B-T AQUATICS

 BROWNELL-TALBOT SCHOOL  Omaha, Nebraska

AHOY, MATES! We swim for good times!

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water."  Loren Eisley Nebraska anthropologist, ecologist, essayist, and poet.

NOTICE POSTED 8/12/08:  Beginning October 1, 2008 a Certificate of Completion for the Water Safety Course will cost $5.  The course materials will continue to be available to everyone at no charge, but if you want a certificate mailed or emailed to you it will cost $5. 

Water Safety Education

for Parents & Caregivers

This Page Updated July 2008

INTRODUCTION

• A swimming pool is fourteen times more likely than a motor vehicle to be involved in the death of a child age four and under. 

• Seventy percent of all preschoolers who drown are in the care of one or both parents at the time of drowning.

Drowning is more likely to claim your child's life than any other accident.  There is a very real need to protect your child from drowning.

This online course was prepared to help parents and caregivers learn the about water-related safety issues and how to protect children from water-related accidents.

We regularly update this material.  If you have any questions or have water safety information to include here, please let me know.  aquatics@brownell.edu

NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT of HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES NEWS RELEASE JULY 2, 2008

"Drowning is the number one cause of accidental death for children ages 1 to 4 in the state, according to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)." 

Click to read release:  http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/newsroom/newsreleases/2008/July/drowning.htm

CONTENTS

1. Teach Your Child to Swim First

2. Safe Pools & Safe Water

3. Supervision

4. Open Water & Boating

5. Diving

6. Hotels & Water Parks

7. Pool Parties

8. It's Your Choice

9. Self-Evaluation & Certificate Request

10. 18-minute PowerPoint Presentation

RESOURCES

The material for this course was obtained from various books and internet sources.  I never distributed any of this material when I taught the classes at B-T.  The classes were in an informal setting in the school library with no handouts or other presentation materials.  I had no intention of publishing any of this information in any manner.  However, due to many requests for the water safety information I've discussed in these classes.  I'm putting my notes into this online format.  In switching to the online format, I would like to credit all my sources, but am finding it difficult more than a year later to know where I got all this good stuff.  Below are some excellent water safety resources and I'd be happy to publish more or fully credit anyone whose information appears here.  I encourage water safety professionals to submit materials for inclusion on this site.

- Jeanie Neal   jeneal@brownell.edu 

• Centers for Disease Control

• Make a Splash Foundation

• http://www.kidsalive.com.au/ (Great site - wish I'd thought of a song like they have!  Of course, I'd put "Teach your kids to swim" first.)

• www.healthyswimming.org

• American Red Cross Heartland Chapter

• National Safety Council

• www.kidshealth.org

• www.watersafety.org

• www.safeusa.org/water/water.htm

• www.watersafetycongress.org

• www.uscgboating.org

• www.poseidon-tech.com/us/patho.html (Stages of a drowning)

• www.infantswim.com

• http://watersafety.usace.army.mil/ - US Army Corps of Engineers Water Safety Program

I need your help.  Click to report inactive links or additional sources.