![]() “We can accomplish more together than we can by working individually.” “Southeast Michigan has some of the best water recreation opportunities available, and we want everyone to have access and feel safe when they visit the parks, so we are grateful for the opportunity to partner with organizations throughout the region to improve swim safety for the children who live here,” shared Amy McMillan, director of the Huron-Clinton Metroparks. Metroparks continued partnerships in the winter of 2023 with additional lessons, and today announced confirmed partnerships for summer 2023 as well. Partnerships taught more than 1,000 youth to swim in summer of 2022. The Metroparks partnered with other organizations in the region in 2022 to begin filling some of those gaps so all children in the five counties they serve can safely enjoy the pools, lakes, rivers, and ponds that make summer living in Michigan so great. The results showed that one of the biggest barriers to more people in the region learning to swim were the fees of swim lessons being too high, particularly for people of color and for city of Detroit residents, where studies have shown that 70 percent of children have little to no swim experience. In 2021 the Huron-Clinton Metroparks worked with consultant, Counsilman-Hunsaker, to conduct a regional survey to identify the barriers to swim instruction and the gaps in water safety. Teaching children to swim is essential to decreasing the likelihood of water-related injuries and deaths. Every summer, more than 25 people drown in Michigan, and that number has nearly doubled over the last years. May is National Water Safety month, a time to reflect on water safety practices ahead of peak swimming season here in Michigan. Partnerships offer opportunities for youth to learn to swim and be safer around water. If you have registered on our websites, we may send you emails, tailored to reflect the interests you have shown during your visits.Metroparks continuing efforts started in 2022. ![]() We use tracking and targeting cookies, or ask other companies to do so on our behalf, to send you emails and show you online advertising, which meet your business and professional interests. ![]() The Social Media Organization may also show you ads and content from us when you visit its websites. The social media organization may use that cookie for its own purposes. If you use social media or other third-party credentials to log in to our sites, then that other organization may set a cookie that allows that company to recognize you. These cookies do not identify you as an individual and we don’t associate the resulting information with a cookie that does. For example, the cookie may recognize optimum video streaming speeds, or volume settings, or the order in which you look at comments to a posting on one of our forums. We may use site performance cookies to remember your preferences for operational settings on our websites, so as to save you the trouble to reset the preferences every time you visit. We rely on reports to understand our audiences, and improve how our websites work. LTI allows third-parties to set performance cookies. The results are reported to us as aggregate numbers and trends. Performance cookies, often called analytics cookies, collect data from visitors to our sites on a unique, but anonymous basis. You may disable these by changing your browser settings, but this may affect how the website functions. ![]() Strictly necessary cookies are those that are essential for our sites to work in the way you have requested. Using this tool will set a cookie on your device to remember your preferences.įor more detailed information about the cookies we use, see our Cookies page. We won't set optional cookies unless you enable them. We'd also like to set optional analytics cookies to help us improve it. We use necessary cookies to make our site work. Digital Integration and Process Automation.Communications, Media, and Entertainment. ![]()
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