With yesterday’s news announcing pre-K-12 educators and school staff to be eligible to receive the vaccine starting March 8, 2021, there is now a sense of urgency around staffing these vaccination events with volunteers. Vaccinating as many staff members as possible will be critical for continuing to open schools safely.

In order to vaccinate thousands of Atlanta Public Schools (APS) educators and staff, APS will need hundreds of volunteers—both medical professionals who will be able to administer the vaccine as well as non-medical volunteers to help staff the events.

“The COVID 19 pandemic has highlighted what educators have known for decades: schools are critical centers of our community and the heartbeat of our ecosystem. Therefore, we are eager to get all of our students and staff back in schools safely and vaccinating all of our educators is the pathway to achieve that goal. As such, we are grateful to any and all medical and non-medical volunteers who will help us with our vaccination events!” ”

— Rachel Sprecher, Executive Director of Partnerships and Development Atlanta Public Schools

GET STARTED!

If you are a medical professional and are willing to help vaccinate APS educators, please consider signing up to volunteer! If you’re not sure if you have the authority to vaccinate, click here to review the Georgia Department of Public Health’s list of healthcare professionals who are authorized to administer vaccinations.

If you are not a medical professional, your help is still needed to serve at the events.

All volunteers must pre-register with the Georgia Department of Public health to volunteer. Don’t wait! With March 8, approaching fast, get started now:

Register at https://servga.gov/ with the organization: Fulton County, Medical Reserve Corps. See below for step-by-step instructions on how to sign up.
Once registered through the state, sign up for a volunteer role for the Atlanta Public School events here.
Specific event/shift dates and times will be emailed to you including volunteer details and more information once confirmed. Anticipated events will likely take place on the weekends. Lunch will be provided for volunteers.

Sign up through the Georgia Department of Public Health

Here’s a quick step-by-step overview to getting signed up. It’s easy and will only take a few minutes to complete your registration.

Visit https://servga.gov and click “Register Now”
At the top section under Volunteer Opportunities click the box for option 2. This will populate a new dropdown for you to choose your organization.
Select your county and click the organization dropdown. Choose “Fulton County Medical Reserve Corps”
Fill out the rest of the information on the page: name, email, etc. to create your profile and click Next at the bottom of the page.
Nice job, you’re almost done!
One the next page click “My Profile” in the top left.
Go through the 8 sections to add the required information to complete your profile. Required information will be marked with an * and a green check mark will appear when each step is finished.
Once this is complete go to your inbox and read the message from Fulton County Medical Reserve Corps.
Follow the instructions about any additional forms you need to complete
Congrats, you’re now eligible and ready to volunteer!