Count on the American Red Cross for the best training on how to be safe in, on, and around the water! The American Red Cross has been the leader in swimming and
life guarding since 1914. Now the winning tradition continues with an exciting new collection of courses designed to make learning easier and to help you benefit from the latest research on instructional techniques. No matter what kind of training you need, we have a program to match.
Learn to Swim
There's instruction for all ages and abilities to help improve your swimming skills.
The Learn-to-Swim program is divided into seven course levels. The list below outlines skills that participants must successfully demonstrate in order to complete each level and move to the next.
Level 1: Introduction to
Water Skills
Level 2: Fundamentals of
Aquatic Skills
Level 3: Stroke
Development
Level 4: Stroke
Improvement
Level 5: Stroke
Refinement
Level 6: Fundamentals of
Diving
Level 6: Fitness
Swimming
Level 6: Lifeguard
Readiness
Level 6: Personal Water
Safety
Instruction begins with the Infant and Preschool Aquatic Program where children as young as six months become comfortable in and around the water so that they are ready to learn to swim.
For participants who are ready to learn to swim, authorized Red Cross Water Safety Instructors teach a variety of strokes, including the front crawl, back crawl, elementary backstroke, breaststroke, sidestroke, and butterfly. Instructors also introduce a wide range of personal safety skills and diving techniques.
At more advanced levels, students refine skills, learn the basics of springboard diving, and discover how to incorporate swimming into a lifetime fitness regimen.
Learn to Swim is the most comprehensive and effective program of its kind available anywhere. Contact the Stamford chapter for more information about classes!
Life guarding
The American Red Cross Lifeguard Training course is a comprehensive course that prepares participants for the rigors of life guarding. This course includes certification in First Aid, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Automated external defibrillation and lifeguard training. Participants must be 15 by the completion of the course and pass a swimming test.
More Skills-Based Rescue Scenarios
The program complements learning styles with more hands-on practice and real-life rescue scenarios to provide actionable, preventive information on common aquatics-related emergencies and injuries.
A list of several
Authorized Providers that offer American Red Cross Swim Lessons and Lifeguarding
courses in the Darien/Stamford area is provided below. Please contact them
directly regarding course availability, pricing, and registration.
Darien
YMCA: (203) 655-8228
www.darien-ymca.org
Darien Parks and
Recreation Department: (203) 656-7325
www.darienct.gov/parkrec/
The Italian Center:
(203) 322-6941
www.italiancenter.org
Jewish Community Center
203-487-0990
www.stamfordjcc.org (Swim lessons only)
The American Lifeguarding program was
recently updated, effective January of 2007. Program changes include the
following:
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Prerequisite of 300-yard swim with 100 yards of front crawl, 100 yards of
breast stroke, and100 yards of either front crawl or breast stroke
- AED
training requirement for all Lifeguard course participants
The new course is approximately 31
hours and 15 minutes long and successful completion will result in Lifeguarding
and First Aid certification (Valid for 3 years) and CPR/AED for the Professional
Rescuer certification (Valid for 1 year).
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