Red Cross Community Outreach Team

Get Ready Seminars!

We want to turn everyone in our vibrant and diverse communities into lifesavers. You can help when you sponsor a Red Cross Get Ready Seminar. Click here for more information about Red Cross Get Ready Seminars.

Free Community Presentations Multicultural Outreach HIV/AIDS Program

No matter your age or background, the Twin Cities Area Red Cross is committed to teaching you life-saving skills. We come to your community and offer free one-hour presentations. Twin Cities Red Cross life-saving topics include:

• Get Ready!
• Emergency Preparedness
• Weather Safety
• Home Fire Safety
• Home Safety Checklist
• Chemical Safety and Poison Prevention
• Emergency 9-1-1
• Heart Disease Prevention
• Fall Prevention for Seniors
• Choking Prevention
• Pandemic Flu Prevention

It’s important to start preparing our community from a young age. Red Cross Community Presentations start as young as preschool age and progress through elementary and middle schools. Then high schoolers get a unique opportunity to join something outside of themselves.

Safety Mobile

The chapter's Safety Mobile program offers free twenty-minute safety presentations for pre-kindergarten through fifth grade students. Each presentation is conducted by volunteer presenters and in lower elementary, our loveable B. Safe Bear comes along! Students and teachers walk away with take home materials to reinforce the lesson. Depending on the time of year, presentations focus on the following topics: emergencies and 911, fire safety, poisoning prevention, preventing common injuries, winter weather safety, spring/summer weather safety, water safety, and wheel safety. Contact Daphne Emerson at (612) 872-3261 or demerson@redcrosstc.org.

HealthSpeak

Health professionals talk with youth about healthy lifestyles. One-hour presentations for 4th-8th grade classrooms help children learn healthier life choices. Topics include nutrition, physical fitness, preventing common illnesses, tobacco abuse preventions and violence prevention and coping skills. Contact Vivana Sotro at (612) 872-3224 or vsotro@redcrosstc.org

SAFE

“Safety Awareness for Everyone” or "SAFE" is designed for 6th graders and above. The Red Cross presents life-saving messages to middle schools, community centers and senior centers. Contact Vivana Sotro at (612) 872-3224 or vsotro@redcrosstc.org

Youth Corps

The Youth Corp gives older teens the chance to gain community service credit while helping to improve their worlds. Right now, the biggest program is “Dimes For Disaster,” the annual fundraising focus from March-May. Teens can also volunteer to be our mascot, wearing the B. Safe Bear outfit and visiting schools. Community Service Events are also available for ages 17 and up. Contact Vivana Sotro at (612) 872-3224 or vsotro@redcrosstc.org

HIV/AIDS Program

The Twin Cities Area Red Cross educates people on how to stop the transmission of HIV, encourages people to respond in informed ways to people who have HIV, and helps people apply the facts about HIV to their own behavior. These goals are accomplished through our easy to use educational programs designed to reach a variety of audiences. Contact Neville Ansley at (612) 252-1018 or nansley@redcrosstc.org

Multicultural Outreach Programs

If you were born in Minnesota, you know the drill. Sirens wail like clockwork each month to test the tornado warning systems, mosquitoes are determined to take a big bite out of our summer fun, and Halloween could dish up a trick-or-treat snow storm. But if you’re not from here, if the climate where you came from never covered you in snow, never blew houses away, never really challenged you...then each season here…each day…could test your survival.

The Twin Cities Red Cross understands this. That’s why we created a one-of-a-kind Multicultural Outreach Program. The goal is to educate ethnic groups new to Minnesota and to reduce health disparities in communities of color and low-income. The Red Cross works to build trust in ethnic communities and prepare new residents for their new life in the Twin Cities.

Let us introduce you to the Twin Cities Red Cross staffers who share life saving messages with the following groups:

dansantewaah@redcrosstc.org

Yahye Mohamed, (612) 872-3236

ymohamed@redcrosstc.org

HIV/AIDS Program

The Twin Cities Area Red Cross educates people on how to stop the transmission of HIV, encourages people to respond in informed ways to people who have HIV, and helps people apply the facts about HIV to their own behavior. These goals are accomplished through our easy to use educational programs designed to reach a variety of audiences.

Basic HIV/AIDS Program

African American HIV/AIDS Program

Hispanic HIV/AIDS Program

Youth HIV/AIDS Program

Through our HIV/AIDS Speaker's Bureau, trained Red Cross volunteers share facts about HIV/AIDS and its prevention with school children, 5th - 12th grade, and other community organizations.

For more information about Red Cross HIV/AIDS presentations and classes, please contact Neville Ansley at (612) 252-1018 or nansley@redcrosstc.org.

You can also register online for HIV/AIDS classes.