"Keep the Beat" is a not-for-profit education initiative to make Louisiana communities safer and better places by teaching the public life-saving skills. The program exists through the support of community-minded people and businesses that donate time, effort and funds to improve their hometowns.

The idea is simple: Empower people with knowledge, tools and skills to save a life. "Keep the Beat" provides a chain of survival program, meaning that it works to strengthen the steps a person needs in order to survive cardiac arrest. This is done by providing free "bystander" CPR training and donating automatic defibrillators (AEDs) to make ourcommunities safer places to live.

Read on to learn more about our program and how you can learn the steps to save a life.