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Free AEDs and CPR Trainings for Congregations

Willona Stallings, Former Program Coordinator – Partners in Health & Wholeness · January 4, 2012 · 6 Comments

Have you ever been in church when someone suffered a heart attack?  If so, you know that helpless feeling of having to wait for help to arrive as critical seconds, then minutes go by.  In 2009, Representative Becky Carney went into sudden cardiac arrest while at the legislative building, and her life was saved with an onsite Automated External Defibrillator (AED) – i.e., a portable, electronic device used to restore normal heart rhythms in cardiac arrest victims.

Over the next three years, Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) – an initiative of the NC Council of Churches that is designed to improve the health of people of faith through increased physical activity, healthy eating and tobacco use prevention and cessation – will team up with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, the American Red Cross – Triangle Area Chapter, and Representative Becky Carney to provide free AEDs and CPR trainings to congregations in NC.  The name of this three-year project is Strive to Revive; 50 AEDs will be available in the first year.

With large numbers of individuals attending places of worship throughout NC on a weekly basis, we have the potential to make a real difference and to save lives.  In fact, survival rates can be as high as 74% if an AED is administered within 3 minutes of sudden cardiac arrest.

PHW will make an official request for applications from congregations that wish to participate in the coming weeks/months.  Please stay tuned and begin sharing information about Strive to Revive with others in your church and/or judicatory.  Together, we can beat back the fatal effects of heart disease, which is the leading cause of death in the US – disproportionately affecting women, African Americans, Latinos and seniors.

For more information, please email me at willona@nccouncilofchurches.org.

– Willona Stallings, PHW Program Coordinator

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Aging, Gender, Health, Healthcare Reform, People with Disabilities, Race/Ethnicity

Willona Stallings, Former Program Coordinator – Partners in Health & Wholeness

About Willona Stallings, Former Program Coordinator – Partners in Health & Wholeness

Partners in Health and Wholeness (PHW) connects congregations with existing resources in the community and provides them with the tools necessary (sometimes in the form of mini-grants) to implement healthier practices, policies and programs. I live in Raleigh and enjoy good food, area greenways and bargain shopping.
Learn more about PHW and our efforts to improve the health of God’s people: healthandwholeness.org

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  1. Carolyn M. Talley says

    September 10, 2012 at 8:27 pm

    Please add my church to the list for a free AED. This could be a very useful and lifesaving tool in our church in Oxford, NC.

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    • Willona StallingsWillona Stallings says

      September 12, 2012 at 11:32 am

      Thank you for your interest in Strive to Revive. You can now apply for a free AED and CPR training at http://www.healthandwholeness.org/strive-to-revive. The deadline for applications is Monday, September 17.

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  2. Rochelle Walker says

    March 4, 2012 at 5:15 am

    Live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama with a congragation of 2000 plus. Please tell me how we can get a free AED with training.

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    • Willona StallingsWillona Stallings says

      March 5, 2012 at 8:33 am

      Thank you for your interest in obtaining a free AED and CPR training for your congregation. However, this resource is only available to congregations located in NC.

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      • Lori Hardison says

        April 25, 2012 at 10:39 am

        I live in a rural part of NC, most of the EMS systems are volunteers so response time is greater than 5 minutes. I am very active with AHA CPR, teaching in the churches here or school systems. With the churches I would like to know if this program is still active? Thank you for your help.

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        • Willona StallingsWillona Stallings says

          April 25, 2012 at 10:47 am

          Thank you for your question about the free AEDs and CPR trainings for congregations. This program is indeed active but will not launch statewide until August. Right now, we’re only making it available to our Partners in Health and Wholeness certified congregations (www.healthandwholeness.org). With your permission, however, I will add you to our mailing list to keep you abreast of what’s happening.

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