Volunteering with CMDART

CMDART requires members to be qualified and credentialed before they are allowed to participate in disaster services. These knowledgable members help reduce the chaos and confusion of a disaster by effectively performing their assigned activities and tasks they learned before the disaster strikes.

Before volunteering with us, you must complete the following:

• Volunteer Agreement & Release Of Liability (PDF)
• Welcome Agreement (PDF)
• >SMART Forms (PDF) We also require completion of  State (SMART) forms (State of Massachusetts Animal Disaster Response Team) so that in the event of a larger disaster, responders are already credentialed and eligible to participate.
• IS-100 (also referred to as ICS)
  IS-700 (also referred to as NIMS)

We also recommend that you take Pet First Aid, Adult CPR and First Aid, Animal Disaster Training, and Emergency Animal Sheltering. Training dates and additional information can be found on the Humane Society of the Unites States website, and the American Red Cross of Central MA website (for Pet First Aid, Adult CPR, and First Aid).

Please return the above forms, related certificates, and any certificates from specialty classes to:

Central Massachusetts Disaster Animal Response Team

PO Box 1317, Douglas, MA 01516

You may also PDF and email volunteer forms here.

Donations

CMDART, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit charitable organization.

Donations are always accepted, needed, and very much appreciated! 

If you can make a donation, please send a check to:

Central Massachusetts Disaster Animal Response Team

PO Box 1317, Douglas, MA 01516 

or please see CMDART's Wish List

Let us know if you need a receipt. THANK YOU!!

AFP Photo/Omar Torres | Jeff Eyre, a volunteer with the Humane Society of the United States, leashes a pig found beneath Interstate 10 to take to the facility for abandoned animals in New Orleans on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005.