Virginia Water Safety Coalition
Water Safety Resource Kit
Publications/Brochures & Flyers | National, State and Local Resources
Virginia Water Safety Coalition
Water Safety Resource Kit
Publications/Brochures & Flyers | National, State and Local Resources
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Infant and Preschool Aquatic Program Parent's Guide This helpful guide introduces you to the program and offers simple and practical information on aquatic activities involving children. Stock No. 654600, cost: $1.60 each. Local American Red Cross
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Waddles Presents AQUACKtic Safety This fun and colorful children's activity book offers an exciting new way for children to learn swimming skills and water safety. Waddles the duck and Hatch the alligator take children through a series of activities designed to reinforce basic safety messages and skills. The full-color, inexpensive activity book includes a removable poster, postcard, and color stickers to make learning more memorable and fun. Stock No. 652002, cost: $4.30 each. Local American Red Cross |
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LONG FELLOW'S WHALE TALES LONG FELLOW'S WHALE TALES provides an easy-to-follow lesson plan for school teachers, parents, or other adult leaders to use in teaching children ages 5 to 12 about safe behavior in and around water. Designed as a classroom-style program, LONGFELLOW'S WHALE TALES makes water safety fun and easy to learn because each lesson is reinforced with color posters, worksheets, activities and a video featuring Longfellow the animated whale. LONGFELLOW'S WHALE TALES VIDEO Local American Red Cross |
Swimming and Diving Text This up-to-the-minute text includes information on all seven levels of the program using the latest findings in aquatics research. Breath-taking, full color photos cover a wide range of topics including; hydrodynamics, stroke mechanics, principles and techniques of training, fitness, disabilities, and more. Stock No. 652222. $21.00 each. Local American Red Cross
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Swimming and Diving Skills Videotape Full-color video demonstrations cover strokes, starts, turns, and learn to dive sequences featuring multiple views, slow motion, freeze frame, and computer generated imaging. 90 minutes. Stock No. 652005. $82.00 each. Local American Red Cross |
Community Water Safety Text Color photos, charts, and illustrations make this book fun, educational, and simple to use for almost everyone. After course completion, it serves as a great reference tool. Available in Spanish. Stock No. 654122. $10.00 each. Local American Red Cross |
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Water: The Deceptive Power Videotape Real-life situations address personal safety assessment; high-risk water activities, injury prevention around oceans, lakes, and rivers in this 30-minute, full-color documentary. Take it home and share it with the family, friends, and other creatures of the deep. Stock No. 655011. $68.75 each. Local American Red Cross |
Learn-to-Swim Course Is anyone you know feeling a little wet behind the ears? Enroll them in an American Red Cross Learn-To-Swim course. This program is appropriate for everyone, including adults. All seven courses are designed to help students learn to swim or improve their swimming skills with new strokes, stroke refinements, diving safety tips and techniques, and more. The course is provided by those authorized to do so. Costs for the course vary by location. Contact your local American Red Cross for more details. Local American Red Cross |
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How to Protect Your Child From Injury A 16-page booklet for parents with tips and helpful advice on keeping children safe. Easy to read with many colorful illustrations. Booklet covers traffic injuries, drownings, bums, scalds, poisonings, chokings and falls. Includes a helpful recommended reading list. Item No. 020. $19.00 for a box of 100 |
Children Aren't Waterproof A brochure with important drowning prevention and water safety tips. Item No. 10-215. $15.00 for 500
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The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) Tip sheets on a variety of injury topics. Drowning related TIPP sheets include "Home Water Hazards for Young Children" Item No. L-HE0131, "Pool Safety for Children" Item No. L-HE0132, and "Water Safety for Your School-age Child" Item No L-HE0129, "Lifejackets and Life Preservers" Item No. L-HE0133, and "Safe Diving-A Parental Responsibility" Item No. L-HE0038. Cost $19.95 for a package of 100. |
How to Plan For the Unexpected, Preventing Child Drownings See copy included in this resource kit. CPSC Document #4359. Free.
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A Hidden Hazard in the Home, Infants and Toddlers Can Drown in 5-Gallon Buckets See copy included in this resource kit. CPSC Document #5006. Free. |
Spas, Hot Tubs, and Whirlpools
Safety Alert See copy included in this resource kit. CPSC Document #5112. Free. |
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Prevent Child Drownings in the Home See copy included in this resource kit. CPSC Document #5013. Free. |
Rip Current Poster Illustrates and explains a rip current. Up to 10 copies can be obtained free. |
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CPSC Warns of Drowning Hazard with Baby "Supporting Ring" Devices: Safety Alert See copy included in this resource kit. CPSC Document #5084. Free. |
CPSC Announces Study Results of Drowning Danger Using Infant Bathtub Seats October 6, 1997 Release # 98-002. Free |
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The American Academy of
Pediatrics (800) 433-9016 Contact the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) sheets on a variety of injury topics, including drowning prevention, the "Physician's Resource Guide for Water Safety Education," which includes the AAPs policy statement and its model legislation for pool enclosures, and a comprehensive state legislative packet on pool barriers. |
American Red Cross (202) 728-6531 or your local American Red Cross Contact the American Red Cross for materials about infant and preschool aquatic programs, swimming instruction, and other water safety instruction issues. |
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The Center for Injury and
Violence Prevention (800) 732-8333 Contact the Center for Injury and Violence Prevention
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U. S. Consumer Product
Safety Commission (800) 638-2772 Contact the CPSC for information on a variety of injury prevention topics including drowning prevention, pool and spa safety, etc. |
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National Spa and Pool Institute (703) 838-0083 Contact the National Spa and Pool Institute for a brochure on drowning prevention and water safety tips. |
YMCA of the United States (800) USA-YMCA, ask for the Aquatics Department (Laura Slane) or your local YMCA Contact the YMCA for information about organized swimming instruction |
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National Swimming Pool Foundation P.O. Box 495 Merrick, NY 11566 (516) 623 -3447 Contact the National Swimming Pool Foundation for research and education to enhance safety in aquatics. |
North Carolina Sea Grant North Carolina State University P.O. Box 8605 Raleigh, NC 27695-8605 (919) 515-2454 Contact North Carolina Sea Grant for information addressing coastal issues and a free copy of the Rip Current Poster. click on Publications, click on Recreation |
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National SAFE KIDS
Campaign (202) 662-0600 Contact the National SAFE KIDS Campaign for information on a variety of injury prevention topics including drowning prevention. |
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Last updated on April 26, 2001