Courses offered
LIFEGUARD COURSE
- Purpose: To provide entry-level lifeguard participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize and respond to aquatic emergencies and to provide professional-level care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries and sudden illnesses until emergency medical services (EMS) personnel take over.
- Duration: 30 hours (Approximately 16-18 hours in the classroom and 12-14 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.
- r.24 Lifeguard course fact sheet – link
- Prerequisites for the course:
- Must be 15 years old by the last day of the class, ID required.
- Jump into the water and totally submerge, resurface then swim 150 yards using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both. (Swimming on the back or side is not permitted. Swim goggles are allowed for this prerequisite only). Maintain position at the surface of the water for 2 minutes by treading water using only the legs. Swim 50 yards using the front crawl, breaststroke or a combination of both.
- Starting in the water, swim 20 yards. (The face may be in or out of the water. Swim goggles are not allowed). Submerge to a depth of 7-10 feet to retrieve a 10-pound object. Return to the surface and swim 20 yards on the back to return to the starting point, holding the object at the surface with both hands and keeping the face out at or near the surface. Exit the water without using a ladder or steps. The clock stops when you get out of the water.
WATERFRONT ADD-ON TO THE LIFEGUARD COURSE
- 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.
- r.24 Waterfront course add-on fact sheet – link
- Additional Prerequisites
- Regular lifeguard certification is required (LGT).
- Instead of swimming 200 yards, you need to swim 350 yards continuously.
- Swim 5 yards, submerge and retrieve three dive rings placed 5 yards apart in 4 – 7 feet of water. Resurface and continue to swim another 5 yards
LIFEGUARD RE-CERTIFICATION
- 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.
- r.24 Lifeguarding recertification course fact sheet – link
- Prerequisite: Current LGT certification/LGT certification that expired less than 30 days ago
CPR
PROFESSIONAL CPR
- 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.
- Course Prerequisites: None
- 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.
- r.24 CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer and Healthcare Provider fact sheet – link
LAY RESPONDER CPR
- 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.
- r.21 First Aid/CPR/AED fact sheet – link
HANDS ONLY CPR
A certificate level CPR class is any CPR class except for hands only CPR.
WILDERNESS AND REMOTE FIRST AID
- 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.
- r.14 (Updated 2019) Wilderness and Remote First Aid fact sheet – link
OTHER COURSES OFFERED
BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS
- 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.
- r.21 Bloodborne Pathogens fact sheet – link
OXYGEN ADMINISTRATION
- 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.
- r.24 Oxygen Administration fact sheet – link
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 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
BABYSITTER'S TRAINING
- 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