Led by certified Safe Sitter® Instructors, this program equips grandparents with essential knowledge and life-saving skills. You'll learn the most current practices for safely caring for infants and children, including first aid, injury management, choking rescue, and CPR and AED demonstrations.

Beyond these critical skills, you'll also explore how to build strong, positive relationships with your grandchildren from the start. The program offers practical advice on navigating the balance of saying no to babysitting requests when necessary, ensuring you can enjoy your role as a grandparent while maintaining healthy boundaries.

What you'll learn:

• Infant and Child Care Best Practices
• Behavior Management for All Ages
• Choking Rescue
• First Aid and Injury Management
• CPR and AED Demonstrations
• Building Positive Relationships
• Setting Boundaries in Caregiving

By participating in Grandparents: Getting Started, you'll gain the confidence and skills to create lasting memories with your grandchildren while ensuring their safety and well-being.

Safe Sitter® Essentials with a full CPR Certification is a 1-day class designed to prepare students to be safe when they're home alone, watching younger siblings, or babysitting.

Do you feel ready to stay home alone, watch your brothers and sisters while your parents are gone, or babysit for younger children? Then maybe it’s time for Safe Sitter®. Safe Sitter® is for young teens  who are ready to learn the skills they need to care for themselves and younger children.

In addition, Safe Sitter® teaches young teens life and business skills, so that they know how to be prepared, be responsible, and be considerate whether they are babysitting or doing odd jobs for family, friends, or neighbors.

Each student will participate in earning their Heartsaver certification through American Heart Association. Heartsaver courses are designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for job. These courses can also be taken by anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting. For many Heartsaver courses, students receive a course completion card that is valid for 2 years.

What you'll learn: 

• Indoor Safety
• Outdoor Safety
• Online Safety
• Personal Safety
• Handling Emergencies
• Injury Prevention

• First Aid and Injury Management
• Choking Rescue
• Hands-only CPR
• Child Development
• Child Care Duties
• Behavior Management
• Job Screening
• Setting a Wage
• Canceling Jobs
• Meeting Employers

Girl Scout Patches are available upon completion, if requested prior to the class.

Please pack a lunch for your child! 

Please note, this course will require students to learn first aid topics where a small amount of blood will be shown on a video and students will learn what to do if a child they are babysitting throws up. If your child is sensitive to these topics, please reach out before scheduling class.

You’ll have fun. You’ll learn a lot. And at the end of the day, you can proudly say, “I am a Safe Sitter®!”

*No refunds will be given. If students are unable to attend they can transfer their class to a different date.

*The American Heart Association (AHA) strongly promotes knowledge and proficiency in all AHA courses and has developed instructional materials for this purpose. Use of these materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the AHA. Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the AHA.