Brisbane Information Sessions Start Soon!

Earlier this week I read an article online about the silliest questions asked of travel agents. Two of my favourites were “Can I catch a train from Fiji to Cairns?” and “Where can I change my money in Tasmania before I go to Australia?”.  

 

Sometimes when I’ve been conducting Personal Support training, i’ve gotten similarly left-field questions. We can all ask pretty random questions when we don’t know all the facts.

 

In the past, when I’ve been training new volunteers for Emergency Services, participants’ questions have come out of left field, mostly because people didn’t know what Personal Support was, before they signed up for the training. And understandably so – ‘personal support’ can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Is it first aid? Is it counselling? Is it making sandwiches?

 

The Red Cross is known across the world as a leading humanitarian agency – and yet in Australia, the image of ladies in aprons giving out pikelets and tea for the SES volunteers is still prevalent... In an emergency, Red Cross is about much more than that, and these days it plays a much more crucial role than a lot of people realise!

 

Have you watched coverage of an emergency, like Black Saturday or Cyclone Larry, and wondered what happens on the ground? Where do the evacuated people go? Who manages the evacuation centres? What about families who have been separated? How are they reunited? Red Cross is involved in all of this, and you can be too.

 

The Red Cross Brisbane office has introduced 2 hour Information Sessions where people who are interested in volunteering with Red Cross Emergency Services can find out what Red Cross does in an emergency, all the different types of work that personal support encompasses and what an Red Cross Emergency Services volunteer can expect when they’re activated.

 

In that two hours, you can figure out if it’s something you could, and would want to, do! If it clicks, you can sign up as a volunteer and then sign up for the PST training – where you may just meet me!

 

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