Board of Directors
September 26, 2001
Red Cross Relief Efforts

UPDATE
 

Disaster Services 

Louisville Area Chapter

· 24 Red Cross Volunteer and Paid Staff from the state of Kentucky have been assigned to one of the three Disaster Areas 

· 3 Emergency Response Vehicles are still in the affected areas. 
 
 

Armed Forces Emergency Services – 9/14/01

Louisville Area Chapter

Since September 11, 2001, the Louisville Case Management Center has serviced 593 cases.  The Center has shifted back to a normal mode of operation with a heightened state of readiness for the implementation of “Operation Enduring Freedom”.  Currently the Center is operating with 11 paid and volunteer staff per day around the clock.

A “Get to Know Us Before You Need Us” Committee has been formed.  The Mission of this Committee is to contact every National Guard and Reserve unit in the state to offer deployment briefings and information to the service members’ families regarding Red Cross services should an emergency occur in the family while the service member is deployed.  The Center is also coordinating with the Kentucky National Guard Family Programs officer to implement support groups for the service families.  The estimated strength of the Kentucky National Guard and Reserves is just over 5000 troops.
 

River Valley Blood Region 
Blood Units Collected

September 11– 25, 2001

Total Collections – 11,549
 

Office of Volunteers and Health and Human Services

Louisville Chapter

The Office of Volunteers is working diligently to see that follow-up is made with every person who has offered to volunteer for this crisis.  Orientation classes are at an all-time high.

Volunteer nurses have desperately been needed in the Chapter during times of disaster and to provide other services.  During this past five months, the Recruitment and Retention Committee has focused on this need and began target recruitment.  The Nursing Corps was formed.  Following this crisis, the department began training 40 new volunteers that are medically trained and an additional 23 are to begin the training process during the next week. 
 

Junior Red Cross

Louisville Area Chapter

Junior Red Cross maintains an ongoing relationship with five school systems in the greater metropolitan area.  Many of these schools have been calling for help with their Red Cross projects such as writing cards and letters and fund-raising projects.  The following schools have contributed to disaster relief:

Meredith Dunn School
Lassiter Middle School
Lowe Elementary School 
Minors Lane Elementary School
Roby Elementary School, Bullitt County
Saint Patrick School
 
 

Financial Development

Louisville Area Chapter

To date, over $500,000 has been raised locally for the National Disaster Relief Fund.

New Donations: Mother’s Cookies, The Night Hawgs Motorcycle Club, LG&E Foundation

New Schools: Wilder Elementary, Walden School, Gardiner Lane Elementary, St. Leonard’s School, St. Joseph’s

New Fund-Raising Projects:

· Belle of Louisville will hold a cruise on October 11th.  All Proceeds will benefit Red Cross Relief Efforts.   

· Gold Craft Associates, Inc. will be donating a portion of their “USA” lapel pins and bracelets to the Relief Efforts.

· WAVE-3 TV and Hawley Cooke book stores have designed a poster that will be sold in all of their stores.  Proceeds from the posters will to go disaster relief.

· Meeting with Churchill Downs next week to discuss possible fund-raiser with them.
 
 

For more Red Cross information you can log on to the National Red Cross website:  www.redcross.org  

Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
 
 

Douglas G. O’Donnell, Ed.D.
Manager