RED CROSS YOUTH

About RCY
• It is the youth volunteering program of the Philippine Red Cross

• It seeks to inculcate humanitarian values, instill the practice of healthy lifestyle, enhance
youth leadership through service delivery, and advocate national and/or international
friendship to the youth

• Recognized as one of the co-curricular clubs in the Schools by the Department of Education
through DepEd Order No. 38 Series of 2005.

• Signed a Memorandum of Agreement to the following agencies:

a. Department of Education (DepEd)

b. Commission on Higher Education (CHED)

c. Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU)

d. Technical Education Skills Development Authority (TESDA)

e. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)

Objective
To educate and empower the children and youth in the spirit of Red Cross through relevant training
and effective leadership, and to provide opportunities for directing and harnessing their energy and
idealism into worthwhile humanitarian activities.

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Activities & Programs
• Developmental Training
- youth leadership and values
• Council Management Training
• Promotion of Healthy Lifestyle
- volunteer blood donor (Pledge 25)
• International Friendship Program
- Japanese Red Cross
- Korean Red Cross
• Youth Peer Education
• HIV/AIDS Prevention Education
• Substance Abuse Prevention Education
• Child Protection Policy Dissemination
• Volunteer Recruitment
- RCY 143,school and community-based

Council Accreditation Process

Frequency
ANNUAL ANNUAL

SCHOOL-BASED RCY SCHOOL-BASED RCY

NEW COUNCILS PREVIOUSLY ACCREDITED COUNCILS

WITHIN FIRST FIVE (5) MONTHS OF THE WITHIN FIRST THREE (3) MONTHS OF THE
ACADEMIC YEAR ACADEMIC YEAR

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Minimum Requirement
1. Accomplished council accreditation form

2. Registry of members and officers

Key Steps for Accreditation

A. Council Level
• Accomplish Council Accreditation Form issued by PRC Tarlac Chapter

• Secure signature of school head or authorized school personnel

• Fill-up database of members with necessary information. Template will be provided by

the chapter

• Once complete, submit documents to chapter for processing

B. Chapter Level
• Upon receipt of documents, chapter verifies accomplished accreditation form

• Database of councils to be consolidated on RCY NHQ prescribed template

• Chapter stamps the received documents as approved, if minimum requirement has

been met

• Chapter submits documents to NHQ for endorsement

C. NHQ Level
• RCY NHQ verifies submitted documents upon receipt from chapter

• Issues Certificate of Accreditation

• Transmits certificates with a letter addressed to the Chapter Administrator

BASIC COMPOSITION OF A COUNCIL

• Minimum of 50 bonafide members enrolled in PRC’s Membership and Accident Assistance
Benefits

• Must be trained under PRC RCY Leadership Development Program

• Must have a set of duly elected officers

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 • Must have a teacher-adviser for every 43 members who underwent Council Management
Training from PRC.

Levels of Accreditation
LEVEL 1
For newly organized councils (1 to 2 years)

Completed the
following
Has at least 50 trainings:
members, set of •Leadership
officers, and an Development Program
adviser •Child Protection
Orientation
•Council Management
Courses

LEVEL 2
Accreditation as a functional council (2 to 5 years)

Granted to councils who Annual membership

met the minimum increment of 10% is
requirements for necessary for Level 3
accreditation accreditation

Minimum of 100 members

or 25% of the school
population and
completed the Leadership
Development Program
courses

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 LEVEL 3
Accreditation as a developed council (6 to 8 years)

Council officers
Council Minimum of one With five (5) completed
consistently (1) teacher advisers who were council
given certification
meets trained as Child management
under the Council
accreditation Protection Management and and
requirements for Orientation Child Protection parliamentary
three (3) years Facilitator Training procedure
Minimum of 120
members or at least With 44 courses
Produced youth
educators and 50% of the school teachers, non-
population teaching staff,
facilitators with
completed the
minimum of five Leadership and PTCA
(5) youth members Development members
trained as peer Program and Child trained as 143
educators Protection Volunteers
Orientation

LEVEL 4
Accreditation as a leading council (8 to 11 years)

Council
consistently Produced With at least At least 15 Must have
met youth peer 500 members advisers trained
accreditation educators or 90% of the
requirements and school certified RC143
for six (6) facilitators population by PRC volunteers
years

•Minimum of •Members •Finished •Minimum of

five (5) completed the courses on 100 teaching
teachers LDP and CPO CMT and CPO and non-
trained as CPO teaching staff,
facilitators and PTCA
and CMT
•Minimum of
25 youth
members
trained as
peer
educators

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**Filing for claims shall be within 30 days from the date of discharge from hospital.