Learn • Practice • Be Ready.
Rescue Ready Kids is a series of interactive, age appropriate safety classes designed to help children build confidence, make smart decisions, and know what to do when something goes wrong.
Rather than trying to cover every safety skill in one class, each Rescue Ready Kids class focuses on one specific safety topic. This gives kids time to learn, practice, ask questions, work through realistic scenarios, and build confidence with the skills being taught.
Depending on the class, children may participate in hands on practice, games, demonstrations, role play, and age appropriate emergency scenarios.
No matter which Rescue Ready Kids topic your child attends, we want them to leave with a better understanding of how to get help during an emergency.
Each class incorporates age appropriate emergency response concepts, including:
• How to recognize when a situation may be an emergency
• When they can safely handle a minor situation themselves
• When they should immediately get a trusted adult
• When it is appropriate to call 911
• What happens when they call 911
• What a dispatcher may ask them
• The importance of knowing their name, home address and location
• How to clearly explain what happened and who needs help
• Why they should stay on the phone and follow the dispatcher's instructions
• How to stay as calm as possible and make safe choices while help is on the way
Rescue Ready Kids Class Topics
(Click on each topic below to learn more about content covered in the class)
What would your child do if someone suddenly collapsed and would not wake up?
This hands on class introduces children to CPR, AEDs, choking response, and what to do when someone is unresponsive.
Kids will learn how to recognize a serious emergency, activate 911, and understand how CPR can help keep blood moving until professional help arrives. Participants will practice Hands Only CPR using training manikins and learn what an AED is, where they may see one, and how an AED provides step by step instructions during an emergency.
The class also introduces children to recognizing choking and age appropriate choking response skills.
Topics may include:
• Recognizing an unresponsive person
• Getting help and calling 911
• Hands Only CPR awareness and hands on practice
• AED awareness and hands on practice with training AEDs
• Following AED and 911 dispatcher instructions
• Recognizing choking
• Choking response awareness and practice
• Emergency decision making through scenarios and activities
This is an awareness and skills class and does not provide CPR/AED certification.
Cuts, scrapes, nosebleeds, burns, bumps, bites and stings are all situations kids may encounter at home, at school, while playing, or while spending time with friends.
This class helps children learn basic first aid concepts while also developing one of the most important safety skills: knowing when they can help and when they need an adult or emergency assistance.
Through demonstrations, hands on activities and scenarios, kids will practice responding to common injuries and making safer decisions when someone gets hurt.
Topics may include:
• Basic first aid and personal safety
• Cuts and scrapes
• Bleeding
• Nosebleeds
• Minor burns
• Bumps and minor injuries
• Bites and stings
• Basic first aid supplies and how they are used
• When to get a trusted adult
• Recognizing when an injury may require emergency help
This is an awareness and skills class and does not provide First Aid certification.
As children grow, they begin taking on more responsibility and spending short periods of time without an adult right beside them. Being ready for that independence involves much more than simply knowing how to lock the door.
Home Smart helps children build practical safety, problem solving, and decision making skills for situations they may encounter at home.
Children will work through realistic, age appropriate scenarios and practice deciding what they can safely handle themselves, when they should contact a trusted adult, and when a situation requires emergency help.
Topics may include:
• Knowing important personal and family information
• Identifying trusted adults and emergency contacts
• Creating and understanding a family emergency plan
• Answering the door safely
• What to do if an unexpected visitor comes to the home
• Phone and communication safety
• Internet and online safety awareness
• Recognizing common household hazards
• Following family rules for kitchen appliances and other household equipment
• What to do during a power outage
• Severe weather preparedness
• What to do when something unexpected happens at home
• Knowing when to handle a situation, contact an adult, or call 911
Home Smart can be beneficial even if your child is not yet staying home completely alone. The skills are designed to help children become safer, more confident, and better prepared as they gradually gain independence.
Help your child build safer habits and better awareness around pools and other bodies of water.
This class focuses on helping children recognize water related risks, make safer choices, and understand what they should and should not do if someone else is having trouble in the water.
A major focus is helping children understand that helping someone does not mean putting themselves in danger.
Topics may include:
• Safer behavior around pools and bodies of water
• Understanding water safety rules
• Recognizing potentially dangerous situations
• Recognizing when someone may be in trouble in the water
• Getting an adult and activating emergency help
• Safe ways a child may be able to assist without entering the water
• Why children should never put themselves in danger while attempting a rescue
• Emergency response and calling 911
Additional Course Information
Kids learn by doing.
Rescue Ready Kids classes are designed to be interactive and hands on, with less time spent sitting through a lecture and more opportunities to participate.
Depending on the class, activities may include:
• Hands on skills practice
• Movement based activities
• Role playing
• Emergency decision making games
• Practice calling 911
• Training manikins and AED trainers
• Demonstrations
• Realistic, age appropriate scenarios
Our goal is for children to leave class not simply remembering facts, but feeling more confident answering an important question:
Ages: 7 to 10
Class Length: Approximately 60 to 90 minutes, depending on the topic
Class Size: Small group instruction with limited enrollment to provide opportunities for participation and hands on practice
Certification: Rescue Ready Kids classes are non certification safety education programs. CPR, AED, and First Aid certification courses are available separately through Pasco CPR & First Aid Training.
Children should wear comfortable clothing that allows them to move, kneel, and participate in hands on activities.
Interested in bringing Rescue Ready Kids to your group?
Private training opportunities may be available for homeschool groups, schools, youth organizations, Scout groups, community organizations, and other groups.
Contact Pasco CPR & First Aid Training to discuss bringing Rescue Ready Kids to your organization.
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For older kids and teens, check out our Babysitter Training courses for ages 11 to 15! These classes build practical skills for staying safe, caring for younger children, handling emergencies, and becoming a more confident and responsible babysitter.
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