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) – Saturday, May 09, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, May 17, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, May 17, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Thursday, May 21, 2026 – Guildford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, May 23, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, May 24, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, May 31, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 07, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, June 13, 2026 – Victoria West Community Centre |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 14, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, June 20, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 21, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 21, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 28, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, June 28, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Friday, July 03, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, July 05, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Wednesday, July 08, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, July 12, 2026 – Burnaby |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Monday, July 13, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Monday, July 13, 2026 – Richmond |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Saturday, July 18, 2026 – Surrey |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, July 19, 2026 – Abbotsford |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Friday, July 24, 2026 – Port Coquitlam |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, July 26, 2026 – Chilliwack |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Sunday, July 26, 2026 – Langley |
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| Babysitting (In Person) – Friday, July 31, 2026 – Burnaby |
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