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Successfully completing our team training weekend qualifies you to join a leadership team that deploys in the wake of a disaster to meet the needs of a community. It is intentionally a challenging weekend designed to put you in stressful situations, so ideal candidates are in good physical shape and are willing to deploy into chaotic and challenging situations.
2026 Training Dates: May 14-17 and July 16-19
Recovery Operations Team training qualifies you to help lead teams of volunteers during the long-term recovery phase of disaster relief and use your skills to help communities rebuild. It consists of online or in-person training modules that provide you with the background and basic skills needed to succeed as a volunteer.
2026 IN-PERSON DATES: June 12-13
We believe communities recover faster when we work together to steward volunteer time, money, and resources as efficiently as possible. Our Immediate Relief and Recovery Operations Teams pride themselves on being “force multipliers”.
Force multipliers take a limited amount of resources (volunteer time, money, and materials) and “multiply” their effectiveness. During Hurricane Ian, CRR raised x amount of dollars and our teams of staff and volunteers turned it into x amount of work for x amount of homeowners. As a volunteer team member, you’ll be on the front lines of a force that multiplies impact for good.
Just a year after my IRT training, Tropical Storm Debbie hit our area and my church lost power and was flooded. Because of the training I received with Crisis Relief and Recovery, my church asked me to serve as the point person for relief and clean up efforts. I felt confident to damage assess, create a plan, and mobilize and coordinate volunteers due to the training I received with CRR.
I owned an engineering firm and was a professor for over 35 years.
They pushed us hard during the training but I actually learned how CAPABLE I can be and that I do have what it takes to give back to my community.
When Hurricane Helene made it's way up to Western North Carolina, it damaged or destroyed almost 100,000 structures. The destruction was unprecedented. CRR partnered with multiple organizations...
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While much of the national attention focused on Kerr County and the Guadalupe River, San Angelo — nearly three hours away in West Texas — experienced devastating flooding of its own, with historic...
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Hurricane Ian devastated South Florida. Residents of Harlem Heights, a lower income neighborhood outside of Tampa Bay, thought they had been forgotten. What happened over the next 18 months was...
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