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The American Red Cross is where people mobilize to help their neighbors—down the street, across the country, and around the world—in emergencies.
Disaster Services
The mission of the American Red Cross Disaster Services is to ensure disaster planning, preparedness, education, mitigation, and response that will provide quality services.
Red Cross service delivery is completed at three levels of operation:
Local Operations: Disaster Action Teams respond to smaller service area disasters, such as home fires and flooding. Chapters also respond to larger local disasters that require services such as mass feeding and sheltering (generally for disasters affecting 25 or more people).
Regional Level Operations - the American Red Cross Region works as a team to support relief operations throughout Nebgraska and Southeast Iowa.
National Level Operations – When necessary, the American Red Cross national organization provides support to the chapters in our area with human and material resources to assist with large-scale disasters. Conversely, when a major disaster occurs elsewhere in the United States, volunteers from the our region deploy to the disaster-affected area to help their neighbors in need. Click here to learn more about Disaster Services
Services to the Armed Forces
 When a military family experiences a crisis, the American Red Cross is there to assist by providing emergency communications twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year. The Red Cross relays urgent messages containing accurate, factual, complete and verified descriptions of the emergency to service members stationed anywhere in the world, including ships at sea, embassies and remote locations. Click here to learn more about Services to the Armed Forces
Restoring Family Links
Armed conflict and natural disaster leave millions of people around the globe in urgent need of humanitarian assistance every year. Adding to the physical losses, the  confusion and chaos surrounding war and natural disasters often separates families when they need each other most. Tragically, when families and loved ones are separated by war or disaster, their suffering is greater. But, through the strength of the global Red Cross and Red Crescent network and the assistance of local tracing volunteers around the world families reconnect. Click here to learn more about Restoring Family Links
First Aid Services
 The Cornhusker Chapter First Aid Services Team is licensed by the state of Nebraska to provide emergency medical services in Lancaster County. Trained Team Members provide first aid services for spectators, audiences and participants at UNL athletic events, Lied Center performances, Pershig Center events, Midgit Football games, Saltdog baseball games and other one time events in the community. Are you organizing a community or athletic event? Will you know what to do when someone becomes overheated, scrapes their knee, breaks an arm or goes into cardiac arrest? With American Red Cross First Aid Services on the scene, you won’t have to worry about first aid. Click here to learn more about Firsr Aid Services
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