Bronze Medallion
Embark on your lifesaving journey with our Bronze Medallion Course, designed for both beginners and those looking to enhance their aquatic skills. This course focuses on developing essential lifesaving techniques, including tows, carries, and defense methods. Participants will also work on stroke efficiency and endurance, highlighted by a 400m timed swim. This course is open to YMCA members and non-members alike.
Highlights:
Develop fundamental lifesaving skills
Learn tows, carries, and defense techniques
Improve stroke efficiency through a 400m timed swim
Open to YMCA members and non-members
Benefits:
Gain confidence in water safety and rescue skills
Prepare for more advanced lifesaving courses
Bronze Cross Course
Take the next step in your lifesaving training with our Bronze Cross Course. Building on the skills acquired in the Bronze Medallion Course, this program focuses on advanced rescue techniques and includes a 400m timed swim to enhance endurance. It serves as a prerequisite for those looking to pursue National Lifeguard and Instructor certification. This course is open to both YMCA members and non-members, offering comprehensive training for anyone interested in aquatic supervision and safety.
Highlights:
Advanced rescue techniques and safety protocols
400m timed swim to improve endurance
Prerequisite for National Lifeguard and Instructor certification
Open to YMCA members and non-members
Benefits:
Strengthen your lifesaving abilities
Prepare for advanced training and certification programs
Course Requirements
- 13 years of age by the start of the course or Bronze Star Certification (need not be current)
YMCA Swim Instructor
The Lifesaving society swim instructor course is the perfect way to make a difference in the lives of children. Sponsorship options and financial assistance are available for those in need. As a leader in the pool, you can play an essential role in helping others learn to swim and improve their health in many ways.
You will learn a variety of teaching techniques, lesson planning, progressions, and more. To put it all into practice, you’ll also work alongside a certified YMCA Swim Instructor to teach children during a swim lesson.
Preparing future YMCA swim instructors to effectively teach people how to swim and improve swimming techniques. Ensuring preparedness to create a positive member or participant experience that furthers the YMCA mission, as well as the instructors, own competencies with regards to vision and values, communication, planning and organizing, quality focus, facilitation and coaching.
Program Requirements
- You must be 15+ years of age
- Completion of Bronze Cross (need not be current)
- Standard First Aid (need not be current)
✨ Employment Scholarship Program Already completed your Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross courses? We offer an Employment Scholarship Program to help you become a certified Swim Instructor with flexible work options! For more information, contact Ali at a.roustaian@yswnb.ca.
Next course starting Friday, September 27. Register below.
Bronze Star
You can continue to build your aquatic safety skills in Bronze Star, an advanced lifesaving course designed to prepare candidates for the next level of certification, Bronze Medallion. In Bronze Star, we emphasize rescue drills, fitness skills, and victim recognition. You will also learn CPR during this level.
This course is ideal for those who have completed all levels of swimming lessons and who wish to continue to develop skills and prepare for lifeguarding and instruction. To take this course, we recommend you have experience in assisting with swimming lessons and with Swim Patrol.
National Lifeguard Certification
Course Requirements
- 15+ Years
- Bronze Cross Certification
- Standard First Aid (Does not need to be current)
National Lifeguard certification is Canada’s professional lifeguard standard. National Lifeguard training develops a sound understanding of lifeguarding principles, good judgment, and a mature and responsible attitude towards the lifeguard’s role. National Lifeguard training emphasizes prevention and effective rescue response in emergencies including first-aid treatment. Candidates develop teamwork, leadership and communication skills. Fitness requirements include a timed object recovery, 50-metre sprint challenge, 5-metre rescue drill and 400-metre endurance challenge.