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Red Cross Disaster Services provides material assistance that may include feeding, shelter,clean-up kits, comfort kits and financial assistance.
In addition, Red Cross Disaster Services also minimizes immediate disaster-caused suffering through listening, guidance, advocacy, and counseling.
Assistance to Military Families
International Family Tracing Services
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With 15 Greater Houston area locations, the Houston Red Cross is ready to help.
Be Informed
Be Informed
Know what may happen and how you can help.Learn what disasters or emergencies may occur where you live, work and play.Lern about the disasters that may occur in your area. In the Houston area, we experience residential fires, flooding tornados, hurricanes and thunderstorms. These events can vary from those affecting only you and your family, like a home fire or medical emergency, to those affecting your entire community, like an hurrciane, torando or flood. Identify how local authorities will notify you during a disaster and how you will get important information, whether through local radio,TV or NOAA weather radio stations or channels. Learn what you can do to prepare for disasters by contacting your local Red Cross chapter to ask about first aid, CPR and disaster training. Learning simple first aid techniques can give you the skills and confidence to help when someone in your home, your neighborhood or workplace is injured. When a major disaster occurs, your community can change in an instant. Loved ones can be hurt, and emergency response can be delayed.Make sure that at least one member of your household is trained in first aid and CPR and in how to use an automated external defibrillator(AED). Disaster preparedness presentations will provide more specific information on how to prepare for disasters in your community.Contact your local American Red Cross chapter for details.Share what you have learned with your family,household and neighbors and encourage them to be informed too.
Know what may happen and how you can help.Learn what disasters or emergencies may occur where you live, work and play.Lern about the disasters that may occur in your area. In the Houston area, we experience residential fires, flooding tornados, hurricanes and thunderstorms. These events can vary from those affecting only you and your family, like a home fire or medical emergency, to those affecting your entire community, like an hurrciane, torando or flood. Identify how local authorities will notify you during a disaster and how you will get important information, whether through local radio,TV or NOAA weather radio stations or channels. Learn what you can do to prepare for disasters by contacting your local Red Cross chapter to ask about first aid, CPR and disaster training. Learning simple first aid techniques can give you the skills and confidence to help when someone in your home, your neighborhood or workplace is injured. When a major disaster occurs, your community can change in an instant. Loved ones can be hurt, and emergency response can be delayed.Make sure that at least one member of your household is trained in first aid and CPR and in how to use an automated external defibrillator(AED). Disaster preparedness presentations will provide more specific information on how to prepare for disasters in your community.Contact your local American Red Cross chapter for details.Share what you have learned with your family,household and neighbors and encourage them to be informed too.
Get Trained
The three steps below can help you to react well in an emergency.- Check the scene for safety and the victim for life-threatening conditions.
- Call 9-1-1 or your local emergency number and request professional assistance.
- Care for the victim if you can reach the person safely.
American Red Cross Emergency Contact Card
- Cut out the card along the dotted lines.
- Write in the contact information for eachhousehold member, such as work, school andcell phone numbers. If you need additionalspace, use the back side of the card.
- Fold the card so it fits in your pocket, wallet or purse.
- Carry your card with you so it is available in the event of a disaster or other emergencywhen you willwant to contact each other.
