{"id":80,"date":"2019-04-04T22:36:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T22:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/bdm\/?page_id=80"},"modified":"2025-05-16T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T17:34:15","slug":"forms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/rebuild\/forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Forms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thank you for signing up to participate on a Brethren Disaster Ministries project! Before you go, please familiarize yourself with our guidelines for volunteering and fill out the necessary forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BDM Rebuilding Program brochure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guidelines<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BDM Volunteer Handbook<\/a>
A handy guide to answer your questions about participating on a BDM project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BDM Policy on Minors as Volunteers<\/a>
Youth ministers, advisors and parents! Please read and follow BDM’s guidelines for youth groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What to Pack for Your Volunteer Week<\/a>
This packing list will help you decide what’s appropriate to take with you on your disaster response trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tool Kits<\/a> and other Project Tools<\/a>
BDM provides a tool trailer on site with hand and power tools. These pictorial lists can help you decide if there are any additional tools you might wish to bring with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo Sharing instructions<\/a>
BDM welcomes photos shared by our volunteers. Once you have returned from a volunteer week, take a few moments and share some of your photos and memories. These are used in a variety of promotional materials for brochures, displays and social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Questions about these forms can be directed to your District Disaster Coordinator<\/a>, group leader, or the BDM office at bdm@brethren.org<\/a> or 800-451-4407.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fillable Registration and Release Form<\/a>
This form and the next one are basically the same thing. The next form can be printed and scanned or mailed. This form is fillable online. Here are instructions to use this form:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Save the PDF to your computer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. If you have Adobe Acrobat (NOT Acrobat Reader), use that to fill out and save the form. Since Acrobat is expensive, a free option follows<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Go to https:\/\/www.pdfescape.com<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. In the upper righthand side, click the button that says \u201cUse Free\u201d.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Choose the option that says \u201cUpload PDF to PDFescape\u201d. Upload the PDF.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  6. Fill out the entire form. Pink boxes are required, blue boxes are helpful but not required.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  7. On the left side of the PDFescape site, there is a green box with two chevrons\/arrows pointing down. Click that to save and download your file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. You can use this form to create an updated version each time you volunteer on a BDM project. Please always update the \u201cDates on Project\u201d field<\/strong> and any other information that has changed.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Volunteer Registration and Release Form<\/a>
    Please fill out this form completely, sign it, and hand it in to your group leader. The parent or legal guardian of any youth under age 18 must also sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Authorization of Consent to Emergency Care of Minor<\/a>
    The parent or legal guardian of any youth under 18 years of age is required to sign this form in order for the youth to participate on a Brethren Disaster Ministries project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Volunteer Skill Sets Roster<\/a>
    Group leaders, please fill out this form to indicate the skills of each member of the group. Mail or e-mail the completed form to the project at least one week prior to arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Medical ID card<\/a>
    Print the PDF document above to fill out manually or     go to this link<\/a> to fill out online and then print.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Volunteer Evaluation of Project<\/a>
    We want your feedback and stories! Please fill out the project evaluation at the end of your volunteer trip and return it to the BDM office, or fill out the     Volunteer Evaluation online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Thank you for signing up to participate on a Brethren Disaster Ministries project! Before you go, please familiarize yourself with our guidelines for volunteering and fill out the necessary forms. BDM Rebuilding Program brochure Guidelines BDM Volunteer HandbookA handy guide to answer your questions about participating on a BDM project. BDM Policy on Minors as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":76,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-rebuild"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1885,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/1885"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}