Welcome to World Cares Center
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It has been over six months since the devastating earthquake in Haiti that took over 230,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands of survivors homeless. Over the past months, a lot of work and effort has been put in to responding to the aftermath of this unimaginable disaster. However, there is still so much work yet to be done. Check our Grassroots Haiti Page for the latest updates and information on how you can help.
ABOUT WORLD CARES CENTER
World Cares Center’s mission is to foster sustainable, locally led disaster preparation, response and recovery initiatives within communities. Our focus is grassroots, and supports local community members as resilient first responders. We are a small non-profit group aided by many diverse partners and supporters. Collaboration is the key to our success.
Building on lessons we have learned from past disasters, our collaborative partners, and our esteemed advisory committee, World Cares Center (WCC) provides unique educational and resilience-building services through our Disaster Preparation and Trauma Mitigation (DPTM) program including the ReadyResponders™ Network.
All of World Cares Center’s trainings are NIMS compliant and integrate nationally accepted models including Incident Command System and Volunteer Reception Centers. World Cares Center works with host partners such as the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, the New Jersey State Police, the Connecticut Region II Office of Emergency Management, and the FEMA Region II Medical Reserve Corp.
Our host partners' involvement, from local and state Offices of Emergency Management to community organizations, are paramount to ensuring that our trainings are adapted to meet each diverse community's needs and challenges while remaining compliant with local jurisdictions' protocols.
By engaging local leaders, we put into action our strong belief in the power of properly trained citizen responders and the inevitable need to integrate this community volunteer force into official response plans through the following trainings:
