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
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) – Sunday, September 13, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, September 19, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, September 20, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, September 20, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, September 20, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, September 26, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, September 27, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, October 03, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, October 04, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, October 10, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, October 11, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, October 17, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, October 18, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, October 31, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, November 07, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, November 08, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, November 14, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, November 21, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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