Water safety partners
SRP coordinates water safety efforts with numerous local organizations.
- Phoenix Children's Hospital: For more than a decade, the Phoenix Children's Hospital Water Watchers program and SRP Safety Connection™ have hosted Water Safety Day to educate more than 1,100 first-graders about water safety. Phoenix Children's Hospital also offers a free water safety curriculum geared toward first-graders.
- Valley fire departments: SRP volunteers have joined Valley fire departments in going door to door to provide water safety information to families. The annual Valley Water Walk gives thousands of families Valleywide the opportunity to learn about water safety. SRP also has collaborated with Valley fire departments to distribute more than 15,000 CPR instructional videos at annual events.
- City aquatics departments: SRP Safety Connection partners with city aquatics departments in Maricopa County during the summer to sponsor free or reduced-price swimming lessons at selected Valley public pools. This year, SRP will sponsor free swimming lessons through the city of Mesa's Making Waves program and reduced-price swimming lessons through the city of Phoenix's Kool Kids program.
- Drowning Impact Awareness Month: The purple ribbon campaign was initiated by Gov. Janet Napolitano to increase awareness and educate the public about water safety.
- Children's Museum of Phoenix: SRP has partnered with the Children's Museum of Phoenix to bring you SRP Safety Month. SRP's focus will be on both water and electric safety.
- Chicanos Por La Causa: One of Arizona's premier Hispanic community services organizations has worked with SRP to distribute water safety materials in preschools, day care centers and family resource centers.
Bathtub safety clings
These bathtub clings were created as a response to an increase in bathtub drownings in 2009. As part of our ongoing commitment to the communities we serve, SRP Safety Connection and the Apache Junction, Avondale, Gilbert, Glendale, Mesa, Phoenix, Queen Creek, Scottsdale and Tempe fire departments collaborated in this campaign.
Bathtub safety clings are available at the following Valley fire departments, or you can request them from SRP:
- Apache Junction Fire Department, 565 N. Idaho Road, 85119
- Avondale Fire Department, 1825 N. 107th Ave., 85392
- Casa Grande Fire Department, 3181 N. Lear Ave., 85122
- Gilbert Fire Department, 85 E. Civic Center Drive, 85296
- Glendale Fire Department, 5800 W. Glenn Drive, Suite 350, 85301
- Mesa Fire Department, 13 W. First St., 85201
- Peoria Fire Department, 8351 W. Cinnabar Ave., 85345
- Phoenix Fire Administration Building, 150 S. 12th St., 85034
- Queen Creek Fire Department, 22350 S. Ellsworth Road, 85242
- Scottsdale Fire Department, 8401 E. Indian School Road, 85251
- Tempe Fire Department, 1400 E. Apache Blvd., 85281
