Serve DC: Neighborhood Corps

Neighborhood Corps

Neighborhood Corps is sponsored by Serve DC - The Mayor's Office on Volunteerism and the Washington, DC Citizen Corps Council. Neighborhood Corps are groups of emergency trained volunteers that are capable of self deploying and responding to emergencies that occur in their local community, they also act as team leaders or are able to represent Serve DC at the Emergency Operations Center during special events.

Neighborhood Corps teams are made up of individuals who have successfully completed the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) training and who live or work within the same community. Upon completing CERT training, members will go through the Neighborhood Corps Academy classes taught by professional, first responders, or experts in the field of emergency management, classes will include but are not limited to:

CPR/AED, first aid training and certification
Transportation training (traffic control, metro safety)
National Incident Management System (NIMS), Incident Command Structure (ICS) classes
Spontaneous volunteer management training
Shelter and mass care training and certification
Emergency Liaisons Officer/WebEOC/800mhrz radio training and certification
Mass casualty Incident training
Counter-Terrorism training and certification
Local MPD and fire/EMS threats and risks in the community

Once members successfully complete the Neighborhood Corps Academy and have been plugged into a team in their community they will be able to do the following:

Work with emergency first responders in their community
Lead a group of emergency volunteers and spontaneous volunteers in the event of an emergency during special events
Assist first responders within their community
Write after action reports
Reach out to their community to help teach about emergency preparedness
Perform outreach for the CERT and Neighborhood Corps programs
Work with Serve DC to and other agencies to host classes and trainings that are specific to their community

Find out in which Cluster and Neighborhood you reside and learn more about the Neighborhood Corps program. For questions, or more information, please contact Nicholas Thorpe at (202) 727-7970.