Babysitting is an important job. It's about more than making money. You need life and safety skills to take care of and protect children. Safe Sitter® can teach you so you'll know what to do!
Training to be a Safe Sitter® is as easy as 1-2-3!
Safe Sitter® partners with community and youth service organizations to provide care today and invest in tomorrow.
Let Safe Sitter® help you promote your community spirit! Our train-the-trainer program helps caring adults bring life-saving babysitting classes to their communities.
Since 1980, over 500,000 young people have completed our youth education program designed to build better sitters. We invite you to join our far-reaching family of 900+ teaching sites.
On a spring day in 1980, pediatrician Patricia A. Keener, M.D., Medical Director of Nurseries and Pediatrics at Community Hospitals Indianapolis, was called to the emergency room. An 18-month- old girl, in the care of an adult sitter, choked on her breakfast. Her adult sitter didn’t know what to do.
Despite Dr. Keener’s best efforts, the little girl died. If the adult sitter had known how to rescue a choking child, the story would have been very different.
That tragedy inspired Dr. Keener to create Safe Sitter®. We’ve become the only national, nonprofit exclusively devoted to babysitting training and preparing adolescents for the profound responsibilities of nurturing and protecting children.
From day one, this has been our mission and guides everything we do.
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