Heartsaver First Aid, CPR & AED training is one of our most popular courses. This course trains care providers with little or no medical training to provide first aid, CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner.

This course is offered in two training formats:

Classroom Format: Instructor-led, hands-on class format conducted in your office or home to reinforce skills proficiency. This course is video-based and teaches the skills critical to assess, manage and respond to an emergency until EMS gets arrives. The practice-while-watching technique allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Blended Learning Format: Combines online and hands-on training in an optimal format to teach participants first aid, CPR, and AED skills. This approach enables students who are not able to attend traditional classroom training to learn the course at their own pace, while also providing more flexibility in scheduling hands-on training with their instructor. Upon completion of the online portion, students must complete a hands-on skills session with one of our American Heart Association certified instructors.

For Certification Renewal: A renewal course is designed for those whose certification is still valid but near expiration. It allows you to refresh your memory, renew your skills and stay up-to-date on scientific-based life-saving techniques. It is shorter than a standard initial certification class. A participant will be required to present an existing certification card to be able to register for a renewal class.

Duration: Initial certification - 3 hours / Renewal - 1 hour

Upon successful completion of the course, students receive an American Heart Association course completion card, valid for two years.

BLS stands for Basic Life Support and refers to the type of response that healthcare professionals and other personnel provide to an adult, child, or infant experiencing respiratory distress, an obstructed airway, or cardiac arrest.

Our BLS course is designed for healthcare professionals who need to know how to recognize several life-threatening emergencies and promptly perform CPR, timely use of an AED, and other basic cardiovascular life support skills.

What you can learn from this course:

• High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants

• The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components

• Important early use of an AED

• Effective ventilation using a barrier device

• Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR

• Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

This course is offered in two training formats:

Classroom Format: Instructor-led, hands-on class format to reinforce skills proficiency. This course is video-based and teaches the critical skills needed to respond to and manage an emergency until emergency medical services arrive. The practice-while-watching technique allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Blended Learning Format: Combines online and hands-on training in an optimal format to teach participants first aid, CPR, and AED skills. This approach enables students who are not able to attend traditional classroom training to learn the course at their own pace, while also providing more flexibility in scheduling hands-on training with their instructor. Upon completion of the online portion, students must complete a hands-on skills session with a Heartsaver certified instructor.

For Certification Renewal: A renewal course is designed for those whose certification is still valid but near expiration. It allows you to refresh your memory, renew your skills and stay up-to-date on scientific-based life-saving techniques. It is shorter than a standard initial certification class. A participant will be required to present an existing certification card to be able to register for a renewal class.

Upon completion of all course requirements, participants receive a BLS Provider Course Completion Card which is valid for two years.

CCA offers attractive group rate/corporate discounts. If you have multiple participants/employees (10 or more), CCA makes it easier for you to register them with a single payment.

The group class is offered asblended learning,which combines online and hands-on training in an optimal format to teach participants first aid, CPR and AED skills. This approach enables students who are not able to attend traditional classroom training to learn the course at their own pace. Upon completion of the online portion, students must complete hands-on skills session to be conducted by our certified instructor at your office/home.

Regular price: $80/student

Upon successful completion, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years.

Note: If you have less than 10 participants, you may register them individually.

Nonviolent Crisis Prevention and Intervention is designed to teach best practices for managing difficult situations and disruptive behaviors.

Individuals will identify the behavioral levels that contribute to the development of a crisis and choose appropriate staff intervention for each level; identify useful non-verbal techniques in the prevention of acting out behavior; develop crisis intervention and verbal de-escalation skills; demonstrate principles of personal safety to avoid injury if behavior escalates to a physical level; use a model for action after an incident that will bring about necessary closure, debriefing, and re-establishment of a therapeutic relationship with the individuals involved.

Unfortunately, workplace violence is a reality today. This course will give you information to help you minimize the chance of it happening at your workplace and also help you survive in the event you are involved in an incident of violence on the job. We cover what an employer can do to reduce workplace violence and what an employee can do. We also cover how no industry and no one person are immune. Workplace violence can happen to anyone in any industry.

What you can learn from this course:

• Understanding Precursors To Crisis

• Motivating Persons In Crisis

• Handling Passive Non-Compliance

• Verbal De-escalation Techniques

• Professional Distancing

• Building Rapport

• Trauma-Informed Care And How It Relates To Crisis Intervention Prevention Training

• Multiple Non-Violent De-escalation Techniques

• Verbal De-escalation Techniques

Classroom Format: Instructor-led, hands-on class format conducted in your office or home to reinforce skills proficiency. The practice-while-watching technique allows instructors to observe the students, provide feedback, and guide the students’ learning of skills.

Blended Learning Format: Combines online and hands-on training. This approach enables students who are not able to attend traditional classroom training to learn the course at their own pace, while also providing more flexibility in scheduling hands-on training with their instructor. Upon completion of the online portion, students must complete hands-on skills session with a certified instructor.

For Certification Renewal: A renewal course is designed for those whose certification is still valid but near expiration. It allows you to refresh your memory, renew your skills and stay up-to-date on scientific-based life-saving techniques. It is shorter than a standard initial certification class. A participant will be required to present an existing certification card to be able to register for a renewal class.

Duration: Initial certification - 3 hours / Renewal - 1 hour

Upon successful completion of the course, students receive a course completion card, valid for two years.