The mission of Safe Sitter® is to provide life skills, safety skills, and child care training to youth (ages 11-14) in order to build safer communities.

At Safe Sitter® you will learn how to:

• Rescue a choking child or infant plus ways to prevent choking in the first place

• Perform infant and child CPR

• Evaluate an injury to determine how to handle it including how to get help

• Prevent problem behavior plus how to manage problem behavior situations

• Keep yourself safe in threatening situations from power failures to prowlers

• Care for a child’s basic needs including feeding, entertaining, and toileting

• Establish your own babysitting business and increase the likelihood of being hired

This course is taught by a certified Safe Sitter® Instructor, who creates a supportive and non-stressful learning environment. Participants will receive a personal copy of The Official Safe Sitter® Babysitter's Handbook and completion card.

There will be a 30 minute break for lunch in which participants will have access to the cafeteria to purchase food. All participants 13 and younger will be supervised by the Safe Sitter® Instructor.

If you are in need of financial assistance, please call 860.545.8116.

*The UTC Family Resource Center at Connecticut Children's is able to host private Safe Sitter® classes for groups of 6 to 12.