Cascadia Volunteer Info
Updated: Sep 2, 2022
THANK YOU for being a volunteer and spending your weekend to help ShelterBox! The training that you are helping to facilitate will ultimately help disaster survivors around the world. We couldn’t do it without you. A Detailed schedule is below: keep scrolling down.

The purpose of this weekend is to educate the participants about ShelterBox while at the same time giving them a simulated deployment experience. Everyone, including volunteers, is invited to observe and listen in on all sessions. And have fun! The training program is about education and fellowship - enjoy the experience!
Role Playing aka Rules of Engagement
The rules of role playing are very flexible - Make it happen and have fun!
It is Cascadia, a land of very little logic or organization.
Not being able to speak English is good. It’s A-OK in Cascadia.
Don’t go over the top but please get into your role.
The actors are in charge of their stations - there is no right or wrong.
Press Corp members - have your questions ready and a microphone in their face.
Cameramen - have those cameras rolling.
Learn to love the national anthem of Cascadia - respect t as it is your country.
SRT’s job is to get the job done and that is often done by dealing with a lot of bureaucracy.
Bureaucracy is very real in third world countries, to the extent that it cannot be overdone.
Please refrain from open displays of adult beverages and don’t overindulge.
The timeline is subject to change but please stick to it firmly.
You may play several different roles in quick succession. Be ready!
Interaction with Participants
Try to help the participants succeed ultimately.
SRTs will be following teams around during the scenarios. They are there to observe and clarify. Use them if you have any doubts.
Stay in character, be your role, there may be awards for best character
Have fun but keep it real.
While in role playing mode, anything a Cascadian citizen finds relevant is of interest (politics (not US), religion, rebels, sports, corrupt government officials, etc.)
You can touch participants in friendship but never in adversarial way. Use verbal Judo to move them around. Sometimes it gets a little heated.
Engage the participants in conversation and ask them why they are here in Cascadia.
Role Player Schedule
*Participants don’t have this in their handbooks*
Role Player Schedule
*Participants don’t have this in their handbooks*
Tuesday, 06 SEP:
1800 -1900 @ Faith Presbyterian Church – MAJ Merritt briefs role-players for event on overall play and rules
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Cell phone (website) familiarization
- Questions answered
FRIDAY, 09 SEP:
1200 -1300 @ Sno Road Winery – MAJ Merritt briefs role-players for Friday on overall play and rules
1300 - 1315 HUMMV Convoy to Cascadia
1315-1400 Set up Checkpoint
1400 Participant convoy arrival
1400 – 1630 Crossing into Cascadia
1430 – 1515 Immigration
1515 – 1600 Customs
Approx 1600 End of Mission (Friday)
1610-1650 Participants set up their tents
1700-1725 Cluster Meeting for select personnel (MAJ Merritt)
SATURDAY, 10 SEP:
1000 – 1030 Role Players arrive at Farm (Parking)
1030 – 1130 Brief all Saturday Role Players (in Parking Lot with cell phone website)
1130 – 1200 Drivers transport to Role Players to Utila Self-Evacuee Region, Cuhna River Region, and Koontz Forest Region.
1200 – 1230 Set up camps, campfires, prepare lunches
1230 – 1730 Simulated Deployment
1730 – 1800 clean up campsites
1800 – 1830 Transport back to Parking Lot
1830 – 1900 End of Mission: Transport back to Sno Road Winery
1900 Rotary club of Cascadia Dinner and group celebration