Safe Sitter Essentials with CPR

Is your child starting to ask to stay home alone while you run errands? Do you want your daughter or son to occasionally watch her younger siblings for a few hours? Are your neighbors asking when your daughter or son can babysit for them? Then maybe it’s time for Safe Sitter®. Visit www.safesitter.org to learn more about the program.

Sign up for the next Safe Sitter® class at The Women's Hospital, 3rd Floor, Classroom A (Room 3701), 4199 Gateway Boulevard, Newburgh, IN. See form below for upcoming dates

Class fee is $50. There is a 25% discount for Deaconess employees($37.50). Please bring a sack lunch. Please call Maternal Care Educators or Christy Habermel, Safe Sitter Site Coordinator, at 812-842-4275 with any questions.

At Safe Sitter® students in grades 6-8 learn how to:

• Perform CPR and rescue a choking child and infant plus ways to prevent choking in the first place.
• Evaluate an injury to determine how to handle it including how to get help.
• Prevent problem behavior plus how to manage problem behavior situations.
• Keep themselves safe in threatening situations from power failures to prowlers.
• Care for a child’s basic needs including feeding, entertaining, and toileting.
• Be successful on the job by discussing important characteristics and habits of good babysitters.
• After registration form is submitted, you will receive an email confirmation with two additional forms to sign and return along with a confirmation letter explain the course in detail.

If class is full and you want to be placed on waiting list call 812-842-4275.