Babysitting and Advanced Child Care Certification

Earn your babysitting certification from the American Red Cross. Whether you're just starting out or you've cared for your siblings for years and now want to start earning money or even build a business, our courses can help. By allowing you to demonstrate your skills to the families seeking your help, a Red Cross Advanced Child Care certification or Babysitting certification shows parents that you take your job seriously.

Designed and taught by experts, Red Cross Babysitting certification or Advanced Child Care certification course materials are interactive, informative and fun. Created to help you provide the best care possible, our courses can help you deliver confident care and learn to interact with infants and children in fun, age-appropriate ways. This way, you can build a rapport with the children you care for, learn to understand them and tailor your care to meet the family's needs.

Types of Certifications

• Babysitting Basics Online: This online babysitting certification course helps those ages 11 and older prepare to become confident, capable babysitters. With information on providing basic care to infants and children, what to do during an emergency, how to choose age-appropriate activities and recognizing and handling specific behaviors, this class can help you gain the skills and confidence needed for babysitting. The course takes approximately 4 hours to complete and includes a final exam. Upon successful completion, you will receive a certificate of completion.
• Babysitter's Training: This in-person course, designed for youth ages 11-16, prepares participants to safely and confidently care for children and infants. It includes hands-on activities, videos, and discussions to develop essential, real-life readiness babysitting skills. The course covers feeding, diapering, picking up and holding children, safety, and emergency response.
• Advanced Child Care Online: Designed to be taken online, the Advanced Child Care course includes advanced training on leadership, child behavior and discipline, professionalism, safety, child care – such as holding and feeding – and more. (Note: This course is not intended as certification for state licensed child care providers and does not meet all state requirements for such certification.)

Additional Training

To complement our babysitting certification courses, we also offer First Aid and CPR/AED certification courses. These classes can help build your skills – and your resume – and help you safely care for others in times of crisis. View all Red Cross Babysitting and Child Care online safety courses here.

Certification Made Simple. Fast. Easy. Digital.

The Red Cross makes babysitting training and certification fast, simple and easy. With our our digital certificates, you can access, print, share, and download your certificates anytime, anywhere. Each certificate includes a unique ID and QR code, meeting employment requirements and allowing employers to verify its validity. To access a valid certificate with student training information, visit https://www.redcross.org/take-a-class/digital-certificate and enter the ID or scan the QR code.

Click here for instructions on accessing your certification online.