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Coordinating: Identifying Activities During Non-emergency Periods

Once an emergency has passed and all after-action reviews have been completed, the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit’s activities will return to its typical daily routine. This may entail continued planning with response partners, an ongoing part of each MRC unit’s ordinary activities—particularly for the unit coordinator or leader.

In addition to supporting your response partners by supplementing their missions and ongoing responsibilities, you also can be more proactive and identify other activities suitable for your MRC volunteers during non-emergency periods that will meet previously unidentified needs of your response partners.

When expanding and developing your network, you may partner with organizations that previously were not part of your original community response group and whose needs may be less emergency oriented.

Regardless, you strengthen the bonds with your response partners and nurture belonging and the commitment experienced by your volunteers; both are necessary to sustaining your unit.

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Last Updated on 8/18/2006