Youth Programs

The York-Adams County Chapter of the American Red Cross offers free programs to schools and community organizations. Each utilizes fun, colorful pictures and hands-on lessons for children to learn how to keep themselves and their families safe every day.

Fire Safety
2nd grade
45 minutes
                                                                                 

• Calling 9-1-1
• Determining 2 exits from a bedroom
• Smoke Detector safety
• Stop, Drop and Roll
• And more fire safety tips

Water Safety

3^rd Grade

45 minutes     
                                                                                                                    

• Swimming in a Supervised Area
• Reach or Throw, Don’t Go!
• Look before you leap!
• Obey pool rules
• Wearing your lifejacket when on a boat
• And more water safety tips

(Water Safety is a video based presentation. Schools or organizations must provide a VCR and television set)

Disaster Preparedness
4th or 5th Grade                                                     
30 minutes

• Establishing a family communication plan
• Determining 2 meeting places
• What goes into an emergency kit?

Please contact the school program manager at 771-3571 or sippelm@usa.redcross.org to schedule your presentation! 

Schools should coordinate with their Principal and other teachers in their grade level so our volunteers will be teaching back to back classes with 5 minutes between the classes.  This coordination helps to eliminate repeated visits to one school for the same program– there are over 70 elementary schools in York-Adams County!

Schedule

Additional Programs

In addition to the free presentations, the Red Cross has many other programs that can easily be taught by an adult.  The materials for the following programs may be purchased by contacting the School Program Manager at 771-3571 or sippelm@usa.redcross.org. 

Scrubby Bear
K – 2^nd grades

• Teach students about germs and hand washing.
• Have students become members of Scrubby Bear Clean hands club.
• Teach responsible behavior to help reduce and prevent the spread of germs.
• Materials:  videotape and Clean Hands Club cards

First Aid For Children Today (FACT)
K - 3^rd grades

• Introduce an awareness of behaviors and action that could lead to injuries or illness.
• Provide children with ways to prevent injuries
• Provide children with first aid skills to respond to injuries
• Encourage children to make choices that will influence their health and the environment in a positive way.
• Materials: Student activity book with stickers and Leader’s Guide with posters.

Safe On My Own
4^th – 6^th grades

·        Introduce safety for children while they are home alone

·        Provide children with ways to be cautious about unlocking doors

·        Provide children with safety tips for walking home alone

·        Provide children with proper ways to answer and have a telephone conversation while home alone

·        Provide children with the importance of smoke detectors and first aid kits

·        Explain to children why it is not safe to use appliances when home alone

·        Provide children with the proper way to dial 911 and hold a conversation with the 911 operator

·        Encourage children to talk about being home alone with their parents and to be careful when they are home alone

·        Encourage students to take the information that they learned in the class and implement it in their daily lives

·        Materials: videotape

Basic Aid Training (BAT)
4^th – 6^th grades

·        To teach emergency response skills to children.

·        Understand the Emergency Action Steps, the correct first aid sequence and when and how to make an emergency telephone call.

·        Know how to check a victim and the rescue breathing technique

·        Be aware of safety precautions to prevent injuries and know correct first aid and rescue in the case of small wounds, severe wounds, nosebleeds, animal bites, bruises, fractures and electric shock.

·        Understand the importance of air flow to fire, know ways to prevent fires and burns, know first aid for burns, and know how to develop a fire escape plan for their home

·        Be able to identify common household poisons, safety precautions to prevent poisoning and first aid procedures for poisoning.

·        Materials: Student activity book, Leader’s Guide and videotape