Red Cross/ Y Water Safety program offered June 13-16

Whales Tales The Y of Greater Cleveland and the Greater Cleveland Red Cross are offering a comprehensive water safety camp from June 13-16 for kids age 5-12.

The Camp will feature course material from the American Red Cross WHALE Tales program as well as provide each child with a daily safety swim lesson.

What is WHALE Tales?
The American Red Cross of Greater Chicago created the safety program, Water Habits are Learned Early, (WHALE) Tales. The program provides easy-to-follow information to help children learn safe behavior in, on and around the water.

Taught in a classroom session, Longfellow's WHALE Tales makes water safety fun and easy to learn. Each lesson is reinforced with color posters, worksheets, activities and a video that features Longfellow, the animated whale.

What are the basic lessons?

Swim with a buddy in a supervised area

Be cool, follow the rule–the reasons behind water safety rules

Look before you leap–choose safe places to swim and dive

Think so you don't sink–what to do when things go wrong

Reach or throw, don't go–safe ways to rescue a swimmer in trouble

Don’t just pack it, wear your jacket–the importance of wearing a life jacket

Cold can kill — knowing the hazards

Learn about boating before you go floating

To register for WHALE Tales, contact your branch below:

Downtown YMCA
2200 Prospect Avenue East
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
(216) 344-7700

Euclid Family YMCA
631 Babbitt Road
Euclid, Ohio 44123
(216) 731-7454

French Creek Family YMCA
2010 Recreation Lane
Avon, Ohio 44011
(440) 934-9622

Geauga Family YMCA
12460 Bass Lake Road
Chardon, Ohio 44024
(440) 285-7543

Hillcrest Family YMCA
5000 Mayfield Road
Lyndhurst, Ohio 44124
(216) 382-4300

Lakewood Family YMCA
16915 Detroit Avenue
Lakewood, Ohio 44107
(216) 521-8400

Ridgewood Family YMCA
6840 Ridge Road
Parma, Ohio 44129
(440) 842-5200

Southeast Family YMCA
460 Northfield Road
Bedford, Ohio 44146
(216) 663-7522

West Park-Fairview Family YMCA
15501 Lorain Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44111
(216) 941-5410

West Shore Family YMCA
1575 Columbia Road
Westlake, Ohio 44145
(440) 871-6885.