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Youth Programs – Babysitting Basics & Stay Safe Home Alone

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Youth Programs – Babysitting Basics

Duration: 7 hours of classroom learning (with breaks) 9:00 Am – 4:00 PM

Description:

The Babysitting course, refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviours to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.

Pre-Requisite:  Ages 11-15

First Aid Content:

  • Reference text with imbedded critical thinking activities that will reinforce content for:
    • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911),
    • glove removal,
    • recovery position,
    • conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone),
    • CPR (baby/child),
    • illness,
    • asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer),
    • anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen),
    • poisoning,
    • insect stings,
    • wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns),
    • head, neck and back injuries,
    • broken bones,
    • seizures

Take-Home Material: Babysitters Manual

 

Youth Programs – Stay Safe Home Alone

Duration: 6 hours of classroom learning (with breaks) 9:00 Am – 4:00 PM

Description: 

Real-world scenarios often call on children to respond to challenges. The Stay Safe! program teaches applicable and age-appropriate skills, while increasing and reinforcing a youth’s capacity to improve his or her own safety. Whether in their community or on their own, this group will be given better tools to Stay Safe! in a variety of different situations.

Pre-Requisite:  Ages 9-13

Course Content:

  • Importance of responsibility and respect while being accountable for yourself
  • Importance of setting and following rules around safety when staying on your own
  • How to stay safe at home and within the community
  • How to prepare, recognize and respond to unexpected situations, (i.e. inclement weather, strangers, unanticipated visits)

First Aid Content:

  • Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911),
  • recovery position,
  • conscious choking (adult/child/alone),
  • feeling unwell,
  • (includes use of inhaler and spacer),
  • anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen),
  • poisoning,
  • insect stings,
  • wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns)

Take-Home Material: Stay Safe! Workbook

 

 

STEP 1 – PURCHASE Class Slot

Select an available class date to attend. Select how many will be attending. Add to Cart. Review Cart. Got to Checkout. There, list attendees by Full Name with Phone & Emails in the List all Attendees text box so we can enroll them into the class roster.

Repeat if you wish to enroll others into a different class.

STEP 2 – WAIT for Notification that Red Cross Training Account Setup Complete

We will email you to confirm the list of attendees you entered. Once confirmed, we will then setup a Red Cross website account for each. Then we will notify you via email that they are setup along with the link and login credentials for each.

STEP 3 – LOGIN to Red Cross website

Each attendee will use the login credentials we email to you to login and complete the Theory portion of their class with Red Cross.

STEP 4 – ATTEND Mud Creek Training Facility on the selected Weds.

Each attendee will then drive to our training facility and attend the Practical portion of the class selected.

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