In 2017, Northville Township also began a partnership with Northville High School (NHS) to deliver hands-only CPR training to each health class. The Department developed a program to deliver this important training to NHS annually. Since health class is a graduation requirement, the schools chose to include this training during their health curriculum. This allows the school the ability to verify that the program reached each student to meet the states mandate.

Annually, this program will reach more than 600 students and help to create an “army” of “first responders” across the community who can take life-saving action when needed. This program aligns with our mission by helping to bridge the gap between a cardiac arrest event and response by the Fire Department. Statistically, patient outcomes increase exponentially with the delivery of quality bystander CPR prior to arrival of advanced life support (ALS). This program is important to the community and serves to assist in our goal of increasing cardiac arrest survival. The program content is updated and delivered annually to NHS in both the spring and the fall.  

Between 2017 and 2021 we have provided hands-only CPR and AED training to over 2,100 students in over 60 classes.