SC DPH Midlands Region Medical Reserve Corps

‘Until Help Arrives’ is a class by FEMA that teaches individuals to take immediate action by using basic skills to keep people alive until professional emergency personnel arrive at a scene. 

1. Organize and train healthcare professionals and non-medical volunteers to respond to the specific needs for the community, thereby enhancing local emergency response efforts, especially to large-scale emergencies;
2. Provide reserve capacity at the community level to respond to local public and community health needs and priorities; 
3. Create a framework to match both medical and non-medical volunteer skills with the community's health needs;
4. Draw a wide variety of local people into volunteer medical services;
5. Maintain volunteer credentials, contact information, and other relevant information in a database, so that during times of critical need, the volunteer may be rapidly deployed to assist the community's response.