Babysitting Training
Babysitting Training
The refreshed Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course now emphasizes First Aid skills. It covers managing challenging behaviors, leadership, and professional conduct. This updated curriculum enhances older youth’s sense of responsibility when caring for younger children. With new scientific insights, it improves learning about providing appropriate care during emergencies.
Course Contents
- How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership
- How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviours
- Information on children’s developmental stages, and specific strategies for each stage
- How to feed, diaper, dress, and play with children and babies
- How to recognize and prevent unsafe situations, make safe choices and promote safe behaviours
- First aid skills
- The business of babysitting
What you will learn
- Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
- Glove removal
- Recovery position
- Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
- CPR (baby/child), illness, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns), head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures
What you will learn
- Check, Call, Care (includes phoning EMS/911)
- Glove removal
- Recovery position
- Conscious choking (adult/child/baby/alone)
- CPR (baby/child), illness, asthma (includes use of inhaler and spacer), anaphylaxis (includes use of EpiPen), poisoning, insect stings, wound care (i.e. minor cuts and scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps and bruises, life-threatening bleeding, burns), head, neck and back injuries, broken bones, seizures
Who can attend
- Minimum 11 years of age (or completion of Grade 5)
- Maximum 16 years of age
Group/Private classes? Could your organization or school gain from this training?
Course Dates
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, February 21, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, February 22, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, February 22, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, February 22, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, March 08, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, March 14, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, March 21, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, March 22, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, March 22, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, March 28, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, March 29, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, April 05, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, April 11, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, April 12, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, April 19, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, April 19, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, April 25, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, April 25, 2026 – Langley |
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