Back in college I spent a summer lifeguarding, teaching swimming lessons, and coaching swim team at an all-girls sleep away camp in upstate New York.
Author: Erin Ferris
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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.
It’s Here…Hurricane Season 2012
The 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially begins on June 1st.
National Mental Health Month 2012
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
Civil War on Sunday
Clara Barton shows up in the Magic Tree House book “Civil War on Sunday”.
Happy National Nurses Week!
“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
How to Save a Life
Are you looking for a summer job? One that will be fun, meaningful, rewarding, and always in high demand? One that will put you in a position to actually save lives?
I Feel the Temperature Rising
I realize the topic may have seemed a bit odd considering we were/are midway through spring and quickly approaching summer, but if you recall, much of the world was talking Titanic that week. And if the night the Titanic sank didn’t bring about a cold-related emergency, I don’t know what does.
National Volunteer Week 2012
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?)
What the Titanic Taught Me: A Lesson in Hypothermia
Don’t get me wrong – I didn’t need a first aid class instructor to tell me that Jack, Rose, and the other passengers on the Titanic suffered from hypothermia. What I hadn’t been able to figure out (or Google, since we weren’t yet Googling back then), was why the cold led to Jack’s death and not Rose’s.