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What We Do
Our Founders:
Sharon Maekawa & Pam Foster
Hawaii Heart Foundation is a 501(c)3 established in 2010 with the mission to improve the cardiac arrest survival rates. Our Kids Teaching Kids program started it all and has been developed into two school age programs: KIDS4CPR (K-6) and Common Sense CPR (7-12). In hopes of teaching lifesaving CPR and AED skills to keiki statewide.
Our Mission
SUPERHEROES IN ACTION
We believe that kids have superpowers! The Kids4CPR Superhero Program empowers our students with the knowledge to save lives and the ability to teach their family and friends to do the same. Learn more about students who are making a difference in their community!
Common Sense CPR is a Hawaii Department of Education initiative to provide Life Skills for students, faculty, and staff and over time it will contribute to an educated population who are better able to respond to a life threatening emergency with correspondingly improved survival rates.
Through the development of this project, Common Sense CPR has become a State of Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) approved course for teaching community responder CPR and AED skills. This is an interactive, hands-on class designed for students 7th-12th grade, teachers, faculty and staff at all schools. It is provided free to all DOE-affiliated individuals as a part of a statewide initiative related to emergency response.
This project is currently in a pilot phase and has been approved for an additional three years. We strive to offer this program to all schools in Hawaii and hope to take it beyond the Hawaiian Islands.
COMMON SENSE CPR
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