Community Education
​Beach Safety
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Coogee SLSC has a major focus on ensuring as many people from around Sydney and NSW have an opportunity to learn Water Safety knowledge, and develop an understanding of being safe at the beach and around waterways

Our Volunteer Community Education team runs sessions throughout the summer season and other months during the year for many members of the wider community.

In the 2018/2019 season, the Coogee SLSC team worked with over 350 people in our Community Education and Water Safety Sessions. This was supported by a committed group of engaged Lifesavers.
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These Community and Educational Groups include the following:

Japanese Students via Rugby NSW.

Primary school children from Liverpool West, mostly refugee students from Iraq.

Regional NSW High School students via the ASPIRE Program and UNSW.

International University students via UNSW Student Health Program.

Home school groups from Vaucluse.

Teenagers and Parents from the Horn of Africa via Kids Giving Back.

Red Cross Young Parents Program.

We also had the pleasure of working with SLSA and our National Sponsor DHL, for a great Water Safety and team building session with over 100 DHL Snr Mgt involved - a great day for SLS.

All of these sessions covered basic water safety information and rip awareness, and were supported by some basic CPR.
Seeing the smiles on many faces when we got in the water is always encouraging.

The Coogee team received some wonderful feedback from all of these Programs, from both the candidates and the organisers, and considering many are repeat sessions, we are very encouraged to continue with these sessions.

We look forward to delivering more Water Safety sessions so we can get the message out about being swim safe.