Family & Friends® CPR Course

Course Content:  The Family & Friends CPR Course teaches the lifesaving skills of adult Hands-Only CPR, adult CPR with breaths, child CPR with breaths, adult and child AED use, infant CPR, and mild and severe airway block for adults, children, and infants. Skills are taught in a dynamic group environment using the AHA’s research-proven practice-while-watching technique, which provides students with the most hands-on CPR practice time possible.

Audience: Family & Friends CPR is for people who want to learn CPR but do not need a CPR course completion card to meet a job requirement. This course is ideal for community groups, new parents, grandparents, babysitters, and others interested in learning how to save a life.

Course Format: Classroom-based (instructor and video, with skills conducted throughout)

Course Length: 45 +/- Minutes   Course Cost: $10.00. 

Minimum class size: We will not cancel a class due to a minimum class size.  We will hold the class even if only one student enrolls.

Enrollment Cut-off: Enrollment closes when the class is full. 

Certification: No certification or course completion card is issued for this course.

For answers to common questions, please see our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page.

Use of American Heart Association materials in an educational course does not represent course sponsorship by the American Heart Association.  Any fees charged for such a course, except for a portion of fees needed for AHA course materials, do not represent income to the Association.