St John Ambulance said their courses are fully booked until the end of the year and they are now looking to put on some extras to meet demand.
30 year-old Alina Ciornei pleaded guilty to two counts of neglect and is now doing 180 hours community service after the two year-old boy in her care was found floating in shallow water in Millbrook Park at the end of June.
A member of the public sprang into action, performed CPR on him and managed to resuscitate him before paramedics arrived.
Commander of St John Ambulance Jersey John Pinel said: “Those skills saved the baby’s life, you don’t have much time with a baby that has stopped breathing.”
The charity runs a number of courses at their training centre at their headquarters in Midvale Road and in other venues around the Island.
Mr Pinel said the charity also runs a free school programme for all 10 year-olds, helping to give them basic skills that have already proved to have saved lives.
He said two youngsters who’d done their first aid course at school knew what to do when a baby started choking on a grape.
Mr Pinel said: “We’ve had three choking incidents in the last three or four years where babies have been fed grapes – we teach people not to feed their babies grapes.
“If you use the first aid skills you use on an adult you’d probably kill a baby – it’s a question of degree.
“But half of the courses we run, it’s not about treating injuries, it’s about stopping those injuries in the first place.”
You can find out more about lifesaving courses run by the local branch of the St John Ambulance here.
