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| style="background: lightyellow; color: black; padding:20px" |'''Volunteer Guides help keep Portland Rose Festival events safe and fun by actively managing street closure barricades. Volunteers will help act as "eyes and ears" around the parade route and work with our on-site safety team to report any incidents. Responsibilities include:''' | |||
* Ensure the safety of parade participants and guests by actively managing street closure barricades; | |||
* Greet people and welcome them to the parade; | |||
* Assist parade participants through entry & exit areas; | |||
* Report incidents to the safety team on site; | |||
* Guide community members in wayfinding around the parade area.''' | |||
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Revision as of 15:16, 7 June 2023
Volunteering at Rose Festival First Aid stations is an important part of our routine NET deployments each year. It's great community service and provides a lot of visibility for NET. Also, the stations are right on the route so first aid volunteers get a great view of the parade! First aid volunteers will also see other NETs in other positions; possibly in comms, or as Parade Guides.
The current policy is to staff each station with a minimum of three NETs with first aid training (or higher medical response qualifications).
Background
NET Volunteers serving at Grand Floral Parade First Aid stations goes waaay back...probably to the 1990s. Post-COVID, the GFP route shortened and we now deploy two first aid stations instead of five.
Mission
Volunteer Guides help keep Portland Rose Festival events safe and fun by actively managing street closure barricades. Volunteers will help act as "eyes and ears" around the parade route and work with our on-site safety team to report any incidents. Responsibilities include:
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