Building a Collaborative Database to Save Lives

 While experts have widely agreed on the steps communities can take to help save lives, until recently, those steps were never shared in a public manner.  Success was generally found blindly or by sharing things that work between communities.  

Citizen CPR Foundation has created a systematic way to help and judge communities to become and maintain a HEARTSafe Community.  Not only does this help the residents of those communities, but the communities also receive signs that can be displayed around the community, a form of "badge" awarded for completing something.

HEARTSafe Communities

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