National Youth Heart Screening Day Volunteer Sign-ups

Description

Parent Heart Watch and 22 Member Organizations Across the Nation to Hold a Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Event

2nd Annual National Youth Heart Screening Day

Saturday, Febuary 7, 2026

Our event will be at Saratoga High School 10am-3pm

Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) strikes 23,000 youth each year affecting many with undiagnosed heart conditions that are found in 1 in 300 seemingly healthy children and young adults. Typical well-child checkups and preparticipation physical evaluations miss up to 90% of youth at risk. Parent Heart Watch and its member organizations have advocated across two decades for better prevention standards through comprehensive heart screenings and cardiac emergency preparedness wherever youth congregate.

National Youth Heart Screening Day is a Call-to-Action: Every Kid. Every Heart.

Our goal is to amplify awareness about the reality of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in children and young adults, the importance of heart screenings for early detection of risk factors that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest/death. Also, knowing how to recognize and respond to a cardiac emergency by performing hands-only CPR and using an automated external defibrillator (AED) to increase the chance of survival from sudden cardiac arrest.  National Youth Heart Screening Day will impact an estimated 10,000+ youth across 17 states.

To see other foundations that are participating, visit Parent Heart Watch website

 Please complete your contact information and volunteer shift.  Here are the various volunteer jobs we have. Please note that medical volunteers must have medical experience!! If you have questions or need to make changes or cancellations please reach out to Jennifer Sarmento at jennifer@kylejtaylor.org or 408-893-4233

General Volunteers (you will be assigned one of these areas at event)

  • Assist with set up
  • Checking in participants
  • Checking out participants
  • Assisting in the ECG tents on the laptop with data entry
  • Greeters to keep traffic flowing
  • Assist in take down after event

Medical Volunteers (you will sign up for your area of expertise)medical volunteers must have medical experience

  • Taking Vitals, reviewing family history forms
  • Performing ECGs on participants
  • Demo CPR to participants
  • Performing ECHOs on participants (Cardiac Sonographers only)
  • DOCTORS ONLY - Review ECG results with participants
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