Connor Lonning

We are not health professionals.

We didn't even know what AED stood for before this, but we were able to find the right people, the right groups,

and bring them together to create a real, measurable, sustainable change, which was our goal.

And in the last six months, we have become the first city in the US to have an AED in every licensed childcare facility in the city of La Crosse.

Yeah, I can jump in with this one.

So first, the great thing is, like I said previously, that all the staff at these licensed childcare facilities have to already be trained.

Yeah, that's good.

So that's step one.

Yeah.

Step two is that Sherry Olson and Seven Rivers Cape

Um, that she's the physician that was saved by an AD who started an organization that's given away hundreds and done thousands and thousands of hours of trainings.

Um, she's committed her and her staff resources to, to do free additional trainings at the childcare facility so that they are ready to go in an emergency.

Uh, everyone knows where it is.

They, they know the specifics of the AD that we're providing them and how to use it.

Um,

So there's that.

And then Tony's done a great job of using another partnership with the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in allowing us the opportunity to work with a program that will provide us with master's degree students that will help so that they can track the

where the AEDs are, the serial numbers, whether or not the batteries and pads need to be replaced, checking in with the facilities in a scheduled manner to make sure that everything is in place and then there's no issues with it, making sure that they're testing it to make sure that it's working and functioning.

So, yeah, we didn't just stop with, oh, okay, well, here's these things.

We've done our part.