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Citizen Corps
As part of the USA Freedom Corps
initiative, President George W. Bush created Citizen Corps to help
coordinate volunteer activities that will make our communities safer,
stronger, and better prepared to respond to any emergency situation. The
Citizen Corps effort is coordinated at the local level by Citizen Corps
Councils, which feature local activities that reflect new and existing
national programs such as Neighborhood Watch, Community Emergency Response
Teams (CERT), Volunteers in Police Service (VIPS), Medical Reserve Corps (MRC)
and Fire Corps. Citizen Corps Councils will provide your community with a
well trained, readily available pool of volunteers who know their locality
and can help during the critical time when outside assistance has not yet
arrived.
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