Kana:takon School teens earn CPR certification

 

Kana:takon School 8th graders

Teenagers at Kana:takon School learned valuable tools and procedures last week that might one day enable them to save someone’s life.

Representatives from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (Cornwall branch) were spent hours with seventh and eighth grade students at

Kana:takon School educating them on CPR and teaching them how to perform the emergency technique.

The HSF defines CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) as “an emergency procedure involving chest compressions (pressing down on the chest) and artificial respiration (rescue breathing). It has the power to restore blood flow to someone suffering cardiac arrest, keeping them alive until an ambulance arrives.”

Kana:takon School 7th graders.

The course was free for students and each participant received a CPR kit, which they get to keep. The kit includes an instructional DVD and other related information, as well as a plastic doll to practice CPR on so each student had his or her own to use.

The training began with an educational theory session to explain what CPR is. Then students were shown hands on how to perform CPR and each student was tested at the end of the half-day course.

Earlier this term Ahkwesahsne Mohawk Board of Education students raised money for the HSF through the Jump Rope for Heart program.

“This was our way to give back to them,” said Cindy Rowe of the Cornwall branch of the HSF.

It was the first time they took their CPR program to Kana:takon School and said they’ll be happy to go again next year if they’re invited.

 

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