Vermont Emergency Response Volunteers
Thank you for visiting our Emergency Reponse Volunteer site. Over the next several weeks we will be updating these pages in order to provide the most up to date and efficient means for Vermonters to learn more about volunteering to help in the event of a public health emergency. As a result, you may come across links and pages which have been temporarily removed. Please continue to check back to see our progress.
The Health Department Needs Your Help
The Vermont Department of Health is recruiting a select group of volunteers to assist with our response to public health emergencies such as a natural disaster or terrorist event.
A plan is in place for establishing mass clinics, where people will receive medications to prevent them from becoming sick during a disease outbreak or bioterrorist attack. Trained Department of Health staff will set up and manage the clinics, while volunteers take on clinic support roles that strengthen our ability to protect and save lives.
We need volunteers with medical backgrounds, and general volunteers to:
- assist with directing patients
- registration
- filling out forms
- answering phones
- distributing vaccines and other medications.
Volunteers who have English translation skills including sign language are especially needed to work with non-English speaking Vermonters.
The Department of Health is seeking to recruit volunteers who would be willing to work in a vaccination clinic or a mass medication dispensing clinic. Our plan calls for approximately 51 clinics statewide to administer the vaccinations and/or dispense other medications to the entire state population within 48 hours. Volunteers need to be recruited and trained now so that the state will be fully prepared.
VERV Program
The VERV Program (Vermont Emergency Response Volunteers) is a network of trained volunteers ready to assist in our emergency response activities. Joining the VERV Program will allow you to:
- play an essential role in Vermont 's public health emergency response
- help protect your community during a time of need
- learn new information and skills
- meet new people and have a rewarding volunteer experience
The VERV Program is a great way to get involved in your community and protect the people you care about in an emergency. We look forward to working with Vermonters statewide to build strong bonds with our volunteers, as people come forward and offer support in the event of a threat to our state and the Vermont way of life.