OAEM Spotlight Series - Canadian Red Cross’ refreshed strategic approach to volunteer experience and engagement; disaster and health emergency respo
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3/24/2022 - 3/24/2022
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OAEM Spotlight Series - Canadian Red Cross’ refreshed strategic approach to volunteer experience and engagement; disaster and health emergency response
Date: Thursday March 24, 2022
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm eastern
Cost: Free to members, $20 non-members
Description: Canadian Red Cross’ refreshed strategic approach to volunteer experience and engagement; disaster and health emergency response.
Learning Objectives:
Louise Geoffrion
Senior Director, Volunteer Experience and Engagement
Date: Thursday March 24, 2022
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm eastern
Cost: Free to members, $20 non-members
Description: Canadian Red Cross’ refreshed strategic approach to volunteer experience and engagement; disaster and health emergency response.
Learning Objectives:
- What is happening in volunteerism today?
- How shifts in volunteerism impact organizational strategies?
- What do these shifts mean in an environment of disaster and health emergency response?
Louise Geoffrion
Senior Director, Volunteer Experience and Engagement
- 29 years with the Canadian Red Cross (experience in following fields of work: overseas personnel, disaster /emergency management, international operations, prevention & safety & people services/human resources)
- In her current role, Louise is tasked with retaining successes from current and past volunteer engagement practices and reimagine new ideas and strategies to improve the volunteer experience within the CRC
- Disaster Response experience ranges from house fire response to international conflicts.
- Ice Storm 1998, 9/11, SARS, Peterborough Floods, South-East Asia Tsunami response, numerous northern Ontario evacuations (forest fires & floods), H1N1 Response, Hurricane Sandy response with American Red Cross, Alberta Floods 2013, Syrian Refugee Arrivals in 2015, several social emergencies in Northern Ontario, Asylum Seekers & Central and Eastern Ontario Floods in 2017.
- International Committee of the Red Cross:
- Peer-to-peer case study with the Afghanistan Red Crescent Society in 2011 – Review of the National Society’s policies, procedures and practices related to the safety of personnel in the delivery of services in a complex conflict environment
- Mission to Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire) in 1994 – Tracing Delegate (reuniting unaccompanied children with family, setting up the tracing program in Goma for 35,000 unaccompanied children & 1 million refugees)
- Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Concordia University in Montreal
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