Babysitting Course Kelowna (RED CROSS)

Build Confidence. Gain Skills. Start Your Babysitting Business.

Our Canadian Red Cross Babysitting Course offers youth ages 11–15 the chance to learn essential caregiving and first aid skills. Participants will discover how to safely care for younger children, prevent and respond to emergencies, and promote themselves as responsible babysitters.

Why Take This Course

✅ Basic first aid and caregiving skills for youth 11–15 years old

✅ Learn to provide care for children of different ages

✅ Focus on safety and emergency response

✅ Gain leadership and business skills to promote yourself as a babysitter

Course Requirements

• Minimum 11 years of age (or completion of Grade 5)

• Attend 100% of the course

Schedule

• Start: 8:15 am (8:30 am after paperwork)

• Lunch: 30 minutes

• End: 4:00–4:30 pm

• Morning & afternoon breaks included

What You’ll Learn

• Being responsible and demonstrating leadership

• Making good decisions and managing difficult behaviors

• Understanding children’s developmental stages and strategies for each stage

• Feeding, diapering, dressing, and playing with babies and children

• Recognizing and preventing unsafe situations, making safe choices, and promoting safe behaviors

• The business of babysitting (marketing yourself to families)

• Basic first aid skills, including:

  • Check, Call, Care (steps to take in an emergency, including phoning EMS/911)

  • Glove removal and recovery position

  • Conscious choking (adult/child/baby, when alone)

  • CPR for babies and children

  • Dealing with illness, asthma (inhaler and spacer use), and anaphylaxis (EpiPen use)

  • Handling poisonings, insect stings, minor cuts, scrapes, splinters, nosebleeds, bumps, bruises, burns, severe bleeding

  • Managing head, neck, and back injuries, broken bones, and seizures

Included Materials

📘 Babysitter’s Manual
📄 Completion Certificate upon successful course completion

Get Ready to Babysit with Confidence

This course gives youth the skills and knowledge to care for children safely and professionally.