Achievement
A Lot of our programs will primarily focus on children between the ages of 11-17 years of age and the overall success includes the use of pool time, at-home computer time & in person class time.
We utilize Diversity, Inclusion & Equity amongst all of our American
Red Cross programs and include director mentorship to all of the youth who participate in any of our programs to help expand on our overall mission.
Sit & Swim’s goal is to ultimately help reduce the overall drowning rate and offer many minority youth the ability and opportunity to help us succeed.
All of our programs are focused on our participants learning life-saving skills and most require participants to successfully complete skill sets required for the particular program and pass a written or oral exam with an 80% passing grade. Our programs are taught by a Licensed Provider with American Red Cross Trainor who will additionally mentor any youth in our Sit & Swim programs and all of our participants will be guided & mentored to obtain the skills to thereafter use towards an apprentice program such as an: EMT, Childcare Worker or Recreation Worker.
Online & In-Person TrainingRequirements for each program differ. Our Lifeguard, Swim Instructor, CPR/FA/AED and Babysitter training have online requirements that must be completed before attending our in-person training.
Our Wilderness program requires participants to be certified in CPR/FA/AED before attending our outdoor/in-person sessions. Our Swim lesson programs are available to anyone 6months - 99yrs and involves either: learn-to-swim lessons by American Red Cross, AngelFish teaching for participants with disabilities, junior lifeguard & lifeguard training-swim lessons by American Red Cross. Participants swim doing swim lessons earn badges and accomplishment certificates and do not require any prerequisite for signing up.
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Our newly established non-profit is a registered Licensed Provider with American Red Cross. Resources for certification and trainings will be supplied by the outside funding from grants and Directors of Sit & Swim.
Projected cost per participant?
Participants will be asked to pay a nominal fee for their training & certification.
All additional costs & fees will be covered by our organization.
$45 Lifeguard /First Aid/AED/CPR certification / 33 hours training – blended (online & in person)
$45 Water Safety Instructor certification / 33 hours training – blended (online & in person)
$30 Wilderness & Remote FA/CPR/AED
16 hrs. of in-person/outside training
$10 Babysitter / 6 hrs. training
(1 online & 5 in person)
$20 – First Aid/CPR/AED Certification /
6 hrs. training
(3 online & 3 in person)
$25 per participant = (1) -45minute lesson
Within many communities there is a consistent need for lifeguards, swimming lessons and learning safety/survival skills. Sit & Swim’s goal is to teach, train and certify lifeguards, babysitters, swim instructors and the youth in CPR/FA/AED; to work within their community and beyond.
Our foundation was created by an African American Woman who's been teaching in & around the water for over 15yrs. Her passion is to expand her ability to teach & reach another thru this new non-profit organization
Denean has taught many families within the JP, Dorchester, & Framingham Mass. area. then transitioned to Florida in 2022. She is a licensed provider with American Red Cross and will instruct & mentor many of the Sit or Swim participants
All classes will have a maximum of 5 participants to 1 instructor to insure our students are able to fully retain info., complete skillsets with confidence and comfortbility.
We are looking to create a database of individuals & organizations which are interested in our future services and hope to be able to outreach services to communities beyond Hillsborough county
Our programs intend to run monthly and consistently throughout the year. Our organization has a COE in place to train & certify 110 youth and teach over 100 swim lessons per year with 1 instructor teaching 2 classes a week with 5 participants in each course.
In addition, our founder has gifted their wages for training services to help with the project sustainability and overall success.
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