Volunteer

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 work together to keep Medina County healthy, prepared, and quick to recover by:

• providing help for public health and emergency response
• participating in mass vaccinations and community disaster drills
• promoting disease prevention and control
• assisting the public health department in a variety of ways

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 600 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.

Who Can Become a MRC Volunteer?

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!

Meet A Volunteer

Read here how current volunteer, Diane Dermody, offers her skills to the Medina County Medical Reserve Corps.

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