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30/09/2025

💚 FREE EVENT - Every Beat Counts™ - Adelaide Comes Together and Save Lives – 💚

Presented by Community First Responders Australia (CFRA) and hosted by Pelligra® at the Adelaide 36ers Arena.

🎉 Sunday, October 19, 2025 | 9:45am–2pm | Adelaide 36ers Arena
High-energy, hands-on, heart-saving community event like no other!

💥 Prizes and Raffle — 2 CFRA Shock Stations® (donated by ZOLL Public Safety and Stryker), Laerdal Medical Mini Anne CPR manikins, The Council of Ambulance Authorities Heartly Bears + more!

🙌 All welcome — clubs, schools, groups, families and individuals.

🏆 Led by the best — SA Ambulance Service, CAA, CFRA, ZOLL, Stryker, Laerdal & Philips with live CPR/Defibrillation challenges and expert tips.

🕹️ Gamified CPR races to DJ Music with Laerdal’s Little Anne QCPR manikins.

🫀 Free heart health checks from Heartbeat of Football Advara HeartCare.

🚑 Ambulances on-site with SAAS & TLC for Kids

🧠 Fast Heroes 000 teaching kids to spot stroke FAST.

🎶 Food, music, raffles, sports stars & more — it’s a day for knowledge, action & community.

🔗 Register now: http://www.cfra.org.au/every-beat-counts

23/09/2025

Every Beat Counts™ - Building Community and Saving Lives through Emergency Response 💚

Proudly brought to you by Community First Responders Australia (CFRA) and generously hosted by Pelligra® at the Adelaide 36ers Arena.

🎉 Join us at the Adelaide 36ers Arena on Sunday October 19, 2025, from 9:45am to 2pm for a high-energy, hands-on, heart-saving community event like no other!

💥 Amazing prizes are up for grabs — including 2 CFRA Shock Stations® (generously donated by ZOLL Public Safety and Stryker), dozens of Laerdal Medical Mini Anne CPR manikins, CAA Heartly Bears, and heaps more!

🙌 Whether you’re part of a sporting or social club, school, community group, or just someone who wants to make a difference — from the young to the young-at-heart — you’re invited to learn from the best to sharpen your CPR/Defibrillation skills and community spirit.

🏆 Supported by The Council of Ambulance Authorities and SA Ambulance Service, this event brings together the biggest names in resuscitation and emergency care:

💓 SAAS, CFRA, ZOLL, Stryker, Laerdal and Philips will take you through CPR and Defibrillation Challenges, sharing expert insights on how to save lives with speed, accuracy, and confidence.

🕹️ Thanks to Laerdal, CPR goes next-level with live gamified races using their Little Anne QCPR manikins — all synced to your favourite CPR beats.

🫀 Heartbeat of Football and Advara HeartCare will be on-site conducting free heart health checks and helping you take the next step toward a healthier heart.

🚑 SA Ambulance Service and TLC for Kids will be bringing their ambulances.

🧠 And don’t miss Fast Heroes 000, empowering kids to recognise stroke symptoms and act F.A.S.T.

🎶 With music, food, raffles, sports personalities, political leaders, and action at every corner, it’s a full day dedicated to one mission: saving lives through knowledge, action, and community.

🔗 www.cfra.org.au/every-beat-counts to register and/or support the event 💖

22/09/2025

Chilly but on fire at the VAFA HQ and St Kilda Football Club AFLW games over the weekend! 🌧️🏉

Our CFRA Responders were out in the rain, supporting players and fans as the winter season nears its end.

Special congrats to Pascal on his new (CFRA 🤣) bike! 🚴‍♂️ And when he is riding and not posing, he always wears his helmet and protective gear!

Stay tuned for CFRA at summer events and sports across Victoria. 💚

16/09/2025

⚡️North Point Café Shock Station® Now Operational ⚡️

On behalf of CFRA and the local community, a heartfelt thank you to Alex and the team at Northpoint Café for hosting the new Shock Station® 💚

We’re also grateful to the Commonwealth Stronger Communities Grant team, Zoe Daniel and Tim Wilson – Federal Liberal Member for Goldstein for their sequential support in securing the grant that made this possible, and to Paul for once again generously donating his time to install the unit. 🙌

The Shock Station® is now fully operational — registered and integrated with Triple Zero Victoria, Ambulance Victoria and Goodsam — and ready to help save lives 💪

A community training session at Northpoint Café will be announced soon, where a new team of Shock Saver® Responders will be trained and added to the 2,000+ strong CFRA GoodSAM team, ready to respond to cardiac arrests in our community 🙏

ZOLL Public Safety

11/09/2025

🌞 Be First Aid Ready This Summer - Learn from those who Make It Real🌊

CPR • Choking • Drowning • Burns • Poisons • Bleeds • Fractures and more

Presented by Community First Responders Australia - Building Community and Saving Lives through Emergency Response

Get ready to learn life-saving skills from professionals with real-world emergency experience. Our courses are designed to be authentic, practical, and engaging – because when emergencies happen, you’ll want the confidence to respond the right way.

🌟 Now Taking Enrolments for the Following Courses:

📘 HLTAID009 – Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
📘 HLTAID011 – Provide First Aid
📘 HLTAID012 – Provide First Aid in an Education and Care Setting

What makes our training different?
✅ Expert trainers with real, hands-on emergency response backgrounds
✅ Original and authentic scenarios – Our unique and iconic female mannikins Brittney and Stacey, leading the often-overlooked challenges in female cardiac arrest survival
✅ Up-to-date guidance on accessing the right emergency help at the right time
✅ Learn to triage effectively – make better decisions under pressure
✅ Real defibrillator simulators – not generic training tools
✅ Gamified CPR & Defib practice – learn through fun, interactive challenges (with prizes!)

📧 Register today at info@cfra.org.au

📍 Community First Responders Australia – Building Community and Saving Lives through Emergency Response

09/09/2025

At CFRA, it’s always about the patient 💚

Their physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing is at the heart of everything we do.

But behind every patient cared for is a team of professional, trained, and deeply committed Responders, whose skill and dedication are honed through proudly diverse experience and backgrounds:
🩺 Nurses
🚑 Paramedics
👮 Police Officers
🏊 Lifeguards
🛠️ Engineers
🤰 Midwives
…and many more.

From students studying their discipline, to first aid cadets who’ve grown into frontline Responders, to seasoned emergency services professionals with decades of service and the priceless medals of life experience — the CFRA family is united in one mission: to deliver exceptional care, when it matters most.

Thank you to the Department of Health, Ambulance Victoria, local sporting and community organisations for your continued support and collaboration.

Together, we are united around a mission of building community and saving lives through emergency response.

South Metro Junior Football League

05/09/2025

Thank you to City of Kingston for supporting our mission to enhance community resilience and save lives through emergency response! 💚

Stay tuned! We will announce the locations of our new Kingston Shock Stations®️very soon! 🙌👏

01/09/2025

🚨🏃‍♀️CFRA Takes the Field! 🏃‍♀️🚨

This weekend, CFRA crushed it by providing first aid at 1️⃣5️⃣ sporting events, the Hot Rod Show and Heart Health Checks with Heartbeat of Sport in Shepparton 💪

From nursing to paramedicine to policing, our team is proudly diverse in talent, skill and background 🙌

Big thanks to our partners: South Metro Junior Football League, AJAX JFC, East Malvern JFC, St Kilda Football Club AFLW and Heartbeat of Football for working with us to build community and save lives through response 💚

22/08/2025

From inspiring speakers to innovative displays and a truly stellar Awards Gala Dinner, had it all! 🌟 But the real highlight? Reconnecting with passionate paramedics, change-makers, and organisations all united by one goal — optimal patient outcomes. 🙌

Huge congrats to the award winners, and big thanks to The Council of Ambulance Authorities and SA Ambulance Service for hosting such a powerful event.

See you in 2026! 🚑✨

ZOLL Public Safety Ambulance Victoria NSW Ambulance Goodsam

17/08/2025

🚨 Come say hi to CFRA Responders Ella and Darcy at RSEA Park! 👋

How incredible to be at RSEA Park for the St Kilda Football Club vs Adelaide Football Club AFLW game! 🏉

With our dedicated responders keeping a watchful eye on the crowd, everyone can relax and enjoy the action on the field.
A big thank you to St Kilda FC for your continued trust and support. 🙌

📞 Want CFRA Responders at your next event? Get in touch with us at info@cfra.org.au

14/08/2025

What an honour it was to train the incredible team from Feed One Feed All in first aid. Their mission — “to support those in our community facing food insecurity by providing nutritious home-cooked meals; making a difference, one meal at a time” — is truly inspiring 💚

Thanks to their dedication, many of these amazing volunteers have now joined the CFRA-ERDI Goodsam Team and are ready to respond to cardiac arrests in the community via 000 🙌

This training session was made possible by the generous support of the ERDI Foundation, who continue to partner with us to build stronger, safer communities and save lives through emergency response 👏

11/08/2025

Thank you so much Kew East Community Recycling for your support! 💚🙌

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