“Cook Children's is really invested in prevention in our community, and it's written into our promise,” said Jillian Mitchell, program coordinator for the injury prevention team at the Center for Community Health. 

Drowning is the leading cause of injury for children ages 1 to 4 at the highest risk. According to the 2024 Community Health Needs Assessment, Cook Children’s Medical Centers in Fort Worth and Prosper treated 224 drowning-related injuries from 2021 to 2023. These incidents occurred in bathtubs, open water (lakes, rivers, and ponds), and pools or hot tubs.  

Cook Children's Health Care System shows a slight decrease in drownings in the last five years: 

Mitchell notes that as summer vacation and hot weather arrive, families will be looking to cool off, but months may have passed since the last dip in the pool. 

“As we're heading out to any kind of open water or to a pool, it's important to have preparation top of mind,” said Mitchell. 

Lifesaving Access: Loaner Life Jacket Station 

To help protect swimmers in open water, Cook Children’s supports more than 60 Loaner Life Jacket Stations across North Texas. The stations provide five different sizes of U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets, ranging from infant to adult, which families can borrow and return free of charge. Each station features educational graphics detailing how to properly fit and secure the vests. 

Local officials at Lake Worth report that the stations are heavily utilized, with life jackets consistently borrowed and safely returned by the end of each weekend day. 

“We want to make sure that that resource is available for families that maybe don't have the opportunity to get a life jacket for their child,” said Mitchell. In 2025 alone, the program distributed more than 1,800 U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jackets to area lakes across Tarrant, Denton, Rockwall, and Stephens counties.  

Water Safety Tips 

• Transition time
  • Make sure to put a life jacket on children before you get out of the car.
  • If a child goes missing, check the water first.
• Designate a Water Watcher to ensure constant visual supervision.
  • A Water Watcher should be in-reach of the children in the pool.
  • A 10-15 minute shift rotation is recommended. During that time, Water Watchers should not be distracted by conversations, cell phones, reading, etc.
• Keep backyards and bathrooms safe.
  • Dump all water buckets and empty kiddie pools when they are not in use.
  • Install multiple barriers in areas leading to pools and spas: pool fences, self-closing, self-latching gates and door alarms.
  • Keep the pool area picked up and clear of toys and other items which might attract an unsupervised child.
  • Never leave children unattended in the bathtub.
• Wear “U.S. Coast Guard-Approved” or “USCG approved,” life jackets
  • As your child grows, the life jacket needs to meet their new weight.
  • Get a new life jacket if there are rips and tears or if the straps are fraying.
  • Do not rely on floats or other toys to keep children safe.
• Sign up for CPR and swim lessons.
  • The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends starting children in swim lessons as young as 12 months old to reduce the risk of drowning.
  • The National Drowning Prevention Alliance provides parents with a printable questionnaire to help identify the right swim program for their children.
• Have a safety plan in place.
  • If an emergency does happen, remember that seconds count. Call 911 immediately and then begin CPR while EMS is in route.
  • Know water conditions before you get into open water. Water conditions in lakes and oceans can vary on a daily basis.
  • Sit near a lifeguard if there is one present. 

"Combining swim lessons, life jackets, dedicated water watchers, brightly colored swimsuits, and pool fences creates multiple layers of protection," Mitchell said. "The more layers of safety you put in place, the lower the risk of drowning."

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends starting children in swim lessons as young as 12 months old to reduce the risk of drowning. The AAP says always keep in mind that swim lessons are just one of several important layers of protection needed to help prevent drowning.

“You are never too old to learn how to swim,” said Jillian Mitchell, community health program coordinator at Cook Children’s Health Care System. “There are instructors who specialize in teaching adults or co-teach adults and children.”

The National Drowning Prevention Alliance (NDPA) provides parents with a printable questionnaire to help identify the right swim program for their children. They suggest some questions for the program you are looking at, including asking for information about the instructor’s experience, swim lesson curriculum, length and frequency of classes. 

“Choosing the swim instruction style is a personal choice, and it should be an informed one,” Mitchell said.

Before choosing a program, the AAP recommends keeping your child’s emotional maturity, physical and developmental abilities and limitations, and comfort level in the water in mind.

“It is important to consider what unique needs your child has in addition to visiting a school, asking questions about their curriculum or teaching philosophy,” Mitchell said.

Swimming lessons teach the basics of swimming and, for toddlers, it introduce them to get them comfortable with water, teaching them physical movements in the water like kicks and “ice cream scoops” with their hands. It also shows them how to get in and out of the water. Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) teaches infants and toddlers how to roll in the water in emergencies.

When should you sign up a child for swimming lessons?

The AAP says most children are ready for swim lessons by age 4. However, parents of younger children should look into classes that allow a parent or caregiver and child to be in the water together with an instructor, whether swimming lessons or ISR. The AAP explains that by age 4, children can usually learn basic water survival skills such as floating, treading water, and getting to an exit point.

What is Infant Swimming Resource (ISR)?

Parents may feel their child is ready to learn as young as 6 months old. ISR instructors are unique in that they work specifically with infants. ISR focuses on teaching children to roll onto their backs, float, and rest. It is designed to give children instinctive reactions to emergencies if they find themselves in the water unexpectedly. Children learn how to “float, swim, float” until they reach the edge and can exit safely or be pulled out of the pool by an adult.

Cook Children’s recommends asking questions and choosing an instructor/school that fits families’ budget, schedule, and child’s unique needs.

As families start their summer traveling, water safety vigilance is key at all ages and no matter where your family might be. Swimming pools, lakes and beaches all pose risks but with the right preparation, you can avoid tragic outcomes.

“Many families stay on rental properties with pools and they may not have a pool at home,” said Sharon Evans, trauma injury prevention coordinator. “Knowing ahead of time what questions to ask and the kind of barriers to put in place lowers the risk of a drowning event.”

Cook Children’s has already treated 10 drownings so far this year, one of which was fatal. Parents need to remember that 70%  of toddler drownings happen during unplanned swim time. This is when parents didn’t expect their child to be in or around the water. 

Ensuring the pool is completely secure after swimming for the day is extremely important. Remove all toys and floats from the pool area so children are not tempted to get close to the water. For above-ground pools, make sure the ladder is removed and not accessible when it’s not swimming time.

Staying Afloat with the Right Life Jacket

Evans says it is not always a matter of strong swimming. Especially with murky water, your child could hit his head on an object underneath and quickly become disoriented. That is why life jackets are a must at lakes and beaches. Texas state law requires all children under 13 years old to wear a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket on boats under 26 feet in length. With so many life jacket options, be sure you choose one that fits properly and is Coast Guard-approved.

A life jacket that is too big will cause the flotation device to push up around your child’s face but too small means it will not be able to keep your child’s body afloat. If there is excess room above the openings and the life jacket rides up over your child’s chin or face, it does NOT fit properly.

A snug fit in these areas signals a properly fitting life jacket. Do not buy a life jacket for your child to grow into – it must fit your child just right. Check the weight limits on the label – and try it on before getting in the water.

A Safe Day at the Beach

At beaches, pay close attention to the warning flags as they can change throughout the day. A red flag is a high hazard meaning high surf and/or strong currents. A yellow flag is a medium hazard meaning moderate surf and/or currents. A green flag is a low hazard meaning calm conditions, exercise caution. A purple flag means dangerous marine life spotted.

“The safest way to play at the beach is with a life jacket,” Sharon said. “Strong waves can come out of nowhere and pull a child down to the bottom causing you to quickly lose sight of them.”

Preparations to make before landing at your vacation spot:

• Check to see if the pool has barriers such as fencing.
• Ask if there are locks high up on doors leading to the outdoors and door alarms.
• Ask if there are dog/pet doors that have direct access to the pool area. Young children can fit through these doors without triggering the door alarm.
• Bring bright swimsuits for your children – choose swimsuit colors that do not blend into the body of water in which your child will be swimming. Light colors, like white or light blue, tend to blend into the swimming pool, making the child harder to see. Neon colors are more noticeable and contrast against the water at pools, lakes and beaches.
• When there are children around water, always designate a Water Watcher, an adult who is in charge of watching all children without any distractions.
• Pack water watcher tags for adults to wear at the pool.
• Refresh CPR and first aid skills.
• Bring portable door alarms and body alarms for additional layers of protection.
• Bring doorknob covers.

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It’s never too early to teach children to be safe around water. After all, if a baby can crawl, they can make their way to a pool or open body of water. Any number of things can lure them there — a floating toy or sheer curiosity as they naturally explore the world around them. Whatever the reason, the result could be deadly. 

The American Academy of Pediatrics says children as young as 1 year old can benefit from water competency training, which is teaching kids to understand the danger water poses, how to avoid it and how to survive should they find themselves in water alone.

“I think the No. 1 thing that water competency gives a young child is confidence,” said Jillian Mitchell, a community health program specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center. “If a child falls in unexpectedly they are in a situation that might induce panic, but being water-competent is having the confidence to know what to do to survive.”

While most toddlers aren’t coordinated enough to learn traditional swim strokes, they can learn basic survival skills like surfacing, turning onto their backs to float with their head above water and reaching for the wall of the pool.  

Kelsey Strieby calls it aquatic problem-solving. She is a Certified Infant Swimming Resource (ISR) Self-Rescue® instructor and has taught hundreds of children water survival and self-rescue skills. 

“There are two components to this,” Strieby said. “It's the roll-back-to-float program and the swim-float-swim program. But the first priority is being able to float to survive.”

Survival Becomes Second Nature

As an ISR instructor, Strieby teaches infants and children to roll onto their backs and float if they fall into the water. After the child has been walking for a few months, they’ll advance to learn to swim, then roll onto their back and float, and swim again until they can grab the side of the pool. If they are in a larger body of water and cannot get to the side, Strieby teaches kids to survive by floating on their backs until help arrives. 

Her students don’t learn a specific swim stroke or even to tread water, but to use their natural movement, like when they are crawling or walking, to bring themselves to the surface. 

“Self-rescue is taught using muscle memory and each child’s unique muscle movement,” Strieby said. “So the kids actually simulate like they're walking or crawling through the water. We don't teach a specific movement of the hand or leg. We will guide them through how to move effectively in the water and reinforce that moving their arms is great, but how that arm moves or how that leg moves is specific to that child.”

Just like riding a bike, consistency and repetition with these skills promote muscle memory and competence. If the unthinkable happens, those trained responses kick in, giving little ones a chance to survive.

“We want their survival response in water to become second nature,” Mitchell said.

Children with special health, developmental and learning needs benefit from this approach, too, especially if traditional swim lessons are not a good fit for them or learning specific swim strokes is outside of their developmental abilities. Every one of Strieby’s students undergoes a health assessment that is reviewed by a nursing team before beginning lessons, so she can tailor her teaching to their particular needs. 

Choose Wisely

When it comes to finding the right water competency program for your child, Strieby encourages parents to do their research. A quick social media search of infant swim lessons will return all kinds of videos of very young children, even babies, seemingly learning to swim, but Strieby cautions that not all of these approaches are practical or safe. 

“We don't throw babies into the water and let them sink or swim,” she said. “Programs that claim they teach survival and show videos of them chunking children into the water—that should never ever happen in an ISR self-rescue lesson. It should be a guided, safe and gentle approach. I always tell people, if you are going to commit to doing a survival swim program, please do your homework and make sure it's a program with a certified instructor who has had quality training and that the program has safety protocols in place.”

Strieby’s lessons do include simulations of situations in which a child may fall into the water. They even practice survival skills in diapers as well as summer, fall and winter clothing because many drownings occur when kids are fully clothed and not expected to be near water. In 2021, over 60% of patients brought to Cook Children’s following a drowning incident were from accidents that occurred during an unplanned swim time.

Respect the Danger

Water competency and rescue skills also teach kids to have a healthy fear of water as they are introduced to the natural consequences of going into the water alone, like not being able to breathe and the hard work it takes to stay afloat. 

“Kids who learn to self-rescue learn that if they fall into that water and mom is not right there, they are going to be responsible for their own lives and getting their own air,” Strieby said. “As silly as it sounds, this creates a healthy boundary for many kids, because they don't want to have to do that hard work. They don’t want to have to use their skills unnecessarily.”

The majority of Strieby’s students are under the age of 4, but she does teach self-rescue to children up to six years of age. Once they master survival and self-rescue skills, some kids go on to traditional lessons with other programs to learn specific swim strokes. Either way, children who learn water competency and rescue skills from an early age are better equipped to survive a water-related accident. 

Even so, Mitchell cautions that swim and self-rescue lessons are not a replacement for the layers of protection needed to prevent children from drowning. Maintaining barriers to and around the pool, keeping pools clear of toys attractive to little ones when not in use, having a designated water watcher and wearing a life jacket are all important components of water safety, whether a child does or does not know how to swim. 

The display is located in front of Cook Children’s Medical Center, located at 801 7^th Ave. It is on the north lawn, directly across from the N.E.S.T. Clinic on Cooper Street.

This is a record number of drownings for this time period at Cook Children’s. We installed the display ahead of Memorial Day Weekend in hopes of preventing future drownings as this is typically one of the worst weekends for drowning patients at Cook Children’s.  

If your child or teen recently hit a growth spurt, last summer’s life jacket might not fit now.

So before your family heads to the lake, make sure everyone has a life jacket that fits properly, based on the weight of the person wearing it. Check the weight limits on the label – and try it on before getting in the water.  One of the keys to drowning prevention depends on the appropriate size life jacket.

A small model designed for a 50-pound swimmer isn’t guaranteed to hold up someone who weighs more. A too-big life jacket, meanwhile, won’t keep a child’s head above water.  

“Proper fit can’t be emphasized enough,” said Kyle Lewis, project manager and program coordinator for the Brazos River Authority at Lake Granbury, southwest of Fort Worth. “A jacket should fit the child snug. In my opinion, you should not get more than two or three fingers under the shoulder straps.”

Lewis travels to area schools to talk about water and boating safety. In his demonstrations, he puts an oversized life jacket on a student and holds onto the shoulder portion while the student steps off a chair. The life jacket pops up when the student goes down.

“If the life jacket fits, the child’s chin and ears will not slip through,” according to the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG). “A device that ‘rides up’ around your face, or worse, falls off in rough water is dangerous. The floatation needs to stay snug around your body and lift you out of the water with your airway clear.”  

Safe Kids North Texas, a community coalition based in Fort Worth and led by Cook Children’s, aims to raise awareness about water safety in lakes, swimming pools, bathtubs and any other place where children have access to water. Safe Kids partners with regional cities and agencies such as the Brazos River Authority to provide education and resources through the nationally recognized Lifeguard Your Child campaign. 

It's an urgent message: Drownings are the leading cause of accidental death in children ages 1-4, and the second top cause of accidental death for children under age 14. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that for every child who dies by drowning, another eight receive emergency care for non-fatal drowning injuries, which can include brain damage. 

“We have seen several boating accidents where the child was severely injured, but thankfully they had a life vest on so they stayed afloat until help could get to them,” said Sharon Evans, who collects data in her role as trauma injury prevention coordinator at Cook Children’s.

Three of the 82 non-fatal drownings treated at Cook Children’s Medical Center in 2021 occurred in open water. Eight drownings seen at Cook Children’s were fatal last year. Evans said most of the 2021 drownings happened in swimming pools in backyards, apartments, hotels or community locations.  As of early May, there have been 20 total drownings in 2022, three of them fatal.

Lewis and his crew plan to distribute about 250 free life jackets at giveaway events at Lake Granbury during the month of May. Safe Kids and the Brazos River Authority are providing life jackets, which come in four sizes: infant, 35-50 pounds, 50-90 pounds and adult small. Lake rangers will be on hand to help ensure the right fit.

If you’re purchasing a new life jacket, check to verify the label says “USCG approved.” Through testing, the Coast Guard designates what qualifies as a life-saving device. Not all styles on the market meet the USCG regulations.

Dana Walraven, manager for Community Health Outreach at Cook Children’s, recommends first, finding “USGC approved" on the label, and then letting your child or teen pick a color and style they’ll be excited to wear.

Previously used life jackets should be carefully inspected for wear and tear. Look for broken buckles and zippers, frayed straps, or rips in the flotation casing. Don’t use a damaged life jacket. The Coast Guard also advises:

• Life jackets are especially important where currents or murky conditions create hazards.  They provide buoyancy for non-swimmers who wind up in the water unexpectedly, or for swimmers who become fatigued or hurt. Life jackets save lives.
• If a toe is in the lake, a life jacket goes on. That goes for confident swimmers and teens too. Statistics show an elevated drowning risk for teenagers due to peer pressure, alcohol use and other factors.
• Life jackets are not babysitters. An adult must always be present and watch when a child is in or near the water.
• Think of arm floaties, rafts and inflatable items as toys. “Arm floaties are not considered a lifesaving device, and the label will state that,” Walraven said. “They can easily become deflated and offer no head or trunk support to keep a child afloat.”

Children should continue to wear life jackets until they are away from the water’s edge or the dock. Walraven said children can easily get out of sight during distracted transition time, and adults might not hear a child falling off a dock or getting back into the water.

In 19 years of working in water safety, Lewis has unfortunately investigated several drownings, but none in the past two years at Lake Granbury. He credits improved public awareness by safety advocates, including the Lifeguard Your Child campaign.

Lewis points out that children under age 13 are required by law to wear USCG-approved life jackets while on a boat. One life jacket must be accessible for every boat passenger older than 12. He urges teenagers and adults to wear them because life jackets provide a layer of protection much like a seatbelt in a car.   

Lewis said parents should remain vigilant even when their child is wearing a life jacket. The child might remove the life jacket, drift too far from shore, or be injured by an underwater object.  A family gathering at the lake can turn into a tragedy in an instant, he said.  

“Parents cannot take their eyes off their kids in the water. Drowning is sudden and it’s silent. It’s not like you see on TV where they’re splashing and yelling for help.”

Life Jacket Loaner Stations

Cook Children’s has worked collaboratively with partners, and currently stocks 31 loaner life jacket stations in North Texas, allowing lake visitors to borrow life jackets for the day. Five more loaner stations are planned to open at Lavon Lake in June. Each loaner station supplies five sizes of USCG-approved life jackets -- two in each size -- for use by children and adults.

Jillian Mitchell, drowning prevention specialist at Cook Children’s, said the program continues to grow thanks to partners like Linbeck Construction, which teamed up with Cook Children’s to build 17 of the loaner stations. Partnerships are essential to the success of the program, Mitchell said.

“Without their dedication and passion for water safety, we would not be able to grow as we have,” she said. “Cook Children’s loaner jackets are restocked every year. By making life jackets accessible and paired with education on the station, we believe it makes an impactful difference that saves lives in area lakes, ponds and rivers.”

Lifeguard Your Child shares these videos from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to illustrate the proper fit for life jackets:   

• English: https://youtu.be/h55hX8Jimcs
• Spanish: https://youtu.be/bpyoiBEp9jI

Dr. Aaron spent her morning on Thursday, July 24, doing interviews with newspaper, radio and three local TV stations.

“I’ve never been one to reach out to the media or certainly get in front of the camera,” Dr. Aaron said. “I’ve had those times where I’ve been asked to be on camera and needed to do that. This is the first time where I’ve ever picked up the phone and called our team and said, ‘Guys, we need to do something. We need to reach out because three in one week … that’s just too many.’”

The mother of a 2-year-old son, the swimming deaths hit way too close for Dr. Aaron. All three children who died were between the ages of 2 to 4 years old. The teams at Cook Children’s involved in the three drowning events met with Cameron Brown, a member of Cook Children’s Pastoral Care and a firefighter, who is specially trained to lead caregivers through a critical incident stress debriefing. To put it simply, they were heart broken.

“This is what we do. This is our profession, but it impacts us,” Dr. Aaron said. “We’ve had great sorrow. That is minimal to what we sense must be happening with these families and close friends. It’s unusual for us to have three cases in one week ... and we still have many weeks of summer left.”

What makes the deaths even more tragic is the fact that most drownings are preventable. Dana Walraven, Cook Children’s Community Health Outreach manager and Safe Kids Tarrant County coordinator, also spent the day with media to discuss drowning prevention steps. Texas has the highest incidence of swimming pool- and spa-related childhood drownings in the United States. All three children who died were pool related incidents.

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional deaths for children 1 to 4 years of age. The common myth of children splashing, waving their arms around and yelling is simply not true.

“In many drowning situations, an adult was just a few feet away from the pool and didn’t realize anything was wrong because he or she didn’t hear any sounds of distress, such as splashing or yelling,” Walraven said. “Drowning is a silent event that can occur in the time it takes to send a text message. Should supervision fail for any reason, having multiple layers in place helps protect your child.”

Walraven offers these drowning prevention basics:

• Have your children take swim lessons.
• Have the entire family taking swim and safety lessons.
• Learn CPR.
• Provide 100 percent supervision without distractions.
• Use pool and child alarms to alert you if your child gets in the water without you.
• Isolate your pool from the rest of your backyards with a permanent, four-sided fence with self-latching gates to prevent kids from accessing the pool area without adult supervision.

“We realize that it could happen to anyone,” Dr. Aaron said. “It happens very, very quickly. We’re not being judgmental. We feel so strongly about this and knowing how it impacts us we wanted to reach out and raise awareness to the community.”

For more information:

• Drowning prevention
• Water safety
• Vento family story
• Cookchildrens.org/safety
• Backyard and Pool: Household Safety Checklist
• Household Safety: Preventing Drowning

Dr. Aaron spent her morning on Thursday, July 24, doing interviews with newspaper, radio and three local TV stations.

“I’ve never been one to reach out to the media or certainly get in front of the camera,” Dr. Aaron said. “I’ve had those times where I’ve been asked to be on camera and needed to do that. This is the first time where I’ve ever picked up the phone and called our team and said, ‘Guys, we need to do something. We need to reach out because three in one week … that’s just too many.’”

The mother of a 2-year-old son, the swimming deaths hit way too close for Dr. Aaron. All three children who died were between the ages of 2 to 4 years old. The teams at Cook Children’s involved in the three drowning events met with Cameron Brown, a member of Cook Children’s Pastoral Care and a firefighter, who is specially trained to lead caregivers through a critical incident stress debriefing. To put it simply, they were heart broken.

“This is what we do. This is our profession, but it impacts us,” Dr. Aaron said. “We’ve had great sorrow. That is minimal to what we sense must be happening with these families and close friends. It’s unusual for us to have three cases in one week ... and we still have many weeks of summer left.”

What makes the deaths even more tragic is the fact that most drownings are preventable. Dana Walraven, Cook Children’s Community Health Outreach manager and Safe Kids Tarrant County coordinator, also spent the day with media to discuss drowning prevention steps. Texas has the highest incidence of swimming pool- and spa-related childhood drownings in the United States. All three children who died were pool related incidents.

Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional deaths for children 1 to 4 years of age. The common myth of children splashing, waving their arms around and yelling is simply not true.

“In many drowning situations, an adult was just a few feet away from the pool and didn’t realize anything was wrong because he or she didn’t hear any sounds of distress, such as splashing or yelling,” Walraven said. “Drowning is a silent event that can occur in the time it takes to send a text message. Should supervision fail for any reason, having multiple layers in place helps protect your child.”

Walraven offers these drowning prevention basics:

• Have your children take swim lessons.
• Have the entire family taking swim and safety lessons.
• Learn CPR.
• Provide 100 percent supervision without distractions.
• Use pool and child alarms to alert you if your child gets in the water without you.
• Isolate your pool from the rest of your backyards with a permanent, four-sided fence with self-latching gates to prevent kids from accessing the pool area without adult supervision.

“We realize that it could happen to anyone,” Dr. Aaron said. “It happens very, very quickly. We’re not being judgmental. We feel so strongly about this and knowing how it impacts us we wanted to reach out and raise awareness to the community.”

For more information:

• Drowning prevention
• Water safety
• Vento family story
• Cookchildrens.org/safety
• Backyard and Pool: Household Safety Checklist
• Household Safety: Preventing Drowning