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March is National Athletic Training Month, a month dedicated to spreading awareness about the important work of Athletic Trainers.

We are honored to have Athletic Trainers across the country and world who are STOP THE BLEED® Instructors!

If you are an Athletic Trainer, you are eligible to become a STOP THE BLEED® Instructor!

There is no cost for individuals to become licensed and it only takes a few minutes to complete an online application.

Many Athletic Trainers are already engaged in the

STOP THE BLEED® campaign, using it to build resilience in the athletic community. The Coalition’s Instructor Program is designed to empower Athletic Trainers and other professionals to get involved by making it easier to apply for a license and to support approved instructors with all of the resources they need.

You never know when disaster or injury could strike an athlete, especially with contact sports.

You could save a life.

Athletic Hockey Trainer Rachel Leahy came on the

STOP THE BLEED® Podcast to describe how she used STOP THE BLEED® skills to during a life-threatening bleed from one of her players:

“About 5 minutes left in the second period, there was a really big hit at center ice. One of our other teammates Noah Wilson had made a really big hit to an opposing player. That player fell forward and his leg came up in the air, and at the same exact time one of our other teammates Eric Hus was skating behind him and perfect storm, just got cut right across the side of his neck by this player’s skate… He skates immediately back to the bench. Here I am watching center ice, you could barely tell it even happened. I’m making sure Noah who made the hit gets up okay and is skating as he should. Then I see a small trail of blood on the ice, I lean forward and ask “what is that?”. At this point, Eric is approaching our bench…our players are getting panicked because they see whats going on, I jump over the boards at that point onto the ice and I see that it’s Eric.

I start running towards Eric…he looks up at me. And the side of his neck looked like it was falling away from his face. And I realized what it was that I was running towards, that we had a neck laceration…one of the most severe injuries that you could attend to… I ran towards him, started applying pressure, tried to close the wound as best as I could…I need to get him to EMS immediately. We just immediately ran that way…”

The Stop the Bleed Coalition has made available a wide variety of free tools and resources to support a STOP THE BLEED® Instructor’s work, the materials include:

STOP THE BLEED® License Program

New and Improved!

Get Licensed and get access to free services and support

Podcast News

Connect with the Stop the Bleed Coalition

The Coalition is a community of individuals and organizations who are passionate about the STOP THE BLEED® campaign. The Coalition’s goal is to support the growth and impact of the campaign by providing access to information and services to the growing STOP THE BLEED® community as well as financial support to the STOP THE BLEED® Project.

STOP THE BLEED® is a national campaign to encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped, and empowered to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. It is a public/private partnership led by the Department of Defense and many other stakeholders, including the Stop the Bleed Coalition.