S Grant Acceptance of Grant for Citizen Corps Council Establishment and Recruitment

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3 Purpose The purpose of the Orange County Citizen Corps Council (OC4) is to improve the overall experience of volunteerism within the county as applied to community preparedness and family safety. Orange County continues to be a leader in similar activities though existing committees such as the Safe Communities Campaign, Child Fatality Investigation Task Force, Welcome to the World safe newborn campaign, Neighborhood Watch Outreach programs, and many other services. Currently a new program, the Community Emergency Response Team, is under development that could benefit from OC4 volunteer recruitment efforts. OC4 will assist with improving these existing functions by incorporating volunteers, thus relieving paid staff of such duties and allowing the retasking of their assignments. OC4 will coordinate and become a liaison between each of these initiatives and others that may develop. Administrative assistance is a major concern to the deployment of these initiatives. To that end, identifying and volunteers will be a primary need that OC4 can address. It is envisioned that OC4 would utilize the Orange County Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in administrative roles such as acting as an information clearinghouse and record keeping for the various activities including the Community Emergency Response Team program. The RSVP has database programs and experience with establishing, tracking, and maintaining volunteer databases and would be very beneficial in fulfilling administrative functions. Because their volunteer cadre comes from retirees and seniors, it is likely that the RSVP volunteers will be available for work during the day and have a high dedication to their roles. OC4 will utilize, as necessary, organized volunteers vetted by RSVP as a formal addition