Barack Obama is pitching a massive expansion of AmeriCorps and added "units" to deal with special topics, to include homeland security. This, in part, could solve some workforce and credentialing issues at the scene of a large-scale emergency where many volunteers and/or citizen recruits would be needed.
Here's the AP article:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gQNzkvQdOVeBPKyqUTjgLct0wbNwD8TBI4OG0
Presumably, this would be an expansion of the National Civilian Community Corps
(for more info, see http://www.americorps.org/about/programs/nccc.asp), a program
I can vouch for as a dear friend's daughter is mid-way in her service and has nothing but really positive things to say about the whole situation.
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