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Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) Volunteer Training & Certification Program
Oct 17, 2025, 4:30 PM – Oct 18, 2025, 5:30 PM
Children Disaster Services (CDS) mobilizes teams of trained volunteers to care for children in communities affected by disaster. Volunteers set up on-site care centers giving children individualized attention that encourages self-expression through play, thereby starting the healing process.
Etown CoB will be hosting through the Witness Commission a Volunteer Training and Certification on Fri, Oct 17 & Sat, Oct 18. Participants in this 25-hour training will learn to provide comfort and encouragement to children by offering the healing young children need in traumatic situations. They learn to create a safe, friendly environment that gives children the chance to engage in therapeutic play activities designed to relieve stress and calm fears.
This training includes a simulated shelter experience (an overnight stay) and will be provided to any group of 15 or more adults interested in working with children after a disaster. Participants completing the course will have the opportunity to become certified Children’s Disaster Services volunteers.
Because children can experience personal disasters (when a friend moves away, a pet dies, etc.) people who come in contact with a distressed child can benefit from this training. Many of the concepts taught in the training are appropriate to use at those times as well as after disasters.
Click the link below for details and to register for this training.
https://www.brethren.org/cds/training/
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
777 S Mount Joy St, Elizabethtown, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 17022
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