Children learn to float on their backs and call for help through drowning prevention classes. They often experience this training fully clothed to emulate the experience if they were to fall into a pool accidentally. Valley News/Courtesy photo
RIVERSIDE COUNTY – The Riverside County Board of Supervisors has allocated $60,000 in Community Improvement Designation Funds to increase water safety in the Third District. These funds will finance specialized training for swim instructors and increase the number of swim lesson scholarships for young children.The training certified instructors to teach young children drowning-prevention techniques. Children as young as six months old learn how to rotate in an underwater position up into a back-float so that they can breathe and call for help until it arrives. It prepares them to survive in the water in the event they accidentally fall into the pool. While adult supervision is mandatory at all times whenever young children are in or near water, these lessons increase children’s saf
