Purdue wins American Heart Association grant for CPR education, training

The Heart Club of Purdue was awarded a grant for CPR education and training. The club is a student-led initiative that aims to make the campus and the community safer.

CPR can double or triple a person’s chance of survival, especially if performed immediately, according to data from the American Heart Association.

Purdue’s Heart Club received the grant as part of AHA’s Nation of Lifesavers initiative, according to a Thursday AHA press release. The grant includes $500 along with two CPR kits for schools.

Grants like these will make it easier for students and teachers to learn lifesaving skills while also strengthening the AHA’S mission to double cardiac arrest survival rates by 2030, the press release said.

These grants support student-led projects that promote CPR education, develop cardiac emergency response plans, and raise awareness about cardiac arrest.

“Every student deserves the opportunity to learn how to save a life,” Haley Rudolph, executive director of the AHA’s office in metro Indianapolis, said in the press release. “This grant helps students become changemakers on their campuses and in their communities by equipping them with lifesaving CPR skills, emergency response planning tools, and a voice in public health advocacy. We want to train as many students and teachers as we can, so we can strengthen the entire chain of survival across the Hoosier state.”

Purdue was one of 32 college and high school campuses in the country selected for AHA’s new Heart Club grant program, according to the press release.