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Learning First Aid & CPR is as essential as learning to walk or to read. First Aid & CPR skills are applicable in your daily life, both at home and at work, and prepare you to act on, control, and manage life's emergencies. Before a professional responder arrives to help, you can make all the difference in helping someone in need.

Canadian Red Cross First Aid & CPR training is basic knowledge delivered in easy-to-follow steps - we teach you simple routines that you can apply to a variety of situations, from small injuries and conditions to more severe injuries. This knowledge can turn you from a helpless bystander into someone who can save a life and has the knowledge and skills to help.

We created our courses with you, our participant, in mind - to make it as easy as possible for you to attend a course and retain the information.

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Our courses are based on a combination of teaching techniques that include:
  • DVD support (filmed material)
  • PowerPoint presentation
  • Instructional Posters
  • Skills demonstration and practise
  • Scenarios
  • Exercises
  • Class discussions and Q & A
You will practise on a variety of training materials to help you develop your skills, such as mannequins for practising CPR, AED trainers, bandages, splinting materials, barrier devices, first aid kits, epinephrine auto-injector trainers, Metered Dose Inhalers and spacers etc.

Courses are offered with flexible schedule options to adapt to your busy lifestyle. During the course, our well-trained Red Cross First Aid Instructors monitor your progress and provide you with continuous feedback to help increase your skill retention. The take-home materials are colourful and easy to use, with checklists and step-by-step photos, and can be used as quick reference after the course as well.




About this course:

  • 14 - 16 hour course with flexible scheduling options
  • Includes CPR Level C
  • Provides you with a 3-year valid certification recognized in the workplace (a shortened recertification course is available in groups)
  • Includes AED certification

What you will learn:

  • How to respond to emergencies
  • The EMS system
  • The 3 key principles in First Aid - Check, Call, Care
  • How to deal with Airway, Breathing, and Circulation Emergencies
  • First aid for respiratory and circulatory emergencies
  • First aid for head and spinal emergencies
  • First aid for bone, muscle, and joint emergencies
  • First aid for sudden medical emergencies (i.e. diabetes, seizures, childbirth, etc)
  • First aid for environmental emergencies

The Standard First Aid course with AED is $160 and includes the text. We also offer the SFA C recert with AED but there needs to be a group.

The Standard First Aid course is offered in 2 formats: either over the 2 full days of a weekend (Saturday and Sunday) from 8:30 to 4:30, or over 4 evenings from 6:30 to 10:30 each evening. Currently the following Standard First Aid courses are scheduled:


Course Dates Course Times Delivery Method
January 17, 19, 24 and 26 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
January 21 and 22 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
February 11 and 12 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
February 14, 16, 21 and 23 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
March 6, 8, 13 and 15 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
March 10 and 11 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
March 24 and 25 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
April 14 and 15 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
April 17, 19, 24 and 26 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
May 8, 10, 15 and 17 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Tuesdays & Thursdays
May 12 and 13 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
June 9 and 10 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Weekend
June 18, 20, 25 & 27 6:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Monday & Wednesday



The downloadable schedule is in PDF format, and will require a PDF viewer to read. If you do not have a PDF viewer, you may visit www.adobe.com to download the free Acrobat Reader.