Hello NOLA Ready Volunteer Corps & MRC,

New volunteer sign ups are live on Better Impact! Sign up here. For next week in particular, we are looking to fill these volunteer shifts:

• Tuesday, March 30: Supporting administering J&J to unhoused people in partnership with Covenant House. Licensed medical & non-medical support needed (8am-1pm).
• Wednesday, March 31: Supporting the mass vaccination site in the morning (6:30am-12pm) and afternoon (11am-5pm). 

Update on COVID vaccine eligibility: Per LDH, beginning on Monday, March 29, all adults are eligible to receive a COVID vaccine. This includes NOLA Ready & MRC volunteers! Therefore, we are eliminating our volunteer vaccination policy. We will no longer be coordinating vaccine appointments for those who have volunteered more than 10+ hours at a vaccine site. If you would like a COVID vaccine, please make your COVID vaccine appointment by finding a provider here. Appointments are also available at the mass vaccination site: visit lcmchealth.org/vaccine or call 504-290-5200. 

- The Team at NOLA Ready
-The Team at MRC

volunteer@nola.gov

Available Shifts

Community Vaccine Sites

• St Roch vaccine site
  • Thu, Mar 25
  • Needed: licensed medical support & non-medical support. 
  • One shift this day: 9am-1pm 
• City Council Chambers vaccine site
  • Fri, Mar 26
  • Needed: licensed medical support & non-medical support. 
  • 2 shift options: 7am-12pm and 11am-4pm.
• Xavier vaccine site
  • Sat, Mar 27
  • Needed: licensed medical and non-medical support.
  • 2 shift options: 7am-12:30pm and 11:30am-5pm.
• Covenant House (NEW!)
  • Tue, Mar 30
  • Needed: licensed medical & non-medical support. 
  • 1 shift: 8am-1pm
• West Bank vaccine site
  • Wed, Mar 31
  • Needed: licensed medical support & non-medical support
  • 2 shift options: 8am-1pm & 12pm-4pm
• Ashé Cultural Arts Center vaccine site
  • Thu, Apr 1
  • Needed: licensed medical support & non-medical support. 
  • 2 shift options: 8am-12pm & 11am-4pm
• Crescent Care (NEW!)
  • Fri, Apr 2 (Good Friday)
  • Needed: non-medical support. 
  • One shift this day: 11:30am-5pm
• New Orleans East Vaccine Site (NEW!)
  • Sat, Apr 10
  • Needed: licensed medical support & non-medical support. 
  • Language needs:
    • Licensed medical providers who speak English (bilingual Spanish speaking preferred)
    • Non-medical volunteers: This opportunity is currently only open to volunteers who speak Spanish fluently. Closer to the date, this opportunity will be opened to all volunteers, if shifts are still available.
  • 2 shifts this day: 10am-2pm & 1pm-6pm
  • *Currently only open to Spanish speaking volunteers*

Mass Vaccination Site

LCMC is partnering with the NOLA Ready Volunteer Corps & MRC to run a community mass vaccination site at the Convention Center. Volunteers are needed to support greeting and patient direction. This will be an exciting site, and hundreds to thousands of vaccines will be given out each day. 

Here are the current shift times:

• Thu, Mar 25
  • 6:30am-2:30pm
  • 1:30pm-5pm
• Sat, Mar 27
  • 7:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Sun, Mar 28
  • 7:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Mon, Mar 29
  • 6:30am-2:30pm
  • 1:30pm-5pm
• Tue, Mar 30
  • 6:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Wed, Mar 31 (NEW!)
  • 6:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Thu, Apr 1
  • 6:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Sat, Apr 3
  • 7:15am-2:30pm
  • 1:30pm-5pm
• Tue, Apr 6 (NEW!)
  • 6:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Thu, Apr 8 (NEW!)
  • 6:30am-12pm
  • 11am-5pm
• Sat, Apr 10 (NEW!)
  • 7:15am-2:30pm
  • 1:30pm-5pm

Signing Up For Vaccine Site Shifts (refresher)

Shift visibility

Shifts are visible to volunteers who have completed all three trainings + the new NOLA Ready Orientation in the POD Training Curriculum.

If you have completed the orientation, VAC 100, HIP 100, and have uploaded the FEMA ICS certificate into your profile, and you are still not able to see shifts, please email volunteer@nola.gov and we can help problem solve.

Once you've trained up, check our Opportunities Page to see volunteer shifts and sign up for them. We recommend bookmarking the page and checking back periodically as our volunteer team adds more shifts in

Opportunities page: 

https://app.betterimpact.com/Volunteer/Schedule/Opportunities  

We’ve found that the default settings are better on the Opportunities page (the link listed above) rather than on the Opportunities calendar, or on the app. So if you’re having difficulty seeing shifts, try using the link above.

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NOLA Ready is the City of New Orleans' emergency preparedness campaign, managed by the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. 

This message contains emergency preparedness information. Emergency alerts are sent through a separate program. To sign up for emergency alerts, text your zip code to 888777 or go to ready.nola.gov/alerts.