National Association for Amateur Radio

Provides information on licensing, local training, and a lot of other useful information.

Olympia Amateur Radio Society

Local social club dedicated to promoting and supporting amateur radio in the Olympia area.disaster victims requesting many of the services, labor and equipment that were being offered. This required the county ECC to act as a broker between volunteers and victims, a job we accepted with some reservation because we were not staffed to do it. In the end, we could not keep up and ended up maintaining lists, and doing little with them.

To prevent similar occurrences, the EMC asked the Volunteer Center and Crisis Clinic to explore ways they may be able to help the emergency management organization handle emergency volunteers.

After several months, and a couple of false starts, a core program was agreed upon and implemented in time for the 1997-98 winter storm and flood season.

The Volunteer Center will register and track all volunteers. The Crisis Clinic will provide its routine referral service, but on a much larger scale, and will also refer disaster victims to appropriate volunteer resources. Both organizations will have to supplement their staffs during a community emergency or disaster.

The DAC is envisioned to eventually grow into more than a volunteer tracking and referral service. Eventually, we would like to have functional groups with lead agents or agencies to better organize humanitarian services such as shelter, food procurement and preparation, donated goods management, animal care, spiritual and emotional care and child care.

The DAC cooperative agreements can be seen here. A current diagram of the organization can be seen here.

Please send correspondence regarding the DAC to:

Disaster Assistance Council
c/o Thurston County Emergency Management
2703-B Pacific Avenue SE
Olympia, WA 98501-2036