Safety Saints brings essential health, safety, and emergency preparedness training to people in every community. We believe that everyone should have access to training that builds skills to prepare them for the unexpected.

At Safety Saints, our vision is to build a corps of everyday citizens that are trained to meet emerg

Goal One: Not enough people are trained in essential life-saving skills in under-resourced communities. Our goal is to provide CPR, first aid, and other safety training to 2,000 people in NYC, Miami, and LA.

Goal Two: Many job tracks require health and safety training. We will partner with workforce development programs to upskill their participants with the necessary and valuable training they need to succeed.

Goal Three: As a new organization, our goal is to build strong partner relationships and minimal infrastructure that can support high-quality, scalable program delivery in our designated areas of service.

Our leadership team has participated in many professional development opportunities that focus on topics essential to founding and launching an equitable, responsive nonprofit. This includes training in diversifying fundraising efforts, best practices in hiring, and anti-racist practices in nonprofit community work. Our front-line program staff are currently part-time with our pilot programs and have not received professional development training yet. Our 2022 budget includes funds dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion practices for program and management staff.

During these tumultuous times, we have all seen countless examples of people helping one another. That ethos inspired us to found Safety Saints in 2021. The inequalities in access to health and safety training became too obvious to ignore. We want to make certain that more lay first responders can provide aid safely and effectively. Our management team has decades of experience providing training nationally to individuals, organizations, restaurants, hotels, and other businesses. We are keenly aware of the ways that traditional training models are leaving people behind. While the Red Cross, American Heart Association, and countless for-profit businesses provide similar training, no one is addressing the most common barriers encountered by people and institutions in under-resourced communities quite like Safety Saints. Class location, duration, content delivery strategy, and price are often mismatched to the needs of many communities. To fix that Safety Saints has adapted this training model and works in partnership with our community partners to ensure that their unique needs and circumstances are met. We also provide additional services, such as training trainers, providing emergency and disaster preparedness assessments, and free or discounted safety equipment and supplies, so that our qualifying community partners receive comprehensive support.