Prepare for your first job as a 'professional babysitter.' Learn the basics in this one-day course and get tips for finding babysitting jobs. You'll learn simple techniques for First Aid, how to handle emergency situations and strategies to create a safe and happy environment for children. The course covers babysitters' and family rights and responsibilities, basic baby and child care skills, ideas to foster positive interactions with children of different ages, as well as child safety and injury prevention. Graduates of this program can choose, with parental consent, to have their name included in our Babysitter Referral Service. Students are asked to bring lunch money or a bagged lunch. No cell phone usage during class. Decisions may have to be made more than 7 days in advance based on contractor requirements. Parents are required to come to drop off to sign a mandatory waiver.
