The American Red Cross of Central South Carolina wants to get kids involved in their community!!! The more support youth and young adults receive from their community, the more likely they will be to serve the community and achieve personal success.

By more conscientiously incorporating youth and young adults into the Red Cross volunteer program, Red Cross will be able to develop a new corps of ambassadors to teach emergency preparedness to and promote Red Cross within the community.

What you can do...

We provide young people with meaningful opportunities for education, training, and voulunteer/community service so they remain a part of the Red Cross family throughout their lives.

Youth Opportunites

Training & Service Activities

Clerical assistance, donor reception, providing itnernational awareness, and learning disaster preparedness, First Aid & CPR and HIV/AIDS prevention, instruction and education.

Weekend Opportunities

Organizing blood drives, special events, blood canteen aid, donor reception, First Aid/CPR instruction, and fundraising.

Red Cross Clubs

Are you a student interested in helping others and making your community prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies and disasters?  If so, join or start a Red Cross Club at your school or campus!!!

Possible projects

• Creating a youth program mascot and/or logo.
• Sponsoring blood drives.
• For Scout groups, helping scouts pursue Red Cross-related pins and badges.
• Assisting with special events or projects on an on-call basis.
• Collecting donations of teddy bears to give to fire clients.
• Training youth disaster workers or otherwise involving youth in disaster response within their own communities.
• Forming a Junior Speakers Bureau to represent Red Cross at community presentations and fairs.
• Forming youth teams to work on blood drives.
• Implementing a fundraiser for measles initiative (possibly incorporating Somali Bantu families, whose children attend school at Sandel Elementary).
• Participating in Heroes fundraiser.
• Representing Red Cross as Waddles the Duck.
• Creating bear tags for Blood Services’ annual Christmas project.
• Present community disaster education training to the community or to students in younger grades.
• Intern in your field (social work, marketing, business, human resources, health services, etc.)

To learn more about our youth program contact the local American Red Cross Chapter at 803-540-1242.