Community Education Programs Offered at

Winfield CVFD

CPR/AED Training 

First Aid Training

Home Fire Safety and Fire Prevention

Child and Babysitting Safety Course

Stop the Bleed

Water Safety for Kids 

Opioid Overdose Rescue - Naloxone Training

Citizen Response to Active Shooter Events 

Talk Saves Lives - Suicide Awarness 

Community Group Presentations

CPR/AED Training

2 year certification card provided 

(17 years of age and older)

Program offerings can be found here. 

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First Aid Training

2 year certification card provided 

(17 years of age and older)

The Basic First Aid course helps students develop basic first aid knowledge, skills, and confidence to respond. 

This course is intended for individuals who are not healthcare providers or professional rescuers, but desire to be certified in basic emergency medical care.

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Child and Babysitting Safety Course 

2 year certification card provided

This course gives teeenagers and young adults everything they need to know for safe and successful babysitting.

Program Offerings can be found here.

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Stop the Bleed

(13 years of age and older)

Today, we live in a world where terrorism, actions of unstable invidiuals, and dangerous impulses of friends and relatives are very real, and becoming increasingly more frequent. 

In recent news, a tourniquet is being credited with saving the life of a Baltimore Police Officer after a shooting. 

Stop the Bleed is a national awarness campaign and call-to-action. 

Stop the bleed is intended to cultivate grassroot efforts, that encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. 

Program offerings can be found here.

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Water Safety for Kids 

One way to help reduce drowning incidents among children agres 5 through 12 is to teach water safety education. 

Using hands-on activites and age appropriate videos, children will learn important safe behavior in, on, or around the water. 

Children will not get in the water, but will learn safety tips as they help "rescue" fire department members. 

Program offerings can be found here.

Opioid Overdose Rescue - Naloxone Training

(Partnered with Carroll County Health Department - 14 years of age and older)

In this training, you will learn what opioids are, and how to recognize and respond to an overdose. 

This class instructs attendees on how to adminster Naloxone (also known as Narcan) to someone they believe is suffering from an opioid overdose. 

Naloxone (Narcan) is an FDA-approved nasal form spray that can be used for the emergency treatment of a known or suspected overdose. 

This class also instructs attendees on how to respond after administering Naloxone (Narcan), tips to prevent overdose, and community resources for family and friends. 

Program offerings can be found here. 

Additional information on Carroll County Health Departments Operation Save a Life Program can be found here. 

Citizen Response to Active Shooter Events 

(Partnered with local law enforcement agencies) 

The Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (C.R.A.S.E) course, is designed on the Avoid - Deny - Defend strategy developed by ALERRT at Texas State University in 2004, provides strategies, guidance, and a proven plan for survining an active shooter/active aggressor event or other critical incident. 

Program Offerings can be found here. 

Talk Saves Lives - Suicide Awarness 

(Partnered with American Foundation for Suicide Prevention - 15 years of age or older)

Talk Saves Lifes : An Introduction to Suicide Prevention. 

Learn what suicide is, who is affects, what we know about it, and what can be done to prevent it. 

This is a community-based presentation that covers the general scope of suicide, the research on prevention, and what people can do to fight suicide. 

988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

Program Offerings can be found here. 

Additional Information on Talk Save Lives can be found here. 

Community Group Presentations 

If you are a member of a local organization (scouts, churches, youth groups) and would like a presentation/program conducted for your organization - please contact us to inquire on programs offered, and availability. 

Scout Video - First Responders - created by Winfield VFD Members 

Scout Video - Paws for Action - created by Winfield VFD Members