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World Conference on Drowning Prevention 2025: Educational Partnership Preview

Review Our Teaching Approach Through the WCDP Presentation If you're exploring educational partnerships with Swim Strong Foundation, this World Conference on Drowning Prevention presentation provides a working example of how we teach situational water knowledge across different contexts. Previous WCDP Blog What these Slides Demonstrate This presentation shows our educational methodology in practice: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 The U.S. Water Safety Gap Framework How we contextualize drowning as the leading cause of death for children under 5, connecting home water risks to environmental awareness rather than just recreational swimming. Environmental and...

January 10, 2026Blog, Events, PDF, Swim Strong ProductsComments OffRead more...

What Do You Really Know About Water?

This environmental program on water safety, “Know Before You Go®” (KBYG) can be viewed by you at home. Why is water safety knowledge so critical? ·Drowning is the second leading cause of accidental death worldwide. African Americans are three times as likely to drown as other demographics. 95% of tragedies are PREVENTABLE! Due to global climate change our water levels are rising and our storms are intensifying. We need more knowledge of and a different relationship with water. "Know Before You Go!®, Water...

December 8, 2020Articles, Blog, PSAs, Swim Strong ProductsComments OffRead more...

Swim Strong’s Online Social Justice Package

According to Marvin Dunn, historian, “in the whole scope of desegregation, the thing that white people themselves resisted, second only to intermarriage, was swimming with Black people.”(https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-family-kicked-out-historically-black-pool-highlighting-lasting-impact-n1235532 ) Today, African American children ages 5-19 are 5.5 times more likely to drown in a swimming pool than white children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A 2017 survey by the University of Memphis and the USA Swimming Foundation found that Black children and their parents are three times more fearful...

November 15, 2020Blog, PSAs, Swim Strong ProductsComments OffRead more...

Product Launch: “Know Before You Go!®, Water Safety For ALL”

Swim Strong is excited to launch Phase 2 of their new water safety educational programming: Our world is changing before our eyes and becoming much more watery as a result. Our water levels are rising more than an inch per year; our storms are becoming much more intense causing significantly more flooding and in many cities our waterfronts are being developed, providing access to a variety of open water situations to people who many not understand the nature and danger...

October 6, 2020PSAs, Swim Strong in The News, Swim Strong ProductsComments OffRead more...