Volunteer Support Functions Directory: Difference between revisions
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* To offer more flexibility to NET volunteers and the assignments they want to take on. | * To offer more flexibility to NET volunteers and the assignments they want to take on. | ||
* To open more volunteering opportunities to non-NETs ([[Affiliated Team Volunteers (ATVs)|ATVs]]) by reducing barriers to entry, such as setting aside | * To open more volunteering opportunities to non-NETs ([[Affiliated Team Volunteers (ATVs)|ATVs]]) by reducing barriers to entry, such as setting aside 28 hours of training for Basic NET. | ||
* To open volunteer opportunities and assignments that may appeal more to a volunteer's personal interests and values. | * To open volunteer opportunities and assignments that may appeal more to a volunteer's personal interests and values. | ||
* To cultivate the specialization of expertise on NET teams, so that responses are safer and more effective. | * To cultivate the specialization of expertise on NET teams, so that responses are safer and more effective. | ||
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If a NET volunteer just wants to be a NET (take Basic NET training and operate in the program as they do now) they can. In the VSF scheme of things, they’ll be a search and rescue volunteer (VSF 09.01). They won’t be pressured to take on a VSF, or even to know what they are. In an ops plan, they’ll be considered a Search and Rescue resource. They’ll still have all the privileges and opportunities they have now. They’ll also be able to take advanced courses reserved for volunteers in VSFs, as long as seats are given to VSF assigned volunteers first. | If a NET volunteer just wants to be a NET (take Basic NET training and operate in the program as they do now) they can. In the VSF scheme of things, they’ll be a search and rescue volunteer (VSF 09.01). They won’t be pressured to take on a VSF, or even to know what they are. In an ops plan, they’ll be considered a Search and Rescue resource. They’ll still have all the privileges and opportunities they have now. They’ll also be able to take advanced courses reserved for volunteers in VSFs, as long as seats are given to VSF assigned volunteers first. | ||
For NET volunteers, VSFs are a path of advanced training. For ATVs, it’s a means of getting involved without having to take | For NET volunteers, VSFs are a path of advanced training. For ATVs, it’s a means of getting involved without having to take 28 hours of Basic. | ||
== VSF 01: Transportation == | == VSF 01: Transportation == | ||
