Civilian Response Corps

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Ways to Serve

There are currently two ways to serve with the Civilian Response Corps:

1) Active

Full-time responders whose specific job is to train for, prepare, and staff overseas conflict prevention and stabilization operations.

Members of the Active component may deploy with 48 hours notice to focus on critical government response. Active members receive at least eight weeks of training per year and may spend up to 60 percent of their time on deployments from three to six months in length.

When not deployed, members of the Active component are training other civilian and military officials for overseas missions, staffing reach back teams in Washington, or attending post- or pre-deployment briefings to incorporate and build upon lessons learned.

Eligibility for the Active component

2) Standby

Current full-time employees of one of the Corps’s partner agencies or retirees of the U.S. Foreign Service who commit to be available to deploy in case of need.

Members of the Standby component must be available to deploy within 30 days of call-up—pending supervisor approval—for up to 90 days with the possibility to extend.

Their current positions may or may not be directly related to conflict prevention or peacebuilding. They all have specialized subject matter expertise useful in such operations, however.

Standby members may be eligible to receive a minimum of  two weeks of training per year, as well as additional mission-specific training upon selection for a particular deployment.

Eligibility for the Standby component

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