Spring 2025 Lead & Learn

Spring 2025

Basic Water Rescue

Level: All

Course Description : Volunteers who complete this blended-learning course may serve as the secondary trained waterfront personnel required to assist in opening a lake at any of our camp properties and oversee small craft activities. In this course, participants will learn how to prevent, recognize, and respond to many types of aquatic emergencies, as well as self-rescue and non-swimming rescues for aquatic emergencies. They will also be introduced to the GSEM Waterfront Manual, which outlines the waterfront Emergency Action Plan and waterfront policies and procedures specific to GSEM. The online portion must be completed in gsLearn before attending the in-person skills session. This course is renewable every three years. Course Registration : Register for the in-person portion of this course by opening the course in gsLearn, selecting Start This Course, and following the direct link to gsEvents for the desired date, or by searching in gsEvents. The accompanying online modules are available in gsLearn within the course itself.

Date

Time

Fee

Location

Sat. 6/14

8-10 am

$10

Camp Tuckaho

Sun. 8/10

8-10 am

$10

Camp Cedarledge

Lifeguard In-Service Training

Level: All

Course Description : This refresher course on GSEM pool and lifeguarding policies is required annually for registered volunteers currently certified in American Red Cross lifeguarding who wish to lifeguard on GSEM properties.

Course Access : Course available in the Content Library in gsLearn.

Small Craft Safety: Canoeing Learning Path

Level: All

Learning Path Description : This learning path contains all the courses required to be trained in Small Craft Safety: Canoeing. Completing this learning path allows volunteers to be the primary or secondary trained waterfront personnel required to open a lake or supervise troop canoe outings on flat water at GSEM camp lakes or off-property. Some courses in this learning path are blended learning and contain online and in person components, while others are online only. Each course within the learning path (online or in person) is individually renewable every three years.

Learning Path Access : Learning path available in the Content Library in gsLearn. Open the learning path, then register for or access each course component separately from within the learning path.

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