Sponsored by Bearing Witness Canada: A Project of Reconciliation

Based on the inspiring true story of the youth of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, home to the highest teen suicide rate in all of North America, who were transformed by the power of sport, tradition, and community to become a model of hope and resilience.

Sponsored by Bearing Witness Canada: A Project of Reconciliation

Based on the inspiring true story of the youth of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, home to the highest teen suicide rate in all of North America, who were transformed by the power of sport, tradition, and community to become a model of hope and resilience.

The Babysitting Course teaches youth ages 11 and up how to handle emergencies with confidence by providing the basic first aid skills. For many young adolescents, babysitting is their first job, and Red Cross courses can help them become real “pros”! They learn valuable tips:

• Important child care skills
• Safety tips for children of all ages
• How to cope with common problems, like tantrums and crying
• What to do if anything makes the babysitter uncomfortable
• Some great games and other ideas for having fun with the kids while babysitting
• How to make the children’s environment safe and enjoyable
• What are the respective rights and responsibilities of the babysitter and the family hiring one

  The Red Cross Babysitting Course is taught by a Babysitter Facilitator supported by a Facilitator manual which includes lesson plans plus suggestions and guidelines for organizing the course and managing the class.
  

• Learn important child care skills
• Safety tips for children of all ages
• How to cope with common problems
• Written exam (min. passing grade 75%)

  First Aid:
  

• Choking
• CPR
• Sprains and Strains
• Bleeding
• Poisoning
• Burns
• Fire Emergency

In this workshop Ingrid will take you through the process of making cordage (rope) from plant fibers right off the landscape around the wakefield community centre.  She will teach you when to harvest various plants, how to process the stems into usable fiber and how to use the ancient "revers wrap" method used by prehistorically by cultures all over the world to make the cordage. Then she will teach two ways to use this cordage and plant and transform them into beautiful utilitarian bags or baskets.