The CAST Water Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on expanding access to the Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) method in the Chicagoland area. For over 50 years, ISR has been the method that gives your infant or child the skills and confidence they need to float, swim and self-rescue.
CAST was founded by our dear friend Liz Huber, and we wanted to share a note from her below:
Courageous conversations are just so important and I am grateful to have a safe and inviting space to share my experiences as a water safety advocate and as a certified provider of ISR self-rescue swim lessons. Drowning is the leading cause of death for healthy children under 5, and a second leading cause of death for children 5-14. The statistics are horrifying, but they do not have to be. Drowning is PREVENTABLE, and you can make a difference.
Here are a few drowning prevention protection tips:
There are so many inexpensive, or even FREE ways to keep your family safer, in and around the water. Please frequent castwatersafety.org where you will find links to our partners in this mission of “not one more child drowns”. In exploring each of these links, you will certainly learn, you may cry, you may hug your kids a little tighter, and you will find ways that you can help. You can educate your own family, and if interested, there are small and easy or big and powerful ways to help and educate others.
Effective drowning prevention includes multiple layers of protection. It is suggested that families put as many possible layers of protection between their children and the water. I invite you with open arms to dive in and see what fits for you. Whether you choose to read and learn, educate others, pursue self-rescue swim lessons for your child, my partners and I are here for you as resources, friends, and encouragers. Reach out and let us know the areas you are most interested and we can arrange focus sessions that will empower you to put strategies in place.
It takes COURAGE to talk about something that is uncomfortable and unthinkable. Your courage to help us change this conversation WILL SAVE LIVES.
The CAST Water Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on expanding access to the Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) method in the Chicagoland area. For over 50 years, ISR has been the method that gives your infant or child the skills and confidence they need to float, swim and self-rescue.
CAST was founded by our dear friend Liz Huber, and we wanted to share a note from her below:
Courageous conversations are just so important and I am grateful to have a safe and inviting space to share my experiences as a water safety advocate and as a certified provider of ISR self-rescue swim lessons. Drowning is the leading cause of death for healthy children under 5, and a second leading cause of death for children 5-14. The statistics are horrifying, but they do not have to be. Drowning is PREVENTABLE, and you can make a difference.
Here are a few drowning prevention protection tips:
There are so many inexpensive, or even FREE ways to keep your family safer, in and around the water. Please frequent castwatersafety.org where you will find links to our partners in this mission of “not one more child drowns”. In exploring each of these links, you will certainly learn, you may cry, you may hug your kids a little tighter, and you will find ways that you can help. You can educate your own family, and if interested, there are small and easy or big and powerful ways to help and educate others.
Effective drowning prevention includes multiple layers of protection. It is suggested that families put as many possible layers of protection between their children and the water. I invite you with open arms to dive in and see what fits for you. Whether you choose to read and learn, educate others, pursue self-rescue swim lessons for your child, my partners and I are here for you as resources, friends, and encouragers. Reach out and let us know the areas you are most interested and we can arrange focus sessions that will empower you to put strategies in place.
It takes COURAGE to talk about something that is uncomfortable and unthinkable. Your courage to help us change this conversation WILL SAVE LIVES.
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