Safety Courses | YMCA of the Chippewa Valley
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SAFETY COURSES

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Safe Sitter Essentials

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Safe Sitter® teaches students safety skills for when they are home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting. Students will learn safety skills, childcare skills, first aid/rescue skills, and life/business skills from the instructor-led class. There will be a lunch break, but lunch is not provided. Please bring your own.

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Chippewa Falls YMCA 

  • April 13

  • ​9:00 AM-2:30 PM

  • Members: $70 | Non-Members: $85

  • Ages: Entering Grade 6 and Older
     

Eau Claire Downtown YMCA

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SAFE@HOME​

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Safe@Home by Safe Sitter® is a program designed for students in grades 4-6 to prepare them to be safe when they are home alone. This 90-minute class will teach students about safe habits and how to deal with situations such as power failures, injuries, illnesses, and weather emergencies.

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Chippewa Falls YMCA

  • March 29 or April 27

  • ​9:30-11:00 AM

  • FEE: $30 Members | $40 Non-Members

  • AGE: Grades 4-6
     

Eau Claire Downtown YMCA

  • April 15 or August 14

  • 3:00-4:30 PM

  • FEE: $30 Members | $40 Non-Members

  • AGE: Grades 4-6

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CPR/AED/First Aid

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Instructs individuals to respond appropriately to breathing, cardiac, and first aid emergencies and decide whether advanced medical care is needed. This includes the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) to care for a person experiencing cardiac arrest. Additional classes are available for the Health Care Professional and Rescuer.

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Lifeguard Certification & Review​

 

Instructs participants in the knowledge and skills needed to prevent and respond to aquatic emergencies through water rescue skills, surveillance and recognition, CPR/AED, first aid, breathing, and cardiac emergencies, Prerequisites: ability to swim 300 yards (100 front crawl with rhythmic breathing, 100 breaststroke and 100 of front crawl and breaststroke); swim 20 yards using front crawl or breaststroke, surface dive 9 ft., retrieve a 10-lb object, return to surface, swim 20 yards on back with both hands on the brick to the start point and exit the water within 1 min., 40 secs., and treading water for 2 minutes without using arms. A review class is also available for those who already hold there certification but need it renewed.

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Water Safety Instructor​

 

Train instructor candidates to teach courses and presentations in the Swimming and Water Safety program by developing their understanding of how to use the course materials, how to conduct training sessions and how to evaluate participants’ progress. Prerequisites: Demonstrate the ability to perform the following swimming skills:

  • Front crawl—25 yards

  • Back crawl—25 yards Breaststroke—25 yards

  • Elementary backstroke—25 yards

  • Sidestroke—25 yards

  • Butterfly—15 yards

  • Maintain position on back for 1 minute in deep water (floating or sculling)

  • Tread water for 1 minute
     

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Community Training 

How to Reverse an Opioid Overdose

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Participants will learn how to administer nasal Narcan in the event of an opioid overdose. Participants will also receive a free Narcan kit to take home. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley, Chippewa County Public Health, & CHIP - Chippewa Health Improvement Partnership are partnering for the community training.

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When: 

  • Thursday, April 11, 5:30-6:30 PM

  • Tuesday, May 21, 10:00-11:00 AM

Where: Chippewa Falls YMCA | Community Room

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