Volunteer Opportunities

Whether you’re a healthcare professional, educator, laborer, business person or even a retiree, the Medina County Health Department offers a variety of volunteer opportunities through the Medina County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).

MRC Volunteers:

  • Provide help for public health and emergency response
  • Participate in mass vaccinations and community disaster drills
  • Promote disease prevention and control
  • Assist the Health Department in a variety of ways

Register to Become a Medina County MRC Volunteer

This is a two part process involving a mail-in and on-line registration form. The online registration adds your name to Ohio Responds, a state wide network operated by the Ohio Department of Health and the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. The system registers, credentials, tracks, notifies, and alerts volunteers in the event of a disaster or public health crisis. To complete the process click on each of the links below .

  1. MRC Application form– complete and mail in
  2. Ohio Responds – online registration

For more information, contact Jessica Miles, Medical Reserve Corps Coordinator at the Medina County Health Department:

Anyone at least 18 years of age. We are looking for both medical and non-medical professionals and other skilled personnel who can provide basic support services during both emergency and non-emergency events. There is a role for everyone!

Your skills and knowledge are especially needed during times of crisis. In a large scale emergency, you may be needed:

  • To treat victims of a disaster
  • Asked to help at an emergency vaccination clinic
  • Assist at a medication distribution site

During times of non-emergency you can:

  • Attend preparedness training
  • Have the chance to serve as public health ambassadors
  • Assist with flu clinics
  • Provide education sessions on special topics, volunteer for public health events or trainings, and promote immunization campaigns

Currently the Medina County MRC is 530 volunteers strong, however, during a disaster, emergency or epidemic, we’d need even more “hands on deck” to provide assistance to the 184,000 residents of Medina County.

“Medina County is more than just where I worked. It’s home to my family, it’s where I shop, where I play. It’s where I’m most happy. Medina County has given me so much that my gift in return is giving back.” – Diane Dermody, MRC Volunteer and former Manager at the Medina County District Library.

Read Diane’s full story

Diane Dermody, MRC Volunteer