Girl Scout Safety Badge Training
	This program satisfies the requirements of The Girl Scouts of America Handbook. Brownies, ages 6-8, earn their Safety Sense Badge, and Junior Girl Scouts, ages 8-11, earn their Safety First Badge.
	Safety Badge training is conducted by fire department personnel. The program runs 3 hours and may be scheduled as one class or two 1-1/2 hour sessions. To request the Safety Sense or Safety First Badge Training, please contact our Public Education Office. A downloadable/printable Escape Plan Mapgrid is available on the Forms page.

At the end of the safety class, Girl Scouts will have a basic understanding of the following:

1. Personal safety and safety awareness at home
2. Outdoor safety, including staying safe on the streets and handling strangers
3. Reporting emergencies
4. Fire prevention skills
5. Home fire safety survival
6. Basic first aid skills

During the class, Girl Scouts will demonstrate a working knowledge of various skills including:

1. Maintaining a safe environment at home
2. Staying safe outdoors, including recognizing safe places in their immediate neighborhood
3. How to properly fit a bicycle helmet
4. How to conduct a home safety inspection and draw a home fire escape plan (A downloadable/printable Escape Plan Mapgrid is available on the Forms page.
5. How to test and maintain smoke alarms in the home
6. Stop, Drop and Roll technique for extinguishing clothing fires
7. Basic first aid skills, focusing on burn treatment, control bleeding, and choking