SafeSitter Babysitting Certification Course
Learn more about Safe Sitter® Essentials offered through 
Benton County Public Health
BCPH provides the Safe Sitter® Essentials program regularly throughout the year at community libraries, and is available upon request for educating after-school programs, youth groups and youth leadership organizations. Students are taught general safety skills (such as being aware of your surroundings & internet safety), childcare skills (diapering, appropriate feeding, putting baby to sleep), first aid skills (dealing wih cuts, scrapes, burns, nosebleeds, vomiting), choking rescue skills (infant & child), CPR skills (infant & child), and business skills.
Classes are 6.5 hours long including a 1/2 hour period for lunch, and generally held on Saturday mornings. Classes are limited to 8 students at a time, but your child can be placed on a waitlist for the first available slot during the next course. The cost of the class is $30.00, which covers the student's handbook, a drawstring bag, flashlight, package of bandaids, notepad with important information such as Poison Control, and their completion certificate.
To learn about the next available Safe Sitter® Essentials course being offered, please call Benton County Public Health at 319-214-2601, or email [email protected].
