4,000 Peterborough students receive lifesaving CPR and defibrillator training during CPR month
November 29 2019 - 12:23PM
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. This will see more than 4,000 students empowered by their
teachers with essential lifesaving skills every year. The ACT
Foundation is a national charitable organization dedicated to
establishing CPR and defibrillation training in every Canadian high
school. Since 2000, long-time provincial partner Hydro One has
provided support to the ACT Foundation to bring safety training to
students across the province, including in the Peterborough area.
ACT is working in partnership with its
provincial partners, Government of Ontario, Hydro One and community
partners Brighton Kinsmen Club, Kinsmen Club of Campbellford, Lions
Club of Brighton, Lions Club of Cobourg, Ontario Power Generation,
Peterborough Lions Club and Rotary Club of Port Hope, and health
partners AstraZeneca Canada, Sanofi Canada, and Amgen Canada to
bring this program to the high schools in the Peterborough
area.
Funding will see high schools receive training
equipment to enable teachers to train students. This includes
Automated External Defibrillator (AED) training units, training
mannequins, and program set-up that will see all students graduate
with the skills and knowledge to save lives. With eight in 10
out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occurring at home or in public
places, empowering youth with CPR training as part of their high
school education will help increase citizen CPR response rates over
the long term.
“I want to thank the ACT Foundation and its
partners for their incredible work on this initiative. It is
important that our youth be taught the skills needed for situations
where they need to act quickly to save a life. I am pleased that
over 4,000 students in our community will be taught CPR and how to
use defibrillator in our schools every year,” said Dave Smith, MPP
for Peterborough-Kawartha.
“Safety is at our core at Hydro One. We are
proud to play a role in building safe communities by extending
safety training beyond the workplace,” said Daniel Levitan,
Director of External Relations, Hydro One. “In partnering with the
ACT Foundation, we are teaching high school students across
Peterborough how to save a life. These critical skills will help a
young person know how to act quickly when a neighbour, a friend or
someone they love is in distress.”
“As a national health partner with the ACT
Foundation, Amgen Canada is proud to help students learn
life-saving skills for life-threatening emergencies, but more
importantly, to become champions for health and science in their
families and communities,” says Brian Heath, Vice-President and
General Manager at Amgen Canada. “We strongly believe in the power
of young people to inspire wellness.”
“We are thrilled with the commitment of ACT’s
partners,” says ACT Foundation Executive Director Sandra Clarke.
“Their support is helping the ACT Foundation enable thousands of
students across the province to be emergency ready to respond to
serious medical emergencies that can happen to their family
members, friends, neighbors and others in their communities.”
About the ACT Foundation
The ACT Foundation is the national charitable
organization establishing the free CPR and AED program in Canadian
high schools. The program is built on ACT’s award-winning
community-based model of partnerships and support, whereby ACT
finds local partners who donate the mannequins and AED training
units that schools need to set up the program. High school teachers
then teach CPR and how to use a defibrillator to their students as
a regular part of the curriculum, reaching all youth prior to
graduation. ACT’s partners, committed to bringing the program to
Ontario are the Government of Ontario and Hydro one and our
national health partners AstraZeneca Canada, Sanofi Canada, and
Amgen Canada. www.actfoundation.ca or on Twitter @actfoundation
#ACT2Save
About Hydro One Inc.:
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Ontario's largest electricity transmission and distribution
provider with almost 1.4 million valued customers, over $25.6
billion in assets and 2018 annual revenues of over $6.1 billion.
Our team of approximately 8,600 skilled and dedicated employees
proudly build and maintain a safe and reliable electricity system
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In 2018, Hydro One invested almost $1.6 billion in its 30,000
circuit kilometres of high-voltage transmission and 123,000 circuit
kilometres of primary distribution networks and injected
approximately $1.3 billion into the economy by buying goods and
services in Ontario. We are committed to the communities where we
live and work through community investment, sustainability and
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