Participate

Our Mission is to improve patient care, emergency response, and community preparedness in the communities that we serve. To fulfill our mission we need volunteers, and the volunteer emergency services we support need more volunteers as well.

We like to call the volunteer jobs we have ‘opportunities’. Each is an opportunity for you to help your neighbor, your community, and yourself. An appropriate volunteer opportunity can provide you with a variety of benefits including:

learning new things; even how to save a life!
the satisfaction of helping others
networking with others with like interests and concerns
improved health. According to a recent review of research by the Corporation for National and Community Service entitled Health Benefits of Volunteering, “Over the past two decades we have seen a growing body of research that indicates volunteering provides individual health benefits in addition to social benefits. This research has established a strong relationship between volunteering and health: those who volunteer have lower mortality rates, greater functional ability, and lower rates of depression later in life than those who do not volunteer”. “Some of these findings also indicate that volunteers who devote a “considerable” amount of time to volunteer activities (about 100 hours per year) are most likely to exhibit positive health outcomes.”

Not everyone can be a firefighter or Emergency Medical Technician….
BUT everyone can be a volunteer.
Isn’t it time YOU GOT INVOLVED!

There are several ways you can become involved:

Volunteer directly with Critical Response Network
Contact your local emergency services organization directly
Let us help match you with an emergency services organization!
- Only available in the Hudson Valley of NY and Connecticut at this time!
- For other areas call 1-800-fireline

We feel strongly that a volunteer experience must be a win-win relationship for both the volunteer and the organization. To see a listing of possible ‘opportunities’ click here.

So that we can help match you with the best opportunities, we’ve designed a comprehensive volunteer profile to determine what you would like to do and what you would like to get out of the experience. We’ll review your responses and our volunteer opportunity job bank; then match you with one or more organizations. We’ll then contact you to discuss what we’ve come up with. We can then forward your information to the organizations that you select.

About the profile

The more information you are willing to give us, the better we can match you to an appropriate opportunity.
Although some questions may seem not to apply to you try to answer as many as possible! And be sure to include how to contact you! You can click on ‘finish and submit’ at any time. You can also review your responses before submitting the questionnaire.
All information remains confidential until you direct us to share it with a specific organization.

Click here to start the profile.