Courses offered

Purpose: To provide entry-level lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services personnel take over.
Duration: 30 hours (Approximately 16-18 hours in the classroom and 10-12 hours in the pool.)
Certifications: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer, valid for 2 years.
Bonus gifts: hip pack, adult and infant resuscitation masks, whistle, and floating key chain.
Lifeguard course fact sheet – link
Prerequisites for the course:
- Must be 15 years old by the last day of the class, ID required.
- Must be able to swim 300 yards continuously, while demonstrating breathing control and rhythmic breathing. For this requirement you may use the following 2 strokes, front crawl and breaststroke. Goggles are allowed for this prerequisite only: they are not allowed for the remainder of the course.
- Tread for 2 minutes using only your feet.
- Complete the following timed event in 1 minute and 40 seconds. A. Enter the water and swim 20 yards. B. Surface dive and retrieve a 10 lb brick from the bottom of the pool and bring it to the surface. C. Swim 20 yards back to the starting point with both hands holding the brick. D. Remove brick from water. E. Exit the water without the use of the ladder or steps. The clock stops when you get out of the water.

Purpose: To give lifeguards the knowledge and skills to guard at a lake or other non-surf open water area.
Duration: 5 hours
Certification: Waterfront lifeguarding, valid 2 years.
Additional Prerequisites
- Regular lifeguard certification is required (LGT).
- Instead of swimming 300 yards, you need to swim 550 yards continuously.
- Swim 5 yards retrieve 3 dive rings from the bottom in one breath, resurface and swim back 5 yards.

Purpose: To provide lifeguards with training to keep their certification current.
Duration: 9 hours.
Certification: Lifeguarding, First Aid/CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer Review, valid for 2 years.
Prerequisite: Current LGT certification/LGT certification that expired less than 30 days ago

Purpose: The purpose of the American Red Cross CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Health Care Providers program is to train professional-level rescuers to respond to breathing and cardiac emergencies in adults, children and infants until more advanced medical personnel take over.
Duration: 5 hours for the full course OR 2 hours for the Challenge/Review course.
Certification: CPR/AED for Professional Rescuers and Healthcare Providers, valid for 2 years.
Bonus Gift: Adult/Child and Infant CPR mask.
CPR for the Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider fact sheet – link

Purpose: The American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED program helps participants recognize and respond appropriately to cardiac, breathing and first aid emergencies. The courses in this program teach the knowledge and skills needed to give immediate care to an injured or ill person and to decide whether advanced medical care is needed.
Duration: 5 hours.
Certification: Adult/Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED. There is an adult only or pediatric only certificate option.
Bonus gift: key chain face shield.
First Aid/CPR/AED fact sheet – link

A certificate level CPR class is any CPR class except for hands only CPR.

Purpose: To provide individuals with a foundation of first aid principles and skills to be able to respond to emergencies and give care in areas that do not have immediate EMS response.
Duration: 16 hours.
Certification: Wilderness and Remote First Aid, valid 2 years.
Prerequisites: Current Adult CPR/AED certification and be at least 14 years old before the last scheduled day of class, ID required.
Wilderness and Remote First Aid fact sheet – link

Purpose: This course teaches participants how bloodborne pathogens are spread, how to avoid exposure and what to do if exposed to infectious material. It also helps meet OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Standards.
Duration: 1 hour.
Certification: Bloodborne Pathogens Training, valid 1 year.
Bloodborne Pathogens fact sheet – link

Purpose: To give participants the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to a victim of a breathing emergency using breathing devices, including resuscitation masks, bag-valve-mask resuscitators (BVMs) and emergency oxygen.
Duration: 90 minutes.
Certification: Administering Emergency Oxygen, valid for 2 years.
Prerequisites: Current certificate in American Red Cross Adult, Child or Infant CPR or equivalent.
Oxygen Administration fact sheet – link

Purpose: This course teaches how to recognize and respond to an anaphylaxis emergency, including administering an epinephrine auto-injector based on the widely available EpiPen®
Duration: 45 minutes.
Certification: Anaphylaxis and Epinephrine Auto-Injector, valid 2 years.
ANAPHYLAXIS AND EPINEPHRINE AUTO-INJECTOR (EPI PEN)
- Purpose: This course teaches how to recognize and respond to an anaphylaxis emergency, including administering an epinephrine auto-injector based on the widely available EpiPen®
- Duration: 45 minutes.
- Certification: Anaphylaxis and Epinephrine Auto-Injector, valid 2 years.
Anaphylaxis and Epinephrine fact sheet – link

Purpose: To provide youth who are planning to babysit with the knowledge and skills necessary to safely and responsibly give care for children and infants. This training will help participants to develop leadership skills; learn how to develop a babysitting business, keep themselves and others safe and help children behave; and learn about basic child care and basic first aid.
Duration: 6.5 hours
Certification: Babysitter's Training, DOES NOT EXPIRE
Babysitter training fact sheet – link