By Julieann Jones | Grants Associate
Greetings friends,
We are VERY excited to provide you with an update, now just a few weeks away from the official end of our operational pause. As our team worked through the summer months to map out what the reopening of our programs would ultimately look like, we knew our traditional volunteer model would need to be revisited. Not only were we considering things like the structure of the base itself and how we could alter the layout to encourage safe disatancing, we also felt we needed to identify a way to minimize risks for our staff, volunteers, and beneficiaries over extended periods of time. In order to address this concern, our team came up with a new volunteer recruitment and engagement strategy called DM12.
DM12 is a 12-week service commitment to communities impacted by natural disasters. The group structure, with participants arriving/departing program and working on the same 12-week schedule, reduces potential exposure points to COVID-19. This initiative will replace our regular volunteer application and acceptance process until we are safely and effectively able to mobilize and engage volunteers on an individual basis.
Two of our staff members just arrived in Florida, and will soon begin working on base adaptations and making preparations so we can open our program out of Jackson/Calhoun Counties as soon as possible. We hope to resume working in Florida starting this October. Thank you for continuing to follow our progress - I look forward to updating you again soon!
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