American Red Cross offers free lifesaving skills training for volunteers

The American Red Cross has worked in partnership with the American College of Emergency Physicians to develop a new online training course, Until Help Arrives. This course provides individuals who have little or no medical training with the knowledge to take action and provide lifesaving care when they are the first on the scene during an emergency.

Until Help Arrives is a revolutionary solution to empower people to act and provide vital help to someone in distress. The online, non-certification, 90-minute class covers the most critical first aid topics—compression-only CPR, AED use, choking, bleeding and opioid overdose—to provide people with lifesaving skills until help arrives. This is an incredible opportunity to arm individuals with the training needed to help someone in an emergency, no matter when or where it happens.

All Red Cross volunteers have access to this training free of charge. Red Cross Trainings are a valuable resource for all our volunteers. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Red Cross, please visit the Red Cross volunteer webpage.

The Red Cross has numerous volunteer opportunities including Service to the Armed Forces, where volunteers can support our armed forces as a hospital volunteer, lending a hand to patients at VA Medical Centers and Military Treatment Facilities. You can volunteer as an Armed Forces Caseworker to ensure delivery of emergency communications for members of the military and their families. Veteran caregivers have an opportunity to volunteer as mentors, support group facilitators and online moderators for the Red Cross Military and Veteran Caregiver Network.

More than 4.6 million people turn to the American Red Cross, the trusted training provider for First Aid, CPR, BLS and more, every year to gain lifesaving skills. The Red Cross is trusted to deliver unmatched lifesaving training that will provide confidence and skills to act when moments matter. We teach in the classroom with experienced instructors, in convenient locations, and it meets education, credentialing and privileging requirements for professional health care responders. We teach online with self-paced interactive courses that start immediately and have course access after completion.

The American Red Cross offers a training discount coupon code for military, military families, Veterans and Veteran families that provides a 30% discount for American Red Cross-sponsored classes on www.redcross.org/take-a-class. Check the ‘See Details’ section on the class. Be sure the ‘Provider’ listed is ‘American Red Cross.’ Many of our third-party providers also list their classes on the website. The coupon code will not work for these classes.

Coupon Code: MILITARYCOMMFY23

Expires 6/30/2023

The Red Cross has been serving the military for more than 140 years and has deployed alongside the military in every U.S. conflict since the Spanish-American War. The Red Cross provides in-person support for troops on all military installations in the U.S. and on more than 35 overseas installations, including the Far East, Middle East and Europe. Each year, the Red Cross provides nearly 550,000 services to service members, Veterans and their families. To learn more about the American Red Cross Service to the Armed Forces, please visit the Red Cross website.