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Our local American Red Cross Youth Council is in its ninth year of operation and needs your involvement to help create/maintain Red Cross Clubs and Red Cross Service activities in our local schools.  Red Cross Clubs and activities provide service opportunities for youth in their communities, develop their leadership skills, and create friendships through helping others.  These same goals can be achieved by incorporating projects into an existing club at your school. 

Council Program Highlights

Celebrate World Red Cross Day by participating in Measles and Malaria awareness and fundraising projects

Promote National Preparedness Month by sponsoring a table with disaster preparedness information at your back to school night

Participate in Peer to Peer Education   

• peer educational programs

• become a babysitting instructor

• become a certified babysitter

Ì Become a Peer Educator and teach Basic Aid Training to elementary aged children in your community

Ì Become a presenter for our Be Red Cross Ready Program, sharing important information on disaster preparedness to children

Ì Become a Peer Educator and teach Scrubby Bear, a hand-washing program for preschool children

Ì If you are at least 17 years old you can become a babysitting instructor and teach youth in your own community who are between the ages 11-15

Encourage others to save lives:  by hosting or helping out with a blood drive and/or making Red Cross courses available to students in your community more...

Make A Difference Day:  promote a local fundraiser for the Measles Initiative on the largest day of volunteer service in the country more...

Service Projects:  Help the Youth Council support service projects in all of our programs to include Armed Forces, Emergency Services, Blood Services, Disaster Services, Health & Safety Services, and International Services.            

March is Red Cross Month:  Get involved in helping your local chapter awareness and funds for local chapter needs though your school and community

Leadership Training:  Club and/or council membership provides opportunities to attend leadership training seminars and conferences. more...

Jr. Disaster Action Team:  Become a member and learn help to help your community before disaster strikes, when disaster is imminent and during a disaster response more...

Should your school start a Red Cross Club or incorporate these programs into an existing club, student representatives should become members of the Youth Council which will provide them with the tools needed to run a successful program.  Council meetings are usually held on the 1^st Monday of each month.  Membership in the Council is a wonderful opportunity to develop leadership skills as the group plans county-wide events and guides the Red Cross Clubs through the year. 

Interested volunteers should contact Karen Winlund, Volunteer Coordinator at 973-538-2160 x 206 or kwinlund@northwestnjredcorss.org to get started!