Water Safety Strategy

Next Steps CA-WSS

The California Water Safety Coalition is committed to continued monitoring and updating of the CA-WSS to incorporate additional voices and address emerging challenges.

Drowning presents an undue burden on people and communities in California.

The CA-WSS is the first attempt to present a framework and comprehensive approach for addressing drowning in the state of California. The California Water Safety Coalition is committed to continued monitoring and updating of this California Water Safety Strategy to incorporate additional voices, address emerging challenges, and include new evidence and knowledge.

Updates on implementation guides, ongoing monitoring surveys, priority or action area specific strategic plans and activities, and future workshops relevant to the CA-WSS will be available at: CAWaterSafety.org/Strategy

With the release of this Strategy, California’s drowning prevention stakeholders are encouraged to engage in two important activities. First, with careful consideration for the core values outlined here, assess your individual and organizational capacity to address the knowledge gaps and key action areas of this strategy. Second, as multisector collaboration is foundational for successful drowning prevention policies and programs, connect with your local water safety community and consider participating in this important conversation at the state and national level.

Assess Individual & Organizational Capacity

The CA-WSS is designed to be flexible, iterative, and comprehensive to allow for multiple stakeholders across the state to be working collaboratively and in parallel to both 1) address knowledge gaps through Key Data Activities; and 2) advance Key Action Areas listed within community programs and education, professional training and capacity and policy and systems among eight priority areas.

Users of this strategy are invited to assess where they and/or their organization can begin or continue working to advance data activities and action areas.

Connect

Reach out and connect with other stakeholders in your region to broaden your understanding of what is occurring in drowning prevention and water safety. The California Water Safety Coalition is a good resource to begin to make connections to people who work within this issue across the state.