How many of you have gone to the American Red Cross?? How was it? what do they offer? help?? answer asap plz!?
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We had a major fire in our home. A Red Cross worker was at our house within an hour, they put us in a local motel for 3 days, paid for meals (for 5 people) for 7 days, paid for clothes and shoes for everyone, bought new beds (one full and 2 twins) and two clothes dressers, bought new sheets, towels, pillows and quilts. They also brought food for our place when we moved. They gave the baby then 10 years old a stuffed animal which she carried to school and slept with.
550447
I did this already in Red Cross, wish  I can give you tutorials. Be precise and exact, summarize it. Understand it and search the internet. Prepare for it and just be confident! I did use MS powerpoint, and I had a testimonial from live AIDS patient.
217672
i am from the hurricane area and there is big bucks to be made here..... the more workers the better..... it still looks like hell here..... i dont know that fema is looking but you can come here yourself and do it or you can find someone to work with..... i know people that live here and started to do this work and are now just short of 1 million dollars in their accounts....but those are the money hungry peeps..... so i dont know... you can volunteer or you can charge... which ever way the people will be thankfull... the waiting periods are so long right now....
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Call your local American Red Cross. They offer BCLS classes in virtually every community. They are often free.
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This happened to me last December.  I wound up in ICU.  What to do about my disabled/non-driver husband, the house, getting around etc.  The Hospital I was in sent a Case Manager (an RN with Social Services training etc) to visit me in.  She really helped.  I could not believe the amount of available services in my area.  There are Catholic Charities, Jewish Chariles, Lutheran Charities,  none of whom care what (or if) your religion is.  There is a low/no fee medical or seniors transportation service.  The list went on and on.  If you have the $ or not, services are available.   Hopefully,  so are REAL friends!!
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Red Cross will help, so will the Salvation Army.  Check with local churches, sometimes they can help too.  If there is a Senior Citizen Center close where you live, they might be able to help out.  Put jars, for people to throw change in at local businesses, that will let you leave them there.
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I've looked into it quite a bit, & even the red cross charges a small fee. The company/organization that you work for may be able to offer you free training. Often they are happy to have employees trained in first aid, and are willing to pay the fee. I also believe that if you volunteer for the red cross or other similar organizations they provide free training.Sorry I couldn't be more help. If I find anything free I will add it on.
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You don't ding dong you have to show up at the Medicaid Office, and wait in line to make an appointment. You will then be issued a counselor that will evaluate your case. It is a process to see if you qualify. Otherwise if your starving go to the Salvation Army, or St.Vincents DePauw. These are Catholics that provide help. Conservatives wont help you, they don't even have any programs. The Red Cross is also Catholic. They were the only ones that showed up at Hurricane Katrina. Go figure HUH!!!!
49420
Your best bet is to contact the Red Cross. They can usually find them pretty quickly. At least within 24 hours or so.
536344
Check with your local Red Cross Chapter or Salvation Army.\n  Some local churches might also have some information.\n  Check with your local Medicaid Office or perhaps the Dept of Human Resources of your state.
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Contact the local chapter of the Red Cross or St Vincent De Paul Society or the Salvation Army, ASAP.  Most of these organizations can assist you in finding emergency housing based on your situation.  Good Luck and God Bless!
779822
I always donate something even if I don't have much to the bell ringer. I think it takes alot of guts to walk by those volunteers and not even so much as say "Merry Christmas". I always pack my girls some change in their purse (they are 5 & 7) and they always put something in. Merry Christmas to you and thank you for donating your time!
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I chose nursing.  I am still going to school for it, but honestly, I cant think of a more rewarding Job in the world.  School to become an RN with a BSN is very difficult, and although there is a shortage in nurses it is very competitive to get into nusing schools.  I chose this field, because I love people.  Not only that, but I want to make a difference in peoples lives.  So, you might say, why not be a teacher, or some other public figure.  Well, because I really beleive that the one thing that you can offere people that is more than money, more than a house to live in, more than clothing on their back, is health, and God.  My dream since as long as I can remember, was to go to other countries, or even our own country, and help the less fortunate.  I feel that it is my calling in life.  I want to offer my knowldge to people who it can really really help.  People in africa who are fighting to stay alive dont care about history, or math even.  They care about staying alive and improving their quality of life as much as they can.  When I finish school, I want to form a group with some of the churches in my area, and start a missionary/health care team who will travel to other countries and within our own, and take care of people with a christian attitude.  Whether they have money or not.... no matter what their circumstances.  Insurance is a joke when you look at the world and the innocent people dying of diseases.  I want to form an education team to travel through Africa and teach the risk of HIV and AIDS.  I know that getting this money is probably going to be the hardest thing... but I have faith in God.  I know this is what I am supposed to do, and I am going to do it.  Pray for me :-)
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Probably the best can be the Red Cross, check this link ;)
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To tell you the truth I don't know. I am going to school to become a Paramedic right now. I am in the EMT-Basic class. I can tell you this if you go to a community college that offers the EMT classes Financial Aid will pay for it. I am going to Schoolcraft College in Livonia, Michigan where I am taking the emt basic class and next semester the Paramedic class and finacial aid is paying for everything. Also, if you do not go to a community college and you go somewhere else to get your liscense I do know that a lot of ambulance companies do offer tuition reimbersment. Suce as where I am at Medic One, Huron Valley Ambulance, Community EMS, etc. all of them offer tuition rembursiment after you get your liscene and get hired on. I hope this helps and the best of luck.
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I am a Respiratory Therapist student and i too was seeking advice.  A woman named Lee1946 helped me out tremedously.  I hope she wont mind but this is what she said to me.  She sounds incredibly wise and i would hate for you not to hear from her too. :)\n\nLee1946- Much of what is really good about being an RT can also be a negative. I wrote to another RT student and said that everyday as an RT you will be challenged physically, emotionally and intellectually....and this is true and it is wonderful. The down side? Often you go home exhausted....physically, emotionally and intellectually. I led a fairly sheltered life before I became an RT more than 35 years ago. Since then I have had to work under extraordinary circumstances that never had been a part of in my life. Code Calls....abused babies and children, suicide attemps....(some who made it, others who didn't), car accidents, drug over doses, debilitating illness, extraordinary burns. No matter how rich or how poor...or what life style a person lives, you need to care for them and care about them. You also need to care for the people who love them. One of the worse times was when a nurse I worked with came into our ER in full cardio-pulmonary arrest and another was when the grandbaby of a friend came into the ER in full CP arrest. You may feel your heart is being ripped out....but you keep doing what you need to do for as long as you need to do it...the real tears come later, at home...and/or the next day when all who participated in such a Code gather together and hang onto each other. \n\nYou learn to keep an open mind about people and let go of first judgements based on race, culture, religion, politics and financial status. Hospitals are great equalizers and you will be needed as much by one person as another. You will become a better person and richer emotionally if you allow them all to be a part of your life as you have become part of their life....even if its only for a few minutes in a life time of minutes.\n\nI have used RT to travel to many areas of the USA, working with people who have walked a different path than my own and I worked in Saudi Arabia because it was important to me to know about a culture as different from my own as possible. When we went through orientation before traveling to Saudi Arabia, we were taught that it wasn't our job to change people... people had the right to be themselves, to their own culture, their own religion, their own politics. This was a "light bulb" moment for me AND a LIFE lesson....and this belief has opened many doors and taught me to be a better listener.\n\nThe pay is good, better in some places than others....I am rarely bored and I am a valuable member of a team. This is wonderful also....but then again, I have wanted to drown my beeper (accidently in the toilet) on many occassions when it keeps going off. The hallways of the hospital can seem to get very long, very quickly on an especially busy night (I work nights)..or day. I have on occassion tried to think of something "different" to do and so far...nothing comes to mind, except maybe retirement in a couple of years.\n\nThe disadvantages....you work with sick people who may be contagious, you need to take care when lifting patients, working with needles, working with aggressive patients that might take a swing at you, working with patients covered in "poop", blood, urine etc. It rarely happenes anymore....but I will on occassion "gag" on something gross....but you still forge ahead with whatever your duties are. You wash your hands hundreds of times a shift it would seem (even after wearing gloves)and your hands can become raw...especially in winter months. I take advantage of my time off to get my hands in good shape, but sometimes my hands look older and feel older the the rest of me. You will deal with it and everything else that right now you cannot imagine dealing with, no matter how small, or how big or how easy
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well im pretty sure you have to be 16 to have a actual american red cross cert. \nbut theres a program called guard start im sure you can order the packets online they helped me tons \nits got everything in it almost \nalso remeber you have to swim to get your cert too \n\nGOOD LUCK