Highlights
Lifeguard Certifications
American Red Cross Lifeguarding Certification
Through videos, classroom activities, group discussions, and hands-on practice, you’ll learn teamwork, rescue skills, surveillance skills, First Aid, CPR/AED and more. These are all skills you will need to work as a professional lifeguard.
Successful completion results in a 2-year certification in lifeguarding that includes First Aid, professional-level CPR and AED in one certificate. Digital certificate available upon successful completion of course.
Lifeguard Prerequisites:
Must be 15 years or older
300-yard continuous swim using freestyle and breast stroke
Tread water for 2-minutes using legs only
Swim 20-yards, dive to a depth of 9-10 ft., and retrieve 10-pound brick
Must complete all blended learning and in person skills
Water Safety Instructor Certification
American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor Certification
Earn your certification to teach American Red Cross swim lessons and water safety and gain the skills needed to teach courses and make presentations to swimmers of every age and ability. Through our Water Safety Instructor program, you can help recreational swimmers meet their goals, refine their skills and stay safe in, on, and around water.
Course trains instructor candidates to teach all of the courses presented in the Swimming and Water Safety program to all age groups; Parent and Child Aquatics, Preschool Aquatics, Learn-to-Swim Levels 1-6, and Adult Swim. This certification is the gold standard and provides the most comprehensive training for swim instructors.
Certification Prerequisites:
Must be 16 years old
Required Swim Skills
25 yards each:
Front Crawl
Back Crawl
Breaststroke
Sidestroke
Elementary Backstroke
15 yards:
Butterfly
1 minute each:
Back Float
Tread Water
Babysitter Certification
American Red Cross Babysitters Training
The American Red Cross’ Babysitting Basics class covers a wide range of information that can help new babysitters, ages 11 and above, gain the skills and confidence needed to care for infants and children. The course takes roughly 10 hours to complete and includes information on:
How to care for infants and children
What do to in an emergency and how to stay safe
Recognizing, understanding and handling certain behaviors
Starting your babysitting business
Pediatric First Aid and CPR/AED Certifications
This course will prepare you to become one of the most capable, trusted, and in-demand sitters in your neighborhood. Start your babysitting business on the right foot and learn how to be safe, professional, and reliable sitter.
First Aid Certification
The American Heart Association Heartsaver® First Aid is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and other first aid emergencies.
This course is for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion certificate in First Aid to meet job, regulatory or other requirements. Heartsaver First Aid is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical thinking skills to respond to and manage an emergency in the first few minutes until the emergency medical services (EMS) arrives. Students learn skills such as how to treatbleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock and otherfirst aid emergencies.
This class is open to Members ($40) and Non-Members ($50).
CPR / AED Certification
This American Heart Association course averages 4 hours. Healthcare Provider CPR/AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches adult, child and infant CPR and AED use, as well as how to relieve choking. This course teaches skills with AHA’s research proven Practice While Watching technique, which allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback and guide the students’ learning of skills.
This class is open to Members ($50) and Non-Members ($60).