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.
Students Train for CPR & Use of Defibrillators
Students across Northumberland County are getting the training to save lives through the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and automated external defibrillators (AEDs).
4,000 Peterborough students receive lifesaving CPR and defibrillator training during CPR month
To mark CPR Month, today the Advanced Coronary Treatment (ACT) Foundation and partners, launched the ACT High School CPR and Defibrillator Training Program in 18 Peterborough and area high schools.
These life-saving devices are now available in every high school in Quebec
Following years of fundraising and campaigning, automated defibrillators are now available in every public high school in the province.
CPR month sees over 40 students and residents empowered with lifesaving skills
CPR month sees over 40 students and residents empowered with lifesaving skills.
Ontario students empowered with lifesaving CPR skills
The initiative saw Grade 6, 7 and 8 students from Lloyd S. King Elementary School — located in Mississauga Credit First Nation — empowered with skills in CPR and AED defibrillator training.
Mississauga of the Credit First Nation students, community members learn CPR
28 students in grades 6, 7 and 8 at Lloyd S. King Elementary School and 13 community members of Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation were recently given training in CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED).
With school back in session, 26,000 more Toronto students to be empowered to save lives
26,000 more Toronto high school students will be trained this year in lifesaving skills by their teachers as part of their Grade 9 Physical Education and Health curriculum.
Nakusp students get CPR, defibrillator training
In a day of workshops last week, staff at the school taught students CPR and how to use an automated external defibrillator.
AEDs donated!
Secondary schools in 5D83 are being equipped with an automated external defibrillator thanks to several generous donations from the ACT Foundation and Pinnacle Renewable Energy in Armstrong.