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Why Teach Safe Sitter®?

Not because Safe Sitter® is the only national not-for-profit soley devoted to babysitter training.

Not because Safe Sitter's founder is a board-certified pediatrician and neonatologist.

Not because Safe Sitter's 900 teaching sites have offered safe babysitting classes to 500,000+ teens and pre-teens since 1980.

Teach Safe Sitter® because it saves lives - over 150 documented cases.

Start a registered Safe Sitter® teaching site and teach safe babysitting.

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An Idea Born of Tragedy

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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