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Be Water Wise
Awareness and a little water
safety skills training can help keep you and your family safe.
Water safety and preventing
drowning are a matter of awarness, supervision and ensuring that you
and your children have basic water safety
skills.
The YMCA Water Wise program
includes a helpful brochure with tips for water safety. Download the
brochure here - Download English
Editionor
Download Spanish
Edition.
Awareness and a little water safety skills training can help keep you and your family safe. Water safety and preventing drowning are a matter of awarness, supervision and ensuring that you and your children have basic water safety skills.
Key Water Safety Tips
Ready - The YMCA recommends the following:
- Create layers of protection between the water and your children.
- Learn CPR.
- Talk to adults that are caring for your child around water.
- Enroll your children in swim lessons.
Set - When your child is around water, follow these tips:
- Never leave your child alone near a pool, spa, bathtub, toilet, bucket or any standing water in which a child's nose or mouth may be submerged.
- Assign an adult as "water watcher" who is committed to supervising the pool area.
- Have phone access near the water area.
- Wear personal flotation devices that are Coast Guard approved.
Save - If an emergency happens:
- Call 911.
- Throw resuce equipment to the victim.
- Begin CPR.
Make a SPLASH with Water Safety
The Houston Apartment Association, YMCA and Texas Childrens Hospital have partnered to promote water safety. Along with public awareness efforts, a key part of our efforts is the YMCA of Greater Houston SPLASH Program.
The YMCA SPLASH program is designed to help children and families learn basic swimming skills and safe water safety practices to help prevent accidents and deaths in the community.
The program covers five aquatic environments: public and apartment pools, backyard pools, boats, beaches and water parks. Basic swim skills like breath control, front float, crawl stroke, back float and kicking on back will be taught. Also included in the lessons are rescue skills such as reaching and throwing assists and rescue breathing.
Ask your property manager if they are participating in the SPLASH Program. If so, take advantage of it.