Since our founding in 2022, EA CPR has brought gender-inclusive CPR training to high school students in Southern Maine. With a grant made possible by the Cape Elizabeth Education Foundation, EA CPR has implemented six new female CPR simulators into the training program at Cape Elizabeth High School. With this step alone, 4,000 students will benefit from comprehensive CPR education. EA CPR has also designed a new CPR training curriculum that was recently implemented at Cape Elizabeth High School. The curriculum addresses common biases that bystanders experience when considering administering CPR to females as well as symptomatic differences in heart attacks across males and females.

Our next steps include implementation of the revised training curriculum into CPR education at high schools across Maine and fundraising to provide other schools with female CPR simulators.

EA CPR is proud to share that the work we do translates to a much larger movement as each of the students we reach are able to bring their skills in gender-diverse CPR training to each community they visit across their lives. This scale of this ripple effect and the impact of our work on future saved lives is unknown, yet it is part of the inspiration for this organization.

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