As you might expect, the American Red Cross National Youth Council represents the interests and promotes the involvement of youth and young adults throughout the organization.

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Last Sunday’s New York Times featured an article called 32 Innovations that Will Change Your Tomorrow. As I read through the mind-boggling new features coming our way, I couldn’t help but imagine how they might make it easier to fulfill the American Red Cross mission. If you have more innovation ideas for the Red Cross [...]

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Are you a designer? Like to play with Photoshop? Want to help us by designing a Facebook cover photo?

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Disaster supplies and myths in this edition.

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Disaster Mental Health Workers (DMHW) provide emergency and preventive mental health services to those affected by disasters, as well as to Red Cross volunteers and employees involved with disaster relief operations

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“Nursing is an art, and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter’s or sculptor’s work, for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body? Nursing is one of the Fine Arts; I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”
~ Florence Nightingale

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The Red Cross would not exist without the support of generous volunteers…an estimated 650,000 volunteers. (There are more Red Cross volunteers than there are residents in Wyoming – crazy, right?)

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I can’t be there, and the only peace I find is that which comes from knowing that the best of the best – Red Cross disaster volunteers – are there in my place.

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If you’re anything like me, you probably haven’t followed through – at least not 100% – on your New Year’s Resolutions.

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Next up on our list is some kind of Red Cross cupcake…great, now I’m hungry for cupcakes…and perhaps, if I’m feeling really ambitious and patient, a Red Cross knitting project. Check out a few awesome patterns here!

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