FALL Junior First Aid
FALL Junior First Aid
Get ready for fall adventures with Junior First Aid, a hands-on program designed to help kids build confidence, awareness, and practical first aid skills for exploring the outdoors.
Through interactive scenarios, games, and problem-solving activities, participants will learn how to recognize risks, assess a situation, and respond to common outdoor emergencies. Fall-specific topics include slips and falls on wet leaves, head injuries, tick exposure, early cold conditions, hunting season safety, and staying safe in shared outdoor spaces.
This is part of the Four Seasons Junior First Aid program with Wild Maine Med, where each session focuses on the unique challenges of the season while reinforcing essential first aid and emergency response skills.
Ages: 8–13
Length: 4 hours
Cost: $100
Minimum: 10 participants
Location: Harpswell Town Office
This program is hosted by Harpswell Parks & Recreation in partnership with Topsham Parks & Recreation, Bowdoinham Recreation, and Bowdoin Recreation and is run by Wild Maine Med.
About our Instructor:
Wild Maine Med is run by Courtney Cronin. Courtney is a Wilderness EMT, SOLO Wilderness Medicine Instructor, and experiential educator with over 20 years of experience leading outdoor-based and international travel programs. She did her first WFA course when she was 14, got Wilderness First Responder certified at 18, and EMT certified when she was 20. She has worked on a 911-response ambulance in Maine, trained over 150 people from Indigenous communities in Guatemala and Mexico in First Aid, and certified over 200 people in the last year in Wilderness First Aid. She has spent the better part of the last 25 years traveling around the US and Central America. First, as a part of her traveling high school, where she lived out of a converted school bus and slept in tents every night for 4 years as she embarked on learning expeditions around the US and Northern Mexico. Then, in adulthood, leading expeditions - from month-long canoe trips with adjudicated youth with Outward Bound to customized service trips for students to Guatemala with her non-profit Rising Minds. And, most recently, traveling with her family - from following animal migration routes to Mexico to commercial fishing in Southeast Alaska to learning about the pulse of the world in Antarctica. She is so passionate about bringing empowering, immersive educational opportunities to communities to help build a greater connection to ourselves, our place, and each other.