Community Champion stories are shared below.
Amgen Canada receives Community Champion Award
The ACT Foundation is proud to present Amgen Canada with ACT’s Community Champion Award in celebration of Amgen’s 5-year anniversary as a National Health Partner to the Foundation.
CPR stops fictional Apocalypse in school
When learning CPR, people don’t usually think of using it in a situation involving zombies or an impending apocalypse – but that proved to be one teacher’s innovative way to reinforce the lesson to students at St. Johns School in St.Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC.
Mississauga teacher trains a class of CPR leaders
Taylor, a health sciences teacher at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario, has started a CPR campaign empowering her Grade 12 students.
Alberta’s Star Press Inc. donates thousands of CPR teaching manuals to local schools
The ACT High School CPR Program was made possible in Alberta thanks to generous community and provincial-level support which enabled the donation of mannequins, teacher training and curriculum resources.
Alberta student who taught peers the ACT High School CPR Program now plans to become paramedic
Lethbridge student Dominique Pietras, 18, has been peer teaching the ACT High School CPR program ever since she learned it in Grade 10.
Ontario schools train entire staff on defibrillator use
When ACT places an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in a high school, the school must ensure a group of teachers and staff is trained on how to use the lifesaving device.
Montreal teacher vows to continue teaching youth CPR after retirement
After 34 years of teaching and 14 years teaching the ACT High School CPR Program, Montreal resident Russell Haliburton is retiring. But he doesn’t want to let that get in the way of continuing to deliver CPR training to students.
Alberta student leader takes the stage to teach CPR to his peers
The ACT High School CPR Program is known for engaging and exciting young people about emergency preparedness – but Calgary student Ben Roth went above and beyond when he stepped up and volunteered to actually help teach the program to his peers.
Cobourg teacher brings ACT Program to all alternative education sites in her board
When special education teacher Debbie Kilmer heard about the ACT High School CPR Program, her mind flashed back to a time when she was able to save a stranger’s life.
Longtime supporter of the Calgary ACT High School CPR Program honoured with Community Champion Award
Calgary resident and Kiwanis Club member Murray Smith has long been a supporter of CPR training for youth.
Local RCMP officer establishes lifesaving CPR program in remote Labrador community
Thanks to the leadership of RCMP Constable Peter MacIntyre, all high school students in the remote community of Mary’s Harbour, Labrador, are being empowered to save lives.
MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox-Addington committed to ACT High School CPR Program
Scott Reid, Member of Parliament (MP) for Lanark-Frontnac-Lennox-Addington, is committed to improving emergency preparedness education in rural Ontario communities as a way to assure emergency response rates are competitive with other communities.