
• Business Emergency Planning Association – Prepare your business for the unthinkable!
• Automated External Defibrillator- Purchase facilitation and training!