City of Chicago Rx
Chicago Department of Public Health Newsletter
October 2008
Healthy Mind Healthy Body Healthy Communities:
October’s CPR Trainings
The American Heart Association and Chicago Department of Public Health received a Chicago Community Trust grant to increase the public’s ability to administer basic CPR. This CPR Anytime project was carried out by the Healthy Communities Initiative: Healthy Southeast Chicago, Healthy Chicago Lawn, Healthy Hermosa,and Healthy Albany Park. The goal of this partnership was for each health coalition to train 300 community members in CPR Anytime, a scaled-down version of the extended CPR certification training. The trainings were held in October, and the healthy Communities reached their goal of training 1200 community members. The trainings are meant to be taught easily to large numbers of people, who are in turn, are asked to train at least two other individuals. Training sites and audiences varied from the very young to senior citizens. Partners included Bowen High School, Jane Addams Grammar School and the CDPH South Chicago Clinic in Southeast Chicago, Holy Cross Hospital and Marquette School in Chicago Lawn, the Miracle Center, North Grand High School and the 25th District Police Station in Hermosa, and the 17th Police District, Aspira-Haugan Middle School, and Swedish Covenant Hospital in Albany Park.
Submitted by CDPH Chronic Disease, Herminia Vanna
Thank you to everyone that helped make these trainings possible and to all the participants!
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