This initiative aims to raise awareness of how to respond to cardiac emergencies. The Croí Centre for Lifesaving Training provides training for second level teachers and students in the skills necessary to help save a life.

Becoming a ‘Croí Friendly School’ is a simple three step process:
1. Purchase - an Automated External Defibrillator (AED), and have a minimum of 6 faculty/staff members trained as AED first-responders for your school.
2. Comply - with the protocols for checking and maintaining your AED. 
3. Train - any group of students in your school in the basic skills of CPR and how to deal with choking.  

Croí Friendly Schools’ benefit from additional FREE training on:
♥ The correct procedure for calling an Ambulance
♥ How to recognise the signs & symptoms of Heart Attack or Stroke
♥ Identifying risk factors for Heart Disease and Stroke  

Croí Friendly Schools

County Galway

St Joseph's College, The Bish, Galway
Dominican College, Taylors Hill, Galway
 

County Mayo

Balla Secondary School, Balla, Co. Mayo 

For further information on how your school can become Croí Friendly contact Catherine Sheridan, Croí Centre for Lifesaving Training. Tel: 091-893506 or email catherine@croi.ie

Help us make ALL secondary schools in the West of Ireland 'Croí Friendly'!
This initiative may one day save someone's life...