The Yokosuka American Red Cross Station offers a wide variety of services, such as:

Emergency Communications Services

Red Cross emergency communication services provide a 24-hour link between service members, DoD civilians, and their families around the world.

Emergency communication provides information from the family about the death or serious illness of a immediate family member, the birth of a child or family emergencies.

Red Cross verification provides fast, reliable information to help the military make decisions about emergency leave, deferment, compassionate reassignment or dependency discharge.

In case of a family emergency contact Yokosuka Red Cross at 243-7490 . After hours call DSN 225-6802 or com 011-81-311-755-6802. Stateside family members may contact their local Red Cross Chapter 24/7 by going to www.redcross.org or calling 1-877-272-7337.

Disaster Services

Disaster services provided at our station include:

• Financial Assistance
• Disaster Welfare Inquiries
• Support base disaster preparedness
• Volunteer Support

Red Cross Courses

The Yokosuka Red Cross provides a variety of Health and Safety courses to the local community. These courses include:

• Lay Responder CPR - Adult, Infant, & Child
• Automatic External Defibrillation (AED)
• Standard First Aid
• Babysitter's Training (11-18 years old)
• "I'M IN CHARGE" (10-12 years old)
• Dog & Cat First Aid
• Wilderness and Remote First Aid

We also offer instructor certification in the above courses.

Red Cross Programs

Dental Assistant Training Program

The Dental Assistant Training Program gives spouses of military and DoD civilians an opportunity to train as a dental assistant. This is a free five to six month training program at the base dental clinic. Volunteers will gain knowledge and skills as a dental assistant, while working directly with dentists and staff.

Language Bank

Yokosuka Red Cross maintains a bank of on-call volunteers who speak multiple languages and are willing to provide translation assistance to clients in need . To date, we have volunteers capable of translating the following languages:

• Chinese
• German
• French
• Japanese
• Spanish
• Tagalong
• Russian
• Korean

Youth Program

We have a number of dedicated youth volunteers in the Yokosuka Naval Base community. These volunteers work on projects like:

• Fundraisers for volunteer programs
• Book drives
• Reading programs
• Base clean-up projects
• Special Events