The pages we’d send you.
If you wrote to us with a question, these are the links we’d answer with. Our own printables come first. After them, the pediatricians and agencies we cite on every page, the groups working to end drowning alongside us, and the help a family needs after one.
Our guides
Printable home water safety checklist
Walk through your home and yard layer by layer, plus a half-page for babysitters and grandparents.
Water safety in Pennsylvania
Lakes and rivers near Blair County, cold water, ice, flash floods and Pennsylvania’s life jacket rules.
Water Watcher pledge and card
Make the promise and print a Water Watcher card for your pool bag.
Printable flyer for offices and daycares
A one-page flyer and cut-apart cards with the layers of protection, for waiting rooms and bulletin boards.
Water safety quiz
Quick questions on what protects kids around water, with every answer explained.
Teens, life jackets and CPR
Water safety for older kids, how to pick a life jacket, a pool recall to check, and where to learn CPR.
Drowning facts
The numbers behind drowning in the U.S., each with a link to its source.
Water safety basics
CDC: Drowning Prevention
Data, risk factors and prevention tips from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
HealthyChildren.org: Water Safety (American Academy of Pediatrics)
Pediatrician-backed advice for keeping young children safe around water at every age.
Pool Safely (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)
Pool and spa safety steps, drain safety, and the annual national submersion report.
National Drowning Prevention Alliance
The national alliance of drowning prevention groups: facts, toolkits and the layers of protection.
CPR & first aid
American Red Cross: Find a CPR class
In-person and blended CPR/First Aid classes, including infant and child CPR.
American Heart Association: Find a CPR class
Search for American Heart Association CPR and first aid classes near you.
Swim lessons & water competency
Infant Swimming Resource (ISR): find an instructor
Self-rescue lessons for babies and toddlers, one-on-one with a certified instructor. Search by ZIP code for a certified ISR instructor near you.
USA Swimming Foundation
Learn-to-swim grants and a directory of lesson providers.
American Red Cross: Water Safety
Water competency skills and tips for pools, lakes and beaches.
Water Watcher tags & kids’ education
Colin’s Hope
Water Watcher cards and badges, caregiver training and water safety education.
Josh the Otter
A picture book, song, app and pledge that teach young children to stay away from water without an adult.
Stop Drowning Now
Free, research-based lessons and printables for parents and educators.
The ZAC Foundation
ZAC Camps and water safety education for kids and families.
American Red Cross: Longfellow’s WHALE Tales
Free water safety lessons for kindergarten through 5th grade, with videos, posters and lesson plans in English and Spanish. Teachers, scout leaders and parents can teach it without a certification.
Life jackets & open water
U.S. Coast Guard Boating Safety: Life Jackets
How to choose a Coast Guard-approved life jacket that fits.
For survivors & families
Project One Cause
Support for families after a nonfatal drowning, including parent mentors, financial help and a recovery resources guide.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988, any time, if grief, guilt or stress feels like too much.
The full list, with Pennsylvania programs, is on Survivors & Families.
Links go to other organizations’ websites. We aren’t responsible for their content, and including a link doesn’t mean they endorse us.
Start with the layers.
Seven layers of protection, one at a time, and a checklist you can print for your own home.