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Developing: Key Activities

The information on starting a Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) unit in this publication is intended to support the following ongoing efforts:

1. Advertising your MRC unit so that prospective volunteers know what your MRC does, what you need, and how to contact you.
    
2. Establishing and maintaining clear and honest communication with every volunteer, from the first interview, through the screening process, and in each training, exercise, deployment, and post-response activity that follows.
    
3. Giving your volunteers what they need to be effective, whether that means supporting their need for satisfaction in work, providing additional training, offering clear guidelines for activation, checking on their well-being following utilization, recognizing their efforts, or demonstrating your commitment to them through public advocacy on their behalf.
    
4. Recognizing your volunteers as the MRC’s most critical resource. This means keeping them in mind and heart as you plan for your MRC’s future.
   

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Last Updated on 8/29/2006