Learn how to bring comfort and care to children following disasters

By Michael Scalzi

Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) is very excited to have new volunteer trainings scheduled for the Spring of 2026 in addition to the Fall of 2025. Join a CDS volunteer training and learn how to bring comfort and care to children following disasters.

CDS volunteers are exceptional individuals with compassionate hearts for serving children. The specialized service they provide focuses on how children experience and react to disaster events. The CDS training program is a 25-hour training that equips volunteers with the skills needed to understand and respond to children who have encountered both human-caused and natural disasters. Learn more and register for a training at www.brethren.org/cds or call 410-635-8735.

Upcoming training dates and locations are:

Sept. 26-27, 2025
Warrensburg First United Methodist Church
141 E. Gay St.
Warrensburg, MO 64093
Local coordinator: LuRae Shreves, 660-441-0491, luraeshreves@gmail.com

Oct. 17-18, 2025
Elizabethtown Church of the Brethren
777 S. Mount Joy St.
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
Local coordinator: Sandy Brubaker, 717-598-5195, peb26@icloud.com

Feb. 20-21, 2026
First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort
410 Church St.
Beaufort, SC 29902
Local coordinator: Chris Appl-Walsh, 404-989-5306, capplwal@gmail.com

Feb. 27-28, 2026
Dove of the Desert United Methodist Church
7201 W. Beardsley Road
Glendale, AZ 85308
Local coordinator: George Cushman, 928-460-2462, gccushman@cox.net