Will you join us or consider sponsoring a swimmer? Swim-a-thon: Saturday March 23rd, 2024 at the Troy YMCA from 1-2:30pm to Raise Funds Towards Providing Youth Swim Lessons in Troy
Members, staff, and community members are invited to participate, or sponsor swimmers. Anyone interested in participating by swimming Laps on March 23rd can register for a lap lane at our Front Desk, in our Daxko Mobile App, or on our website https://cdymca.org/schedules (And then select Troy for the location and March 23rd, 2024). We will have a Lap Counter present to help keep track of Laps. Youth who have previously passed the swim test or youth that are in Stage 4 swim lessons (or higher) can also participate but should have a guardian/adult present and need to register for a lane in advance. Any nonmembers attending, please bring your ID with you and fill out our Guest Waiver in advance: https://bit.ly/yguestwaiver
• Any questions or for help signing up for a swimming lane please reach out to Becky Marus rmarus@cdymca.org We're very grateful for help raising awareness for our cause!
Support Our Safety Around Water Program!
In 2015, Y-USA launched the Safety Around Water Program. Safety Around Water is a program designed to reduce children’s risk of drowning by teaching them basic water safety skills. Given that two children drown and die every day in the United States, a commitment to water safety is as important as ever. Drowning is responsible for more deaths among children 1-4 than any other cause except birth defects and the second leading cause of injury-related death for children ages 5 to 14. In ethnically diverse communities, the youth fatal drowning rate is 2-3 times higher than the national average. 60% of African-American, 45% of Hispanic/Latino and 40% of Caucasian children cannot swim. In underserved communities, 79% of children who live in households with incomes less than $50,000 have no/low swimming ability.
At the CDYMCA, we offer our Safety Around Water Program free of cost to elementary students around the Capital Region. Our program focuses on the following:
Basic swim skills, like floating and blowing bubbles.
Safety skills, like CPR, identifying a safe place to swim, and water rescue techniques (“Reach or Throw, Don’t Go”).
Survival swim skills, like pushing off the bottom of the pool to resurface (“Jump, Push, Turn, Grab”) and a method of swimming on your front and back (“Swim, Float, Swim”).
This program is free of cost to participants because of donations from people like you. Donate today to help us continue to keep the children of the Capital Region safe!