The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a national network of volunteers, organized locally to improve the health and safety of their communities. MRC volunteers include medical and public health professionals, as well as other community members without healthcare backgrounds. MRC units engage these volunteers as well as local and state level partners to strengthen public health, improve emergency response capabilities, and build community resiliency. MRC units prepare for and respond to natural disasters, such as wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, and floods, as well as other emergencies affecting public health, such as disease outbreaks.
What would I do as a Volunteer?
Paulding County MRC volunteers have helped with flu clinics, tornado and flood response. Volunteers have also helped with non-emergency activities. Both medical and non-medical volunteers are essential with every mission.
How do I join Paulding County MRC?
Get Registered. The first step is to sign up at OhioResponds (https://ohioresponds.odh.ohio.gov). This is Ohio’s volunteer registration system and provides a way to send notices to volunteers and gives liability protection for the agency and volunteers.
Get Trained. Next, for the safety and efficiency, volunteers must view basic training videos before their application is accepted.
1. Create an account on MRC TRAIN (www.train.org/MRC)
2. Link Paulding County MRC to your MRC TRAIN account:
Log on to MRC TRAIN, click on your name in the top right, then select Your Profile
On the Manage Groups screen, enter 467 into the Join by Group Code field.
Click the blue Join Button
Click Save on the top right to complete the process.
3. Complete the following mandatory training:
MRC Volunteer Deployment Readiness: Pre-Deployment Course (20 minutes) MRC Train#1086867
MRC Volunteer Deployment Readiness: Deployment and Post-Deployment Course (20 minutes) MRC Train#1086868
4. Email the Paulding County Health Department once you have completed the training at pchd@pcohhd.com
