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The Cape Fear Volunteer Center assisted in organizing and continues to play a key role in New Hanover County Citizen Corps Council. Citizen Corps Council is an organization of all governmental agencies, non-profit agencies and others that have a role to play in natural or manmade disasters. Since the Cape Fear Volunteer Center has been in charge of manning the Volunteer Reception Center participation in this group has been a key component of its job. The Volunteer Center does the following in preparation for an emergency: • Volunteer Recruitment for Hurricane Season • Volunteer Training for Reception Center for during an emergency • Volunteer Phone Training • Database Development and Maintenance of Disaster Volunteers Consequently the Volunteer Center applied for and received the Homeland Security Grant 2004, and Continuation Grant 2005 focuses of the grant have been increased Hispanic and faith based participation on Citizen Corps Council, increased awareness of the Special Needs Database, rejuvenation of DOVIA, creation of and maintenance of the Emergency Volunteers Database and education of the Hispanic population on preparation for hurricane season.

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The CFVC assists the Community Mediation Center of the Cape Fear by providing volunteers in all areas from placement of youth and teen court kids with community service placements to general mediation programs. The teen and youth court programs help first-time offenders keep their record clean. After a trial by their peers an assignment of community service is meted out. The CFVD assigns each of the youth to various agencies to complete their punishments. More than a hundred New Hanover County youth have completed their community service through the CFVC, youth and teen court programs.

The CFVC is a partner in the New Hanover County Schools Community Service Learning Program. Service learning is recommend through Title IV of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities Component of No Child Left Behind, in an effort to increase student’s sense of community in a safe learning environment. “Students will develop a sense of caring and responsibility and understand the value of being a good citizen, while learning how to develop healthy lifestyles” as stated in Linking Service Learning: No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The CFVC is placing all students of the Juvenile Day Treatment Center, an Alternative Education setting of New Hanover County Schools. This program is a partnership to provide services for long term suspended or expelled students. The CFVC’s objective is to provide at least one successful service learning opportunity for each student, as well as have them feel the associated value from having provided that service through the rewards of the Presidential Service Awards program.

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