Safe Sitter Babysitter Course

 What is covered:

Babysitting as a Business
Students learn how to screen jobs for their safety and ability level, as well as what information to leave with their parents and get from their employers.

Infant & Child Choking Rescue
Students learn what to do if an infant or child chokes. Students are individually tested using CPR manikins.

Injury Prevention & Injury Management
Students learn a system to evaluate the severity and urgency of a problem and determine how to get help. Students learn to prevent injuries by learning how, why, and where injuries can occur.

Behavior Management
Students learn how to prevent problem behavior in addition to a system to determine the severity and urgency of the problem behavior.

Safety for the Sitter
All aspects of staying safe are discussed for those home alone or babysitting. Students learn how to react to a variety of threatening situations from power failures to prowlers.

Child Care Essentials
Students learn the basics of child development from infants to school age children. Practice is included for skills like feeding and diapering.

Infant and Child CPR
Students learn infant and child CPR techniques that follow guidelines set by the American Heart Association.

 PLEASE BE SURE TO BRING A SNACK AND/OR LUNCH. THIS IS A 6 HOUR COURSE.
*** Group classes available:  Please call for group discounted rates!***