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Volunteer: Disasters

KINSHIP CIRCLEDISASTER ANIMAL RESPONSE

Volunteer: Disasters

Volunteer Form: KC Disaster Animal Response Team
Please answer all questions on this form. Tell us anything about yourself that may apply to disaster aid, animal sheltering and handling, veterinary/first aid, etc. in the appropriate text fields below. By submitting this form, you accept Kinship Circle Volunteer Terms Of Agreement.


1. Contact Information & ID Photo

Fields with asterisk * are required.

Email us your ID photo.

Send your photo to: info@kinshipcircle.org. Type in subject line: [Your Name], Disaster ID


2. FEMA Certifications

List each completed FEMA course number and title. Separate with semicolons. If none: Non-applicable.


3. Disaster Training & Certs

For human or animal trainings, list course and/or certification title. Separate with semicolons.


4. Animal Agency Disaster Training

List name of animal organization and year trained. Separate with semicolons.


5. Professional Experience

List all career skills that benefit animal disaster response. Separate with semicolons.


6. Animal Disaster Aid Experience

List animal disaster deployments and experience on ground. Separate with semicolons.


7. Photos/Video

List amateur or professional skills in photography and/or film-video. Separate with semicolons.


8. Specialized Skills

  • Can you bring a laptop or pad to compile and submit field notes?
  • Are you good at computer tech, WiFi and other internet issues?
  • Can you organize info (food-water spreadsheets, animal records, map search-rescue routes, etc)?
  • Other useful skills?

9. Mobility & Self-Sufficiency

  • VEHICLE: What can you drive in disaster zone? IE: I can drive my full-size pickup truck; Midsize SUV; 4-door car; etc
  • BOAT: Tell us what you own and can use in disaster zone.
  • SELF-SUFFICIENCY: List items that you have: Tent, Sleep Bag/Mat, Food, Petty Cash, Camping Gear, Animal Rescue Tools, etc

10. Vaccinations

Type or copy/paste your current vacs in textbox. At present, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to deploy.


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Kinship Circle

Kinship Circle DART

Pup rescue, George McKeehan. (c) Kinship Circle
Kitten rescue, Beth Schmidt. (c) Kinship Circle

Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response Team is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization. We activate for animal victims in disasters, when primary local resources are depleted. Kinship Circle DART works in agreement with officials and nonprofits to offer skill, stamina and leadership — in a spirit of cooperation that best serves animals. Our disaster responders serve within established emergency frameworks and reflect a wide range of training/certification in areas such as: search-rescue, field strategy; veterinary and first aid care, emergency sheltering; volunteer coordination and management; water-boat rescue, firefighter skills; large animal rescue, technical animal rescue, wild animal rehabilitation; food/water (shelter-in-place) programs… Kinship Circle DART deploys for animal aid across the United States and around the world. Notably, we are the first U.S. animal organization on the ground for search-rescue in Japan, after a devastating earthquake and tsunami shatter the Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant in Fukushima. Our volunteers (in alliance with Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue-Support, JEARS) wear protective hazmat Tyvek suits, masks and goggles to rescue companion and farmed animals stranded in radiation-risk zones.

When Brazil Mudslides entomb humans and animals beneath a rolling sea of mud, rock and debris, KC-DART partners with NGO EstimAcao to save as many victims as possible. In Chile, we assist Socorro Animal Chile (SACH) in the aftermath of a mass Chilean earthquake and tsunami. We travel to tent camps and towns along Chile's ravaged coast to provide long underserved communities with veterinary first aid, meds and treatment. In Thailand floods, water spills into streets, homes, businesses. Animals wait from rooftops and porches. Others, submerged chest deep, frantically swim toward dry spots — any surface taller than a meter and half. They cling to these tiny islands, crying in darkness. One newspaper said it would take Noah's Ark to save them all. Kinship Circle unites with Save Elephant Foundation and SCAD Foundation (Street Cats & Dogs Of Bangkok) for emergency sheltering, field and water rescue, food drops, veterinary aid.

Kinship Circle Director Brenda Shoss bonds with Mabel, a Basenji mix rescued from a bridge over floodwaters. Mabel is skeletal and listless, her pelvis dislocated. At the disaster shelter, her tail rarely wags. Yet she gets all goofy when she hears her name. During recovery, the Bangkok street dog with deer-like grace glues herself to Brenda. Once stable, Mabel flies 9,000 miles across the world to join Brenda's family: three cats, three dogs, a son and husband. Mabel is a daily reminder why Kinship Circle travels halfway around the world. Each animal is a story, words unwritten until found and loved.

In the U.S., Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response Team confronts hurricane, tornado and flood destruction as climate change pushes natural disasters into a year-round crisis. Animals are left behind every time, placing KC-DART in perpetual standby mode. Some U.S. disaster events we aid animals include: Hurricane Ida, Hurricane Michael, Hurricane Florence, Hurricane Irma, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Matthew, and Louisiana Floods. Your gracious support lets us take action for animals forgotten in disasters… and animals hurt by greed, cruelty, hate. Kinship Circle is a 501c3 nonprofit charity, 100% funded by donations. Your gift brings refuge to animals. Thank you very much for your empathy and kindness!

Bonnie Morrison, calf rescue. (c) Kinship Circle

skills, knowledge, experience

  • Assessment & Ground Operations
  • Veterinary SkillsVeterinarian, Vet Tech, Vet Assistant, Medical & First Aid Skills
  • Animal Control OfficerACO Skills, Certification
  • Emergency ShelteringAnimal Care & Handling, Admin (setup, intake, records, shelter management, etc)
  • Shelter in PlaceFood-Water Distribution, Documentation
  • Animal Disaster TrainingWith credentialing groups such as Code-3, UAN Redrover, AHA, HSUS-NDART, ASPCA…
  • CPR-AED CertificationAdvanced 1st-Aid, Animal Aid-CPR…
  • Communicate & DocumentDigital Tech, Wi-Fi, Info Coordinate & Track, Spreadsheets, Photography…
  • Professional ExperienceFirefighter, EMT, MD, Nurse, Veterinarian, Vet Tech/Aide, ACO, Shelter Manager…
Chihuahua rescue, Cheri Deatsch. (c) Kinship Circle

areas of training

  • Search And Rescue (SAR)
  • Technical Animal Rescue (TAR)
  • Large Animal Rescue (LAR)
  • Swiftwater/Basic Water Rescue
  • Flood Rescue Boat
  • Wildland Fire Training/Fire Rescue
  • Hazardous Materials & Decontamination
  • Aggressive Animal Handling
  • Animal Cruelty Investigation
  • FEMA Coursework And Certification
  • Emergency Animal Sheltering
  • Wild Animal Rehabilitation
Pig aid, Cheri Deatsch. Chile Earthquake, Kinship Circle Pig aid, Cheri Deatsch. Chile Earthquake, Kinship Circle

Save Lives

Sister Michael, zebra. (c) Kinship Circle
cat flood rescue, Brenda Shoss. (c) Kinship Circle Thailand Floods
Ron Presley, Charles Harmison. (c) Japan Quake, Kinship Circle Ron Presley, Charles Harmison. (c) Japan Quake, Kinship Circle

Volunteer Terms Of Agreement

VOLUNTEERS AGREE TO:
  1. Complete and submit our volunteer registration form to deploy with Kinship Circle Disaster Animal Response Team (KC-DART).

  2. Email photo ID of yourself to info@kinshipcircle.org.

  3. Register with KC-DART if at least 21 years of age, with no record of felony conviction.

  4. Deploy with KC-DART if fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

  5. Comply with FEMA Incident Command System (ICS) + protocols set forth by Kinship Circle.
    • As a KC-DART responder, you represent Kinship Circle — regardless of how your personal volunteer expenses are paid for.

    • Strategic decisions are approved by the team leader (Incident Commander), at times in conjunction with Kinship Circle's director.

    • Kinship Circle responders risk dismissal if they:
      • Leave the disaster deployment site without consent.
      • Defy team decisions or refuse request to stand down.
      • Knowingly jeopardize the safety of others.
      • Threaten/implement violence or weapon-use against humans, animals.
      • Disparage, slander or defame Kinship Circle while deployed.

  6. Acquire Disaster Training and Certification.
    • To the best of your ability, fulfill Kinship Circle DART basic training requirements.

    • Submit information about completed courses, instruction, certifications in your volunteer registration form.

    • Kinship Circle reserves the right to classify — and assign tasks in disaster zones — based upon each volunteer's level of training, skill, experience.

    • Volunteers are responsible for notifying Kinship Circle about new trainings/certs.
VOLUNTEERS AGREE TO:
Cover personal deployment costs as a volunteer for a 501c3 nonprofit organization (without sustained or grant funding).

    KINSHIP CIRCLE PAYS FOR:
  • Unique-Circumstance Airfare — When a volunteer's skills/credentials are crucial to a Kinship Circle DART deployment.

  • Most Volunteer Lodging — Except in the rare event Kinship Circle can't find affordable lodging near disaster zone.

  • Global Team Vehicle, Gas, GPS — As needed in international deployments only.

  • Emergency Or Urgent-Need Ground Costs — With pre-purchase approval from Kinship Circle.

  • Team Safety Gear In Extreme Disasters — Such as Tyveck suits, masks, goggles, Geiger Counter used in Japan radiation crisis after a mass earthquake.

    VOLUNTEERS PAY FOR:
  • Airfare and vehicle gas to travel to disaster zone. Mobility within the disaster zone (vehicle gas/rental, train, bus, cab) — Unless partial sponsorship is agreed to and prearranged with Kinship Circle.

  • Lodging — In the rare event that Kinship Circle can't secure affordable lodging near disaster zone.

  • Personal Communication Devices — Kinship Circle does not reimburse volunteer phone bills or any costs related to electronic devices.

  • Meals, Snacks — Kinship Circle does not reimburse volunteer costs for food in disaster zones.

  • Personal Disaster Gear And Clothing — Kinship Circle does not reimburse volunteer costs for protective footwear/clothing, eyewear, masks, bite gloves…

Disaster aid for animals  +  action for all hurt by greed, cruelty and hate.

Disaster aid for animals  +  action for all
hurt by greed, cruelty, hate.

Disaster aid for animals  +  action for all
hurt by greed, cruelty, hate.

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In kinship, not dominion, each individual is seen. We do not use the rhetoric of slavery. To define animals as unique beings Guardian, Caregive, Him/Her/They… replace Owner, Own, It… Until moral equity and justice serve all — no one is free.