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The Medical Reserve Corps

Resource Library

This resource library contains guides, maps and archived MRC newsletters to help you better serve in your role as an Medical Reserve Corps volunteer.

Emergency Preparedness Planning

Prepare your family for your absence during a health emergency by being prepared for disasters in general: create and maintain your own family disaster plan and disaster supply kit. Prepare yourself to serve by creating your own personal go-kit, packed in advance so that if a health emergency strikes, you can just pick up the kit and GO!

• Preparedness Kit for Your Backpack (pdf)
• Family Communications Plan (pdf)
• Family Preparedness Guide: A Stepwise Approach (pdf)
• Pandemic Flu Planning Checklist (pdf)

Reporting for Duty

The maps in this section will help you to prepare for an emergency deployment to a variety of field assignment sites in your geographic area, such as veterans buildings, high schools, hospitals and fire stations. First, determine the geographic fire zone where you live and then identify the possible sites. Next, map direct and alternate routes to the sites where you live. Additionally, the MRC field guide, and material on the START emergency triage system is provided.

• MRC Field Guide (pdf)
• Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment (START) Guide (pdf)
• Map: All Fire Zones: Sonoma County (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 3: Sonoma Valley area (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 4: Sea Ranch area (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 5: Russian River area (Forestville, Occidental, Guerneville, Monte Rio) (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 6: Cloverdale area ( Healdsburg, Cloverdale) (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 7: Santa Rosa area (Santa Rosa, Windsor) (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 8: Sebastopol/Bodega area (pdf)
• Map: Fire Zone 9: Petaluma area (Rohnert Park, Petaluma, Cotati) (pdf)

Disaster Mental Health Guides

These guides will help you take care of yourself, as well as the community, during times of unusual stress.

• Psychological First Aid Field Operations Guide (pdf)
• Mental Health Response to Mass Violence and Terrorism (pdf)
• Developing Cultural Competence in Disaster Mental Health Programs (pdf)
• Field Manual for Mental Health and Human Service Workers in Major Disasters
• Traumatic Incident Stress: Information for Emergency Response Workers (pdf)

Archived Newsletters

The MRC Reporter: Newsletter for the Sonoma County Medical Reserve Corps

• Spring 2009 (pdf)
• Summer 2008
• Winter 2007
• Spring 2007 (pdf)
• Spring 2006 (pdf)
• Fall 2005 (pdf)
• Summer 2005 (pdf)
• Spring 2005 (pdf)
• Summer 2004 (pdf)

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