Why Safety Can’t Be Overlooked in Worship

Churches and worship centers are meant to be places of peace, comfort, and community. But emergencies don’t stop at the door. From health scares during a service to unexpected accidents at events, being prepared ensures that faith communities can remain safe and supported no matter the circumstance.

At Miami First Aid, we provide congregations with the training, equipment, and guidance they need to respond during emergencies.

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Trusted Training & Equipment for Faith Communities

Life-Saving CPR & First Aid Skills

Emergencies can happen during any service or event. Our American Red Cross–certified CPR and First Aid training equips pastors, volunteers, and staff with the confidence to respond quickly and effectively when someone in the congregation needs help.

AEDs & Ongoing Program Management

Sudden cardiac arrest can happen anywhere. We provide AEDs along with complete program management, including installation, training, and ongoing support, so your devices are always ready and compliant.

Essential Safety Equipment

From fully stocked first aid cabinets to bleeding control kits, we supply the essential equipment faith communities need to protect their members. Every solution is designed to ensure peace of mind.

American Red Cross CPR & AED Training for Faith Communities

At Miami First Aid, we don’t take a one-size-fits-all approach. Every course and training is tailored to your specific needs and the unique scenarios churches and worship centers face. With American Red Cross CPR and AED training, your team gains more than lifesaving skills, they gain the peace of mind that comes from knowing they can protect and support their congregation when it matters most.

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Keeping Congregations Safe With the Right Safety Equipment

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AED Program Management for Faith Communities

With Miami First Aid’s Event Ready program, your AEDs are always inspected, maintained, and ready for use. We handle compliance and upkeep so your congregation can focus on worship, with confidence that your safety systems are reliable and fully supported.

Complete Guide to Safety for Faith Communities

Churches and worship centers are places of refuge. That’s why Miami First Aid provides a complete guide to safety, helping faith communities not only meet but exceed requirements with certified training, dependable equipment, and ongoing support. With solutions that align to your congregation’s unique needs, we make it simple to strengthen safety, protect members, and create a welcoming environment where everyone feels safe.

Churches and Worship Centers, Miami First Aid Supports Your Mission With Safety

Ensuring a safe environment for your congregation allows every service, event, and gathering to take place with confidence and peace of mind. Miami First Aid supports faith communities with training and equipment that not only prepare leaders, staff, and volunteers for emergencies but also strengthen the trust your members place in your church.

By putting safety at the heart of your mission, your place of worship can continue to be a space of comfort, care, and connection.

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Churches & Worship Centers Safety FAQs

Do we really need safety training in a place of worship?

Yes. Emergencies can happen anywhere, and having trained volunteers and staff ensures your church can respond with care while keeping the focus on faith and community.

Can an AED be used safely during a crowded service?

AEDs are designed for simple, safe use even in high-stress situations. With clear voice prompts, they guide anyone through the process, making them ideal for large gatherings.

What types of training work best for churches?

We recommend CPR, AED, and First Aid training for staff and volunteers, as well as courses like Bleeding Control and Fire Safety to cover a wide range of potential emergencies.

How can we prepare our volunteers without overwhelming them?

Our courses are flexible, engaging and practical, designed to fit into your schedule and focus only on the scenarios most relevant to your congregation.

Does Miami First Aid offer support beyond training?

Yes. We provide and maintain first aid cabinets, bleeding control kits, and AEDs so your church always has the right tools on hand supported by ongoing program management.

Heartsaver® for K-12 First Aid CPR AED

The American Heart Association Heartsaver for K-12 First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that will teach students the critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking, or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes of an emergency until medical services help (EMS) arrives. Students will learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock, and other first aid emergencies. This course also teaches adult and child (1+) CPR and AED use.

The Heartsaver for K-12 Schools eCard may be provided by AHA Training Center Coordinators to K-12 school students, faculty, and staff who successfully complete an AHA Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED, Heartsaver CPR AED, or Heartsaver First Aid Course. “Faculty” refers to teachers and coaches; “staff” refers to an employee of a K-12 school or K-12 school system.

COURSE COVERS

  • First aid basics
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Child CPR and AED use
  • Infant CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies

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Heartsaver® for K-12 First Aid CPR AED

The American Heart Association Heartsaver for K-12 First Aid CPR AED is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that will teach students the critical skills needed to respond to and manage a first aid, choking, or sudden cardiac arrest emergency in the first few minutes of an emergency until medical services help (EMS) arrives. Students will learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, sprains, broken bones, shock, and other first aid emergencies. This course also teaches adult and child (1+) CPR and AED use.

The Heartsaver for K-12 Schools eCard may be provided by AHA Training Center Coordinators to K-12 school students, faculty, and staff who successfully complete an AHA Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED, Heartsaver CPR AED, or Heartsaver First Aid Course. “Faculty” refers to teachers and coaches; “staff” refers to an employee of a K-12 school or K-12 school system.

COURSE COVERS

  • First aid basics
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Child CPR and AED use
  • Infant CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies

** All courses offered thru regular traditional classroom type classes or blended Online and In-person

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Heartsaver® CPR AED Training

The Heartsaver CPR AED course trains participants to give CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This program reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who Should Take This Course?

The AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with limited or no medical training who needs a course completion card in CPR and AED use to meet job, regulatory, or other requirements.

Heartsaver CPR AED Course Options

  • Traditional classroom (video-based, instructor-led)
  • Blended learning (online coursework + in-person skills session)

What Does This Course Teach?

  • Describe how high-quality CPR improves survival
  • Explain the concepts of the Chain of Survival
  • Recognize when someone needs CPR
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an adult
  • Describe how to perform CPR with help from others
  • Give effective breaths using mouth-to-mouth or a mask for all age groups
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on an adult
  • Perform high-quality CPR for a child*
  • Demonstrate how to use an AED on a child*
  • Perform high-quality CPR for an infant*
  • Describe when and how to help a choking adult or child
  • Demonstrate how to help a choking infant*

*Child and infant modules are optional.

** All courses offered thru regular traditional classroom type classes or blended Online and In-person

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Heartsaver® First Aid CPR AED

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED course trains participants to provide first aid, CPR, and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) in a safe, timely, and effective manner. This program reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who Should Take This Course?

The AHA’s Heartsaver First Aid CPR AED Course is designed for anyone with little or no medical training who needs a course completion card for their job, regulatory (e.g., OSHA), or other requirements, or anyone who wants to be prepared for an emergency in any setting.

What Does This Course Teach?

  • First aid basics
  • Medical emergencies
  • Injury emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies
  • Preventing illness and injury
  • Adult CPR and AED use
  • Opioid-associated life-threatening emergencies
  • Optional modules in Child CPR AED and Infant CPR

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How to Become an AHA Instructor

The steps are simple – get started today!

The American Heart Association is always seeking professionals to conduct training in first aid, CPR, AED, and advanced cardiovascular care. If you are passionate about saving lives, motivated to facilitate learning, feel comfortable in group settings, and find it easy to make complex concepts understandable to others, you may be a perfect candidate.

Becoming an American Heart Association instructor is easy when you choose Miami First Aid to assist you with your training.

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Red Cross Instructor

As a licensed Training Provider for the American Red Cross, your journey to a new career as a CPR/AED, First Aid Instructor starts now. We will guide you through every step of the way — from helping you achieve your goal of becoming an educator to supporting your entrepreneurial dreams of being your own boss. The experts at Miami First Aid have you covered.

This course will train instructor candidates to teach basic-level American Red Cross First Aid CPR and AED courses. In order to participate in this course you must:

  • Possess a current basic-level American Red Cross First Aid/CPR/AED (or higher level) certification or equivalent
  • Be at least 16 years of age on the last day of the instructor course

Upon registration it is important that you review and follow the directions on the e-mail attachment sent with your registration confirmation. This is a blended learning course consisting of online content a skills session and classroom segments. Online material must be completed prior to attending the classroom activities. For more information please reference the attachment you will receive via e-mail when you register for this course.

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Basic Life Support (BLS) Provider

The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations, and provide early use of an AED. This program reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

Who Should Take This Course?

The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.

What Does This Course Teach?

  • High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
  • The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
  • Important early use of an AED
  • Effective ventilations using a barrier device
  • Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
  • Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants

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Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Provider

For healthcare providers who respond to emergencies in infants and children and for personnel in emergency response, emergency medicine, intensive care, and critical care units.

What Does This Course Teach?

The PALS Provider Course aims to improve outcomes for pediatric patients by preparing healthcare providers to effectively recognize and intervene in patients with respiratory emergencies, shock, and cardiopulmonary arrest by using high‐performance team dynamics and high‐quality individual skills.

The course includes a series of case scenario practices with simulations that reinforce important concepts. Upon successful completion of all the patient cases, students must pass the multiple-choice exam with a minimum score of 84%.

After Successfully Completing This Course, Students Will Be Able To:

  • Perform high‐quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) per American Heart Association (AHA) basic life support (BLS) recommendations
  • Differentiate between patients who do and do not require immediate intervention
  • Recognize cardiopulmonary arrest early and begin CPR within 10 seconds
  • Apply team dynamics
  • Differentiate between respiratory distress and failure
  • Perform early interventions for respiratory distress and failure
  • Differentiate between compensated and decompensated (hypotensive) shock
  • Perform early interventions for the treatment of shock
  • Differentiate between unstable and stable patients with arrhythmias
  • Describe clinical characteristics of instability in patients with arrhythmias
  • Implement post–cardiac arrest management

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Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) Provider

The AHA’s ACLS course builds on the foundation of lifesaving BLS skills, emphasizing the importance of continuous, high-quality CPR. This program reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).

ACLS:

For healthcare professionals who either direct or participate in the management of cardiopulmonary arrest or other cardiovascular emergencies, and for personnel in emergency response.

What Does This Course Teach?

  • Basic life support skills, including effective chest compressions, use of a bag-mask device, and use of an AED
  • Recognition and early management of respiratory and cardiac arrest
  • Recognition and early management of peri-arrest conditions such as symptomatic bradycardia
  • Airway management
  • Related pharmacology
  • Management of ACS (Acute Coronary Syndromes) and stroke
  • Effective communication as a member and leader of a resuscitation team

** All courses offered thru regular traditional classroom type classes or blended Online and In-person

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