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AmeriCorps member describes LA fire relief deployment, urges volunteering
Summary
An AmeriCorps member described deployment to Los Angeles fire relief efforts and work at YMCA donation centers, and urged community members to volunteer with programs including CERC and California Volunteers.
Diancie, an AmeriCorps member with the CERC program who works at CSU sites, told meeting attendees she was deployed to Los Angeles to assist with fire relief and has been working at YMCA donation centers.
The account came during a public comment in which Diancie said her program was called in by CERC to support the LA fire relief effort. “With the LA Fire Relief effort, we ended up getting called in by CERC, and we got deployed here at the sites at the YMCA, and we have been working with the YMCA donation centers,” Diancie said.
Diancie described volunteering as a personal practice and as a way to support communities affected by disasters. “Volunteering is important because you get to help your community and those around you that are affected by multiple things,” she said, citing recent fires and earthquakes in Humboldt as examples. She added that volunteering helped her “become more empathetic and connect with people on a deeper level of emotional.”
She closed her remarks with a slogan-style appeal: “Join California Love, California Strong.” The comment provided a first-person account of one volunteer’s deployment and outreach at local donation centers; no formal actions or requests for staff follow-up were recorded in the transcript.
