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Water Safety Event

Water Safety Event 

May 1, 2025

Make a difference in YOUR community and learn ways to stay safe while playing in and around the water. Your local event will help us achieve our aim of preventing water-related injuries and fatalities. Whether swimming in a backyard pool, lake, pond, or river, every resident should know the essentials of water safety in an effort to reduce drownings.

2025 Water Safety Campaigns

Meriden Parks & Recreation
Meriden Public Library - 105 Miller St, Meriden, CT 06450
Saturday May 17th
11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Windham Recreation Department
Jillson Square, Willimantic, CT 06226
Monday May 19th
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Resources

Water Safety Handbook

Water Safety Workbook

Red Cross Longfellow's Whale Tales Video

Social Media Toolkit

CRPA Making Splash on Your Behalf!

WNPR - Where We Live
June 13, 2022 - CRPA Executive Director, Valerie Stolfi Collins, & Aquatics Co-Chair, Bailey Dailey, talk about water safety and the national lifeguard shortage and how it is effecting Connecticut.  You can listen here

Water Safety Day at the Capitol:
May 8, 2019 - CRPA was at the Capitol for Water Safety Awareness Day showcasing what we are doing to promote water safety and how our members are a leading source of drowning prevention in communities across the state:

Click the link below to view a video from the event!
http://ct-n.com/ondemand.asp?search=water%20safety%20awareness%20day

Click the link below to see Fox61's coverage of Water Safety Day:
https://fox61.com/2019/05/09/unintentional-drowning-deaths-in-connecticut-causes-growing-concern-for-water-safety/