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If you have been previously credentialed or your credentials are going to expire soon, please take the opportunity and get re-credentialed, so that you may be ready to serve when a disaster occurs. Previously credentialed volunteers need to be recredentialed every 3 years. Please click on the “Volunteer Credentialing Guidelines” below to see what you need to do to be re-credentialed.
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Introduction to Disaster Relief, Flood Recovery, and Chainsaw Operation & Safety – Germantown (West TN)
September 16, 2023 – Germantown Baptist Church 9450 Poplar Avenue, Germantown, TN 38139. To pre-register for this class, REGISTER ONLINE – click here. For questions, contact Elizabeth Holmes at [email protected] or (615) 371-7926.
Please pre-register by Monday, September 11, so that we can supply you with the proper training materials and/or lunch count on Saturday.
The credentialing fee is $40 (effective January 1, 2023). This fee will cover not only the cost of the ID, hat, background check, and membership pin, but also the cost of any of the basic training courses a volunteer wants to take over the next 3 years.
To be fully credentialed, you will need to take at least one specialized class after you have taken the prerequisite course of “Introduction to Southern Baptist Disaster Relief.”
7:45 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Registration
8:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. Introduction to Disaster Relief (2-hour class)
10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Flood Recovery
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Lunch (free for the first 50 people who pre-register)
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Chainsaw Operation & Safety
Registration Forms
Disaster Relief volunteers can now download the following forms to their computers and fill them out and bring them with you to training. By typing these forms, you are helping us save time with data entry and increasing our accuracy of keeping your records.
Use this link to find the forms: https://tndisasterrelief.org/registration-forms/