Colin’s Hope Participates in Chuy’s Children Giving to Children Parade

Colin’s Hope helped to lead the pack at the annual Chuy’s Children Giving to Children Parade. Each year, Chuy’s Restaurant hosts this event to collect brand new toys and donate them to Operation Blue Santa.

Alongside The Expedition School, The Central Texas Water Safety Coalition, Safe Kids Austin and over 50 volunteers from Westlake High School’s National Honor Society, Young Men’s Service League, and The National Charity League, Colin’s Hope marched in life jackets to promote the importance of water safety year-round to 80,000 attendees.

Thank you to all of our volunteers and participants! We look forward to seeing everyone again next year!

United Way for Greater Austin Distributes Water Safety Cards

United Way for Greater Austin has partnered with Colin’s Hope to distribute water safety cards to over 3,200 families. Laura Olson and the Success By 6 team put in tremendous effort to connect Colin’s Hope with organizations that primarily serve families with children under 5.

In addition to distributing water safety cards, United Way:

Has identified partners that could distribute the Colin’s Hope Water Safety Quiz to families with young children
Has connected Colin’s Hope to partners that would assist in sharing water safety awareness information, including Child’s Inc., KLRU, the Literacy Coalition, and the AISD Early Childhood program
Has offered to recruit volunteers to aid in distribution of water safety cards via their volunteer channels
Will assist in any Spanish translations of Colin’s Hope material
Will assist with developing a next level of outreach and education for summer camp providers/staff in low-income communities, and
Will create a 2017 outreach plan with Colin’s Hope to connect with even MORE families next year!

Thank you to Laura Olson and United Way for all the work they have contributed to water safety!

New partnership with Texas Aquatics and Pool Services

Colin’s Hope is excited to announce a new partnership with Texas Aquatics and Pool Services. Located in Humble, TX, Texas Aquatics and Pool Services is an ideal example of a local business committing to water safety.

In addition to making a donation to Colin’s Hope, Texas Aquatics will also:

Distribute 1,200 water safety cards to families in their community
Purchase water safety signage banners for their community pools
Use the Families United to Prevent Drowning “Not One More” piece during lifeguard training courses, and
Participate in the Swim Across Texas event in which their lifeguards (along with lifeguards across the state) will collectively swim 801 miles

THANK YOU to Texas Aquatics and Pool Services for working to prevention children from drowning!

Alissa Magrum with Texas Aquatics and Pool Services owner, Paul Bivens

Families United To Prevent Drowning

Colin’s Hope is a proud co-founder of Families United to Prevent Drowning. We are a collective of family foundations that are working together to prevent drowning and entrapment.

The time is now. Families United to Prevent Drowning is ready to fight for a brighter tomorrow, and a safer TODAY. Please join the conversation on Twitter and Facebook.

Spring Break Water Safety

Alissa Magrum with Colin’s Hope and Safe Kids Austin stops by the Fox 7 Good Morning Austin studios to share tips on how to keep kids safe around water.

Colin’s Hope wants you to have the Best Spring Break Ever so please practice good water safety around pools, lakes, rivers & beaches. Visit the water safety hub on our website and take our water safety quiz to refresh your water safety knowledge.

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Amplify Drowning Prevention!

Are you ready to Amplify, Austin??! Colin’s Hope is! We are excited to announce that we will be at TWO Amplify Austin events for 2016. On March 8, you can catch us at the Lake Travis Amplify Event at Table 620 OR the East Austin Amplify Live Event at the Austin Film Society studio.

Did you know that just $25 can purchase a life jacket for a loaner board at the lake? Schedule your donation today!

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Workhorse Marketing helps bring new website to life

Colin’s Hope is thrilled to announce the launch of our new ColinsHope.org website.

We have worked tirelessly alongside our new partner, Workhorse Marketing to provide a modern, responsive and user friendly design to extend our water safety educational outreach and drowning prevention initiatives globally. The new website includes an extensive water safety resource hub that is chock full of water safety information and our online water safety quiz.

We are eternally grateful to Workhorse Marketing for graciously donating their development services to bring our new site to life.

Water Safety Signage

Order water safety signage for your aquatic facility, and help raise water safety awareness among your patrons. Pools and aquatic facilities can visit the online BuildASign Store to order our water safety signage and a portion of every sign sold will be donated to Colin’s Hope.

Your logo can be added for a customized look for your location.

Spanish versions are available.

Amazon Smile

Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible Amazon Smile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice.

Amazon Smile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.

Support drowning prevention by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com and selecting Colin’s Hope as your charity of choice.

Superior Health Plan Partnership

Through a partnership with Superior Health Plan, children in 5 Texas cities can participate in free water safety education classes. SHP STAR and CHIP members ages 4–10 who are residents of the following areas are eligible: Austin, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Hidalgo County/McAllen, or San Antonio.

View upcoming classes, or call Superior Member Services for more information, 1-800-783-5386.