New Program: FEMA Corps
Posted by on April 02, 2012
New FEMA-AmeriCorps Partnership Strengthens Response, Recovery Efforts Following Disasters
This week, FEMA and CNCS announced an innovative new partnership designed to continue to strengthen the nation’s ability to respond to and recover from disasters while expanding career opportunities for young people. FEMA Corps is a historic collaboration which will create a new unit of AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) whose members will be devoted solely to FEMA disaster response, and recovery efforts. The five-year agreement provides for a full service corps of 1,600 members annually. Once trained by FEMA and CNCS, members will provide support in areas ranging from working directly with disaster survivors to supporting disaster recovering centers to sharing valuable disaster preparedness and mitigation information with the public. The first members will begin serving in August 2012 and the program will reach full capacity within 18 months. Learn more: http://bit.ly/GOQXoF
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