Emergency Child Care First Aid in Calgary

The Canadian Red Cross child care program has two tiers. This one, Emergency Child Care First Aid, is the one-day, eight-hour course built around the life-threatening core: the emergencies where what you do in the first minutes decides how the story goes. Standard Child Care First Aid is the two-day, sixteen-hour tier that starts from the same foundation and then goes wider and deeper across the injuries and sudden illnesses of infancy and childhood. Both carry CPR Level B.

Which tier you need is usually decided by whoever asked you to get certified: child care licensing wording, an agency, or an employer. The word to find in your paperwork is Emergency or Standard. If it names Standard, this course will not satisfy the person who wrote it, however well you do in it.

Send us the exact sentence you were given and we will confirm the match before you pay. Telling somebody they booked the wrong tier is a bad five minutes; telling them after their paperwork was rejected is much worse.

Because this is a Canadian Red Cross course, the Red Cross owns the curriculum and we teach to their standard, so we are not going to reprint their lesson list here. What is ours to describe is the room: you are on the floor with infant and child manikins, and the skills are practised until they stop feeling strange, because a choking infant is not the moment to be doing something for the second time in your life.

CPR Level B is the child care level: it covers the patients this course exists for, children and infants, along with adult CPR. The compressions, the breaths and the technique changes between a child and a baby are exactly the things that get repeated.

What Delta adds is instructors who work as paramedics, firefighters and emergency professionals, and who have run real pediatric calls. The scenarios are built the way those calls actually unfold: a day home, a playground, a parent on the phone, and a small patient who cannot tell you what happened.

Your fee includes a hard-shell pocket mask: the real clamshell mouth-to-mask device, with the one-way filter valve, the elastic strap and the case. It comes out of its packaging in class, you train with it on the manikins, and then it goes home with you.

Nobody hands you a mask another class used and wiped down. Yours is new, and after the course it belongs wherever the children are: the diaper bag, the kitchen drawer, the day home first aid kit.

The one-day tier fits people whose paperwork names the emergency level, and people certifying by choice rather than requirement: parents and grandparents who want the life-threatening core handled in a single day, occasional caregivers, and relatives who mind the kids on weekends.

Take Standard Child Care First Aid instead when your licensing, agency or employer wording names it, which in licensed child care it very often does, or when you look after children as your work and want the depth that comes with the second day.

If you are certifying a whole day home, agency or centre staff, ask about onsite delivery and we will also help you confirm which tier your licensing officer expects before anybody pays.

Certification is not automatic. You attend the full course and demonstrate the skills to the instructor, on the floor, to the Red Cross standard. Nobody is passed on attendance alone.

What you receive is a Canadian Red Cross Emergency Child Care First Aid & CPR B certificate, valid for three years. Read the date printed on it the day it arrives and put a reminder in your calendar; a shorter recertification path exists, and renewing before expiry is always simpler than starting over.

Register with your legal name spelled exactly the way your licensing paperwork will expect to see it. That spelling is what gets printed.

Come dressed to work on the floor: clothing you can kneel and lean in, closed shoes, hair tied back. Bring water and something to write with; it is a full day.

If you have an injury, a mobility limitation, a hearing consideration or anything else that changes how you take part, tell us when you register rather than on the day. We can plan around most things with notice.

There is no prerequisite and no previous certificate required. If you are booking for a group, ask about onsite delivery: we bring the course to day homes, agencies and centres in Calgary, in the Leduc and Edmonton region, elsewhere in Canada, and internationally on request, for an additional fee covering travel and setup.

Public sessions run in Calgary, with dates in Leduc through the year.

We also deliver this course at your worksite for groups, useful for crews who can’t release staff to travel. Onsite delivery carries an additional fee on top of per-person pricing. Request an onsite quote.

We travel for private and group training across Canada, and internationally by arrangement. If you’re outside Alberta, tell us where you are and we’ll price it.