Helping save lives: 2,300 teachers received the Opioid Overdose Response Training to teach high school students how to react when facing a suspected opioid overdose
The ACT Foundation announced it has completed Phase 1 of its Opioid Overdose Response Training (OORT). As a result, 2,300 teachers from 830 high schools in Canada are now equipped to teach their students in how to respond to a suspected opioid overdose.
High school CPR trained students saving lives across Canada
In celebration of Heart Month, the ACT Foundation recognized students and teachers who have learned lifesaving knowledge and skills through the ACT High School CPR and AED Program.
Quebec high school student saved by teens with opioid overdose response training they learned at school
When a Quebec high school student experienced an opioid overdose at a party, her Collège Mont-Sacré-Coeur classmates Samuel Vincent and Thomas Roberge jumped into action with the opioid overdose response training they learned at school.
Launch of Opioid Overdose Response Training in Thunder Bay high schools
The ACT Foundation and its partners celebrated Heart Month and the launch of Opioid Overdose Response Training in all Thunder Bay high schools as part of the ACT High School CPR and AED Program.
3 million Ontario students trained to save lives
The ACT Foundation and its partners celebrated CPR Month and the incredible milestone of three million students trained in CPR and how to use an AED to date in Ontario.
Thunder Bay teen honoured for saving father’s life
Madeleine Caza, Grade 11 student at St. Patrick High School, Thunder Bay, ON, was presented with the ACT Rescuer Award for using the knowledge and skills learned through the ACT High School CPR and AED Program to help save her father's life.
Sudbury teens honoured for saving woman’s life
Tyler Brouillette and Levi Owl, 18-year-old best friends, used the CPR skills they learned in high school when they came upon a woman in cardiac arrest.
Ottawa high school students trained on overdose response
Ottawa high school students are learning a skill that could one day potentially save the life of a family member, friend — or even a stranger.
Students, teachers across Canada to be offered naloxone training to combat overdoses
ACT Foundation completed pilot project in Ottawa, training students on how to use overdose-reversing drug.
Quick-thinking coach helps save teen at basketball practice in Ottawa
A quick-thinking coach trained in the use of CPR and a defibrillator helped save the life of a teenager during a basketball practice at St. Mother Teresa High School in Barrhaven.
Government of Canada announces $20 million to help communities respond to increasing opioid-related overdoses
Projects will provide training and awareness on opioid overdose response to 2.4 million Canadians and enable the distribution of 58,000 naloxone kits.
Students empowered through CPR training
Students at St. Peter Secondary School in Peterborough learn to perform life-saving skills with automated external defibrillators.