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Apr 29, 2023
Sat 9am to 4pm
Location: *Trout Lake Community Centre
Facility: Willow Room
Price: $70.00 (Standard charge)
Leisure Access Discount CCA 50% non-taxable: 50.00% for Customer
Ages: At least 11 but less than 19
Gender: Mixed
Spaces: 15 openings remaining
Registration Dates: Standard registration opens: Mar 16, 2023 7pm
Internet registration opens: Mar 16, 2023 7pm

Description: 

The Babysitting Course refreshed and revised, now has a greater emphasis on First Aid skills. The Canadian Red Cross Babysitting course covers everything from managing difficult behaviors to essential content on leadership and professional conduct as a babysitter. Babysitting promises to deepen and enhance the responsibility that older youth feel when caring for younger children. This updated curriculum, complete with new science, also provides improved learning when it comes to giving the appropriate care in the event of an emergency.


Course Content

How to be responsible and demonstrate leadership

How to make good decisions and manage difficult behaviors

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 behaviors

First Aid skills

The business of babysitting

Comes with a course manual and certificate of completion from the Canadian Red Cross

-In-person Babysitting course: 7 hours


As per Red Cross, our class minimum is 6 students and a maximum of 25 students.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me anytime. Have a great rest of your day!

t you may interact with other people who are considered to be in good health, continuous physical distance between other people cannot be guaranteed, and, by participating in the activity, you are at risk of being infected by a pathogen, including but not limited to SARS-COV-2. SARS-COV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, may exacerbate other health issues and is the cause of an ongoing global pandemic. SARS-COV-2 is highly communicable and dangerous. If you become infected with SARS-COV2, you may transmit it to other people even if you are not exhibiting symptoms of illness.

Notes:

GENERAL SAFE PRACTICES
Registration and payment is required for most programs to help reduce the capacity to allow for physical distancing.

Please arrive no more than 10mins prior to your program time. Patrons may be required to line up prior to entering the facility.

Please follow physical distancing practice and maintain minimum 2 metres between yourself and others at all times.

Please bring your own pre-filled water bottle and dress accordingly. Not all fountains and changing rooms will be available.

The building will not be open for loitering. You will be asked to leave the building once your program has ended.

Masks are required in all indoor public spaces for anyone 12 years of age and over.

Anyone not following safety guidelines or directions from staff will be asked to leave. Please respect and follow directions of staff at all times.
COVID-19 SAFETY POLICY
All participants, instructors and staff who have symptoms of COVID-19 OR traveled outside Canada in the last 14 days OR were identified by Public Health as a close contact of a confirmed case must stay home and self-isolate.
Participants must assess themselves daily for symptoms of common cold, influenza, COVID-19, or other infectious respiratory disease before attending a program.
A participant may still receive care if another person in their home has symptoms of common cold, influenza, COVID-19, or other infectious respiratory disease, but they remain asymptomatic.
Participants who are ill, including participants of essential service providers, will not be permitted to attend program.
Daily checks for respiratory illness at sign-in by asking participants to confirm that they do not have symptoms of common cold, influenza, COVID-19, or other respiratory disease.
If a participant, instructor or staff member is unsure if they should self-isolate, they should be directed to use the BC COVID-19 Self-Assessment Tool, contact 8-1-1 or the local public health unit. They can also be advised to contact a family physician or nurse practitioner to be assessed for COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases.
ENHANCED CLEANING MEASURES
Reducing the amount of people who can visit at one time.
Setting up one-way travel around facilities and where it is not possible, two-way travel will be in place.
Clearing and cleaning programming space in between classes and activities.
Facility will be sanitized at least twice per day on all high frequency touch points in addition to any regularly scheduled overnight sanitizing/cleaning per operating days of the facility.
Site Safety Plans available at reception desk.

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